Here is a link of miscellaneous resources related to Sikodiwa. Free public lectures are uploaded on YouTube, while exclusive content can be accessed via Patreon. I also contribute essays to Lifestyle Inquirer.

Reading List

Note: You don’t have to ask me where to find these books—you can search online, contact the publishers, or ask your local library!

Jaime C. Bulatao, Phenomena and their Interpretation (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1992)1
Leonardo N. Mercado, Elements of Filipino Philosophy (Divine Word University Publications, 1974)
Virgilio G. Enriquez, From Colonial to Liberation Psychology (The University of the Philippines Press, 1992)
John P. McAndrew, People of Power (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2001)
Mellie Leandicho Lopez, A Handbook of Philippine Folklore (The University of the Philippines Press, 2006)
Francisco Demetrio, Gilda Cordero-Fernando, and Fernando N. Zialcita, The Soul Book (GCF Books, 1991)
Dennis Santos Villegas, You Shall Be As Gods (Vibal Foundation, 2017)
Michael L. Tan, Revisiting Usog, Pasma, Kulam (The University of the Philippines Press, 2008)
Grace Nono, Babaylan Sing Back (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023)
Nick Joaquin, Culture and History (Anvil, 1988/2004)

Academic Articles

This is a list of articles written by Carl Lorenz Cervantes. They can be accessed via ResearchGate.

“The Filipino Experience of Kutob: Understanding Culturally-Informed Hyper-Intuition” (Advance online publication, International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2025)
“Filipino Psychology is a Transpersonal Psychology” (Advance online publication, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2025)
“Kaluluwa, Kapwa, Kalikasan: Mental Health Implications of Filipino Folk Beliefs” (Advance online publication, Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 2023)
“Philippine Parapsychology” (Explore, 2024)
“The Interpretation of a Phenomenon: Telepathy in Psychotherapy Among Therapists Trained Under Fr. Jaime C. Bulatao” (with Karina Therese Galang Fernandez, Asia Pacific Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy, 2023)2
“Deep Ecology, Nature Spirits, and the Filipino Transpersonal Worldview” (International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2023)
“There’s a Duwende on my Shelf: The Parapsychological Studies of Fr. Jaime C. Bulatao, SJ” (International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2022)
“The Limitations and Potentials of Tarot Readings in Times of Uncertainty” (Diliman Review, 2021)

You can now pre-order Sikodiwa (North Atlantic Books, 2025):

Tony Perez

Article about Tony Perez

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-i-became-writer-tony-perez-filipino.html

Books

Stories of the Moon: More Adventures of the Spirit Questers

(2001)

Songs of Sunset: Incantations and Spells by the Spirit Questors

(2001)

The departed: Encounters of the spirit questors with spirits of the deceased (Filipino transpersonal psychology series) (1999)

Beings: Encounters of the spirit questors with non-human entities (Filipino transpersonal psychology series)(1999)

A young man cries for justice beyond his grave: compilations on the Ens. Phillip A. Pestaño case (1998)

Mga Panibagong Tawas (1997)

The calling: A transpersonal adventure

by Tony Perez (1996)

Mga panibagong kulam (1996)

Ruel Ruiz

Books

https://www.scribd.com/user/129623

226/Ruel-N-Ruiz

Youtube Channels

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Research Organizations

(from the book Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science)

ARGENTINA

Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal (IPP), Buenos Aires, www.alipsi.com.ar/

AUSTRALIA

Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, Sydney: Gladesville, New South

Wales, www.aiprinc.org/index.asp

Australian Society for Psychical Research and UFORUM: Pert, Western Australia,

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~amilani/ufo.html

QUIP Group: Quality Investigative Psi Projects: Hobart, Tasmania, http://www.qipp.com.au/index.html

AUSTRIA

Austrian Society for Parapsychology and Border Areas of Science, Vienna,

www.parapsychologie.ac.at/eng-info.htm

BRAZIL

Instituto de Psicologia, Sao Paulo, www.ip.usp.br/portal/

DENMARK

Danish Society for Psychical Research (DASPR), http://parapsykologi.dk/index.php/our-history

FRANCE

Institut Metapsychique International (IMI) Paris, www.metapsychique.org

GERMANY

Gesellschaft für Anomalistik e.V. (Society for Anomalistics), Freiburg, http://www.anomalistik.de/informationenglish

Institut fur Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health) (IGPP) Freiburg i.Br., www.igpp.de/english/welcome.htm

HUNGARY

Eötvös Loránd University
Open University Szintezis (OUS), http://www.szintezis.info.hu

ITALY

Associazione Italiana Scientific di Metapsichica (AISM), Rome, www.metapsichica.it/
Centro Studi di Parapsicologia, Bologna (CSP), http://cspbo.altervista.org/b/storia.htm
Laboratorio Interdisciplinare di Ricerca Biopsicocibernetica, Bologna, www.biopsicocibernetica.org/

JAPAN

International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS), Chiba, www.islis.a-iri.org/
Japanese Society for Parapsychology, Tokyo, http://j-spp.umin.jp/english/jspp_e.htm

THE NETHERLANDS

Dutch Society for Psychical Research (DUSPR), http://dutchspr.org/spr

SWEDEN

The Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP), Lund University, Lund, www.psy.lu.se/research/networks/cercap
The Swedish Society for Parapsychological Research, www.parapsychology.se/

Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit (APRU), Gold Smith University, London,

www.gold.ac.uk/apru/

Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP), The University of

Northampton, www2.northampton.ac.uk/portal/page/portal/SocialSciences/sshome/psychology-homepage/research#csapp

Perrott-Warrick Research Unity, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, www.psy.herts.ac.uk/res/para-magic.html
Psi Research Centre, Glastonbury, www.psi-researchcentre.co.uk
Psychology of Paranormal Phenomena, University of Derby’s Centre for Psychological

Research, www.derby.ac.uk/science/research/centres-groups/psychological/clusters/psychologyofparanormalphenomenacluster/

Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London, www.spr.ac.uk/main/

UNITED STATES

Boundary Institute, San Jose, California, www.boundaryinstitute.org
Center for Consciousness Studies Tucson, Arizona, www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesvile, Virginia, http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/home-page
Global Consciousness Project, Princeton, New Jersey, www.noosphere.princeton.edu/
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Petaluma, California, www.noetic.org
International Consciousness Research Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, www.icrl.org/
Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Palo Alto, California, www.lfr.org
Monroe Institute Faber, Virginia, www.monroeinstitute.org/
Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute Seattle, Washington,www.pni.org/research/anomalous/
Parapsychological Association Inc., Columbus, Ohio, www.parapsych.org/home.aspx
Parapsychology Foundation New York, www.parapsychology.org [a not-for-profit organization incorporated in 1951. This legacy institution maintains the Eileen J. Garrett Library with its collection of more than 12,000 volumes and 100 periodicals on parapsychology and related topics, and is proud of its quality paperback imprint, Helix Press. - Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters]
PEAR Laboratory (1979-2007), Princeton, New Jersey, www.princeton.edu/~pear/
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), Princeton NJ, http://icrl.org/
Psiphen Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder, www.psiphen.colorado.edu/
Rhine Research Center, Durham, North Carolina, www.rhine.org
Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE): USA, www.scientificexploration.org

SKEPTIC ORGANIZATIONS

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Amherst, New York, www.csicop.org
James Randi Educational Foundation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida: USA, www.randi.org
Skeptics Society (The), Altadena, California, http://www.skeptic.com/
Skeptics Society, Greenford, UK, http://www.skeptic.org.uk/

JOURNALS

Anomaly This is the regularly produced journal of record of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP, http://www.assap.ac.uk/ ). ASSAP (previously referred to in Chapter 8 with regards to its investigative approach) was founded in 1981 and contains a large body of honestly skeptical content regarding how to critically examine hauntings and other forms of high strangeness. While up to date research is often not referenced in their website (though it is due to be updated), this is an excellent site for fostering critical thinking, examining critical methods for examining purported hauntings, as well as alternative explanations for haunting. Anomaly, available to members, features in-depth articles about ASSAP research and investigations in addition to topics of interest to its readership. Although it is not peer-reviewed, as with the aforementioned journals, it aims to uphold a scientific standard in a more accessible style. - mentioned in Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters (Ghosted)
Australian Journal of Parapsychology (AJPara) a peer-reviewed journal on the topics of extrasensory perception (ESP), psychokinesis (PK), and life after death;

aiprinc.org/journal.asp - mentioned in Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science (ESP:SSS)

AJPara (https://www.informit.org/product-details/615/AJP/titles ) publishes articles on a range of parapsychological issues, such as extra-sensory perception (ESP), psychokinesis (PK), and the afterlife. It presents articles that are accessible to academic researchers and intelligent laypersons. Access to AJPara requires a membership subscription. Like the JP, this publication frequently contains articles related to research on ghost-related topics. - mentioned in Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters (Ghosted)

European Journal of Parapsychology (published between 1975 and 2010) focuses on experimental and theoretical aspects of parapsychology; back issues available at http://ejp.wyrdwise.com/ - ESP:SSS
International Journal of Parapsychology focuses on experimental, theoretical, and philosophical aspects of parapsychology; http://www.parapsychology.org/dynamic/070100.html - ESP:SSS
Journal of Near-Death Studies, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal (ISSN 0891-4494)
devoted exclusively to the field of near-death studies; cross-disciplinary and published quarterly;

http://iands.org/publications/journal-of-near-death-studies.html

Journal of Parapsychology (JP), a publication of the Rhine Research Center focuses on experimental and theoretical aspects of parapsychology; http://www.parapsych.org/section/17/journal_of_parapsychology.aspx - ESP:SSS

JP is produced by the Rhine Research Center (and published by the Parapsychology Press, a subsidiary of the Rhine that holds the copyright, see: https://www.parapsychologypress.org/journal-of-parapsychology). JP features a range of scholarly material (e.g., editorials, research articles, literature reviews, and book reviews), including those related to the empirical study of ghostly episodes. However, access to the journal requires either subscription, certain levels of Rhine supporting membership, membership in the Parapsychological Association, or via some university libraries. - Ghosted

Journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration (JSE) publishes original research on consciousness, quantum physics and biophysics, unexplained aerial phenomena, alternative medicine, new energy, sociology, psychology, and more; http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/ - ESP:SSS

JSE (https://www.scientificexploration.org/journal-library) is the quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration. Since 1987, the JSE has published original research on topics of interest that cover a wide spectrum of high-strangeness, ranging from apparent anomalies in well-established disciplines to rogue phenomena that seemingly belong to no established discipline, as well as philosophical issues about the connections among disciplines. The journal also sometimes contains papers on haunt-related phenomena. In 2018, JSE became a Platinum Open Access journal, meaning there is no fee to read or publish in it. Take advantage of this, as there is a broad array of articles covering the poorly researched fringes of science. - Ghosted

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (JSPR) has been published continuously since 1884, promoting the Society’s aim of examining “without prejudice or prepossession and in a scientific spirit those faculties of man, real or supposed, which appear to be inexplicable on any generally recognised hypothesis.” The Journal’s contents reflect the wide range of our contributors’ specialisms and interests and include reports of current laboratory and fieldwork research, as well as theoretical, methodological and historical papers with a bearing on the field of parapsychology; http://www.spr.ac.uk/page/spr-publications-parapsychology - ESP:SSS

The Society for Psychical Research (SPR), founded in London in 1882, was the first scientific organization to examine claims of psychic and paranormal phenomena. It was founded “to examine without prejudice or prepossession and in a scientific spirit those faculties of man, real or supposed, which appear to be inexplicable on any generally recognized hypothesis” (https://www.spr.ac.uk/). The SPR’s aim is to gather information and foster understanding through research and education. Accordingly, the SPR produces its subscription-based journal, i.e., JSPR, that publishes empirical studies, research notes, and short Letters to the Editor. This includes a fair number of articles on ghost-related topics. Notably, the JSPR is the longest-standing parapsychology journal in existence, spanning well over 90 years. The SPR also published the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research and the issues from the late 1800s/early 1900s form a treasure trove of accounts, research and perspectives on all manner of psychical research. The SPR have a useful page on their website which provides brief summaries of most of the articles published in the Journal and Proceedings from 1884 to 2011. If you have some money burning in your pocket, a membership to this organization is worth the journal. - Ghosted

Mindfield This bulletin is published by the Parapsychological Association (PA) (https://parapsych.org/home.aspx), which is the international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of “psi” (or “psychic”) experiences. For citizen scientists who want to keep informed about what parapsychology is up to, we recommend investing in the fees to become a member of the PA, which is not restricted to scientists. The membership comes with a subscription to the journal, but also to the PA’s magazine called Mindfield that covers various themes and issues in parapsychology, as well as interesting snippets about projects or research. Further, this magazine is written more informally and is a good source of lay person information about the latest thinking from parapsychologists around the world. Economic times can be tough, but the subscription rates are reasonable for online access. The information provided is well worth the investment. - Ghosted

Some Honorable Mentions

Parapsychologists occasionally publish in mainstream science journals, although we must be exceedingly selective in terms of what journals will even review papers that hint at the dreaded topic of “parapsychology.” Among the most sympathetic of these journals is Frontiers in Psychology, which is an open-access online publication articles are easily accessible and downloadable.

Perceptual and Motor Skills, Psychological Reports, Personality and Individual Differences, and Explore: Journal of Science and Healing also publish reports on parapsychological topics, but these journals are available by subscription only.

Finally, there are the now-defunct European Journal of Parapsychology (EJP), which stopped publishing in 2010, and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research (JASPR), which ceased in 2004. Sadly, articles in these journals are hard to get, even with academic access. The Society for Scientific Exploration has a library database (if you are a member) that allows you to review the parapsychology articles published in these journals. Otherwise, they can be exceedingly difficult to obtain. Also, noteworthy is the Parapsychology Foundation’s International Journal of Parapsychology, which was published from 1959 to 1968 and again briefly from 2000 to 2001. Unfortunately, financial constraints and other events stopped the publication of this journal.

In the interest of being balanced, we should also mention the Skeptical Inquirer (SI). The SI (www.skepticalinquirer.org) purportedly contains content from leading authors in science, skepticism, medicine, media, activism, and advocacy—all devoted to the cause of “advancing science over pseudoscience, media literacy over conspiracy theories, and critical thinking over magical thinking.” This publication regularly produces subscription-based editions that are highly skeptical in nature. The reality is that the SI typically seeks to debunk certain topics and classic cases, but often via poor logic, lack of knowledge in science and philosophy, and highly unlikely explanations that have a popularist appeal. To be clear, SI is a magazine versus a peer-reviewed research journal. It thus arguably does not have the same level of protections in place that scientific journals use to curate content of integrity or justification. Furthermore, most of its contributors are not scientists.

SI has been repeatedly, and rightfully, accused of engaging in pseudo-skepticism (aka the belief that the paranormal cannot occur, no matter what). As such, many of its articles drastically reach into very improbable causes in their attempts to debunk parapsychology. Notably, they have consistently failed over many decades to debunk science presented in parapsychological journals and at the time of this writing, tend to avoid parapsychology now. There has been, unfortunately, a heated war spanning decades between the SI and parapsychologists, which has mostly been political and social in terms of promoting science as a purely materialist (and therefore an anti-spiritual or religious) force, which is frankly the open agenda of the magazine.

That said, we encourage you to read SI but do so very critically. The Ghost Gang advocates proper skepticism over “debunking.” Skeptical thinking requires open-mindedness to evaluate evidence fairly and critically. Candidly, we think you are unlikely to find this approach used consistently in the SI. But to its credit, the magazine does occasionally provide solid critique on some metaphysical topics, and we believe it is good to consider ghostly episodes from all perspectives. However, we recommend that you treat the SI much like a religious magazine. Many of the individuals there hold to certain “popular” scientific beliefs as if they were religious dogma, even though many of these beliefs have been debunked by science. The SI, in fact, does a poor job at being skeptical, but a great job at fostering an ideological unquestioning belief in dogmatic science.

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Websites

1. Dean Radin’s Recommended Research Sources Page – best evidence: www.deanradin.com/recommended-references

This page provides annotated links to papers/research in a variety of areas of parapsychological work. All links take you to free resources.

2. Parapsychological Association: www.parapsych.org

This is the official organization of researchers and academics involved in the field of Parapsychology. There are several levels of membership to allow students, those who are not directly working in the field, and members of the general public to join. Note: in the Publications drop down, take a look at the Mindfields offering, a publication with wider appeal than a journal.

3. The Rhine Research Center: www.rhine.org / www.rhineonline.org and Rhine Education Center (www.rhineedu.org)

The Rhine is the legacy organization of the original Duke University Parapsychology Lab, founded in 1935. It’s a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and absolutely worthy of joining as a member.

The Rhine has a huge media library – videos of lectures by researchers, psychics, and others presented over the last few years. There are a few that are free, but you are encouraged to join, not only to gain access to the media library and get discounts on webcasts of new lectures and discounts on classes and other things, but mainly to help support the work of the Rhine.

The Rhine Education Center (www.rhineedu.org ) offers online courses throughout the year (Loyd Auerbach is one of the main instructors). The Rhine publishes the Journal of Parapsychology.

4. The Society for Psychical Research: www.spr.ac.uk

The SPR is the oldest continuing psychical research/parapsychology organization. Lots of good info here for free, especially the Psi Encyclopedia (https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/) – an ever-growing resource on psychic abilities and research. The SPR publishes a journal (Journal of the Society for Psychical Research) and magazine (The Magazine) for general readers.

5. The Laboratories for Fundamental Research: www.lfr.org

Run by Dr. Ed May, physicist and former director of the Star Gate program, LFR provides exceptional background on past and current research in Remote Viewing, Precognition, and more.

6. The Parapsychology Foundation: www.parapsychology.org

Lots of good information on psychic phenomena through the PF’s website!

PF Publications’ free archive: https://parapsychology.org/parapsychology-foundation-publications/

The Parapsychology Foundation is a decades old not-for-profit organization with an educational perspective, supporting the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. Over the years they have published pamphlets, monographs, and proceedings of international conferences (as well as links to the individual papers from those conferences), which you can find on the webpage above for free reading and/or download.

7. The Institute of Noetic Sciences: www.ions.org

Consciousness Research, Psi Research, Altered States, and more are covered by this forward-thinking organization co-founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell.

8. University of Virginia, Division of Perceptual Studies (formerly the Division of Personality Studies): www.med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/

DOPS was started by the late Ian Stevenson in the 1960s, and has set the bar for exceptional research focused on children who remember previous lives. DOPS has also been researching near death experiences, apparitions, and much more. Lots of links to publications and research on the site.

9. The Koestler Parapsychology Unit – University of Edinburgh: https://koestlerunit.wordpress.com/

Established in 1985, the KPU is based in the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh, and focuses on teaching and researching parapsychology.

10. Society for Scientific Exploration: https://www.scientificexploration.org/

Started in 1982, the SSE has provided a critical forum for sharing original research into conventional and unconventional topics, including psi, UFOs, cryptozoology, alternative healing, cosmology, and more. Publishes a Journal and magazine (EdgeScience) – see below.

