Essence of parapsychology

Main article: Parapsychology

Parapsychology

The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...

• Fringe science
  Fringe science
  Fringe science is scientific inquiry in an established field of study that departs significantly from mainstream or orthodox theories, and is classified in the "fringes" of a credible mainstream academic discipline....
  
  
• Paranormal
  Paranormal
  Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
  
  
• Pseudoscience
  Pseudoscience
  Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status...
  
  
• Psychology
  Psychology
  Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
  
  
• Psionics
  Psionics
  Psionics refers to the practice, study, or psychic ability of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena. Examples of this include telepathy, telekinesis, and other workings of the outside world through the psyche.-History and terminology:...
  
  
• Psychic
  Psychic
  A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
  
  

General parapsychology concepts

• Abacomancy
  Abacomancy
  Abacomancy, also known as Amathomancy a form of divination based on the interpretation of the patterns in dust, dirt, silt, sand, or the ashes of the recently deceased. Reading the patterns is believed to give some insight into the future...
  
  
• Altered state of consciousness
  Altered state of consciousness
  An altered state of consciousness , also named altered state of mind, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking beta wave state. The expression was used as early as 1966 by Arnold M. Ludwig and brought into common usage from 1969 by Charles Tart: it describes induced...
  
  
• Anomalous cognition
• Anomalous operation
  Anomalous operation
  Anomalous operation, also known as anomalous perturbation, is a term used to describe any paranormal phenomena in which it is said that an individual uses Psi to influence a physical event, or to effect a physical change, in object...
  
  
• Apparitional experience
  Apparitional experience
  In psychology and parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience.It is characterized by the apparent perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being any material stimulus for such a perception...
  
  
• Apparitions
  Apparitional experience
  In psychology and parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous, quasi-perceptual experience.It is characterized by the apparent perception of either a living being or an inanimate object without there being any material stimulus for such a perception...
  
  
• Astral body
  Astral body
  The astral body is a subtle body posited by many religious philosophers, intermediate between the intelligent soul and the physical body, composed of a subtle material. The concept ultimately derives from the philosophy of Plato: it is related to an astral plane, which consists of the planetary...
  
  
• Aura (paranormal)
  Aura (paranormal)
  In parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice, an aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object . The depiction of such an aura often connotes a person of particular power or holiness. Sometimes, however, it is said that all living things and all objects...
  
  
• Clairaudience
• Clairsentience
• Clairvoyance
  Clairvoyance
  The term clairvoyance is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses, a form of extra-sensory perception...
  
  
• Cold reading
  Cold reading
  Cold reading is a series of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, illusionists, and con artists to determine or express details about another person, often in order to convince them that the reader knows much more about a subject than they actually do...
  
  
• Death-warning
  Death-warning
  Death-warning, a term used in parapsychological research for an intimation of the death of another person received by other than the ordinary sensory channels, i.e...
  
  
• Direct voice
• Displacement
• Dowsing
  Dowsing
  Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation , without the use of scientific apparatus...
  
  
• Ectoplasm (paranormal)
  Ectoplasm (paranormal)
  Ectoplasm is a term coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums...
  
  
• Extra-sensory perception
  Extra-sensory perception
  Extrasensory perception involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was coined by Frederic Myers, and adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and...
  
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• Exorcist
  Exorcist
  In some religions an exorcist is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or other demons. A priest, a nun, a monk, a healer, a shaman or other specially prepared or instructed person can be an exorcist...
  
  
• Ganzfeld experiment
  Ganzfeld experiment
  A ganzfeld experiment is a technique used in the field of parapsychology to test individuals for extrasensory perception . It uses homogeneous and unpatterned sensory stimulation to produce an effect similar to sensory deprivation. The deprivation of patterned sensory input is said to be conducive...
  
  
• Ghosts
• Global Consciousness Project
  Global Consciousness Project
  The Global Consciousness Project is a parapsychology experiment begun in 1998 as an attempt to detect possible interactions of "global consciousness" with physical systems...
  
  
• Haunted house
  Haunted house
  A haunted house is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property...
  
  
• History of parapsychology
• Hot reading
  Hot reading
  Hot reading is the use of foreknowledge when giving a psychic reading in stage magic performances, or in other contexts. The reader can gain information about the person receiving the reading through a variety of means, such as background research or overhearing a conversation...
  
