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Bob John passed away last fall in

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Princeton and personally I have to admit

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that I am still grieving him for me it

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was very much like losing my father for

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a second time however since most of you

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didn't know him personally I'm going to

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leave the personal at that and discuss

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why he was important to everybody really

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but especially to the members of this

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professional community both communities

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the pair lab at Princeton Princeton

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engineering anomalies research

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originally started because Bob was

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living up to a promise made to a student

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and there was nobody else in Princeton's

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engineering faculty who was willing to

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touch the subject of pique or as we

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called it for most of Bob's career

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consciousness related anomalies or

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engineering anomalies

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sadly the reason pair closed when Bob

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retired from the University was

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basically the same there was still

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nobody else in the engineering faculty

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willing to touch the subject I am

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inclined to say that more than anything

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else this was a demonstration of Bob's

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integrity that he was not willing to

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hide from observed truth or lie to

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himself or anybody else about what he

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had witnessed he had observed a

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phenomenon that could not be accounted

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for in current theories and he felt it

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needed investigation

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of course one of the first things that

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Bob did when starting into this field

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was to find somebody who could address

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the psychological and parapsychological

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aspects of it better than he could and

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that began a long and very fruitful

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partnership with Brenda Dunn who is not

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here at this time partly because of all

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of the aftermath she is having to deal

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with as Bob's literary executor the the

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two of them created a laboratory that in

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my opinion had a tremendous impact on

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the entire field of psychic research to

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call it by its name without euphemisms

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and I feel that they had very important

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insights into the nature of such a

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program as well as finding important

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results Bob and Brenda were both very

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clear that they did not have subjects

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the people who produced the effects were

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part of the experiment the experimenters

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were not on some sort of pedestal above

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them observing them the focus was on the

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phenomenon not the people they refused

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to use the word paranormal at least in

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internal technical discussions and they

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tried to break people of the habit of

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using it publicly as well because it was

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their very strong contention that

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whatever this is whatever phenomenon it

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is we're all here talking about it's

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normal it is part of the natural

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capacity of the human mind and body and

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as a consequence of that prenez they

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also refused to search or

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Green for special people with special

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talents they believed very firmly that

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this was a universal capability their

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findings to some extent confirmed that

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although they did find that individuals

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were very idiosyncratic and different

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the ability is widespread in the

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population they did examine remote

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perception as well as the pique that

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first got Bob started and their remote

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perception studies what would probably

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be called remote viewing in this

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community were also very successful and

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informative I would say that there are

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other important findings were that the

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effect does seem to be mediated by the

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subconscious as various people have

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alluded to many different types of

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systems show this effect and that it

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that distortions of randomness can also

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happen unconsciously in the vicinity of

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people and groups experiencing strong

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emotions so having tried to encapsulate

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30 years in a few minutes I would like

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to end by saying that for went that

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there will be a memorial service for Bob

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John on July 1st at 1:00 p.m. and the

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Princeton University Chapel with the

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reception afterward at the Faculty Club

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and that anybody who would like to