11. The Windbridge Research Center: www.windbridge.org

For some of the best controlled research with psychic practitioners – in this case, evidential spirit mediums – visit Windbridge. Lots of links to published research and other papers and information.

12. The Forever Family Foundation: www.foreverfamilyfoundation.org

Free to join, this non-profit supports the work of evidential mediums in the family grieving process and supports scientific research into experiences suggestive or supportive of the concept of Survival of Consciousness (and Loyd Auerbach is the President). The FFF currently hosts 4 Grief Transformation Retreats per year (Connecticut, Florida, and California).

13. International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA): https://www.irva.org/index.html

IRVA is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the responsible use and development of remote viewing. IRVA is an independently formed member organization of scientists, remote viewing professionals, students, and other interested persons.

14. SurvivalAfterDeath.org.uk: www.survivalafterdeath.info

Looking for historical and modern articles on the phenomena related to life after death? Research on Survival of Bodily Death? This is a great site for that.

15. The Global Consciousness Project: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

“The Global Consciousness Project is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists and engineers. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in up to 70 host sites around the world at any given time.”

16. The Psychical Research Foundation: https://www.psychicalresearchfoundation.com/

Established in 1961, and most closely tied to the work of the late William G. Roll for many years (Bryan Williams is current Research Director), the PRF site provides free downloads of past papers and other materials, as well as information about current research.

17. The International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS): https://iands.org/

IANDS focuses most of its resources into providing the highest quality information available about NDE-related subjects. It is the only such membership group in the world. IANDS publishes a peer-reviewed journal, a member magazine, and hosts conferences and other programs devoted to NDEs.

18. Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research: https://www.aiprinc.org/

This organization was founded in 1977 and provides information on parapsychology and psychic phenomena/experiences. AIPR publishes a peer-reviewed journal, the Australian Journal of Parapsychology and a newsletter for journal subscribers.

19. Marcello Truzzi Tribute Page: http://www.tricksterbook.com/truzzi/

Visit this page to learn about Marcello Truzzi, Sociologist and true skeptic, and an early member of the Psychic Entertainers Association. The site provides articles about and by Truzzi, as well as downloadable issues of the Zetetic Scholar and The Zetetic publications which he edited.

20. Macro-PK/Poltergeists Collaborative Project & Database: https://www.macropk.org/

This site follows an important research on phenomena associated with physical events that are observed in the presence of people and/or in particular places and are not explained by our current theories and which are in the field of what is commonly called Macro-Psychokinesis (Macro-PK). [Note: macro-pk refers to effects and actions one can see with the naked eye]

Blogs, Journals, YouTube, and News sites:

1. Paranormal Daily News: https://paranormaldailynews.com/

PDN is a truly rising star in the world of good information about the paranormal and the unexplained. The editorial staff behind it (now including yours truly, Loyd Auerbach), is exceptional and the intention is to grow to be THE source for good information on the subjects covered. Coming in early 2023 is a magazine, PARAWIZE.

2. New Thinking Allowed: www.newthinkingallowed.com

Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove’s YouTube channel resurrecting his 1980s PBS series with new interviews with experts and authors covering consciousness, parapsychology, futurism, and other topics on “the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery.” For a list of/links to guest interviews: www.newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm

3. Carlos Alvarado's Blog https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com

News, history and research announcements on Parapsychology by PhD Carlos Alvarado. Sadly, Carlos Alvarado passed away but the site remains as an amazing archive.

4. Psi in the News https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/?s=psi+in+the+news

A regularly posted effort by David Metcalfe to summarize the news related to Parapsychology, ; including books, publications, call for papers, conventions and more! Follow on Twitter @davidbmetcalfe for the most up-to-date info, and visit his main site for much more: https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/

5. The Anomalist https://www.anomalist.com/

“Daily review of world news on maverick science, unexplained mysteries, unorthodox theories, strange talents, and unexpected discoveries.”

6. Full Archive of the European Journal of Parapsychology (free – 1975-2010): http://ejp.naturalresourceswellbeing.com/

7. Journal of Scientific Exploration (free): https://www.scientificexploration.org/journal-library

8. EdgeScience Magazine (free) from the SSE: https://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience

9. Loyd Auerbach’s lecture channel (a selection of lectures): https://www.youtube.com/user/profparanormal/videos

10. Loyd Auerbach’s TV appearances channel (a selection of past TV appearances): https://www.youtube.com/user/loydauerbach/videos

11. Loyd Auerbach’s “Ask Professor Paranormal” YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@askprofessorparanormal

12. Every other Sunday evening, Loyd Auerbach answers questions live on the field of Parapsychology, psychic/paranormal phenomena and experiences, pop culture and psi, and much more. Check the channel (under the Live tab) to find out the next upcoming date. https://www.youtube.com/@askprofessorparanormal

13. Parapsychological Association YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParapsychOrg1957

14. Rhine Research Center YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/RhineResearchCenter

15. Parapsychology Foundation YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKx9X_6Ek5JynhJYtiH_HQA

16. UVA Division of Peceptual Studies YouTube channel (note the appearance of John Cleese as interviewer in a number of videos): https://www.youtube.com/@uvadivisionofperceptualstu9909

“Is There Life After Death?” moderated by John Cleese - 2018 Tom Tom Festival: https://youtu.be/4RGizqsLumo Panel discussion with the researchers from the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies

17. The Alvarado-Zingrone Institute for Research and Education YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ParapsychologyOnline

18. Windbridge Research Center video page: https://www.windbridge.org/videos/

19. The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSSEChannel

20. Australian Institute of Parapsychology YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLNBZoBSvSXPKoXJXO01Jcg

21. Varanormal channel – Documentaries and more from Dr. Keith Parsons:

https://www.youtube.com/@Varanormal/videos

22. SPR - Investigation Quick Guides https://www.spr.ac.uk/node/19069

Twitter

These are Twitter accounts to Follow for News and Gossip of the Paranormal and Parapsychology (in no particular order)

1. SPR @SPR1882

2. Rhine @RhineESP @rhinePSIence

3. Society for Scientific Exploration @sse_tweets

4. Psychic Science @psychicscience

5. Skeptiko @skeptiko

6. David Metcalfe @davidbmetcalfe

7. Parapsych Foundation @ParapsychF

8. Parapsych Assn @parapsych

9. Psi Encyclopedia @psiencyclopedia

10. Dean Radin @deanradin

11. Psi Open Data @psiopendata

12. Public Parapsychology @PublicParapsych

13. New Thinking Allowed @NewThinkAllowed

14. Monroe Institute @monroeinstitute

15. IONS @IONSonline

16. Windbridge Research Center @windbridge

17. Forever Family Foundation @FFFAfterlife

18. Psi-Finland @paratutkimus

19. The Ghost Club @GhostClub1862

20. Paranormal Daily News @paradailynews

21. Craig Weiler @Craigweiler

22. Steve Parsons @ParaScience

Dean Radin’s List

From: https://www.deanradin.com/recommended-references

This is a short list of peer-reviewed journal articles and books about psi phenomena. It includes articles of historical interest, general overviews, critical reviews, and descriptions of psi applications. These articles appeared in specialty journals as well as top-tier outlets, including Nature, Science, The Lancet, Proceedings of the IEEE, Psychological Bulletin, Foundations of Physics, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

A comprehensive review would run into the thousands of articles, so this list is necessarily highly selected. I will add more as time allows. Be sure to note the links at the bottom of this page; those websites contain many more articles. If you find broken or incorrect links, or you don't see an article that you think should be added here, please let me know.

The international professional organization for scientists and scholars interested in psi phenomena is the Parapsychological Association, an elected affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest mainstream scientific organization in the world. Anyone who claims that parapsychology is a pseudoscience doesn't know what they're talking about.

Can psi phenomena be repeated in controlled laboratory tests? Yes. Here's a good article that summarizes the state of the art as of 2018: Cardeña (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist. pdf

This page was originally created by Dean Radin in 2015. Latest update: July 2021.

Distant healing

Astin et al (2000). The efficacy of “distant healing”: A systematic review of randomized trials. Annals of Internal Medicine. pdf

Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: Randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal. pdf

Krucoff et al (2001). Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot. American Heart Journal. pdf

Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events.. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Krucoff et al (2005). Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study. The Lancet. pdf

Benson et al (2006). Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients. American Heart Journal. pdf

Masters & Spielmans (2007). Prayer and health: Review, meta-analysis, and research agenda. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. pdf

Schwartz & Dossey (2010). Nonlocality, intention, and observer effects in healing studies. Laying a foundation for the future Explore. pdf

Schwartz et al (2015). Infrared spectra alteration in water proximate to the palms of therapeutic practitioners. Explore. pdf

Schlitz et al (2012). Distant healing of surgical wounds: An exploratory study. Explore. pdf

Distant physiological correlations

Duane & Behrendt (1965). Extrasensory electroencephalographic induction between identical twins. Science. pdf

Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al (1994). The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in the brain: The transferred potential. Physics Essays. pdf

Wiseman & Schlitz (1997). Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Standish et al (2003). Evidence of correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals between distant human brains. Alternative Therapies. pdf

Wackermann et al (2003). Correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated human subjects. Neuroscience Letters. pdf

Schmidt et al (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses. British Journal of Psychology. pdf

Radin (2004). Event related EEG correlations between isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Standish et al (2004). Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated event-related signals between the brains of spatially and sensory isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Richards et al (2005). Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain signals between physically and sensory isolated subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Achterberg et al (2005). Evidence for correlations between distant intentionality and brain function in recipients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Radin (2005). The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf

Radin & Schlitz (2005). Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: An exploratory study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf

Schlitz et al (2006). Of two minds: Skeptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology. British Journal of Psychology. pdf

Radin et al (2008). Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system. Explore. pdf

Moulton & Kosslyn (2008). Using neuroimaging to resolve the psi debate. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf

Ambach (2008). Correlations between the EEGs of two spatially separated subjects − a replication study. European Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Hinterberger (2010). Searching for neuronal markers of psi: A summary of three studies measuring electrophysiology in distant participants. pdf

Schmidt (2012). Can we help just by good intentions? A meta-analysis of experiments on distant intention effects.

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf

Jensen & Parker (2012). Entangled in the womb? A pilot study on the possible physiological connectedness between identical twins with different embryonic backgrounds. Explore. pdf

Parker & Jensen (2013). Further possible physiological connectedness between identical twins: The

London study. Explore pdf

Remote viewing (clairvoyance), telepathy, general ESP

Remote viewing (clairvoyance)

Targ & Puthoff (1974). Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding. Nature. pdf

Puthoff & Targ (1976). A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distance: Historical perspective and recent research. Proceedings of the IEEE. pdf

May et al (1990). Advances in remote-viewing analysis. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Spottiswoode (1997). Apparent association between effect size in free response anomalous cognition experiments and local sidereal time. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Telepathy and general ESP

Eisenberg & Donderi (1979). Telepathic transfer of emotional information in humans. Journal of Psychology. pdf

Bem & Honorton (1994). Does psi exist? Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Hyman (1994). Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Bem (1994). Response to Hyman. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Milton & Wiseman (1999). Does psi exist? Lack of replication of an anomalous process of information transfer. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Sheldrake & Smart (2000). Testing a return-anticipating dog, Kane. Anthrozoös. pdf

Sheldrake & Smart (2000). A dog that seems to know when his owner to coming home: Videotaped experiments and observations. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Storm & Ertel (2001). Does psi exist? Comments on Milton and Wiseman's (1999) meta-analysis of ganzfeld research. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Milton & Wiseman (2001). Does Psi Exist? Reply to Storm and Ertel (2001). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Sheldrake & Morgana (2003). Testing a language-using parrot for telepathy. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Sheldrake & Smart (2003). Videotaped experiments on telephone telepathy. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Sherwood & Roe (2003). A review of dream ESP studies conducted since the Maimonides dream ESP programme. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf

Delgado-Romero & Howard (2005). Finding and correcting flawed research literatures. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf

Hastings (2007). Comment on Delgado-Romero and Howard. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf

Radin (2007). Finding or imagining flawed research? .The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf

Storm et al (2010). Meta-analysis of free-response studies, 1992–2008: Assessing the noise reduction model in parapsychology. Psychological Bulletin pdf

Storm et al (2010). A meta-analysis with nothing to hide: Reply to Hyman (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Tressoldi (2011). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the case of non-local perception, a classical and Bayesian review of evidences. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Tressoldi et al (2011). Mental connection at distance: Useful for solving difficult tasks? Psychology. pdf

Williams (2011). Revisiting the ganzfeld ESP debate: A basic review and assessment. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Rouder et al (2013). A Bayes Factor meta-analysis of recent extrasensory perception experiments: Comment on Storm,

Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Storm et al (2013). Testing the Storm et al. (2010) Meta-Analysis using Bayesian and frequentist approaches: Reply to Rouder et al. (2013). Psychological Bulletin pdf

Storm et al (2017). On the correspondence between dream content and target material under laboratory conditions: A meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies, 1966-2016. International Journal of Dream Research pdf

Storm & Tressoldi (2020). Meta-analysis of free-response studies 2009-2018: Assessing the noise-reduction model ten years on. pdf

General reviews and applications

Overviews and commentaries

Rao & Palmer (1987). The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. pdf

Utts (1996). An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Alcock (2003). Give the null hypothesis a chance. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf

Parker & Brusewitz (2003). A compendium of the evidence for psi. European Journal of Parapsychology pdf

Jahn & Dunne (2005). The PEAR Proposition. Explore. pdf

Carter (2010). Heads I lose, tails you win. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Schwartz (2010). Nonlocality and exceptional experiences: A study of genius, religious epiphany, and the psychic. Explore. pdf

Utts (2016). Appreciating statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association. pdf

Cardeña (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist. pdf

Schwartz (2018). Nonlocal consciousness and the anthropology of religion. Explore. pdf

Reber & Alcock (2019). Searching for the impossible: Parapsychology’s elusive quest. American Psychologist. pdf

Rabeyron (2020). Why most research findings about psi are false: The replicability crisis, the psi paradox, and the myth of Sisyphus. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Applications

Kolodziejzyk (2012). Greg Kolodziejzyk's 13-year associative remote viewing experiment results. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Schwartz (2019). The location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure in Marea, Egypt, including a comparison of electronic remote sensing and remote viewing .Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Schwartz and DeMattei (2020). The discovery of an American brig: Fieldwork involving applied remote viewing Including a comparison with electronic remote sensing. .Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Survival of consciousness

Braude (1992). Survival or super-psi. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

van Lommel et al (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. The Lancet. pdf

Braude (2005). Personal identity and postmortem survival. Social Philosophy and Policy pdf

van Lommel (2006). Near-death experience, consciousness, and the brain. World Futures. pdf

Beischel & Schwartz (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol. Explore. pdf

Braude (2009). Perspectival Awareness and Postmortem Survival. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Neppe (2009). A detailed analysis of an important chess game revisiting "Marcozy versus Korchnoi" Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Greyson (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died: “Peak in Darien” experiences. Anthropology and Humanism pdf

Kelly (2010). Some directions for mediumship research. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Kelly & Arcangel (2011). An investigation of mediums who claim to give information about deceased persons. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease pdf

Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics pdf

Facco & Agrillo (2012). Near-death experiences between science and prejudice. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience pdf

Matlock (2012). Bibliography of reincarnation resources online (articles and books, all downloadable) pdf

Beischel et al. (2015). Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension. Explore pdf

Neppe et al. (2019). .The remarkable Besant-Leadbeater studies in quantal clairvoyance (quantal remote viewing) correlate profoundly with the Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence Quantal models in Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm. IQNJ pdf

Precognition

Honorton & Ferrari (1989). “Future telling”: A meta-analysis of forced-choice precognition experiments, 1935-1987. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Spottiswoode & May (2003). Skin conductance prestimulus response analyses, artifacts and a pilot study. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Radin (2004). Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the Heart. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2. A System-Wide Process? Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Radin & Lobach (2007). Toward understanding the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf

Radin & Borges (2009). Intuition through time: What does the seer see? Explore. pdf

Bem (2011). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology pdf

Bem et al (2011). Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology pdf

Bierman (2011). Anomalous switching of the bi-stable percept of a Necker Cube. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Radin et al (2011). Electrocortical activity prior to unpredictable stimuli in meditators and non-meditators. Explore. pdf

Radin (2011). Predicting the unpredictable: 75 years of experimental evidence. Explore. pdf

Tressoldi et al (2011). Let your eyes predict : Prediction accuracy of pupillary responses to random alerting and neutral sounds. SAGE Open. pdf

Galek et al (2012). Correcting the past: Failures to replicate psi. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf

Mossbridge et al (2012). Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Bem et al (2014). Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events. F1000Research. pdf

Mossbridge et al (2014). Predicting the unpredictable: Critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf

Schwarzkopf (2014). We should have seen this coming. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf

Mossbridge et al (2015). We did see this coming. arXiv.org . pdf

Woody and Lynn (2018). Perspectives on precognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf

Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Precognition as a form of prospection: A review of the evidence. Psychology of Consciousness pdf

Schooler et al (2018). Entertaining without endorsing: The case for the scientific investigation of anomalous cognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf

Houran et al (2018). Cross-examining the case for precognition: Comment on Mossbridge and Radin (2018) .Psychology of Consciousness. pdf

Schwarzkopf (2018). On the plausibility of scientific hypotheses: Commentary on Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Psychology of Consciousness. pdf

Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Plausibility, statistical interpretations, physical mechanisms and a new outlook: Response to commentaries on a precognition review. Psychology of Consciousness pdf

Maier et al (2020). A preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier et al. (2014, Exp. 4) testing retroactive avoidance. PLOS One. pdf

Theory

Josephson & Pallikari-Viras (1991). Biological utilisation of quantum nonlocality. Foundations of Physics. pdf

May et al (1995). Decision augmentation theory: Towards a model of anomalous mental phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Houtkooper (2002). Arguing for an observational theory of paranormal phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Bierman (2003). Does consciousness collapse the wave-packet? Mind and Matter. pdf

Dunne & Jahn (2005). Consciousness, information, and living systems. Cellular and Molecular Biology. pdf

Henry (2005). The mental universe. Nature. pdf

Hiley & Pylkkanen (2005). Can mind affect matter via active information? Mind & Matter. pdf

Lucadou et al (2007). Synchronistic phenomena as entanglement correlations in generalized quantum theory. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf

Rietdijk (2007). Four-dimensional physics, nonlocal coherence, and paranormal phenomena. Physics Essays. pdf

Bierman (2010). Consciousness induced restoration of time symmetry (CIRTS ): A psychophysical theoretical perspective. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf

Tressoldi et al (2010). Extrasensory perception and quantum models of cognition. Neuroquantology. pdf

Tressoldi (2012). Replication unreliability in psychology: elusive phenomena or “elusive” statistical power? Frontiers in Psychology. pdf

Kauffman & Radin (2021). Is brain-mind quantum? A theory and supporting evidence. arXiv. pdf

Mind-matter interaction

Studies of historical interest

Crookes (1874). Researches in the phenomena of spiritualism. The Quarterly Journal of Science. pdf