  
• IANDS
  IANDS
  The International Association for Near-Death Studies is an organization for studying and disseminating information on the phenomena of the near death experience . IANDS was founded in the USA in 1981. Today it has grown into an international organization, which includes a network of more than 50...
  
  
• Journal of Parapsychology
  Journal of Parapsychology
  The Journal of Parapsychology is a semi-annual peer-reviewed publication "devoted primarily to the original publication of experimental results and other research findings in extrasensory perception and psychokinesis." It also contains reviews of "literature relevant to parapsychology, criticisms...
  
  
• List of psychic abilities
• Materialization (parapsychology)
  Materialization (parapsychology)
  In spiritualism, paranormal literature, and some religions, materialization is the creation or appearance of matter from unknown sources. It is the transformation of something abstract or virtual into something concrete and tangible...
  
  
• Medical intuitive
  Medical intuitive
  A medical intuitive is an alternative medicine practitioner who uses their self described intuitive abilities to find the cause of a physical or emotional condition. Other terms for this practice include medical clairvoyant, medical psychic or intuitive counselor...
  
  
• Medium (spirituality)
• Mediumship
  Mediumship
  Mediumship is described as a form of communication with spirits. It is a practice in religious beliefs such as Spiritualism, Spiritism, Espiritismo, Candomblé, Voodoo and Umbanda.- Concept :...
  
  
• Mental Radio
  Mental Radio
  Mental Radio: Does it work, and how? was written by the American author Upton Sinclair. This book documents Sinclair's test of psychic abilities of Mary Craig Kimbrough, his second wife, while she was in a state of profound depression with a heightened interest in the occult. She attempted to...
  
  
• Metaphysical levitation
  Metaphysical levitation
  Levitation in paranormal context is the claimed rising of a human body into the air by mystical means. It is generally believed that there is, at present, no compelling evidence to suggest that paranormal levitation is a real phenomenon...
  
  
• Mind-Body Intervention
  Mind-Body Intervention
  Mind–body interventions is the name of a U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine classification that covers a variety of techniques designed to enhance the mind's capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms....
  
  
• Morphic field
• National Laboratory of Psychical Research
  National Laboratory of Psychical Research
  The National Laboratory of Psychical Research was established in 1925 by Harry Price, at 13 Roland Gardens, London, S.W.7. Their aim was 'to investigate in a dispassionate manner and by purely scientific means every phase of psychic or alleged psychic phenomena'.The honorary president was The Lord...
  
  
• Near-death experience
• Near-death studies
  Near-death studies
  Near-death studies is a school of psychology and psychiatry that studies the phenomenology and after-effects of a Near-death experience .-NDE :...
  
  
• Oneirology
  Oneirology
  Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams. Current research seeks correlations between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as understanding of how the brain works during dreaming as pertains to memory formation and mental disorders...
  
  
• Out-of-body experiences
• Paranormal
  Paranormal
  Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
  
  
• Parapsychological Association
• Parapsychology
  Parapsychology
  The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...
  
  
• Pauli effect
  Pauli effect
  The Pauli effect is a term referring to the apparently mysterious 'anecdotal' failure of technical equipment in the presence of certain people. The term was coined using the name of the Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli...
  
  
• Poltergeist
  Poltergeist
  A poltergeist is a paranormal phenomenon which consists of events alluding to the manifestation of an imperceptible entity. Such manifestation typically includes inanimate objects moving or being thrown about, sentient noises and, on some occasions, physical attacks on those witnessing the...
  
  
• Psi (parapsychology)
  Psi (parapsychology)
  Psi is a term from parapsychology derived from the Greek, ψ psi, 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet; from the Greek ψυχή psyche, "mind, soul".-Etymology:...
  
  
• Precognition
  Precognition
  In parapsychology, precognition , also called future sight, and second sight, is a type of extrasensory perception that would involve the acquisition or effect of future information that cannot be deduced from presently available and normally acquired sense-based information or laws of physics...
  
  
• Prescience
• Project Alpha
  Project Alpha
  Project Alpha was an elaborate hoax orchestrated by the stage magician and skeptic James Randi. It involved planting two fake psychics, Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards, into a paranormal research project. During the initial stages of the investigation, the researchers came to believe that the...
  
