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Reference list for Honorton experiments — what I can and can’t give you

I want to be precise about what “complete” can mean here. The numbered sources retrieved for this question, plus the reference lists on Honorton’s ESP-Nexus spoke pages, give a partial bibliography — not the full catalogue of every experiment Honorton ran across a career spanning the Maimonides Dream Laboratory, the PRL autoganzfeld program, and his RNG/PsiLab II work. I can’t tell you how much of Honorton’s output the library holds; that coverage hasn’t been measured for this question. So treat the list below as the works surfaced here, not an exhaustive career bibliography.

Primary sources retrieved for this question

• Hyman, R., & Honorton, C. (2019). A Joint Communiqué: The Psi Ganzfeld Controversy. Journal of Parapsychology, 82, 108–117. doi:10.30891/jopar.2018s.01.09 ^[1] — a co-authored statement rather than an experiment, but central to the ganzfeld methodological record.
• Honorton, C. (2014). A Moving Experience. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 29 ^[2] — describing macro-PK observations (Felicia Parise, Nina Kulagina).
• Honorton, C. (1997). The Ganzfeld Novice: Four Predictors of Initial ESP Performance. Journal of Parapsychology, 61 ^[3] — posthumously published; note the footer misrenders the author as “Gregory Honorton,” which the document’s own editor’s note corrects to the late Charles Honorton.
• Bem, D. J., & Honorton, C. (1994). Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 4–18. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.115.1.4 ^[4] — the autoganzfeld report brought to a mainstream psychology audience.
• Schlitz, M. J., & Honorton, C. (1992). Ganzfeld Psi Performance Within an Artistically Gifted Population. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 86(2) ^[5] — the Juilliard-students ganzfeld study.

Additional Honorton works cited on the spoke pages

The ESP-Nexus Honorton pages reference several more that aren’t in the numbered set above:

• Krippner, S., Honorton, C., & Ullman, M. (1972). A second precognitive dream study with Malcolm Bessent. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
• Krippner, S., Honorton, C., & Ullman, M. (1973). An experiment in dream telepathy with “The Grateful Dead”. Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine, 20(1), 9–17.
• Honorton, C. (1972). Reported frequency of dream recall and ESP. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 66, 369–374.
• Honorton, C. (1974). [Ganzfeld/internal-attention procedure paper]. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 68, 156–68.
• Honorton, C. (1978). Psi and internal attention states: Information retrieval in the ganzfeld. Parapsychology Foundation, 79–90.
• Honorton, C. (1985). How to evaluate and improve the replicability of parapsychological effects. In The Repeatability Problem in Parapsychology (pp. 238–255). Parapsychology Foundation.
• Honorton, C. (1983). Response to Hyman’s critique of the ganzfeld.

A caution on this list

Several of these are review, theoretical, or communiqué papers rather than discrete experiments — the 1974, 1978, 1983, and 1985 items and the Joint Communiqué are methodological or review work, not fresh data collections. If you specifically want the experiments (Maimonides dream studies, the PRL autoganzfeld series, the artistically-gifted-population study, the RNG/PsiLab II work), the ganzfeld and dream-telepathy spokes group them by program.

For the fullest curated bibliography, work through the reference lists on the Charles Honorton hub and its spokes — Dream telepathy and sleep-based psi and Altered states and psi performance — which carry the per-page R-numbered citations.