Crookes (1874). Notes of séances with DDH (physical medium Daniel D. Home). pdf

Medhurst & Goldney (1964). William Crookes and the physical phenomena of mediumship. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Merrifield (1885/1971). Merrifield’s report (on D. D. Home). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Zorab (1971). Were D. D. Home’s ‘spirit hands” ever fraudulently produced? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf

Experimental studies and meta-analyses

Jahn (1982). The persistent paradox of psychic phenomena: An engineering perspective. Proceedings of the IEEE. pdf

Schmidt (1987). The strange properties of psychokinesis. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Schmidt (1990). Correlation between mental processes and external random events. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Radin & Nelson (1989). Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems. Foundations of Physics. pdf

Radin & Ferrari (1991). Effects of consciousness on the fall of dice: A meta-analysis.. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Jahn et al (1997). Correlations of random binary sequences with pre-stated operator intention: A review of a 12-year program. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf

Freedman et al (2003). Effects of frontal lobe lesions on intentionality and random physical phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Bosch et al (2006). Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Radin et al (2006). Reexamining psychokinesis. Psychological Bulletin. pdf

Radin et al (2006). Assessing the evidence for mind-matter interaction effects. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Radin (2006). Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf

Radin. (2008). Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge. Explore. pdf

Radin et al (2012). Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments. Physics Essays. pdf

Radin et al (2021). Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern: Exploratory evidence of a causal influence. Physics Essays pdf

Shiah & Radin (2013). A randomized trial investigating the roles of intention and belief on mood while drinking tea. Explore. pdf

Shiah et al (2017). Effects of intentionally treated water on growth of Arabidopsis Thaliana seeds with cryptochrome mutations. Explore. pdf

Freedman et al (2018). Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain: A novel neurobiological model of psi inhibition. Explore. pdf

Schwartz (2019). Water, wine and the sacred, an anthropological view of substances altered by intentioned awareness, including objective and aesthetic effects.. Explore. pdf

Walach et al. (2020). Evidence for anomalistic correlations between human behavior and a random event generator: Result of an independent replication of a micro-PK experiment. Psychology of Consciousness. pdf

Field Consciousness Studies

Nelson et al (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events. Foundations of Physics Letters. pdf

Crawford et al (2003). Alterations in random event measures associated with a healing practice. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf

Nelson & Bancel (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: Changes in random data during global events. Explore. pdf

Bancel (2017). Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration. Explore. pdf supplementary

Nelson (2017). Weighting the parameters, a response to Bancel's "Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration". Explore. pdf

Holmberg, U. (2020). Stock returns and the mind. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf

Recommended sources

Professional Societies

Society for Psychical Research

SPR's Psi Encyclopedia

SPR's Journal

Parapsychological Association

Society for Scientific Exploration

SSE's Journal

Academic and Private Research Institutes

Institute of Noetic Sciences (USA)

Rhine Research Center (USA)

Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory records 1893-1984

Parapsychology Foundation (USA)

International Metapsychic Institute (France)

Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia (USA)

Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (Germany)

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (USA)

Laboratories for Fundamental Research (USA)

Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh (Scotland UK)

Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology, Lund University (Sweden)

Psychical Research Foundation (USA)

PRF Articles

Funders

Bial Foundation (Portugal)

Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (USA)

Active Researcher Sites

Charles Tart's website

Stanley Krippner's articles

Patrizio Tressoldi's website

Michael Nahm's website (inactive)

ARCHIVED: https://web.archive.org/web/20221207001725/https://www.michaelnahm.com/publications-and-downloads

Andreas Sommer's website

Markus Maier's website

Chris Roe's website

Stephan Schwartz's articles or alternative site

James Spottiswoode's articles

Carlos Alvarado and Nancy Zingrone's website

Garret Moddel's University of Colorado "psiphen" website (inactive)

ARCHIVED: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027151733/http://psiphen.colorado.edu/Pubs/ModdelSSE05.pdf

Deceased Researcher Sites

William Braud's articles

Helmut Schmidt's bibliography

selected articles

Suitbert Ertel's articles

Recommended books

Besides my own books (shameless plug), this is my minimal recommended reading list for those serious about getting up to speed on the psi literature. A good starter library might consist of about 50 titles. A comprehensive library would easily run over 1,000 volumes. The links point to Amazon out of convenience, but these books are available wherever books are sold. If you don't see a book that ought to be here, let me know.

Scholarly works

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century link

Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality link

First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life link

Definitive series on the US government's classified program of psychic espionage

The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972-1995. Volumes 1 - 4 link

Excellent, multidisciplinary anthology on the state of the art of psi research (as of 2015)

Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century. link

Popular books

Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence link

Life Before Life: Children's Memories of Previous Lives link

A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition link

The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn link

Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness. link

The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge link

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Sharon A. Hill

Reading list for paranormal investigation and research

By Sharon A. Hill | April 23, 2018

Books

In a recent discussion with a paranormal investigation group, I found myself referencing recommending books to check out for the latest on interesting facets of the field. I decided to share this annotated list.

First, there are three books that are “Handbooks” for spontaneous cases.

They put ghost-hunting gadgetry in its place and re-orient the investigator to the proper aim of investigation: define the claim, assess if anything is happening, and then solve the problem. I consider these the best modern guides. If you are intent on pretending to be a TV-type investigator, then go waste your money on the paraceleb guides.

Scientific Paranormal Investigation (2010) by Benjamin Radford.

I reviewed this book here where I recommended it as a much-needed critical and logical guide to actually solving mysteries. Get it.

Radford expanded on the 2010 book with Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits (2018) to tackle more specifics in depth including EVP evidence.

Ghostology: The Art of the Ghost Hunter (2015) by Steve Parsons. Why are you using that gadget? Why do you conduct a “sweep” of the room? Do you even know why or is it just because you saw it on television? Parsons hits every point and is clear about what you should or should not bother with. This is a true ghost hunting guide. For more details, I reviewed it here. Get it in Kindle.

It’s important to have a background on the cultural history of ghosts. The classic book on the historical context of ghosts is Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation (1996, 2nd ed.) by R.C. Finucane. You simply can’t claim to understand the present phenomena of ghosts if you know nothing about how ghosts were depicted in the past. Get it.

Spirits of an Industrial Age: Ghost Imposture, Spring-heeled Jack and Victorian Society (2014) by Jacob Middleton . I was enamored with this book from which I learned an incredible amount of historical context for spirits and cultural ideas about haunting. The genuine stories taken from the media reports of a bygone era are fascinating. This book is highly readable, yet scholarly. Pick it up on Kindle for a steal.

The Haunted: A social history of ghosts (2007) by Owen Davies. This volume is incredibly well-researched. It can be dry at times but it is an essential volume to have as the social history of ghosts is THE history. This book is highly regarded and regularly referenced by scholars of ghost lore and literature. Get it.

The following three books are key volumes on modern examinations of ghost activity and cultural aspects.

Australian Poltergeists: The Stone-throwing Spook of Humpty Doo and Many Other Cases (2014) by Paul Cropper and Tony Healy. Stories of stone-throwing and fire-starting troubling house ghosts are not new. Yet the same themes occur in the present day. Cropper and Healy do an excellent job of documenting these cases, many of which were researched in person. Though they can’t explain what’s going on, I can’t recall another volume of this type. I wish the same book was done for other places in the world. More in my review here. Get it on Kindle.

Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture (2010) by Annette Hill (no relation) This book is based on research into paranormal popular media addressing both a UK and US perspective. I used this book heavily for my thesis work. It is a scholarly book so the price is a bit steep but borrow it if you have to as this is essential information to consider when evaluating ghost claims. I reviewed it here.

Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century (2015) edited by Etzel Cardeña, John Palmer, David Marcusson-Clavertz. This textbook is hefty but necessary. If one is to claim that they work in the field of amateur parapsychology, then you ought to at least know the state of the science. Even a perusal of this volume will show the wide chasm between ghost hunters and academic parapsycholgy. Read more about this here in my review. It’s often available through university libraries but the Kindle edition is reasonable.

In Alan Brown’s Ghost Hunters of New England (2008) you read firsthand candid views and opinions from amateur groups who bumped up against the “top” group The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) who went on to do the Ghost Hunters TV show. The groups interviewed for this book expressed their ties or distance to or from TAPS and the Connecticut-based, self-styled demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren. I saw their comments as revealing, provide curious trackbacks to what motivates a group and how they attempt to either follow an already forged path or try to differentiate themselves from the group in the next town. Some animosity and jealousy is apparent as groups hide their data from each other and stake out territory. Brown also tackled the groups in the South in a similar book. Get it.

Finally, these two volumes are excellent at discussing the booming paranormal business of today in historical contexts. If you don’t think that’s important to understand, you are missing a huge body of understanding.

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (2016) by Colin Dickey. This book was so entertaining and enjoyable I could not put it down. After getting it from the library, I had to purchase a copy. It delves into the accurate history of places like Salem, the Lalaurie mansion, and the Winchester House. I was enlightened. And sometimes really angry at how the truth is buried for a quick buck. Absolutely grab this one.

Haunted Heritage: The Cultural Politics of Ghost Tourism, Populism, and the Past (2015) Michele Hanks. This book was an expansion of a thesis. Hanks covered a good bit of what I did as well in my book but in the UK so there are some differences. But it was critical to see how she developed the contexts for ghost researchers at their various levels of involvement. She showed how they long for experiences and ownership of their own heritage. U.S. readers will find these themes resonate in their communities as well. It will reveal a whole other level of meaning for participation in paranormal activities. Get it.

And of course, please purchase my book on paranormal researchers, Scientifical Americans. Head over to the page for more info.

Critique of Ghost Hunting Guides: https://sharonahill.com/a-guide-to-ghost-hunting-guidebooks-no-more-please/

LLIFS (Living life in Full Spectrum) 166 items

https://www.llifs.com.au/resource-directory/

Ghost and Ghoul - An Archaeologist's Account of His Personal Experiences with the Supernatural by T. C. Lethbridge (1962) - https://archive.org/details/ghostghoularchae0000tcle/page/n7/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

This is a series of personal experiences examined as if they were problems in detection. The author, who for a generation conducted archaeological investigations on behalf of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, tells of some of the paranormal occurrences which have come his way and then pulls the tales to pieces in an endeavour to find out the meaning of each one. In the process various widely accepted theories, such as the Darwinian Theory of Evolution, have to be discarded; although they had formed the background of the author’s thought since childhood. The author comes to the conclusion that there is no such thing as the supernatural. Everything must conform to natural laws, although some of these laws remain to be discovered and formulated. He also suggests that there is another natural force, comparable perhaps to electro-magnetism, which is as yet almost unstudied. While retaining the right to change his ideas in the light of future evidence, he puts forward some possible hypotheses to account for the phenomena as they are at present understood.

Books Historical Archives Theories Research Paranormal Investigation

Dream telepathy by Ullman, Montague (1973) - https://archive.org/details/dreamtelepathy0000ullm_c8i5 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

This book is the first to scientifically explore the phenomenon of telepathic dreaming in depth. It recounts how psychiatrist Montague Ullman and psychologist Stanley Krippner conducted experiments to determine whether persons acting as senders can transfer their thoughts to the minds of sleeping receivers, thereby altering their dreams. Their results were astonishing: the researchers were able to verify several instances of telepathic communication between participants. Participants often gave uncannily accurate descriptions of images that the senders attempted to project to them - apparently confirming the reality of extrasensory perception during the dream state. In fascinating detail, the authors explain the intriguing process and results of their 10-year study, researching and experimenting with the human ability to communicate across the barriers of time, space, and sleep. They also review the history of previous research in this area, describe their own controlled experimental procedures, document their subjects' reactions, provide transcripts of several dream sessions, and critically engage with scientific reviewers. All this is done in straightforward language, making the book accessible to both general readers and serious scholars. Rarely has a scientific work been so readable, engaging, and entertaining. This new 50th Anniversary Edition features a never-before-published article by Montague Ullman on interpreting dreams in light of theoretical physicist David Bohm's concept of an implicate order; and a new afterword by Stanley Krippner, highlighting recent developments in dream telepathy research.

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The SLI Effect - Street Light Interference by Hilary Evans with ASSAP - https://www.scribd.com/document/40658341/The-SLI-Effect Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

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Parapsychology : a century of inquiry by Rogo, D. Scott - https://archive.org/details/parapsychology00dsco Verified 200 OK (3 weeks ago)

Are we more than our physical bodies? Do we survive bodily death? Does precognition, telepathy, distant healing, clairvoyance and ESP exist? How about near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, remote viewing, Peak in Darien experiences and Deathbed Visions?

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Alien abductions : true cases of UFO kidnappings by Rogo, D. Scott - https://archive.org/details/alienabductions00scot Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

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The return from silence : a study of near-death experiences by Rogo, D. Scott - https://archive.org/details/returnfromsilenc0000rogo Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

"Is there life after death? For the living, this is the greatest unsolved mystery, but one for which we shall all know the answer one day. However, there are many people who have had close calls with death and who believe they have been given a glimpse of the future, of an existence which awaits us after we die. They find themselves floating outside their bodies, and often transported to a heavenly world before returning to earth. Do these near-death experiences prove that the soul survives after death, or are they simply vivid hallucinations? The Return from Silence is an up-to-date examination of what medicine, psychology and science are learning from the near-death experience, or NDE. Rather than assuming that such experiences prove life after death, the author critically examines the important issues concerning the phenomenon, such as who has the experiences, how it affects them, and whether their culture affects the manner of their experience. Furthermoe, can the experience be induced by situations other than near-death? This book represents the first time all the strands of NDE study have been collected together to see what overall trends are emerging in the field. Bestselling author D. Scott Rogo looks at the evidence for near-death experiences throughout history, and examines critically a wealth of contemporary first-hand accounts. He also reveals how some people have horrible nightmarish NDEs while clinically dead, and not just more common feelings of rapturous joy. The Return from Silence offers the reader a survey and evaluation of all aspects of the near-death experience, the study of which can be both intellectually and spiritualy rewarding, for exploring the experience of death is an exercise in living, not dying."--back cover.

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Dreams And Astral Travel By Rosemary Ellen Guiley - https://archive.org/details/dreams-and-astral-travel-by-rosemary-ellen-guiley Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

Outside one's body and experience things impossible in the physical world. ""Dreams and Astral Travel"" explores the mysteries surrounding dreams and looks at experiences that suggest that dreams are far more than the result of mere imagination and subconscious thoughts of individuals. Included in this fascinating volume are practical tips on how young readers can better understand their own dreams and put dreams to work for them. The chapters include: The Fall and Rebirth of Dreams; Science Ventures into Dreamland; Night Flying; The Astral World; The Psychic Side of Dreams; and, Dreams That Heal.

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Ghosts And Haunted Places By Rosemary Ellen Guiley - https://archive.org/details/ghosts-and-haunted-places-by-rosemary-ellen-guiley/page/5/mode/2up?q=ghost+hunting Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

Ghosts are the single most common paranormal experience, fascinating and frightening to people of all ages. What makes some people linger on beyond the grave? Are ghosts real, are they imagined, or are they some weird aberration of time and space? ""Ghosts and Haunted Places"" will examine the history, folklore, science, technology, and personal experience of ghosts and hauntings, as well as the major themes in ghostlore. Featuring accounts of true cases and scenarios, this fascinating book explores the different types of ghosts and hauntings and their possible explanations, as well as the major figures and groups involved in ghost research throughout history. Special information is provided for readers who wish to conduct their own ghost hunts or haunting investigations.Chapters include: Dead People Who Don't Go Away, Where Do Ghosts Come From? Screaming Banshees and Death Omen Ghosts, Animal Ghosts and Phantimals, and Ghost Hunting with the Pros.

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Modern spiritualism; a history and a criticism by Podmore, Frank, 1856-1910 - https://archive.org/details/modernspiritual00podmgoog Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. I. Introduction. book I. The pedigree of spiritualism. book II. Early American spiritualism.--II. book III. Spiritualism in England. book IV. Problems of mediumship. Summary and conclusion

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The spirit book : the encyclopedia of clairvoyance, channeling, and spirit communication by Buckland, Raymond - https://archive.org/details/spiritbookencycl0000buck Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

The fascinating history of Spiritualism is coaxed into the material realm as the object of this perceptive and sweeping overview by that legendary author of the occult and supernatural, Raymond Buckland. Containing more than 500 entries and 100 illustrations, The Spirit Book is the comprehensive encyclopedia to Spiritualism and its related subjects. Plus it provides full biographies of every prominent person connected to the field. Drawing on decades of research, writing, and transcendence, Buckland describes sundry methods of channeling, events associated with Spiritualism, including séances and exorcism, organizations focused on clairvoyance, and a colorful host of mortals―famous and infamous―who delved into Spiritualism. Nostradamus, Helena Blavatsky, and Edgar Cayce receive their due, as well as Joan of Arc, William Blake, Susan B. Anthony, Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mahatma Gandhi, Harry Houdini, and Mae West (look up and see her sometime). It explores Qabbalah, Sibyls, Fairies, Poltergeists; phenomena such as intuition and karma; objects useful in the attempt to cross the divide, including tarot cards, flower reading, and runes; and related practices such as Shamanism, transfiguration, meditation, and mesmerism.

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Life beyond : compelling evidence for past lives and existence after death by Holzer, Hans, 1920-2009 - https://archive.org/details/lifebeyondcompel0000holz Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

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Ghosts, hauntings, and possessions by Hans Holzer - https://archive.org/details/ghostshauntingsp00holz Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

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Ghost hunter : the groundbreaking classic of paranormal investigation by Holzer, Hans, 1920-2009 - https://archive.org/details/ghosthuntergroun0000holz Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

Fifty years before The Conjuring, Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters, InsidiousandMost Haunted, there was Hans Holzer--a man known as the "Father of the Paranormal." Holzer pioneered ghost-hunting methods still used today, and brought ghosts and ghost hunting into popular culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Ghost Hunter presented some of the first-ever case studies of haunting investigations, taken from Holzer's own practice in the New York City area--ranging from Civil War-era spirits to the tormented ghosts of murder victims. For devoted ghost-hunting aficionados curious about the practice's history, there is no better place to start than the first book Hans Holzer wrote, Ghost Hunter. This is the classic 1963 book that launched his publishing career and gained him international fame. The prestige edition of the classic, trail-blazing work on ghost hunting will intrigue new fans and longtime devotees alike--part of the new Tarcher Supernatural Library. The first three titles released in Tarcher's Supernatural Library are Ghost Hunter (by Hans Holzer), Romance of Sorcery (by Sax Rohmer) and Isis in America (by Henry Steel Olcott).