  
• Psychic reading
  Psychic reading
  A psychic reading is a specific attempt to discern information with clairvoyance and the resulting statements made during such an attempt. The term is commonly associated with paranormal-based consultation given for a fee in such settings as over the phone, in a home, or at psychic fairs...
  
  
• Psychic
  Psychic
  A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
  
  
• Psychokinesis
  Psychokinesis
  The term psychokinesis , also referred to as telekinesis with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term...
  
  
• Psychometry
• Pyrokinesis
  Pyrokinesis
  Pyrokinesis, derived from the Greek words and , was the name coined by horror novelist Stephen King for the ability to create or to control fire with the mind that he gave to the protagonist Charlie McGee in Firestarter...
  
  
• Radiesthesia
  Radiesthesia
  Radiesthesia is the claimed paranormal or parapsychological ability to detect "radiation" within the human body. According to the theory, all human bodies give off unique or characteristic "radiations" as do all other physical bodies or objects. Such radiations are often termed an "aura".A...
  
  
• Reincarnation research
  Reincarnation research
  Reincarnation research is a branch of parapsychology. Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson, from the University of Virginia, investigated many reports of young children who claimed to remember a past life...
  
  
• Remote Viewing
  Remote viewing
  Remote viewing is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means, in particular, extra-sensory perception or "sensing with mind"...
  
  
• Research results in parapsychology
• Retrocognition
  Retrocognition
  Retrocognition , from the Latin retro meaning "backward, behind" and cognition meaning "knowing", describes "knowledge of a past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means". The term was coined by Frederic W. H...
  
  
• Rhine Research Center
  Rhine Research Center
  The Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology, named after its founder J. B. Rhine, is a parapsychology research unit that "aims to improve the human condition by creating a scientific understanding of those abilities and sensitivities that appear to transcend the ordinary limits of space...
  
  
• Scientific investigation of telepathy
• Survivalism (life after death)
  Survivalism (life after death)
  Survivalism refers to the belief in the survival of the conscious self after the death of the physical body. Survivalists attempt to prove survival with the methods of science, using as evidence such things as psychic phenomena, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, electronic voice...
  
  
• Stargate Project
  Stargate Project
  The Stargate Project was the umbrella code name of one of several sub-projects established by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate claims of psychic phenomena with potential military and domestic applications, particularly "remote viewing": the purported ability to psychically "see" events,...
  
  
• Telekinesis
• Telepathy
  Telepathy
  Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
  
  
• Therapeutic touch
  Therapeutic touch
  Therapeutic touch , also known as Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch , is an energy therapy which practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety. Practitioners of therapeutic touch state that by placing their hands on, or near, a patient, they are able to detect and manipulate the...
  
  
• Transliminality
  Transliminality
  Transliminality was a concept introduced by the parapsychologist Michael Thalbourne, an Australian psychologist who is based at the University of Adelaide...
  
  
• Transpersonal experience
• Unexplained Mysteries
  Unexplained Mysteries
  Unexplained Mysteries is an American documentary television show that originally aired in 2003-2004 for a single season and is currently in syndication. The show deals with eyewitness accounts of paranormal activity, especially aliens, UFOs, and ghosts; almost all of the them rehashed reports from...
  
  
• Veridical dream
  Veridical dream
  The veridical dream is the dream which is afterwards fulfilled.* In Book XIX of the Odyssey, Penelopē said that "dreams ... which issue forth from the gate of polished horn bring true issues to pass, when any mortal sees them." * Likewise, Herodotos distinguished /oneiros/ as "the prophetic,...
  
  
• Zener card
  Zener card
  Zener cards are cards used to conduct experiments for extra-sensory perception , most often clairvoyance. Perceptual psychologist Karl Zener designed the cards in the early 1930s for experiments conducted with his colleague, parapsychologist J. B. Rhine....
  
  

Parapsychology organizations

• American Society for Psychical Research
  American Society for Psychical Research
  The American Society for Psychical Research is an organisation dedicated to parapsychology based in New York, where it maintains offices and a library. It is open to interested members of the public to join, and has a website...
  
  
• International Association for Near-Death Studies
  IANDS
  The International Association for Near-Death Studies is an organization for studying and disseminating information on the phenomena of the near death experience . IANDS was founded in the USA in 1981. Today it has grown into an international organization, which includes a network of more than 50...
  
