In December 2000 parapsychologist Richard Wiseman announced he was going to conduct the “world’s largest telepathy experiment” in London [FT143:24]. Unfortunately Wiseman’s experiment, using up to 100 telepathic ‘senders’, fell well short of the far more fortean approach taken by a group of parapsychologists and musicians towards the end of the psychedelic era in America.

The real ‘world’s largest telepathy experiment’ actually took place in February 1971 at Port Chester in New York State. Far from being conducted in the psychically arid test conditions of a laboratory, it was hosted by the world’s strangest rock and roll band, The Grateful Dead.