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The seeing eye, the seeing I : perception, sensory and extra-sensory by Haynes, Renée, 1906- - https://archive.org/details/isbn_9783123466700 Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

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Parapsychology and psychology : matches and mismatches by Schmeidler, Gertrude Raffel 1988 - https://archive.org/details/parapsychologyps0000schm Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

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Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology by Melton, J. Gordon - https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofoc00jgor_0 Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

"A compendium of information on the occult sciences, magic, demonology, superstitions, spiritism, mysticism, metaphysics, psychical science, and parapsychology." Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Parapsychology today by Rhine, J. B. (Joseph Banks), 1895-1980 - https://archive.org/details/parapsychologyto0000rhin/page/n7/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

Most of the papers originally presented at the meetings sponsored by the Institute for Parapsychology, 1966-67, and published in the Journal of parapsychology

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Hans Holzer's travel guide to haunted houses by Holzer, Hans - https://archive.org/details/hansholzerstrave0000holz Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

The only practical travel guide on the subject ever published, this book provides useful and current information on haunted places--complete with addresses, instructions for finding sites, historical background on the place and region, what to look for when you get there, and what to expect once you've had an encounter.

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Ghosts. True Encounters with the World Beyond by Hans Holzer - https://archive.org/details/B-001-001-696/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

A definitive enquiry into ghostly manifestations and evidence of "the other side", in which the world's leading authority on the subject presents hundreds of case histories, tips on interpreting sounds and other signals from the world beyond, and more...The book is broad-ranging in it's scope, taking you to places around the world - to houses, ships, aeroplanes, forests, castles and even cars - haunted by those who have not been able to make the transition from their physical state to the world of the spirit.

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Methods and models for education in parapsychology by Rogo, D. Scott - https://archive.org/details/methodsmodelsfor0000rogo Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

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Progress in parapsychology by McDougall, William, 1871-1938; Rhine, J. B. (Joseph Banks), 1895-1980; Institute for Parapsychology - https://archive.org/details/progressinparaps00jbrh Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Dedicated to the memory of Professor William McDougall, 1871-1938, in the centenary year of his birth Contains papers and addresses presented at the review meetings of the Institute for Parapsychology during 1968-69

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My Life As A Seer; The Lost Memoirs-Edgar Cayce by Edgar Cayce - https://archive.org/details/my-life-as-a-seer-the-lost-memoirs-399pp-edgar-cayce Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

For over seventy-five years, the prophecies and readings of Edgar Cayce-- The Sleeping Prophet-- have inspired millions of people around the world, and been the subject of hundreds of books. Over fifty years after his death, Cayce is still regarded as the father of the new age movement, and the foremost psychic of the twentieth century. His thoughts on the soul's journey, past lives, dreams, ancient civilizations, and astrology are still closely studied and followed by practitioners in these fields. But until now, only those who knew and studied him have been able to tell Cayce's story and philosophy. From Jess Stearn'sThe Sleeping Prophetto Thomas Sugrue'sThere Is a River, many bestselling books have sold millions of copies and touched many lives. Now, for the first time, Edgar Cayce tells his story in his own words. Only recently discovered, this new memoir delivers Cayce's important message to the world at a most crucial time, the dawn of the twenty-first century. In this personal, moving story, readers learn how Cayce felt about his amazing powers. Here Cayce speaks about the angelic presence that visited his childhood Kentucky home and told him that he would become a healer to millions. We also learn about his extraordinary childhood ability to learn his school lessons simply by sleeping on his books. Cayce also addresses the devastating throat paralysis that he miraculously overcame, and how he ultimately realized that his powers could only be used to help and enable people, and not for personal profit. Cayce even gives a "behind the scenes" glimpse at his many psychic readings. The combination of ability and humility, compassion and caring turned Cayce from social outcast to world-renowned psychic healer. Throughout his life, Edgar Cayce's was the voice people turned to for advice on issues as diverse as health and healing and philosophy and world issues. Now, Cayce speaks once more on these issues and delivers his ultimate message to humanity for the first time.My Life as a Seerbrings to life the emotional frustrations, motivations, fears, and visions of the century's premier spiritualist as assembled from his works by editor A. Robert Smith

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Edgar Cayce : modern prophet by Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945; Carter, Mary Ellen - https://archive.org/details/edgarcaycemodern00cayc/page/n5/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (3 weeks ago)

Summaries of Cayce's dictated readings, written by Mary Ellen Carter ... [et al.] Complete and unabridged texts of the original editions published 1967-1989, reset for this volume Edgar Cayce on prophecy -- Edgar Cayce on religion and psychic experience -- Edgar Cayce on mysteries of the mind -- Edgar Cayce on reincarnation

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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts, by Andrew Lang (1897) - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12621/12621-h/12621-h.htm Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

A pioneering anthropologist and folklorist, Andrew Lang was the first to compile a serious, critical survey of ghost stories. This volume presents scores of well-attested tales from civilizations around the world about visitations from spirits.

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Rethinking a Ghostly Episode in the Legacy Literature by Houran, James & Laythe, Brian & Little, Cindy & Houran, Damien. - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372140806_Rethinking_a_Ghostly_Episode_in_the_Legacy_Literature Error 997 Max errors reached (2 years ago) 3 attempts

The grounded theory of Haunted People Syndrome (HP-S) contends that spontaneous 'ghostly episodes' recurrently experienced by certain people are an interactionist phenomenon involving heightened somatic-sensory sensitivities which are stirred by disease states, contextual-ized with paranormal belief, and reinforced via perceptual contagion and threat-agency detection. A historical report of a poltergeist-like outbreak that was touted in a non-psi journal was used to test the applicability of this psychological model. Two independent and blinded raters used the Survey of Strange Events (SSE: Houran et al., 2019b) to map the anomalous phenomena in the case, as well as a Recognition Pattern Checklist to assess for contextual variables that the HP-S model links to the features and dynamics of sustained haunt-type anomalies. High inter-rater agreement on the raters' scores suggested that the available details of this case corresponded to (a) an occur-1 James Houran (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1725-582X) has a Master's in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois at Springfield (USA) and a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Adelaide (Australia). is an independent researcher and social science student currently based in Texas. His primary interests are in the iconography and symbolism found in traditional tattooing ceremonies and the application of ritual practices to art. He is also an Eagle Scout and actively involved with agriculture and permaculture. http://dx. rence with above-average 'haunt intensity' compared to published norms, and (b) 100% 'agree-ment' on the ostensible presence of all five proposed recognition patterns of HP-S. Furthermore, a review of this episode's general structure using an SSE based Decision-Tree process cautioned against a purely parapsychological interpretation of some or all the reported anomalies. This basic analysis serves as a practical primer for using the SSE tool and HP-S model to guide future investigations of ghostly episodes by professional parapsychologists and citizen scientists alike. Houran, James & Laythe, Brian & Little, Cindy & Houran, Damien. (2023). Rethinking a Ghostly Episode in the Legacy Literature. 23. 77-102. 10.23793/zfa.2023.77.

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The History of Spiritualism, Vol. II by Arthur Conan Doyle - https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301061h.html Verified 200 OK (3 weeks ago)

The History of Spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D., LL.D. is a collection of essays on spiritualism. It was first published in two volumes by Cassell & Co., Ltd., London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne, and George H. Doran Co. (New York) in june 1926.

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Researches into the Phenomena of Spiritualism Sir William Crookes (1874) - https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uvdnnvkv/items Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Spiritualism viewed by the light of modern science, and experimental investigations on psychic force

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In the Presence of Evil: Demonic Perception Narratives by Victoria Jaye - https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/1563/ Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

I offer a new classification system for organizing, understanding, and validating the inhuman demonic encounter by organizing it through the senses the experience is activating. A demonic or inhuman spirit, which can be used interchangeably, is a spirit in that they exist without bodies, possess abilities greater than that of humans (rendering them inhuman), are hyperintelligent, react negatively to Christian religious iconography, and are malevolent in their behavior towards humans.

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Telepathic hallucinations : the new view of ghosts by Podmore, Frank, 1856-1910 - https://archive.org/details/telepathichalluc00podm/page/10/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

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Heaven And Hell by ALLAN KARDEC (1878) - https://archive.org/details/heaven-and-hell-ebook-kardec Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Practical Spiritism HEAVEN AND HELL OR THE DIVINE JUSTICE VINDICATED IN THE PLURALITY OF EXISTENCES. CONTAINING A COMPARATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE VARIOUS DOCTRINES CONCERNING THE PASSAGE FROM THE EARTHLY LIFE TO SPIRIT-LIFE, FUTURE REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS, ANGELS AND DEVILS, ETC. FOLLOWED BY NUMEROUS EXAMPLES OF THE STATE OF THE SOUL DURING AND AFTER DEATH.

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Experimental spiritism by Allan Kardec (1874) - https://archive.org/details/experimentalspir00kard Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

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The spirits book by Allan Kardec (1857) - https://archive.org/details/allan-kardec-the-spirits-book Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

The Spirits' Book, published in French in 1857, is considered the most important book in the Spiritist philosophy. It contains the bases for that philosophy and all important points in its doctrine: the belief in God, reincarnation and the survival of the soul after death, the fact that it is through reincarnation that the soul learns and moves closer to perfection. The work is the first of a five book canon, and it is organized in the form of questions and answers, with commentary by the codifier, Allan Kardec, a pseudonym of Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail. (Summary by Leni)

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The book on mediums by Allan Kardec (11861) - https://archive.org/details/the-book-on-mediums-clean-epub-1891-allan-kardec/The Book on Mediums - Allan Kardec/page/n3/mode/2up Error 997 Max errors reached (7 months ago) 3 attempts

The Mediums' Book is the logical continuation of Allan Kardec's first volume, The Spirits' Book. If the latter establishes the theoretical foundations of the doctrine, The Mediums' Book deals with its practical aspects. Throughout this book, the author draws a link between the theoretical and experimental aspects of mediumistic faculties, and invites us to follow this practice in detail with highly qualified beings. The Mediums' Book, which deals with natural and supernatural faculties, comprises two parts. In the first part, Allan Kardec reviews the Preliminary Notions of the Spirit World, deals with the existence of Spirits, the Supernatural and the Marvelous, the method of proceeding with the Materialists and the Skeptics, as well as the Systems. The second part deals with Spiritual Manifestations and constitutes the analysis and the experimentality of the Spiritist Method of Knowledge and Communication whose foundation lies in the Mediumship Faculty of the Human Being. The Mediums' Book contains the Special Teaching of Spirits on the Theory of all kinds of Manifestations, Means of Communicating with the Invisible World, Development of Mediumship, Difficulties and Pitfalls that can be encountered in the Practice of Spiritism.

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Special Issue Women and Parapsychology Observations - Reflections edited by Cedar S. Leverett and Nancy L. Zingrone - https://igpp.de/allg/ZfA/zfa_2022-2.htm Error 997 Max errors reached (1 month ago) 3 attempts

Nancy L. Zingrone An Editorial Reflection on Women in Parapsychology from the Perspectives of St. Louis, Montreal, and Dublin, and the Pages of this Journal (226 –240) PDF Eine editorische Reflexion über Frauen in der Parapsychologie aus den Perspektiven von St. Louis, Montreal und Dublin und den Seiten dieser Zeitschrift (241 –253) PDF http://dx.doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2022.226 Cedar S. Leverett Between Two Worlds – Unmasking Commonly Shared Female Experiences of Women in Parapsychology (254 –263) PDF Zwischen zwei Welten – Aufdeckung allgemein geteilter weiblicher Erfahrungen von Frauen in der Parapsychologie (264 –273) PDF http://dx.doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2022.254 Gerhard Mayer Delayed Start of a Project (274 –276) PDF Verzögerter Start eines Projekts (277 –279) PDF http://dx.doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2022.274

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Structural Relationships Among Mental Boundaries, Childhood Imaginary Companions, Creative Experiences, and Entity Encounters Kenneth Drinkwater, PhD, Neil Dagnall, PhD, Ciarán O’Keeffe, PhD - https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941221123235 Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

This study investigated relationships between thin mental boundary functioning, creativity, imaginary companions (ICs), and anomalous ‘(entity) encounter experiences.’ A convenience sample of 389 respondents completed the Revised Transliminality Scale, Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences, Creative Experiences Questionnaire, Survey of Strange Events, and a measure of Childhood Imaginary Companions. Competing testing with path analysis found that the best-fitting model was consistent with the causal chain of ‘Thin Boundaries (transliminality and schizotypy) → Creative Experiences → ICs → (Entity) Encounter Experiences.’ These results suggest that deep-types of ICs (i.e., showing apparent independent agency) are perhaps most accurately characterized as syncretic cognitions versus hallucination-like experiences. The authors examine these findings relative to study limitations, as well as discussing the need for future research that approaches ICs as a special mental state that can facilitate allied altered-anomalous experiences. In this context, this study furthered understanding of relationships between conscious states related to mental boundaries, childhood imaginary companions, creative experiences, and entity encounters.

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Spiritualism and Science: Reflections on the First Decade of the Spirit Rappings by R. Laurence Moore - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2711685 Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

JOURNAL ARTICLE Spiritualism and Science: Reflections on the First Decade of the Spirit Rappings R. Laurence Moore American Quarterly Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 474-500 (27 pages) Published By: The Johns Hopkins University Press

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Revelations of a spirit medium - https://archive.org/download/revelationsofspi00farriala/revelationsofspi00farriala.pdf Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

Be scrutinised with the greatest care. The present great increase Of interest in psychic phenomena will probably result in the pro duction Of spurious physical phenomena by the less honest mediums, and it is with this thought that we have decided to reprint the Revelations of a Spirit Medium. The inquirer will find much food for thought in the ingenious devices and methods herein exposed, and the magician cannot fail to profit by a careful perusal Of its pages. The literary quality Of the work is certainly not Of a high order, but we have preferred to reprint it as a whole, thereby retaining the somewhat quaint ?avour of the original work.

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Saducismus triumphatus by Glanvill, Joseph 1681 - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A42824.0001.001 Error 997 Max errors reached (4 months ago) 3 attempts

Saducismus triumphatus is a book on witchcraft by Joseph Glanvill, published posthumously in England in 1681.

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Historic ghosts and ghost hunters by H. Addington Bruce (1908) - https://archive.org/details/historicghostsa00brucgoog/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater Not yet verified

An investigation into many hauntings and ghost stories with a skeptic's eye.

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ESP and personality patterns by Schmeidler, Gertrude Raffel (1958) - https://archive.org/details/esppersonalitypa00schm Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

A report on the relation between personality and extrasensory perception, based on data gathered by a psychologist and statistical analysis by a physicist.

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The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26659 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

The will to believe -- Is life worth living? -- The sentiment of rationality -- Reflex action and theism -- The dilemma of determinism -- The moral philosopher and the moral life -- Great men and their environment -- The importance of individuals -- On some Hegelisms -- What psychical research has accomplished.

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Extrasensory Communication and Dreams by Jon Tolaas and Montague Ullman - http://siivola.org/monte/papers_grouped/copyrighted/Parapsychology_&_Psi/Extrasensory_Communication_and_Dreams.htm Not yet verified

As far back as we have written records, there have been accounts of the unusual phenomena occurring in connection with dreams. The ancients typically believed that dreams were divinely inspired experiences providing counsel and instruction for their waking lives. In the oldest dream book extant, the Egyptian papyrus of Deral-Madineh dating back to 2000 B.C., there arc examples of divine revelation. The Egyptians practiced dream incubation, i.e., sleeping in temples in a deliberate effort to induce divinely inspired dreams which would supply answers concerning the state of health and the future of the dreamer. Oracular dreams even affected affairs of state (Woods, 1947). So-called paranormal phenomena often seemed to have an affinity for dreams. Woods (1947) notes that the Egyptians tried to communicate with others through their dreams, believing that homeless spirits carried the message. This suggests that there was some familiarity with the idea of telepathic communication.

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Illustrations from a Victorian book on Magic (1897) - https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/illustrations-from-a-victorian-book-on-magic-1897 Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Selected images from a massive late 19th century tome entitled simply Magic, subtitled Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins. The book takes a thorough tour through the popular magic tricks and illusions of the day, including along the way many delightfully surreal diagrams and illustrations, the top pick of which we've included here - often especially great when seen out of context. Towards the end are some particularly great "decapitation" trick photographs.

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Reflections of mesmerism in literature P. Stanbury - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0310057X120400S103 Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

Controversial procedures in medicine are likely to be discussed in the community as everyone is interested in their health. If the practice is subjective, that is, clear proof is not readily forthcoming, there are likely to be both strong supporters and opponents. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when the dissemination of news was slow, such controversies lasted many years and were likely to appear in novels, drama and poetry of the period. This article gives examples of animal magnetism, mesmerism and hypnosis in contemporary literature.

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The ghosthunters almanac by Underwood, Peter, 1923-2014 - https://archive.org/details/ghosthuntersalma0000unde Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Peter Underwood, an acknowledged expert and experienced investigator of haunted houses. A selection of hauntings throughout the United Kingdom. Only hauntings where all natural causes have been eliminated are included. Details of: Locations of haunted property Where the ghostly figure has been seen The probable identity of the ghost The witnesses and evidence for haunting A formidable collection of ghosts, goalies and things that go bump in the night.

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Peter Underwood's guide to ghosts & haunted places by Underwood, Peter, 1923-2014 - https://archive.org/details/peterunderwoodsg0000unde/page/n5/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Based on 50 years' study and investigation, Peter Underwood's unique exploration of the world of ghosts, apparitions and psychic activity draws on a wealth of cases and personal experience. Illustrated with photographs, this fascinating book includes: -- A chilling array of haunted places, ranging from trees to pubs -- Encounters with ghosts of the famous including John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe -- Bizarre cases of unexplained aerial phenomena -- Extraordinary accounts of time-slips, cyclic ghosts and poltergeists -- Amazing stories about the ghosts of pets -- And the strange happenings surrounding inanimate objects such as the battle trumpets of the legendary Tutankhamun

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Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography by Henry Ridgely Evans; Albert A. (Albert Allis) Hopkins - https://archive.org/details/magicstageillusi45235gut/45235-h/images/illo045a.jpg Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography by Henry Ridgely Evans; Albert A. (Albert Allis) Hopkins

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Tricks, Magic and Mental Phenomena Burlingame, Hardin J - http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1630060015349~859&locale=en_US&metadata_object_ratio=10&show_metadata=true&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/singleViewer.do?&preferred_usage_type=VIEW_MAIN&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=10&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true Not yet verified

Tricks in magic, illusions, and mental phenomena – January 1, 1895

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Personality and telepathy by Constable, Frank Challice - https://archive.org/details/personalitytelep00consiala Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

All human thought is based on (emanates from) intuition. And as human thought is active, intuition must be active and must be actively presented to the subject (the human personality). Now sensibility is passive and so intuition (which is active) cannot be referred to (cannot emanate from) sensibility. What, then, is the origin of this active presentation of intuition to the subject? I argue that a personality of intuition (an intuitive self) must present intuition to its subject, that is, to the human personality which exists as its (the intuitive self's) partial and mediate manifestation in our universe.

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Miracles and modern spiritualism by Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 - https://archive.org/details/miraclesandmode00wallgoog Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

Miracles and modern spiritualism by Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913

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Psychical research for the plain man by Kingsford, S. M., Miss - https://archive.org/details/psychicalresearc00king Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

1920 Covers: Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Crystal-Gazing; Mediums; Trance Mediums; Automatic Writing & Cross Correspondences; Premonitions & Death Warnings; Hallucinations; Haunted Localities; Poltergeists

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The new psychic studies in their relation to Christian thought by Johnson, Franklin, 1836-1916 - https://archive.org/details/newpsychicstudie00john Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

The new psychic studies in their relation to Christian thought by Johnson, Franklin, 1836-1916

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History of magic by Levi, Eliphas - https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.7242 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

First published in 1913, an invaluable source book that includes clear and precise exposition on procedures, rites, and occult mysteries. Every aspect of esoteric doctrine and practice is exhaustively dealt with and every authority cited.