  
• National Laboratory of Psychical Research
  National Laboratory of Psychical Research
  The National Laboratory of Psychical Research was established in 1925 by Harry Price, at 13 Roland Gardens, London, S.W.7. Their aim was 'to investigate in a dispassionate manner and by purely scientific means every phase of psychic or alleged psychic phenomena'.The honorary president was The Lord...
  
  
• Parapsychological Association
• Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab
  Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab
  The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research program was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with physical devices, systems, and...
  
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• Society for Psychical Research
  Society for Psychical Research
  The Society for Psychical Research is a non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand "events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal by promoting and supporting important research in this area" and to "examine allegedly paranormal phenomena...
  
  

Parapsychologists

• Loyd Auerbach
  Loyd Auerbach
  Loyd Auerbach is a professor of parapsychology and a prominent field investigator in psychic phenomena. He is an accomplished professional mentalist and psychic entertainer, performing as Professor Paranormal before private and corporate groups...
  
  
• Daryl Bem
  Daryl Bem
  Daryl J. Bem is a social psychologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University. He is the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude change, and has carried out research on psi phenomena , group decision making, handwriting analysis, sexual orientation and personality theory and...
  
  
• Hans Bender
  Hans Bender
  Hans Bender was a German lecturer on the subject of parapsychology, who was also responsible for establishing the parapsychological institute Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Freiburg. For many years his pipe smoking, contemplative figure was synonymous with German...
  
  
• Stephen E. Braude
  Stephen E. Braude
  Stephen E. Braude is an American philosopher and parapsychologist. He is a past president of the Parapsychological Association, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is also an accomplished jazz...
  
  
• Whately Carington
  Whately Carington
  Whately Carington was a British parapsychologist and psychical investigator. His name, originally Walter Whately Smith, was changed in 1933.-Biography:Carington was educated at Eton and Cambridge University where he studied science...
  
  
• Hereward Carrington
  Hereward Carrington
  Hereward Carrington, Ph.D. was a well-known British investigator of psychic phenomena and author...
  
  
• Michael Daniels
  Michael Daniels
  Dr Michael Daniels is a British transpersonal psychologist and parapsychologist. A Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, he was formerly a senior lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University...
  
  
• Théodore Flournoy
  Théodore Flournoy
  Théodore Flournoy was a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and author of books on spiritism and psychic phenomena...
  
  
• Nandor Fodor
  Nandor Fodor
  Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist, psychologist, author and journalist of Hungarian birth, one of the leading authorities on poltergeists, haunting and all kinds of paranormal phenomena usually associated with mediumship...
  
  
• Randall Fontes
  Randall Fontes
  Randall G. Fontes is an American psychology professional known particularly for his research in the fields of parapsychology and psychophysics...
  
  
• Bruce Greyson
  Bruce Greyson
  Bruce Greyson, M.D. , is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia. He is co-author of Irreducible Mind and co-editor of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences...
  
  
• Alexander Imich
  Alexander Imich
  Alexander Imich PhD is, at age , active as president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York. He was born in Częstochowa, Poland.-Early war service:...
  
  
• George P. Hansen
  George P. Hansen
  George P. Hansen is a writer and parapsychologist. One of his known works include The Trickster and the Paranormal, which mostly deals with liminality and the paranormal...
  
  
• László Harasztosi
  László Harasztosi
  László Harasztosi, also known as Lazlo Hypnotist, is a psychic, bioenergeticist, and alternative medicine practitioner. His speciality is attaching metal objects on human bodies...
  
  
• Hans Holzer
  Hans Holzer
  Hans Holzer was an Austrian-born, American pioneering paranormal researcher and author. He wrote well over 100 books on supernatural and occult subjects for the popular market as well as several plays, musicals, films, and documentaries, and hosted a television show, "Ghost Hunter".- Career...
  
  
• Charles Honorton
  Charles Honorton
  Charles Henry Honorton was an American parapsychologist.Honorton was born in Deer River, Minnesota on February 5, 1946....
  
  
• Thomson Jay Hudson
  Thomson Jay Hudson
  Thomson Jay Hudson born Windham, Ohio, USA, February 22, 1834, Chief Examiner of the US Patent Office and Psychical researcher, known for his three laws of psychic phenomena, which were first published in 1893....
  
