The Singular Fortean Society

LLIFS – Australian sheep goat scale

June 7, 2025

The paranormal field is full of names and signs. Are you a ghost hunter or a paranormal investigator? Are you skeptical or a believer? Maybe you are a skeptical believer? The believer is considered a person who believes in the paranormal. Skepticism is a person who does not. The believer skeptical somewhere between them. They believe, but they usually need little evidence to support it. Who do you think? Well, research tells us that by believing in the paranormal, we are likely to think that we have seen a paranormal thing. This fact becomes more important in the world of risk and ESP (additional sensory perception).

Psychology is the field of study that is achieved in psychological phenomena. Psychology refers to the study of human and mental behavioral behaviors. Psychology is considered an extension of this matter and views the mental process and human behavior that cannot be explained by the Orthodox sciences. The term psychology was formulated in 1889 by the German philosopher Max Disoire. He wrote a paper in the German patrol “Sphinx”, where he used the German translation of the term “Parapsychologie”. Go

“If one of them … describes the paragraph- something that goes beyond or besides the ordinary, one may be called phenomena that are taken outside the usual process of inner life, and the science that deals with them, the word is not nice, but in my opinion, it has the advantage of reference so far to the presence of an unknown area.

In 1930, the famous researcher and risk specialist JB Rhine adopted the English translation of this term to replace the phrase “material research”. It is believed that he founded psychology as we know today. Ryan himself is known for the establishment of psychology institutes. Ryan established a laboratory of psychology at Duke University, the Risk Magazine, and the Institute of Psychology, now known as the day as the Rhine Research Center. People generally do not think in Australia when it comes to a psychologist, yet we have unique relationships in this field. We have an institute of psychology in New South Wales, and many Australian risk specialists have made great contributions in this field. In fact, the Australian was behind the creation of a scale used by psychologists all over the world to measure a person’s belief in the paranormal.

In 1958, a professor of psychology at the University of City in New York, Gertrude R, formulated people into two different fields. Sheep were those who believed in ESP and PSI capabilities. The goats were those who did not believe. You may wonder why sheep and goats? This comes from the New Testament, where Christ separates people as a shepherd that separates sheep from goats (Matthew 25: 31-33). In supernatural studies, the performance of those who were sheep (believers) was better in ESP experiments. Certainly, you can name someone skeptical or believer, but we all know that it is not like that of a black or white answer. There is a lot of gray that can be explored in the middle. With this in mind, Australian risk specialist Michael Tampurne created a questionnaire so that the level of a person’s belief can be measured. The Australian or ASGS scale was created in Adeleide and was named after its mother country to keep it from other standards that were used at the time (such as the Icelandic scale).

One of the Thaalbourne tests was conducted for a test group consisting of 241 university students, 86 essential disorders and 38 schizophrenia. The goal was to define the psychological characteristics that constitute those who believe in the paranormal and those who did not do it. The results indicate that the belief in the paranormal is related to a set of psychological structures that include anxiety, the place of control, proposal, exposed to imagination, critical thinking, religion and creativity, among other things. More studies have suggested that believing in the paranormal can be a positive benefit for a person when they help them overcome shock and tension, as well as gain emotional clarity of themselves and the wider world.

How do you evaluate yourself? Skepticism or a believer? Maybe you are somewhere in the middle? Let’s discover!