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Ghosts And Witches by Day, J. Wentworth - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149434/page/n5/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

This collection of ghostly tales gathered by Mr. J. Wentworth Day, who has accumulated many of these stories from first-hand sources in the provincial areas of England and Wales, convincingly portrays the experiences of those who have unexpectedly encountered spirits of another dimension. Whether or not one believes in ghosts, the reader will have difficulty denying the impressions these stories leave upon the senses.

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The book of dreams and ghosts by Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 - https://archive.org/details/bookofdreamghost00langrich/page/n5/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Scottish man of letters Andrew Lang was a poet, novelist, and literary critic. He was a prolific writer and contributed to antropology as well. He is also known as the collector of fairy tales and folk tales

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Historic ghosts and ghost hunters by Bruce, H. Addington - https://archive.org/details/historicghostsa00brucgoog Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

The devils of Loudun -- The drummer of Tedworth -- The haunting of the Wesleys -- The visions of Emanuel Swedenborg -- The Cock Lane ghost -- The ghost seen by Lord Brougham -- The seeress of Prevorst -- The mysterious Mr. Home -- The Watseka wonder -- A medieval ghost hunter -- Ghost hunters of yesterday and to-day

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Chasing American Monsters, Over 250 Creatures, Cryptids & Hairy Beasts - https://archive.org/details/chasing-american-monsters-over-250-creatures-cryptids-hairy-beasts Error 997 Max errors reached (2 months ago) 3 attempts

Chasing American Monsters, Over 250 Creatures, Cryptids & Hairy Beasts

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Archives for The Unexplained: Animals and Men 04 - https://archive.org/details/Animals_and_Men_No_04 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

This newsletter is from the collection of the Archives for The Unexplained (also known as the Archives for UFO Research), in Sweden. Their website is located at: http://www.afu.se/afu2/

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On the track of unknown animals by Professor Bernard Heuvelmans 1955 - https://archive.org/details/heuvelmans-bernard-on-the-track-of-unknown-animals-abridged-1970-kk-beb Error 997 Max errors reached (1 year ago) 3 attempts

"On The Track Of Unknown Animals is a cryptozoological book by the Belgian-French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans that was first published in 1955 under the title Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées. The English translation by Richard Garnett was published in 1958 with some updating by the author and with a foreword by Gerald Durrell. A revised and abridged edition was published in 1965, and a further edition in 1995. It is credited with introducing the term cryptozoology and established its author as the "Father of Cryptozoology." As one reviewer explained, it is a book "about animals that might exist." On The Track Of Unknown Animals cites animals that had only been discovered relatively recently, such as the pygmy chimpanzee, coelacanth, Komodo dragon and giant panda; and those that are believed to have become extinct relatively recently, such as the moa and Tasmanian tiger. A major theme is that these animals were generally known to local peoples, but their stories were dismissed by visiting zoologists, particularly the okapi. The author then discusses evidence for mystery animals from all over the world including the Mokele-mbembe, sea serpents and the Yeti, with an extensive bibliography. He begins by complaining that "The Press has made such a laughing-stock of the Loch Ness Monster... that no scientific commission has ever dared tackle the problem" and ends with the wish that any new species are not merely slaughtered for trophies: "Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters.""

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Getting Comfortable With Death & Near-Death Experiences: Near-Death Experiences: An Essay in Medicine & Philosophy Raymond A. Moody, MD, PhD - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179873/ Error 997 Max errors reached (7 months ago) 3 attempts

Modern advances in medical knowledge make it possible to revive patients from increasingly severe, life-threatening injuries and illnesses, including cardiac arrest. Upon being revived, such patients often report experiencing life-changing alternate states of consciousness, which they tend to interpret in spiritual terms. Beginning in 1965, I interviewed several thousand individuals who had near-death experiences when they narrowly survived grave medical crises. I conducted the interviews first as a professor of philosophy and logic, then later as a medical doctor and psychiatrist. This paper is an overview of my research on near-death experiences their historical significance, their characteristics, their sociological dimension and their clinical implications.

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The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist From "The New Decameron", Volume III by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys) - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22479 Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Parapsychology/Poltergeists

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The Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers by Catherine Crowe - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54532 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Introduction -- The dwellers in the temple -- Waking and sleeping, and how the dweller in the temple sometimes looks abroad -- Allegorical dreams, presentiments, &c. -- Warnings -- Double dreaming and trance, wraiths, &c. -- Wraiths -- Doppelgängers, or doubles -- Apparitions -- The future that awaits us -- The power of will -- Troubled spirits -- Haunted houses -- Spectral lights, and apparitions attached to certain families -- Apparitions seeking the prayers of the living -- The poltergeist of the Germans, and possession -- Miscellaneous phenomena -- Conclusion.

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A Theory of the Mechanism of Survival: The Fourth Dimension and Its Applications by Smith, W. Whately (Walter Whately) - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64055 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Fourth Dimension, Parapsychology

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Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood Mason - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37203 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Psychical research: telepathy or thought-transference -- Mesmerism and hypnotism: history and therapeutic effects -- Hypnotism: psychical aspect -- Lucidity or clairvoyance -- Double or multiplex personality -- Natural somnambulism; hypnotic somnambulism; dreams -- Automatism; planchette -- Automatic writing, drawing and painting -- Crystal-gazing -- Phantasms -- Phantasms, continued -- Conclusions.

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The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Frank T. Merrill; Samuel Adams Drake - https://archive.org/details/themythsandfable44177gut Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

A reckoning with time -- The folk-lore of childhood -- Weather lore -- Signs of all sorts -- Charms to good luck -- Charms against disease -- Of fate in jewels -- Of love and marriage -- Of evil omens -- Of haunted houses, persons, and places -- Of presentiments -- The divining-rod -- Wonders of the physical universe -- "ships that pass in the night" -- Fortune-telling, astrology, and palmistry.

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Our Haunted Planet by John A Keel - https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

I do not pretend to know any answers. After a lifetime of travel and study I am still learning the questions. This is a journey into man's past and the curious manifestations which have always surrounded him and which have directed the human race upwards from the caves to the Moon itself. It is a journey into a jungle of myth, legend and belief, and hopefully, it is another small step towards the larger truth that man has always sought but never really found.

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Operation Trojan Horse by John A Keel - https://archive.org/details/OperationTrojanHorse Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

When you read this book keep in mind the simple fact that American ufology is based upon psychological factors that have been well understood for thousands of years and which have led the human race into many dreary Dark Ages. As this shell-shocked century draws to a close we are not confronting some splendid extraterrestrial civilization. We are facing ourselves.

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Disneyland of the Gods by John A Keel - https://archive.org/details/DisneylandoftheGods Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Are we being invaded from outer space, as many UFO hobbyists contend? Are secret government agencies tapping your phone and tampering with your mail? Does somebody else really own this earth and use it as a Disneyland of the Gods? Veteran Fortean author Keel reports with wit on the startling encounters with 'the tricksters' (so well-known to the American Indians), the Men in Black, assorted monsters, snallygasters, mothmen and weird hairy creatures that all seem to vanish into thin air. Chapters on UFO Crashes in Scandinavia, Mysterious Crime Waves, Clones, Hybrids and Sleepers, An Idaho Triangle, Sea Monsters, The Moonstone Mystery, New Age of the Gods, more.

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Guide to Mysterious and Legendary Creatures by George M Eberhart - https://archive.org/details/Cryptozoology_201608 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Guide to Mysterious and Legendary Creatures

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Psychical research and the resurrection by Hyslop, James H. (James Hervey) 1908 - https://archive.org/details/psychicalresear01hyslgoog Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

A number of essays related to psychical research

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The physical phenomena of spiritualism, fraudulent and genuine - Carrington, Hereward, 1920 - https://archive.org/details/00930180R.nlm.nih.gov Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

being a brief account of the most important historical phenomena, a criticism of their evidential value, and a complete exposition of the methods employed in fraudulently reproducing the same

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Roads to Eternity by Sarah Wilson Estep - https://atransc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Roads-to-Eternity-for-website-master.pdf Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Roads to Eternity discusses the different ways we can communicate with the spirit dimension, as well as other worlds. It describes in detail the many contacts Sarah Estep had with the unseen.

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Voices of Eternity by Sarah Wilson Estep - http://www.airclima.ru/books/Voices_of_eternity.pdf Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

Voices of Eternity is written by AA-EVP Founder, Sarah Estep. Sarah invites you to download, read and share this book with your friends. She asks only that you respect her copyright and credit her should you chose to quote any part of the book.

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Voice transmissions with the deceased by Friedrich Juergenson - http://www.worlditc.org/c_06_juerg_intro.htm Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

A translated version of the book a translation of the Book Sprechfunk mit Verstorbenen Praktische Kontaktherstellung mit dem Jenseits von Friedrich Juergenson

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Hidden Channels of the mind by Louisa E Rhine - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000695992&view=1up&seq=155 Not yet verified

Hidden Channels of the mind by Louisa E Rhine

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The Wanderings of a Spiritualist : On the Warpath in Australia, 1920-1921 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1307001h.html Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

A journal of Doyle's spiritualist tour of Australia in the 1920s

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Ethical guidelines for the investigation of haunting experiences by Ian S Baker, Ciaran O'Keeffe January 2007Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 71(4):216-229 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283087624_Ethical_guidelines_for_the_investigation_of_haunting_experiences Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

Due to the number of investigations provided by individuals, groups and organisations into haunting experiences and the lack of any governing body, there is a need for a set of guidelines to provide investigators and members of the public with an outline for how such investigations should be conducted ethically. This paper is intended to provide a set of such guidelines. The paper is divided into three sections: (a) general issues – discussing overall issues for investigations, such as informed consent, confidentiality, charging, power, etc; (b) case-specific issues – issues informed by specific methods for investigating cases, such as interviewing, location investigation and overnight examinations; and, (c) other ethical issues – covering more exceptional issues, such as referral to other parties, and the pastoral role of investigators. These guidelines are meant to highlight ethical issues in investigations of this type, and are not designed to dictate specific procedural guidelines that different groups might follow. It is hoped that these guidelines demonstrate the difficulties inherent in these investigations, and promote a much needed debate about such issues.

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The history of spiritualism Vol II Arthur Conan Doyle (1926) - https://classic-literature.co.uk/scottish-authors/arthur-conan-doyle/the-history-of-spiritualism-vol-ii/ Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

Volume 2 of the History of Spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Dreams and telepathy by Sigmund Freud (1922) - http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/ Freud readings/Freud telepathy/Dreams and telepathy Freud standard edition.pdf Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Dreams and Telepathy paper by Sigmind Freud published in 1922

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The End Of Borley Rectory by Harry_price - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76278 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

The End Of Borley Rectory by Harry_price

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On the threshold of the unseen : an examination of the phenomena of spiritualism and of the evidence for survival after death - https://archive.org/details/onthresholdofuns00barr Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

On the threshold of the unseen : an examination of the phenomena of spiritualism and of the evidence for survival after death

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Psychical Research Barrett, William, Sir, 1844-1925 - https://archive.org/details/psychicalresear00barr Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Psychical Research Barrett, William, Sir, 1844-1925

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The Naturalisation Of The Supernatural by Frank Podmore - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.223043 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

The Naturalisation Of The Supernatural by Frank Podmore

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Modern Spiritualism Vol-2 by Frank Podmore - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.128265 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Modern Spiritualism Vol-2 by Frank Podmore

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Modern Spiritualism Vol-1 by Frank Podmore - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.128266 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Modern Spiritualism Vol-1 by Frank Podmore

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Apparitions and Thought - Transference by Frank Podmore - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.277265 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Apparitions and Thought - Transference by Frank Podmore

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Human Personality And Its Survival Of Bodily Death Vol Ii by Frederic W. H. Myers - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156699 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Human Personality And Its Survival Of Bodily Death Vol Ii by Frederic W. H. Myers

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Phantasms Of The Living - 1918 by EDMUND GURNEY, M. A.;FREDERIC W. H. MYERS, M.A,;FRANK PODMORE, M.A. - https://archive.org/details/PhantasmsOfTheLiving-1918 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Phantasms of the Living, published in 1886, which embodies much of the early work of the Society for Psychical Research, and in particular much valuable discussion by its earliest honorary secretary, Edmund Gurney, has long been out of print. But as its value has been but little affected by subsequent investigations, and it still forms the basis on which much of the present-day work on telepathy, and especially on apparitions, rests, it is thought that a new edition is likely to be appreciated by the public. Had the authors been with us still, a new edition would no doubt have been brought up to date. New evidence would have been included, and the discussion might perhaps have been added to or diminished, to suit the new atmosphere which the book itself has helped to create.

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Cold Light On Spiritualistic Phenomena by Harry Price - https://archive.org/details/1922PriceColdLightOnSpiritualisticPhenomena Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Cold Light On Spiritualistic Phenomena by Harry Price

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Extra Sensory Perception by Rhine J. B. - https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.470319 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Extra Sensory Perception by Rhine J. B.

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Psychical investigations : some personally-observed proofs of survival by Hill, John Arthur, 1872- - https://archive.org/details/cu31924028951130 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Psychical investigations : some personally-observed proofs of survival by Hill, John Arthur, 1872-

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Contact with the other world; the latest evidence as to communication with the dead by Hyslop, James H. (James Hervey), 1854- - https://archive.org/details/cu31924028951247 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Contact with the other world; the latest evidence as to communication with the dead by Hyslop, James H. (James Hervey), 1854-

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The law of psychic phenomena; a working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc by Hudson, Thomson Jay, 1834-1903 - https://archive.org/details/lawofpsychicpheuds Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

The law of psychic phenomena; a working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc by Hudson, Thomson Jay, 1834-1903

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The naturalisation of the supernatural by Podmore, Frank, 1856-1910 - https://archive.org/details/cu31924028951486 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

The naturalisation of the supernatural by Podmore, Frank, 1856-1910

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Experiments in psychical research at Leland Stanford Junior University by Coover, John Edgar, 1872-1938; Martin, Lillien Jane, 1851-1943; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC - https://archive.org/details/experimentsinps02coovgoog Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Experiments in psychical research at Leland Stanford Junior University by Coover, John Edgar, 1872-1938; Martin, Lillien Jane, 1851-1943; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

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Phantasms of the living by Gurney, Edmund, 1847-1888; Society for Psychical Research (London, England); Myers, Frederic William Henry, 1843-1901; Podmore, Frank, 1856-1910; Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Balfour), Mrs., 1845- - https://archive.org/details/phantasmsoflivin00gurniala Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

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Henry Sidgwick; by Sidgwick, Arthur, 1840-1920; Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred, 1845-1936 - https://archive.org/details/cu31924029047490 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Memoir of Henry Sidgwick - one of the founders of the Society For Psychical Research

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Mind : science, philosophy, religion, psychology, metaphysics, occultism by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) - https://archive.org/details/mind01unkngoog Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

"The leading exponent of the New Thought." Published by: Alliance Pub. Co., Title from caption Houdini Collection: Vol. 8, no. 3 (June 1901)

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Confessions of a Ghost Hunter by Harry Price 1936 - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.218596 Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Confessions of a Ghost Hunter by Harry Price

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Christmas Ghosts by Harry Price 1949 - https://archive.org/details/ChristmasGhosts/page/n5/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Harry Price writes about the history and connection between Ghost Stories and Christmas.

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Fifty Years of Psychical Research by Harry Price - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.172901/page/n113/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Is spiritualism a religion or a racket? How does it differ from psychical research? What went on in the world of seances, mediums, and the scientists who investigated them in the early decades of the twentieth century? This fascinating account, first published in the 1930s, brings to life an era when spiritualists gripped the public imagination and researchers fought to determine what was and wasn't real.

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New Frontiers of the mind the duke experiments by J B Rhine 1937 - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.179562/page/n11/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (2 months ago)

Rhine talking about his work with ESP and his experiments including the Zener Card Trials

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Suggestion, belief in the paranormal, proneness to reality testing deficits, and perception of an allegedly haunted building by Neil Dagnall, Ken Drinkwater, Andrew Denovan, A. Parker - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282948909_Suggestion_belief_in_the_paranormal_proneness_to_reality_testing_deficits_and_perception_of_an_allegedly_haunted_building Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

The present study investigated whether suggestion, level of belief in the paranormal, and proneness to reality testing deficits influenced participants' expectation of haunt-related phenomena. Participants watched a short slideshow outlining the history of a fictitious, abandoned hospital. Suggestion occurred in the final sentence of the presentation narration and stated that the hospital administrative building had either a history of ghostly activity or structural problems. Following the slideshow, to ensure participants attended to the suggestion, they read a transcript of the presentation narration. The experimenter then informed participants that they would see the internal features of the administrative building via a soundless, black and white video tour. On conclusion of the filmed sequence, participants completed measures assessing environmental perceptions and phenomena, haunt-related opinions and feelings, belief in the paranormal (Revised Paranormal Belief Scale), and proneness to reality testing deficits (Inventory of Personality Organization). Within the experimental phase, only level of paranormal belief and proneness to reality testing deficits affected haunt-related ratings; suggestion had no effect. Second phase inquiry, using path analysis, revealed that haunting history (the extent to which participants believed the administrative building had a history of being haunted) mediated the relationship between paranormal belief and expectation of haunt-related phenomena.

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Who Believes in ESP: Cognitive and Motivational Determinants of the Belief in Extra-Sensory Perception by Marija Branković - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396695/ Error 997 Max errors reached (7 months ago) 3 attempts

Many people believe in extra-sensory perception, e.g. the ability to communicate with thoughts, to sense future events or locate radiation with the help of a V-shaped piece of wood. Addressing a gap in research specifically focused on ESP beliefs, we investigated cognitive styles and basic motivations related to these beliefs in two survey studies. The findings suggest that a propensity to use intuition is the best predictor of ESP beliefs in terms of cognitive style. ESP belief is positively related to fear of death, and this relation is partly mediated by fatalism, i.e. the belief that chance controls one’s life. ESP beliefs do not seem to be perceived as irreconcilable with a rational view of reality however, they do not necessarily provide psychological protection from existential concerns. The implications of the findings in terms of costs and benefits of these beliefs and the possibility to change them are discussed.

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Direct Voice Phenomena by W.J Crawford - https://www.survivalafterdeath.info/articles/crawford/directvoice.htm Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

I AM now going to describe some experiments I carried out on "direct-voice" phenomena, which phenomena occurred during several séances held in my own house. As the reader is no doubt aware, the "direct voice" is a rather rare form of psychic phenomenon. Voices, not apparently the voice of the medium or of any of the sitters, speak from the air within or around the circle. They speak through thin metal cones or "trumpets" which seemingly float about in the air under psychic support, their function being to concentrate the voice sounds and thus make them more audible than they otherwise would be. I refer the reader who desires to obtain a good general idea of this type of mediumship to the late Vice-Admiral Moore's book The Voices.

