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A prominent Czechoslovak parapsychologist Břetislav Kafka, who wrote the book "New Fundamentals of Experimental Psychology" at the beginning of the 20th century, in which he claims that every second or third person is able to light his body magnetism by simply rubbing a light bulb with his hand. This statement was experimentally verified with a positive result, but with a different cause than body magnetism.

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Replication and the scientific way of verifying basic information that was previously explained in a parapsychological way. The result showed that it is really possible to cause flashes in certain types of light bulbs by rubbing your hands, but the reason is static electricity, which, however, is related to the psychophysiological state of the subject. Furthermore, the article proves that Břetislav Kafka described in his book the illumination during the decay of cells significantly earlier than world literature.

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This page is a summary of: Failure to Replicate an Electrical PK Experiment, Journal of Parapsychology, June 2019, Rhine Research Centre,
DOI: 10.30891/jopar.2019.01.06.
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