  
• Lawrence LeShan
  Lawrence LeShan
  Lawrence LeShan is a psychologist, educator and the author of the best-selling How to Meditate ,Fields, Tracy , Ocala Star-Banner one of the first practical guides to meditation...
  
  
• Rufus Osgood Mason
  Rufus Osgood Mason
  Rufus Osgood Mason was a physician, surgeon, teacher, and an early researcher in parapsychology and hypnotherapy...
  
  
• James Hewat McKenzie
  James Hewat McKenzie
  James Hewat McKenzie was a British parapsychologist, and the founder of the British College of Psychic Science. McKenzie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 11, 1869 and died August 29, 1929, in London....
  
  
• Michel Moine
  Michel Moine
  thumb|right|210px|Michel Moine holding a can that contained 400 ancient gold coins . The can was unearthed in an old lady's cellar.Michel Moine was a French journalist and parapsychologist. He was the director of the news division of RTL from 1958 to 1967, and then of RMC from 1967 to 1982...
  
  
• Thelma Moss
  Thelma Moss
  Thelma Moss, Ph.D. was an American psychologist and parapsychologist, best known for her work on Kirlian photography and the human aura....
  
  
• Gardner Murphy
  Gardner Murphy
  Gardner Murphy was an American psychologist specialising in social and personality psychology, and parapsychology. His career highlights included serving as president of the American Psychological Association, and of the British Society for Psychical Research.Murphy was born on July 8, 1895 in...
  
  
• Ciarán O'Keeffe
  Ciarán O'Keeffe
  Dr. Ciarán O'Keeffe is a British parapsychologist. He has held a Research associate position at Université de Toulouse, Le Mirail and also an online tutor position at Derby University. Previously employed at Liverpool Hope University, lecturing in Psychology with a parapsychology component, Dr...
  
  
• Frank Podmore
  Frank Podmore
  Frank Podmore was an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society, and writer on psychic matters.-Life:...
  
  
• Joseph Gaither Pratt
  Joseph Gaither Pratt
  Joseph Gaither Pratt was an American psychologist who specialized in the field of parapsychology. Among his research interests were extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, mediumship, poltergeists and psi....
  
  
• Harold E. Puthoff
  Harold E. Puthoff
  Harold E. Puthoff is an American physicist who, earlier in his career was involved in research on paranormal topics. In 1967, Puthoff earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University...
  
  
• Konstantin Raudive
  Konstantin Raudive
  Dr. Konstantīns Raudive was a Latvian writer and intellectual, and husband of Zenta Mauriņa. Raudive was born in Latvia but studied extensively abroad, later becoming a student of Carl Jung...
  
  
• Joseph Banks Rhine
  Joseph Banks Rhine
  Joseph Banks Rhine was a botanist who later developed an interest in parapsychology and psychology. Rhine founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, and the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man...
  
  
• Dean Radin
  Dean Radin
  Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He has been Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences , in Petaluma, California, USA, since 2001, and is on the Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University, on the Distinguished...
  
  
• Carl Reichenbach
  Carl Reichenbach
  Baron Dr. Carl Ludwig von Reichenbach was a notable chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the prestigious Prussian Academy of Sciences...
  
  
• Kenneth Ring
  Kenneth Ring
  Kenneth Ring is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of near-death studies...
  
  
• D. Scott Rogo
  D. Scott Rogo
  D. Scott Rogo was a writer and researcher on subjects related to parapsychology. He wrote or co-wrote 20 books and more than 100 magazine and journal articles, 7 books were reprinted in 2005 by Anomalist Books, Leaving the body was reprinted in 2008 by Simon & Schuster...
  
  
• William Roll
• Henry Sidgwick
  Henry Sidgwick
  Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women...
  
  
• Matthew Smith
  Matthew Smith (psychologist)
  Matthew Smith, Ph.D., was an Associate Professor in Psychology at Liverpool Hope University where he led the . He has recently conducted research on replication issues in parapsychology and psychological variables associated with paranormal belief....
  
  
• Ian Stevenson
  Ian Stevenson
  Ian Pretyman Stevenson, MD, was a Canadian biochemist and professor of psychiatry. Until his retirement in 2002, he was head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, which investigates the paranormal.Stevenson considered that the concept of reincarnation might...
  
  
• Charles Tart
  Charles Tart
  Dr. Charles T. Tart is an American psychologist and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness , as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. He earned his Ph. D...
  