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The Epworth Phenomena (1917) - http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301311.txt Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

The Epworth Phenomena (1917) To which are appended certain Psychic Experiences recorded by John Wesley in the pages of his journal [Wesley if the founder of Methodism] Collated by Dudley Wright [1868-1949]

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Extrasensory Perception (ESP) by William James - http://www.williamjames.com/Science/ESP.htm Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Although many of you reading this book, like myself, have few personal doubts that something like extrasensory perception is real, the effort to establish ESP as a scientific fact has been a continuous struggle the outcome of which still remains uncertain. Many subjects whose demonstrations had originally convinced researchers from the British Society for Psychical Research were later detected using bogus means to dupe these eminent scientists. Fascinated by their few successes, researchers continued undaunted in the midst of failures, criticism, and detected frauds.

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Frances Power Cobbe's "The Peak In Darien: The Riddle of Death) (1882) - https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frances-power-cobbe-the-peak-in-darien-1882 Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

Frances Power Cobbe, The Peak in Darien: An Octave of Essays (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1882) Full public domain book with a written review

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Verbatim Report of a Public Debate on 'The Truth of Spiritualism' between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe - http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1603962880637~571&locale=en_US&metadata_object_ratio=10&show_metadata=true&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/singleViewer.do?&preferred_usage_type=VIEW_MAIN&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=10&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true Not yet verified

Verbatim report of a public debate on 'The Truth of Spiritualism' between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (representing Spiritualism) and Joseph McCabe (representing the Rationalist Press Association). Held at the Queen's Hall, Langham Place, London, W., on Thursday, March 11, 1920. Chairman: Sir Edward Marshall-Hall Revised by both disputants.

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Lateralized Direct and Indirect Semantic Priming Effects in Subjects with Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12088633_Lateralized_Direct_and_Indirect_Semantic_Priming_Effects_in_Subjects_with_Paranormal_Experiences_and_Beliefs Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

The present investigation tested the hypothesis that, as an aspect of schizotypal thinking, the formation of paranormal beliefs was related to spreading activation characteristics within semantic networks. From a larger student population (n = 117) prescreened for paranormal belief, 12 strong believers and 12 strong disbelievers (all women) were invited for a lateralized semantic priming task with directly and indirectly related prime-target pairs. Believers showed stronger indirect (but not direct) semantic priming effects than disbelievers after left (but not right) visual field stimulation, indicating faster appreciation of distant semantic relations specifically by the right hemisphere, reportedly specialized in coarse rather than focused semantic processing. These results are discussed in the light of recent findings in schizophrenic patients with thought disorders. They suggest that a disinhibition with semantic networks may underlie the formation of paranormal belief. The potential usefulness of work with healthy subjects for neuropsychiatric research is stressed.

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Auditory Pareidolia: Effects of Contextual Priming on Perceptions of Purportedly Paranormal and Ambiguous Auditory Stimuli - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.3068 Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

Reality television programs that explore purportedly paranormal phenomena with pseudoscientific research approaches have emerged in popular culture. These shows commonly feature electronic voice phenomena (EVP), whereby recording devices capture audio signals that are interpreted as paranormal messages. We compared perceptions for voices in EVP with actual speech, acoustic noise, and degraded speech. Some participants were told that the experiment was about speech intelligibility, whereas others were told that the experiment was about paranormal EVP. The paranormal prime increased the proportion of trials for which participants perceived voices in both EVP stimuli and degraded speech. When a voice was detected, low agreement was found regarding the content of EVP messages. In both priming conditions, participants reported general skepticism in the paranormal. Results are discussed in the context of theoretical perspectives on paranormal events, trait‐versus‐state accounts of paranormal beliefs, and pseudoscientific approaches to research. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Exploring Gaslighting Effects via the VAPUS Model for Ghost Narratives - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340509425_Exploring_Gaslighting_Effects_via_the_VAPUS_Model_for_Ghost_Narratives Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

The VAPUS model (Hill et al., 2018, 2019) characterizes the powerful "brand personality" of ghost narratives in terms of their Versatility, Adaptability, Participatory Nature, Universality, and Scalability. This suggests that these narratives act as cultural memes that partly reflect interpersonal or group dynamics. We use these themes in a review and conceptual synthesis of key literature to address the phenomenon of "gaslighting," which denotes the determined efforts of an influencer to alter the perceptions of a targeted individual. Modelling ghost narratives as psychosocial constructions implies malleability via attitudinal and normative influences. Accordingly, we specify and discuss two apparent manifestations of this narrative plasticity, i.e., "positive (reinforcing) gaslighting" (i.e., confirmation biases) or "negative (rejecting) gaslighting" (i.e., second-guessing or self-doubt). These ideas clarify some Trickster-type effects and imply that all ghost narratives likely involve gaslighting to an extent.

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Physics from UFO Data - http://www.angelfire.com/va/CIOVI/Physics_from_UFO_Data.htm Verified 200 OK (1 month ago)

A research project on the UFO phenomenon is proposed in which UFO targets are treated on a par with astronomical objects having no fixed coordinates. Specifically oriented monitoring techniques and strategies involving small telescopes which are connected to CCD detectors, spectrographs and photon-counting photometers are presented. Expected exposure-times for acquiring a good S/N ratio of the target using all the proposed instruments is also evaluated. Finally, physical information which is expected to come out from data analysis are presented and discussed in detail.

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THE PENN GHOST PROJECT - https://web.sas.upenn.edu/ghosts-healing/ Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Recently, the University of Pennsylvania has become a center for research on ghosts. Usually restricted to the fields of (Para)Psychology and Religious Studies, the study of ghosts has never been approached in a serious or comprehensive way in the humanities, the social sciences, or healthcare. In the academy, ghost belief has been something to be explained away. Studies that consistently show that large percentages of people in Japan, Brazil, South Africa, the United States, India, France, the Philippines, Russia, Thailand, and many other places believe in ghosts or claim to have felt or seen ghosts are treated with a metaphorical smirk or a disappointing shake of the head. How could people believe in something that has no scientific proof? Why believe in something that does not have comforting psychological benefit that belief in “higher powers” (gods, goddesses) does? Why would people continue to create literature, art, ritual, film about menacing specters? In efforts to account for this irrational belief, ghosts have been relegated to symptoms of socio-economic conditions, a lack of access to education, a pre-modern religio-cultural leftover, or simply as a psychological coping mechanism.

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The Ganzfeld experience—A stably inducible altered state of consciousness: Effects of different auditory homogenizations - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pchj.262 Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

In the Ganzfeld technique, the visual and auditory perceptual fields are homogenized. After a short exposure to completely unstructured sensory input, participants transit into an altered state of consciousness. Visual homogenization is typically accomplished by a combination of goggles and bright light; auditory homogenization is accomplished by the presentation of unstructured auditory noise via headphones. The induced state is phenomenologically similar to a transition state between wakefulness and sleep, characterized by alterations in attentiveness, perception, and awareness, as well as by a compressed sense of time. Due to these replicable features of the Ganzfeld‐induced state, it can be used within empirical research on the neuronal underpinnings of altered states phenomena. After a historic overview, here, we present data from a study on the stability of the subjectively experienced effects induced under different auditory homogenization conditions. In a fully randomized within‐subject design (n = 24), we tested for the effects of three different auditory noise conditions: (1) violet, (2) white, and (3) brown noise. The combination of a standardized psychometric assessment, ratings on subjective time perception, as well as open reports prove the Ganzfeld‐induced effects as being stable and effects within each participant as highly replicable, and therefore well suited for experimental purposes. Finally, the subjective experiences elucidated by the Ganzfeld technique are discussed within the framework of predictive coding and how changes in the interaction of top‐down and bottom‐up brain mechanisms could lead to the observed phenomenology.

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Relevance of para-psychology in psychiatric practice - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056186/ Error 997 Max errors reached (6 months ago) 3 attempts

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and experience. Para-psychology studies anomalies of behavior and experience, called paranormal experiences. Paranormal phenomena transcend the boundaries of time, space and force. Para-psychology is divided into two main branches: a) extra-sensory perception (ESP) which is the study of communications ostensibly without the known sensory organs and, b) psychokinesis (PK) or the study of physical events that apparently occur without involvement of any recognized motor organs.

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A new measure of psychological misconceptions: Relations with academic background, critical thinking, and acceptance of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608014001472 Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

Many studies of psychological misconceptions have used tests with methodological and psychometric shortcomings, creating problems for interpreting individual differences related to misconceptions. To address these problems, we developed the Test of Psychological Knowledge and Misconceptions (TOPKAM), administering it to two samples of psychology students. Results from the first study (N = 162) supported the TOPKAM's internal consistency and showed that the number correct on the TOPKAM was significantly predicted by measures of paranormal belief, faith in intuition, the ability to distinguish scientific fields and practices from pseudoscientific ones, and SAT scores. Also, scores on a measure of critical thinking dispositions in psychology predicted TOPKAM scores. A second study (N = 178) supported the TOPKAM's test–retest reliability at four weeks and showed that TOPKAM scores were significantly predicted by the same critical thinking dispositions measure and also by scores on a test of critical thinking, argument analysis skill.

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The Dr. John Hall story: a case study in putative “Haunted People Syndrome” - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338013263_The_Dr_John_Hall_story_a_case_study_in_putative_Haunted_People_Syndrome Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

Research suggests a “Haunted People Syndrome (HP-S)” defined by recurrent and systematic perceptions of anomalous subjective and objective anomalies. Such signs or symptoms are traditionally attributed to “spirits and the supernatural,” but these themes are hypothesised to morph to “surveillance and stalking” in reports of “group-(or gang) stalking,” We tested this premise with a quali-quantitative exercise that mapped group-stalking experiences from a published first-hand account to a Rasch measure of haunt-type anomalies. This comparison found significant agreement in the specific “signs or symptoms” of both phenomena. Meta-patterns likewise showed clear conceptual similarities between the phenomenology of haunts and group-stalking. Findings are consistent with the idea that both anomalous episodes involve the same, or similar, attentional or perceptual processes and thereby support the viability of the HP-S construct.

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Investigating the Relationship Between Exposure to Television Programs that Depict Paranormal Phenomena and Beliefs in the Paranormal - https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upenn.edu/dist/b/160/files/2017/04/sparks_survey-1e6tqhi.pdf Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

This paper seeks to continue a program of research that explores the possible relationship between exposure to media messages and paranormal beliefs. Following the work of Sparks, Nelson and Campbell (1997), who reported the results of a random sample survey taken in 1994, this study reports the findings of a second random sample survey taken in the same geographic area several years later. The results of the survey show that paranormal beliefs are prevalent in the population and that they are related to reports of television exposure to programs that regularly depict paranormal phenomena. Like the findings reported by Sparks, Nelson and Campbell (1997), this study found that the relationship between TV viewing and paranormal beliefs was contingent upon prior personal experience with a paranormal event. However, the form of this contingent relationship was directly opposite from that observed in the earlier survey. In this study, the relationship between TV exposure and paranormal beliefs emerged only for respondents who reported personal experience with the paranormal. Plausible reasons for the conflicting findings and suggestions for future research are discussed

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SOCIAL INFLUENCE ON PARANORMAL BELIEFS - https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=socy_facpub Not yet verified

In spite of strong public expressions of skepticism from the scientific community, polls show that more than nine out of ten American adults profess belief in paranormal phenomena. Some scientists view this as a social problem, directing much blame (but little research) at a variety of sources including lack of critical thinking skills, fads, need for transcendent experiences, failure of the educational system, and cultural cycles. Social impact theory provides an alternative focus: it views paranormal beliefs as a natural consequence of social influence processes in interpersonal settings.

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"Meme-Spirited": I. The VAPUS Model for Understanding the Prevalence and Potency of Ghost Narratives - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335240823_Meme-Spirited_I_The_VAPUS_Model_for_Understanding_the_Prevalence_and_Potency_of_Ghost_Narratives Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

A review of nearly 20 years of sociocultural research and trends on "ghostly episodes" (ghosts, haunted houses, and poltergeists) suggests that personal accounts, group investigations, and popular depictions of anomalous experiences function as active, meaningful, and potent cultural memes. These, in part, reflect interpersonal or group dynamics grounded in Durkheimian models, as well as Social Identity and Conflict theories. Expanding on and integrating these themes, this paper provides a general framework that explains the enduring popularity of ghost narratives in terms of their versatility, adaptability, participatory nature, universality, and scalability (VAPUS model). This perspective implies that ghostly episodes, as experiences and narratives, embody and exemplify the marketing concepts of "brand personality" and consumer engagement. Accordingly, social and cultural influences are discussed as important and inherent contextual variables that help to produce, promote, shape, and sustain these narratives.

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Japanese Studies on Anomalous Phenomena in the 1990s by Hideyuki Kokubo & Tosio Kasahara - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272944039_Japanese_Studies_on_Anomalous_Phenomena_in_the_1990s Error 997 Max errors reached (3 years ago) 3 attempts

Throughout the 1990s, scientific studies dealing with anomalous phenomena have been actively pursued in Japan following a nation-wide rise in interest in supernatural phenomena and qigong. This review article covers various research actitivies in Japan.

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Strange Effects from UFOS Directed by Major Donald E. Heyhoe, Assistant Director Gordon I.R Lore JR - http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Lore, Gordon - Strange Effects from UFOs.pdf Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

Strange Effects from UFOs" (a NICAP "Special Report") is now online. Its author, Gordon Lore, kindly gave permission and Barry Greenwood did the scanning. It contains an early catalogue of UFO cases with alleged physiological effects

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THE SLI EFFECT Street Lamp Interference by by Hilary Evans, coordinator, The Slide Project with ASSAP Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena - http://www.assap.ac.uk/newsite/Docs/sli.pdf Error 997 Max errors reached (2 years ago) 3 attempts

This is a complete copy of the book, originally published by ASSAP in 1993. It has NOT been updated since, so it will inevitably be out of date. It is provided because there is so little information available on this subject. Unfortunately, little work has been done since as very few researchers have studied the field. Regrettably, the SLIDE project no longer exists though ASSAP is still interested in reports of SLI

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The Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education - https://theazire.org/ Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Back in 2010, Drs. Carlos S. Alvarado and Nancy L. Zingrone, established a project called “The Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education” under their consulting business, Alvarado Zingrone and Associates. The AZIRE was founded to be the category under which all of their online educational activities could take place. The original site contained lots of information about their own work (and this site includes that too) but especially highlighted the founding and development of The AZIRE Library and Learning Center in the virtual world, Second Life (which was founded before the website, on August 29th, 2009), as well as the WizIQ-based and Moodle-based teaching activities of the pair (which came along in 2010 with the original website). More recently also subsumed under The AZIRE aegis is the YouTube Channel Parapsychology Online.

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The Parapsychological Association - https://www.parapsych.org/home.aspx Verified 200 OK (3 weeks ago)

No other organization in the world performs the job that the Parapsychological Association does. The PA provides a professional home for scientists and scholars around the world who dare to investigate phenomena shunned by mainstream science. The PA unites both the skeptics and the advocates of parapsychology’s controversial findings in productive scientific dialogue. The PA provides objective and reasoned information on what is known and what is not known about parapsychology to the media and the public, who are all too often beset by the irrational claims from those with unscientific beliefs in either the existence or non-existence of psychic phenomena.

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Haunted Theories - https://www.hauntedtheories.com/ Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Your Go-To Source for Research into Ghosts, Apparitions, and All Things Paranormal

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The Scole Experiment - https://www.thescoleexperiment.com/ Verified 200 OK (3 weeks ago)

A five-year scientific investigation into life after death and other dimensions 'The most important scientific investigation of life after death in history'

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Survival after death Info - https://www.survivalafterdeath.info/index.htm Error 997 Max errors reached (4 years ago) 3 attempts

SurvivalAfterDeath.info was started by Thomas Jones of Wales and David Duffield of West Virginia on April 11th 2002 with the aim of publishing articles, books and photographs relating to survival after death and psychical research. We were an independent group which regularly cooperates with several distinguished psychical researchers and parapsychologists. SurvivalAfterDeath.info is now managed by Webmaster Kevin Williams of www.near-death.com

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Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research - http://www.aiprinc.org/resources/ Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

The Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, Incorporated (AIPR, Inc., or Parapsychology Institute) was established in 1977 and is a non-profit community association. The AIPR is based in Sydney, New South Wales, and its membership is world-wide.

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Investigating paranormal phenomena: Functional brain imaging of telepathy by Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Peruvumba N Jayakumar, Hongasandra R Nagendra,1 Dindagur Nagaraja, R Deeptha,1 and Bangalore N Gangadhar - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144613/ Error 997 Max errors reached (6 months ago) 3 attempts

“Telepathy” is defined as “the communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognized channels of sense”. Meta-analyses of “ganzfield” studies as well as “card-guessing task” studies provide compelling evidence for the existence of telepathic phenomena. The aim of this study was to elucidate the neural basis of telepathy by examining an individual with this special ability.

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Division of Perceptual Studies - https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/ Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson, the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is a highly productive university-based research group devoted to the investigation of phenomena that challenge mainstream scientific paradigms regarding the nature of the mind/brain relationship. Researchers at DOPS are particularly interested in studying phenomena related to consciousness functioning beyond the confines of the physical body, and phenomena that suggest continuation of consciousness after physical death.

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Paranormal Encyclopedia - https://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/ Verified 200 OK (3 weeks ago)

Welcome to Paranormal-Encyclopedia.com, a free website dedicated to providing accurate and unbiased information about the world of the paranormal.

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Can The Living Converse With The Dead by Harry Houdini - https://archive.org/details/CanTheLivingConverseWithTheDead Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Can the Living Converse With the Dead? By Harry Houdini. Canton Daily News. 16 November, 1924.

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Friedrich Jürgenson- From The Studio For Audioscopic Research - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGU-zkJqr2E&feature=youtu.be Not yet verified

This is from a rare CD of recordings by the late Friedrich Jürgenson. He was one of the early researchers of E.V.P.

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The Law of One - Book I (aka The Ra Material) © 1984 James Allen McCarty, Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert - https://www.llresearch.org/library/the_law_of_one_pdf/the_law_of_one_pdf.aspx Verified 200 OK (3 weeks ago)

For thousands of years those of Ra have sought to teach the Law of One to seekers of truth on Earth who wished to learn of the unity or oneness of all things. This basic law of all creation is buried deep within each of our hearts because we really are one in love and in light, the building blocks of the universe. We are all manifestations of the One Infinite Creator. We are the Creator. We are not learning this law for the first time but are remembering it yet again as all mystics have taught throughout Earth's history. Our journey of self-realization is the discovery or remembrance of this essential truth, our essential identity. A waking up, as some have called it, within an illusion of separation.

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UFO Enthusiasts - https://archive-it.org/collections/3610 Verified 200 OK (1 week ago)

This collection documents the subculture of individuals who believe in extraterrestrial beings and their presence on and around Earth. It focuses on websites created by members of this subculture, and which document a belief in extraterrestrial encounters (e.g., UFO sightings, crashes, or abductions, and government conspiracy theories relating to concealed knowledge of, or interaction with, extraterrestrial beings).

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Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the Heart ROLLIN McCRATY, Ph.D.,1 MIKE ATKINSON, and RAYMOND TREVOR BRADLEY, Ph.D. - https://www.heartmath.org/assets/uploads/2015/01/intuition-part1.pdf Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

This study aims to contribute to a scientific understanding of intuition, a process by which information normally outside the range of conscious awareness is perceived by the psychophysiological systems.

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Things That Go Bump in the Literature: An Environmental Appraisal of “Haunted Houses” Neil Dagnall, Kenneth G. Drinkwater, Ciarán O’Keeffe, Annalisa Ventola, Brian Laythe, Michael A. Jawer, Brandon Massullo, Giovanni B. Caputo and James Houran - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01328/full Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

This paper contains a narrative overview of the past 20-years of environmental research on anomalous experiences attributed to “haunted house.”

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The skeptic's guide to the paranormal by Kelly, Lynne - https://archive.org/details/The_Skeptics_Guide_to_the_Paranormal_by_Lynne_Kelly Error 997 Max errors reached (12 months ago) 3 attempts

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Paranormal phenomena : opposing viewpoints by O'Neill, Terry, 1944-; Tipp, Stacey L., 1963- - https://archive.org/details/paranormalphenom01onei Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Presents opposing viewpoints on the existence of paranormal phenomena such as extrasensory perception, unidentified flying objects, and the prediction of the future Do paranormal phenomena exist? -- Are UFOs real? -- Does ESP exist? -- Can the future be predicted? -- Can humans interact with the spirit world?

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Is spiritualism based on fraud by Joseph McCabe 1920 - https://archive.org/details/isspiritualismba00mccarich/page/n7/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (4 days ago)

Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud ?: The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others

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A public debate on the truth of spiritualism by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Joseph McCabe 1920 - https://archive.org/details/1920DoyleMccabeTheTruthOfSpiritualism/page/n1/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (3 days ago)

Verbatim Report of a Public Debate on "The Truth of Spiritualism" Between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe: Held at the Queen's Hall, London, on March 11, 1920 by Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe

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Miracle mongers and their methods by Harry Houdini 1920 - https://archive.org/details/MiracleMongersAndTheirMethodsByHarryHoudini Verified 200 OK (3 days ago)

This classic skeptical work explores and exposes the methods of such "wonders" as "The Incombustible Spaniard," "Defiers of Poisonous Reptiles," and many others. Originally published in the 1920s, Miracle Mongers and Their Methods scrupulously examines the direct predecessors of modern psychics and mentalists.

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An essay towards a theory of apparitions by John Ferriar M.D - https://archive.org/details/essaytowardstheo00ferr Verified 200 OK (2 weeks ago)

In 1813, Dr John Ferriar published ‘An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions’ which detailed his thoughts that people experienced what they thought to be ghosts which were actually optical illusions.

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LIFE AFTER LIFE The Official Website of DR. RAYMOND MOODY Bestselling Author - https://lifeafterlife.com/ Verified 200 OK (1 week ago)

When I began my research into near-death experiences in 1968, I was a skeptic and an atheist. Now I am neither. What convinced me after 50 years of investigating near-death experiences? As an M.D. and a Doctor of Philosophy, I could no longer deny the survival of consciousness after hearing thousands of accounts from patients and doctors.

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Quantum Phenomena Modeled by Interactions between Many Classical Worlds Michael J. W. Hall, Dirk-André Deckert, and Howard M. Wiseman - https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041013 Error 997 Max errors reached (9 months ago) 3 attempts

We investigate whether quantum theory can be understood as the continuum limit of a mechanical theory, in which there is a huge, but finite, number of classical “worlds,” and quantum effects arise solely from a universal interaction between these worlds, without reference to any wave function. Here, a “world” means an entire universe with well-defined properties, determined by the classical configuration of its particles and fields. In our approach, each world evolves deterministically, probabilities arise due to ignorance as to which world a given observer occupies, and we argue that in the limit of infinitely many worlds the wave function can be recovered (as a secondary object) from the motion of these worlds. We introduce a simple model of such a “many interacting worlds” approach and show that it can reproduce some generic quantum phenomena—such as Ehrenfest’s theorem, wave packet spreading, barrier tunneling, and zero-point energy—as a direct consequence of mutual repulsion between worlds. Finally, we perform numerical simulations using our approach. We demonstrate, first, that it can be used to calculate quantum ground states, and second, that it is capable of reproducing, at least qualitatively, the double-slit interference phenomenon.

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A magician among the spirits by Harry Houdini 1924 - https://archive.org/details/1924HoudiniAMagicianAmongTheSpirits Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

Harry Houdini and his exposure of the fraud spiritualist, spirit photography, spirit slate writing, ectoplasm, clairvoyance, and other quakery and cons perpetrated on the gullible, by the likes of the Boston Medium Margery, the Davenport Brothers, Annie Eva Fay, the Fox Sisters, Daniel Dunglas Home, Eusapia Pallandino, and other con artists of their ilk. The whole country got excited by Houdini's campaign against faking spiritualists. He careened through the country, offering money for spirit contacts he couldn't duplicate by admitted magical chicanery. It was a heyday not only for Houdini but for the spirit-callers and there was an equally famous protagonist who thought the spirits could indeed be contacted, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A photo at the front records a meeting between Houdini and Doyle and Houdini gives Doyle his own chapter. There's an earlier chapter on Daniel Dunglas Home, the English engineer of spectacular paranormal effects. Houdini raises hell with spiritualists who were giving their (usually paying) clients a vision of heavens to come, and shares the methods used to practice "fake" and sensational spiritualism. Houdini was nothing if not unrelenting. As a taste of things to come, he ends his introduction with the words: "Up to the present time everything that I have investigated has been the result of deluded brains."

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Observation of a psychokinetic effect under highly controlled conditions By HELMUT SCHMIDT - https://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/observ.html Verified 200 OK (1 day ago)

The author summarizes five experiments in which he studied the psychokinetic (PK) effect (the mental influence on the outcome of chance processes) under tight supervision by independent observers. Through the use of prerecorded random events as targets, the observers could evaluate the results independently, without having to trust the reliability of the author or his equipment. The total of these five studies, which represent all the work done under external supervision, produced an effect deviating by 3.67 standard deviations from chance expectancy. The odds against such an outcome are about 8,000 to 1. Thus, the results support the extstence of a PK effect on prerecorded random events, in agreement with previous experiments. The observed PK effect is inconsistent with current quantum theory. It shows that the theory is not correct when applied to systems that include human subjects. Furthermore, the existence of a weak mental effect on the outcome of chance events cautions the physicist to be careful in the interpretation of results that are based on relatively few chance events.

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The Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle [1922] - https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/cof/index.htm Verified 200 OK (1 week ago)

The coming of the fairies, by Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated from photographs. Author of "The New Revelation", "The Vital Message", "Wanderings of a Spiritualist". This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in a good position form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This narrative is not a special plea for that authenticity, but is simply a collection of facts the inferences from which may be accepted or rejected as the reader may think fit. The series of incidents set forth in this little volume represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax every played upon the public, or else they constitute an event in human history which may in the future appear to have been epoch-making in its character.

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Breakthrough An Amazing Experiment In Electronic Communinication With The Dead By Konstantin Raudive - https://archive.org/details/BreakthroughAnAmazingExperimentInElectronicCommuninicationWithTheDead.ByKonstantinRaudive./page/n17/mode/2up Verified 200 OK (1 week ago)

Translated by Nadia Fowler, edited by Joyce Morton, with a Preface by Peter Bander. This book is the documented result of six years’ arduous research into an astounding scientific phenomenon, accidentally discovered in Sweden by Friedrich Jürgenson in 1957. In some way, and for reasons not yet fully understood, voices of dead persons linked by affection or interest with the experimenter appear during playbacks of tape recordings on which no such voices were audible at the time of the original recording. These voices always state their names and may be identified as male or female, but all speak very much faster than is normal and employ a curious speech rhythm. In the course of his research, Dr Raudive was joined by eminent scientists, physicists, psychologists, and theologians, many of whom were university professors. Before undertaking the publication of this English-language edition, the publishers have requested other respected scientists and scholars to verify procedures and findings related in Dr Raudive’s book. The discovery of this phenomenon – later called the Electronic Voice Phenomenon – is a breakthrough of unquestionable importance.

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Evidence for the Default Network's Role in Spontaneous Cognition - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2904225/ Error 997 Max errors reached (9 months ago) 3 attempts

A set of brain regions known as the default network increases its activity when focus on the external world is relaxed. During such moments, participants change their focus of external attention and engage in spontaneous cognitive processes including remembering the past and imagining the future.

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Heart Math - https://www.heartmath.org/ Verified 200 OK (1 day ago)

We are passionate and dedicated people, steadfast in our commitment to provide solutions for activating the heart of humanity. HeartMath Institute empowers individuals, families, groups and organizations to enhance their life experiences using tools that enable them to better recognize and access their intuitive insight and heart intelligence.

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The Global Consciousness Project - http://global-mind.org/ Verified 200 OK (1 day ago)

The Global Consciousness Project is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists and engineers. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in up to 70 host sites around the world at any given time. The data are transmitted to a central archive which now contains more than 15 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials generated every second.

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Hematological and Psychophysiological Correlates of Anomalous Information Reception in Mediums: A Preliminary Exploration - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30503039/ Verified 200 OK (24 hours ago)

Modern research with mediums-individuals who regularly experience and report communication from the deceased-includes investigations of mediums' accuracy, psychology, phenomenology, and electrophysiology and the therapeutic potential of mediumship readings for the bereaved. Anecdotal reports imply that chronic medical problems may be a serious concern for mediums.

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Psychology Today - https://www.psychologytoday.com/ Verified 200 OK (17 hours ago)

View the latest from the world of psychology: from behavioral research to practical guidance on relationships, mental health and addiction.

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Nexus Newsfeed - https://nexusnewsfeed.com/ Verified 200 OK (15 hours ago)

I have created NexusNewsfeed.com, not as a vehicle to fight the current mainstream manufactured reality, but instead to provide a vehicle for like-minded, independent thinkers, to help create something new. Something better. Instead of endless searches on the Internet, we will bring you the news, every day, right across the spectrum of hundreds of non-mainstream news Topics.

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Wild about Harry - https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/ Verified 200 OK (3 minutes ago)

A blog by John Cox devoted to exploring and celebrating the life and legacy of HARRY HOUDINI in history, media, and in pop culture. Updates daily.

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Ashley Knibb - Paranormal Explorer, Investigator & Researcher - https://ashleyknibb.com/ Verified 200 OK (4 weeks ago)

This Blog should hopefully cover some of my experiences whist investigating the paranormal, a few pieces of historical interest on locations I have investigated, a little bit on paranormal theories and some discussion on paranormal techniques. With some general updates and possibly even a little humour too!

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The Ghost Club - https://www.ghostclub.org.uk/ Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

The Ghost Club is the oldest organisation in the world associated with psychical research. It was founded in 1862 but has its roots in Cambridge University where, in 1855, fellows at Trinity College began to discuss ghosts and psychic phenomena.

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Psi Encyclopedia - https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/ Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

The Psi Encyclopedia is a new collection of articles and case studies about psi research, the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. It's a work in progress, being created by the Society for Psychical Research in London.

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ASSAP - http://www.assap.ac.uk/ Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

ASSAP is a charity and learned society founded in 1981 to investigate, research and educate on a wide range of anomalous phenomena, from hauntings to UFOs, mediumship to monsters

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Society for Psychical Research - https://www.spr.ac.uk/ Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

Founded in 1882, the SPR was the first organisation to conduct scholarly research into human experiences that challenge contemporary scientific models

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Rhine Research Center - https://www.rhineonline.org/ Verified 200 OK (3 months ago)

The Rhine Research Center explores the frontiers of consciousness and exceptional human experiences in the context of unusual and unexplained phenomena. The Rhine’s mission is to advance the science of parapsychology, to provide education and resources for the public, and to foster a community for individuals with personal and professional interest in PSI.

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A paranormal blog aimed at paranormal enthusiasts and investigators.

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Online Reading

Archive.org (Long List)

From: https://futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2023/08/some-recommended-online-reading.html

The site www.archive.org is an invaluable resource for scholars of psychic phenomena and the paranormal. Using the site, you can find very many books written by witnesses of the paranormal and scholars of the paranormal. The full text of very many of these books can be read by a user who does not even bother to register at the site.Examples of such books are below:

The astronomer Camille Flammarion's monumental three-volume work Death and Its Mystery (which you can read here, here and here);
Flammarion's also monumental opus The Unknown;
Catherine Crowe's long book The Night Side of Nature;
The often cited work two-volume Phantasms of the Living by Gurney, Podmore and Myers, which you can read here and here;
The long and very fascinating work Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World by former US congressman Robert Dale Owen;
The Debatable Land Between This World and the Next by the same author, a worthy successor volume of equal length;

The Voices by Vice-Admiral William Usborne Moore, a fascinating account of mysterious auditory phenomena during seances;
On the Edge of the Etheric by James Arthur Findlay, a book on the same topic;
The Proof Palpable of Immortality by Epes Sargeant;
Planchette, or the Despair of Science, a longer work on paranormal phenomena by the same author;

Natural and Mesmeric Clairvoyance by James Esdaille MD, written by a doctor who was very successful in getting very large numbers of patients to be pain-free during surgery without anesthesia (using only hypnosis);
Clairvoyance and Thoughtography by Tomokici Fukurai, a Japanese professor, a book which presents in its Chapter 1 some superb evidence for clairvoyance;
The very long two-volume work Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic Myers, which you can read here and here;
From the Unconscious to the Conscious by Gustave Geley;
The Widow's Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena by Isaac Funk, the same Funk of the famous Funk and Wagnall's dictionary;
The Watseka Wonder by E.W. Stevens, a contemporary account of one of the most notable cases in the history of the paranormal, discussed here;
Noted Witnesses for Psychic Occurrences by W. F. Prince, a book documenting how countless illustrious names have reported paranormal experiences;
Researches into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism by Sir William Crookes, one of the most accomplished physicists of the nineteenth century (see here and here and here for related writing by the same author);
The Survival of Man by physicist Sir Oliver Lodge;
Out-of-the-Body Experiences by Robert Crookall;
More Astral Projections by the same author, containing some fascinating cases I discuss here;
What Happens When You Die by the same author;
Dead and Gone by James S. Pollack, a very readable description of paranormal phenomena;
Ghosts and Poltergeists by Herbert Thurston and J.H. Crehan, one of the most in-depth examinations of poltergeist cases;
Phenomena of Materialization by Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, discussing very interesting results described here;
Startling Facts in Modern Spiritualism by N. B. Wolfe MD, a book documenting materialization phenomena during seances of the medium Mrs. Mary J. Hollis;
Letters to a Candid Inquirer, on Animal Magnetism, by William Gregory M.D. professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University, a book abundantly documenting the reality of clairvoyance, as discussed here;
Animal Magnetism, or Mesmerism and Its Phenomena, another book by Gregory documenting the reality of clairvoyance and other paranormal phenomena;
"Animal Magnetism and Magnetic Lucid Somnambulism" by Edwin Lee, MD, a book presenting very much evidence for the reality of clairvoyance in subjects who were hypnotized or in a trance;
"A Critical History of Animal Magnetism" by the scientist Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze, a book (along with his book here) that documents the reality of clairvoyance during hypnotism (referred to in the book by the old term animal magnetism);
New Frontiers of the Mind by J. B. Rhine, the foremost twentieth century researcher on ESP;
After Death -- What? by Cesare Lombroso;
Thirty Years of Psychical Research by Charles Richet, a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine;
The Seeress of Provost by physician Justinus Kerner, an astonishing case history described here;
There Is No Death by Florence Marryat;
Mysterious Psychic Forces, another great work on the paranormal featuring abundant first-hand testimony by the astronomer Camille Flammarion;
Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery by Casper S. Yost, a book documenting one of the most interesting cases of the twentieth century;
The Proofs of Life After Death, a balanced book presenting the opinions of many scientists, heavy thinkers and investigators regarding whether there is good evidence for life after death;
Seen and Unseen by Emily Katherine Bates, a remarkable account of a woman's observations of paranormal phenomena around the world;
Metaphysical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. Maxwell MD, which contains quite a few interesting accounts of observing paranormal phenomena, as I discuss here;
Transcendental Physics, a book by an astronomy professor (Johann Carl Friedrich Zollner) who did careful experiments documenting many paranormal effects;
An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism by the Baron Dupotet de Sennevoy, a book that abundantly testifies to the reality of clairvoyance during hypnotic trances;
The "Report on Spiritualism" by the Dialectical Society of London, a document of more than 400 pages containing some of the most shocking and interesting testimony ever given (the contents of which are discussed here);
Incidents in My Life by D. D. Home, one of the most famous mediums;
"Signs before death, and authenticated apparitions: in one hundred narratives," an 1825 book by Horace Welby that is one of many helping to show that scholarly research into psychical phenomena began much earlier than 1882;
The Case for Astral Projection by Slyvan Muldoon;
Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena by Hereward Carrington;
Supernormal Faculties in Man by Eugene Osty, one of the most carefully documented accounts of clairvoyance, including the very interesting case discussed here;
The Celestial Telegraph by Louis Alphonse Cahagnet, a book notable for its report of extreme clairvoyant or mediumistic skill in Adele Magnot, as I describe in my post here;
Man and His Relations by Samuel Byron Brittan, a very long and little-known classic of parapsychology with contents described here;
Glimpses of the Unseen by B. F. Austin, a 500+ page book documenting a great variety of paranormal experiences;
The 633-page book "Psychical and Supernormal Phenomena, Their Observation and Experimentation" by Dr. Paul Joire, which you can read here (it includes the extremely interesting case I discuss here);
Studies in the Out-lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle;
Why Mind and Memory Cannot Be Brain Effects by myself;
Mollie Fancher, the Brooklyn Enigma, a long case history of one of history's most astonishing clairvoyants;
China's Super Psychics by Paul Dong and Thomas E. Raffill;
Man's Survival After Death by Charles L.Tweedale, a long book that includes many cases from the annals of the Society for Psychical Research, as well as many fascinating first-hand cases of paranormal observation by Tweedale and his family;
800 Mysterious Striped Orbs: A Paranormal Phenomenon by myself;
Psychic Science: An Introduction and Contribution to the Experimental Study of Psychical Phenomena by Emile Boirac, which you can read here;
"The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography. With Twelve Illustrations," a book centered upon a scientific paper by mainstream photography expert J. Traill Taylor, long-time editor of the British Journal of Photography, a paper testing spirit photography, and finding astonishing success;
Eeriest Events, a 292-page book on the paranormal, written by myself;
Spookiest Years, a 435-page book on the paranormal, written by myself;
Top Ghosts: 300 Compelling Apparitions, written by myself;
Psychics and Paranormal Phenomena, written by myself;
Clairvoyance, ESP, Psychical Phenomena, Life After Death and the Unexplained, a 476-page book by myself;
Photographing the Invisible by James Coates, PhD, a book that takes a very serious look at the topic of spirit photography, with some astonishing photographic examples;
A Report of the Mysterious Noises Heard in the House of Mr. John D. Fox in Hydesville, Arcadia, Wayne County, Authenticated by the Certificates, and Confirmed by the Statements of the Citizens of That Place and Vicinity by E. E. Lewis (1848), which you can read here, and Explanation and History of the Mysterious Communion With Spirits Comprehending the Rise and Progress of the Mysterious Noises in Western New York, Generally Received as Spiritual Communications by Eliab W. Capron and Henry D. Barron (1850), which you can read here. These two are the oldest documents on the topic of spiritualism and the famous Hydesville/Rochester paranormal manifestations of 1848, and the first consists of witness statements taken within about two weeks after the events, and published in the same year. Whenever studying this topic, you should be trying to get documents written as close to the reported events as possible; and these are such documents.