  
• Rudolf Tischner
  Rudolf Tischner
  Rudolf Tischner was a German ophthalmologist and parapsychologist born in Hohenmölsen. After finishing his medical studies he practiced ophthalmology in Munich....
  
  
• Jim B. Tucker
• Waldo Vieira
  Waldo Vieira
  Waldo Vieira is a Brazilian dentist and physician who first proposed the theories of and , two closely related nascent sciences which posit that human consciousness is a non-physical phenomenon...
  
  
• René Warcollier
  René Warcollier
  René Warcollier was a French chemical engineer and parapsychologist. He was a founder and president of the Institut Métapsychique, and edited and wrote theoretical and experimental reports for its journal.-Biography:...
  
  

Parapsychology publications

• Extrasensory Perception
  Extrasensory Perception (book)
  Extrasensory Perception is a 1934 book written by parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, which discusses his research work at Duke University. Extrasensory perception is the ability to acquire information shielded from the senses, and the book was "of such a scope and of such promise as to...
  
  
• Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
  Irreducible Mind
  Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century is a 2007 book by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson. The book begins by presenting a brief overview of contemporary neuroscience followed by a summary of the approach to...
  
  
• Journal of Consciousness Studies
  Journal of Consciousness Studies
  The Journal of Consciousness Studies is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated entirely to the field of consciousness studies. It was previously edited by Joseph Goguen. It has been co-edited by the philosopher of mysticism, Robert K.C...
  
  
• Journal of Near-Death Studies
  Journal of Near-Death Studies
  The Journal of Near-Death Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering near-death studies that is published by the International Association for Near-Death Studies. The journal's founding editor-in-chief was Kenneth Ring...
  
  
• Journal of Parapsychology
  Journal of Parapsychology
  The Journal of Parapsychology is a semi-annual peer-reviewed publication "devoted primarily to the original publication of experimental results and other research findings in extrasensory perception and psychokinesis." It also contains reviews of "literature relevant to parapsychology, criticisms...
  
  
• Journal of Scientific Exploration
  Journal of Scientific Exploration
  The Journal of Scientific Exploration is a quarterly scientific journal of fringe science published by the Society for Scientific Exploration that was established in 1987...
  
  
• Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon—Survival of Bodily Death
  Life After Life
  Life After Life is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences . The book presents the author's composite account of what it is like to die...
  
  
• Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives
  Life Before Life
  Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives is a 2005 book written by psychiatrist Jim B. Tucker, which presents an overview of more than 40 years of reincarnation research at the University of Virginia Division of Personality Studies, into children's...
  
  
• Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence For Past Lives
  Old Souls
  Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence For Past Lives is a non-fiction book by journalist Tom Shroder. An editor at the Washington Post, Shroder traveled extensively with psychiatrist Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, who conducted past life and reincarnation research in Lebanon, India and...
  
  
• Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind
  Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind
  Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind is a book by Joseph Banks Rhine and Joseph Gaither Pratt, originally published in 1957. It is a textbook and reference work which provides an introduction to the field of parapsychology, which discusses "methods for testing, tables for evaluation,...
  
  
• The Roots of Coincidence
  The Roots of Coincidence
  The Roots of Coincidence, written by Arthur Koestler, is an accessible introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. It postulates links between elements of quantum mechanics, such as the behaviour of neutrinos and their interaction with time, and...
  
  
• Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
  Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
  Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation is a book written by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson on the phenomena of what he calls spontaneous recall of information about previous lives by young children. The book focuses on twenty cases investigated by the author...
  
  

External links

• Parapsychology FAQ Frequently asked questions, by the Parapsychological Association, one of the major groups studying parapsychological phenomena.
• FindArticles.com Index Large number of articles about parapsychology, from publications such as the Journal of Parapsychology
  Journal of Parapsychology
  The Journal of Parapsychology is a semi-annual peer-reviewed publication "devoted primarily to the original publication of experimental results and other research findings in extrasensory perception and psychokinesis." It also contains reviews of "literature relevant to parapsychology, criticisms...
  
  and the Skeptical Inquirer
  Skeptical Inquirer
  The Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry with the subtitle: The magazine for science and reason....
  
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• Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Organization formed in 1976 to encourage the critical investigation of paranormal claims and parapsychology.