Life After Death

Cover of a book mentioned above

If you take the time to register at www.archive.org, which does not take long, the door will be opened to a huge number of more modern books, which you can "borrow" on an hourly basis simply by pressing a Borrow button after logging in. By clicking on the Borrow button after registering, you will be able to read important works on the paranormal such as these:

Life After Life by Raymond Moody;
Hidden Channels of the Mind by Louisa Rhine, who was one of the leading collectors of accounts of spontaneous telepathy and spontaneous precognition;
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder;
The Gift: ESP, the Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People by Sally Rhine Feather and Michael Schmicker;
Extra-sensory perception after sixty years; a critical appraisal of the research in extra-sensory perception, a long book co-edited by Joseph Rhine that gives details on some of the best experimental evidence for ESP;
What Happens When You Die by Robert Crookall PhD, which contains many interesting accounts of out-of-body experiences;
Out-of-Body Experiences: A Handbook by Janet Lee Mitchell;
Forty Years of Psychic Research by Hamlin Garland, which you can read here;
Extraordinary Experiences: Personal Accounts of the Paranormal in Canada by John Robert Colombo;
At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis and Erlendur Haraldsson, a book on deathbed visions and apparitions;
The Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology edited by Leslie A. Shepard, in two volumes (which can be read here and here);
Apparitions and Survival of Death by Raymond Bayless.
Phantom Encounters by the editors of Time-Life books. While it discusses quite a few dubious cases as part of its highly entertaining and visually appealing presentation, this book also includes a discussion of many important and evidential apparition cases.

An aspect of www.archive.org that I particularly like is that there are individual URLs for each page. So if a scholar is citing page 347 of some book, he can include a link that takes the reader exactly to that specific page.

Other sources of information about psychical phenomena are listed below:

The Psi Encyclopedia of the Society for Psychical Research (available here).
The page here of the Parapsychology Foundation has links to very many papers about psychical phenomena, which can all be conveniently read online.
The much older 1932 Encyclopedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor available here.
The book-length document on ESP evidence here, "Extrasensory Perception: Research Findings" by John Palmer, which includes in white text below the book a book-length document ("Notes on the Paranormal") on evidence for the paranormal, written by Ben Steigmann. The latter document contains very many links to online original source materials on psychical research.
The page here gives links to hundreds of books you can read online, all dealing with the paranormal or spiritual phenomena. Very conveniently, we have a very long table of links, which is in chronological order. The list includes books providing evidence for the paranormal, as well as quite a few books trying to discredit such phenomena. Many of the books on the page are worth reading, and many others are not worth reading.
The videos here and here seem to provide modern evidence for clairvoyance.

My very long post "Candid Confessions of the Scientists" contains links to very many papers and books by scientists who challenged the most prevalent thinking in fields such as chemistry, neuroscience, biochemistry, physics, natural history and cosmology. Many of that post's links can be followed for illumination on such topics. My very long post "120+ Types of Paranormal or Anomalous Experiences" contains countless links to interesting papers and books on that topic. Below are books or articles on topics such as biology and cosmology and psychology:

Cosmo Sapiens: Human Evolution From the Origin of the Universe by John Hands. The book is discussed in my post here.
A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos by astrophysics professor Geraint F. Lewis and astronomy postdoctoral researcher Luke A. Barnes. The book is discussed in my post here.
Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by physician James Le Fanu. The book is discussed in my post here.
"Using statistical methods to model the fine-tuning of molecular machines and systems" by Steinar Thorvaldsen and Ola Hössjer. This peer-reviewed paper in the mainstream Journal of Theoretical Biology discusses very well the evidence for fine-tuning in biology and physics.
"The Cell as a Collection of Protein Machines: Preparing the Next Generation of Molecular Biologists" by Bruce Alberts. This peer-reviewed scientific paper is essential reading for students of biological complexity.
"The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life" by Luke A. Barnes. This paper (also available here) is a lengthy peer-reviewed paper discussing the evidence for fine-tuning in physics and cosmology.
"Giving Up Darwin" by computer scientist David Gelernter. Trying to explaining the reasons why Darwinian ideas cannot explain the appearance of proteins, Gelernter does a good job, but actually underestimates the difficulties. He lists the average amino-acid length of a protein as 250, but eukaryotic proteins (like those in our body) actually have an average of about 472 amino acids, according to the paper here; and achieving proteins of that size by unguided processes is more than a billion trillion quadrillion times harder.

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UFO books that involve the woo

These are UFO books that I've read and would recommend. I also recommend all of Jacques Vallee's UFO books. I didn't list them here because there are so many Vallee books, many of which don't hesitate to report the woo aspects of the UFO phenomena.

Colm A. Kelleher, PhD, Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005)

Diana Walsh Pasulka, PhD, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology (2019)

Greg Halifax (pseudonym), Sedge Masters, Parts 1, 2, 3, UFO Magazine 1998 (1998)

J Allen Hynek, PhD, Jacques Vallée, PhD, The Edge of Reality: A Progress Report on UFOs (1975)

James T. Lacatski, PhD, Colm A. Kelleher, PhD. George Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders’ Account of the Government’s Secret UFO Program (2021)

John E Mack, MD, Abduction - Human Encounters With Aliens (1994)

John E Mack, MD, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters (1999)

Ralph Blumenthal, The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack (2021)

Books on psi (ESP/paranormal) research & history

I started as a skeptic of paranormal research, but I have changed my mind after reading much more about it. These are books that I've read and would recommend:

Charles T. Tart, PhD, Altered states of Consciousness (1969)

Charles T. Tart, PhD, Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception (1975)

Charles T. Tart, PhD, PSI - Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm (1977)

Charles T. Tart, PhD, Russell Targ, Hal Puthoff, PhD, Mind at Large, IEEE Symposia (1979)

Charles Webster Leadbeater, The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena (1896)

Dale E. Graff, Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness: An Exploration of Remote Viewing, ESP, Precognitive Dreaming, and Synchronicity (1998)

Damien Broderick, Ben Goertzel, Evidence for Psi - Thirteen Empirical Research Reports (2014)

David Morehouse, PhD, Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA's Stargate Program: The True Story of a Soldier's Espionage and Awakening (2013)

David Vernon, Dark Cognition: Evidence for Psi and Its Implications for Consciousness (2020)

Dean Radin, PhD, The Conscious Universe (a.k.a. Noetic Universe in the UK) (1997)

Dean Radin, PhD, Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (2006)

Dean Radin, PhD, Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe (2018)

Edgar Evans Cayce, Hugh Lynn Cayce, The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayces Power - The Cases That Baffled the Legendary Psychic (1971)

Edgar Mitchell, PhD, Paradigm Shift: Science and the Inner Experience, Your Universe and You, and Global Mind Change (2015)

Edmund Gurney, Frederic W H Myers, Frank Podmore, Eleanor Sidgwick, Phantasms of the Living, Vol 1, Abridged (1885)

Edwin C. May, PhD, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, PhD, Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science vol 1 (2015)

Edwin C. May, PhD, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, PhD, Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science vol 2 (2015)

Eric Wargo, Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious (2018)

Gary E Schwartz, PhD, The Afterlife Experiments (2002)

Ingo Swann, Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP (1991)

Ingo Swann, Remote Viewing: The Real Story ()

J.B. Rhine, PhD, The Reach of the Mind (1947)

Jack Harrison Pollack, Croiset, the Clairvoyant (1964)

Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter (2000)

Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Secret Spies (1997)

John B Alexander, PhD, Reality Denied: Firsthand Experiences with Things that Can’t Happen – But Did (2017)

John M. Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity Within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East (1970)

Jonathan Margolis, Uri Geller: Magician Or Mystic? (1999)

Joseph McMoneagle, Mind Trek:Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing (1993)

Joseph McMoneagle, Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook (2000)

Judith Orloff, Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How To Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom (2008)

K. Ramakrishna Rao, The Basic Experiments in Parapsychology (1984)

Leslie Kean, Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife (2017)

Mary Rose Barrington, The Clairvoyance Of Stefan Ossowiecki (2005)

Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe (1991)

Paul H Smith, PhD, The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn (1986)

R. Gordon Wasson, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978)

René Warcollier, Experimental Telepathy (1938)

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (1999)

Russell Targ, Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness (2004)

Russell Targ, The Reality of ESP (2012)

Russell Targ, Jane Katra, PhD, Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing (1998)

Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder, PSI - Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (1970)

Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, Edgar Cayce - An American Prophet (2000)

Stephan Schwartz, The Secret Vaults of Time - Psychic Archaeology (1978)

Stephen LaBerge, PhD, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990)

Stephen M Phillips, PhD, Extra Sensory Perception of Quarks (1980)

Stewart Alexander, An Extraordinary Journey: The Memoirs of a Physical Medium (2010)

Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (1992)

Upton Sinclair, Mental Radio (1930)

WHC Tenhaeff, PhD, Telepathy and Clairvoyance: Views of some little investigated capabilities of man (1965)

William Broad, PhD, Psi-Favorable Conditions (a chapter in Rammohan's book New frontiers of human science) (2002)

William Broad, PhD, Distant Mental Influence (2003)

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/182b0e6/comment/kak7wow/

Other Websites

Afterlife Research

Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) Twenty-Nine Winning Essays on the Evidence for Life After Death

https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/index.php/essay-contest/

Compiled with Table of Contents (2041 pages)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5gCCDaDVQBzDl8qrzPc5IBilf3rn2pB/view?fbclid=IwAR2SmGrBndF-A4iGOLlE_MFBgcVcovNe0G3H6Cr-VLunVHoPGBEpxiSaGyw

Paranormal

ASSAP (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena)

YT Webinars: https://www.youtube.com/@assapwebinars141

website:

new: https://www.assap.ac.uk/

Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20230307040012/http://www.assap.ac.uk/

(I prefer the archived version because it's more complete and organized)

FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/7552750587/

LLIFS (Living Life In Full Spectrum)

Tips to help you with your paranormal research

https://www.llifs.com.au/blog/tips-to-help-with-your-paranormal-research/

If you want something to entertain you or even help with your paranormal research, the LLIFS Resource directory has a large collection of links to public domain books that are available FREE to read online. These are paranormal 'classics' that many consider to be must-read material!

Some of the books available to read online are:

Voice of Eternity by Sarah Wilson Estep

The history of spiritualism II by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dreams and telepathy by Sigmund Freud

Human Personality And Its Survival Of Bodily Death Vol Ii

by Frederic W. H. Myers

Extra Sensory Perception by J B Rhine

A magician among the spirits by Harry Houdini

Confessions of a ghost hunter by Harry Price

Ghosts: True encounters with the world beyond by Hans Holzer

These are just some of the amazing books available to read!

In most cases, you are even able to save a PDF version. Others you may need to 'sign in' using a free account to borrow the book (such as archive.org) I am always adding to this as I find more and more resources to share!

Head to https://llifs.com.au/resource-directory/?tags=Books

Parapsychology

Parapsychology Online (Free Parapsychology Courses)

YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ParapsychologyOnline/featured

Websites:

Parapsychology Foundation: https://parapsychology.org

Parapsychology Online: https://parapsychologyonline.org

The Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and EducationThe Alvarado Zingrone Institute for Research and Education

https://theazire.org/

Public Parapsychology (www.publicparapsychology.org ) managed by Annalisa Ventola, who is the Executive Director of the Parapsychological Association and an extended member of the Ghost Gang. Her platform provides news items, commentaries, research summaries, book reviews and online primers on topics pertinent to ghostly episodes. - Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters

EDUCATION IN PARAPSYCHOLOGY by Loyd Auerbach

https://web.archive.org/web/20160416014700/http://www.mindreader.com/info_para_ed.html

Recommended by Admin Gabriella:

Society for Psychical Research https://g.co/kgs/g26ajS

NDEs

Near-Death Experience Research Foundation
https://www.nderf.org/

UFOs/ETs

Interested in UFOs and ETs? Check this page (yes I also post on that page haha) https://www.facebook.com/ufosp

Join the group UFO Society of the Philippines (UFOSP) bec. i post there for UFO investigators.

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL UFO HEARINGS

1. July 26, 2023 (total 2 hrs 34 mins) begins at 18 minutes

https://youtu.be/KQ7Dw-739VY?t=1081

2. Nov 13, 2024 (total 2 hrs 26 mins) begins at 18 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2iWKZr0qA&t=1086

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UFO & ET News

In case we haven’t posted updates, check these sources directly:

1. News and Media: https://uapnewscenter.com/

2. News Summaries, FAQs, Podcast: disclosurediaries.com/

3. Google Search for UFO News: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=558148111&rlz=1C1UEAD_enPH1060PH1060&sxsrf=AB5stBgD_WociL96b1RSoMB-50_SrCv3KA:1692377335926&q=ufo&tbm=nws&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz3Lvv1OaAAxWd3DgGHY93CP8Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1408&bih=822&dpr=1.13

4. UFO news FB page: https://www.facebook.com/UAPGRIG

5. UFO news FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/620392798976782

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3269896249983935

6. Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufotwitter or https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufoX

7. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/

8. UFO News and media compilation since 2017 (Google Sheets): https://docs.google.com/.../1mln9giY9YyGvIbTsUnZ4EBcQVzK.../

9. UFO timeline: https://ufotimeline.com/

10. Updated timeline of recent events with sources, documents, additional resources, and recommended documentaries for newcomers and skeptics: https://www.reddit.com/.../updated_timeline_of_recent.../

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BEGINNER GUIDES & OVERVIEWS

1. A Ufologist's Guide for Dealing with Trolls, Bots, and Bad-Faith Skeptics

https://www.reddit.com/.../a_ufologists_guide_for_dealing...

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2. The UFO Investigator Starter Kit https://ufodisclosureweb.github.io/starterkit/

PURPOSE

This document is for:

* people new to the topic who want a solid foundation at the start of their search for answers

* skeptics who should consider that the answers aren’t as simple as a single Google search or a mere day of topic perusal

* journalists who want a primer on the history of the phenomenon

* government leaders, representatives, fact finders, aides, bureaucrats

* military rank-and-file, leaders, and investigators new to the topic

This is just a beginning with a few major concepts outlined in brief. If you don’t know what something is, search it out to get more detail. Any included links are meant only as starting points and examples, not as the “final word” on anything.

You may count yourself in the camp of the skeptics. That’s fine. Just don’t make the mistake of not questioning your own skepticism as more evidence comes to light.

As Herbert Spencer once said,

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

The reader is encouraged to do their own investigation and come to their own conclusions.

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3. UAP/C (UAP Caucus) Guides: https://www.uapcaucus.com/guides

"The UAP Caucus is a focused group within the U.S. Congress dedicated to the study, disclosure, and policy development surrounding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. We aim to expand this initiative into a bicameral effort, advocating for public participation and bipartisan support.

Embark on an introductory exploration of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using our simple and intuitive frameworks. Designed as a starting point for community members, thought leaders, and those newly curious about UAP, these guides lay the groundwork for a multifaceted understanding."

- UAP Caucus website

Downloadable Files:

UAPC Guides PDF

https://drive.google.com/.../1fD2S9VgO3UGSD80qamuBxz.../view

UAPC Guides DOCX

https://docs.google.com/.../1Y0TQcQ.../

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4. Possible Origins of UAP (Infographics + List)

With downloadable PDF and DOCX

https://www.facebook.com/ufosp/posts/820873046744678

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5. UFOs Wiki: https://www.ufos.wiki/

Overview of UFOlogy recommended by r/UFOs

( https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/ Note: they have Ask Me Anythings [AMAs] with UFO experts from time to time)

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6. A Fundamental Explanation of UAPs

https://www.uaptheory.com/

We present a theory of how UAPs work that explains everything one can observe about them.

By understanding them, we can also explain their origin and nature. We aim to settle the matter once and for all.

The structure of this page follows the scientific method.

Data -> Hypothesis -> Predictions -> Observation

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7. For More Info:

Check our pinned posts or

Join the UFOSP FB group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ufosp

Non local Consciousness, the Paranormal, and the Contact Modalities

A Greater Reality https://agreaterreality.com/

The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal, and the Contact Modalities

CCRI, the Consciousness & Contact Research Institute, is an interdisciplinary research organization consisting mainly of Ph.D. academics and medical doctors. Our team aims to explore the broad range of psychophysical phenomena often referred to as "paranormal" and their connection to the concept of "consciousness" and the multi-dimensional aspects of reality. Our members specialize in various fields, including Astrophysics, Theoretical Physics, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, Sociology, Quantum Biology, Information Sciences, Parapsychology, and Medicine.

At CCRI, our researchers propose the following ideas:

1) We suggest that consciousness may be the fundamental aspect of reality rather than the physical world that we perceive. Our hypothesis is that physical reality is a manifestation of consciousness, experienced through our five senses. However, this perception might not fully represent the true nature of existence. We believe that human consciousness may temporarily inhabit a physical form within a more extensive, encompassing reality that could be described as both "spiritual" and "virtual." According to this perspective, when our physical bodies cease to function, our individual consciousness may return to a collective source, which we refer to as The Mind of GOD. A more in-depth exploration of this concept can be found in the book, "The Mind of GOD: A Spiritual-Virtual Reality Model of Consciousness & the Contact Modalities."

2) We propose that various phenomena often labeled as "paranormal contact," which we at CCRI refer to as "The Contact Modalities" (interactions with Non-Human Intelligence through NDEs, UFOs, OBEs, Astral Travel, Spirits/Ghosts, Psychedelic Journeys, Remote Viewing, PSI, and other forms), could represent a single, unified phenomenon connected to consciousness. Consequently, if consciousness is fundamental, all Contact Modalities should be studied and understood within the context of a consciousness-based framework.

In the near future, CCRI members plan to conduct a comprehensive, worldwide, multi-language academic research project examining the common experiences of those who have encountered the Contact Modalities. Our team believes that comparing and analyzing these individuals' experiences could be crucial in gaining a deeper understanding of the potential relationship between consciousness and contact with Non-Human Intelligence (NHI). We define NHI as "any form of conscious intelligence that is not a physical 4D human being." This definition encompasses anomalous entities defined in our culture as ghosts, spirits, angels, demons, extraterrestrials, aliens, energy beings, and non-physical beings. Our primary objective is to investigate the following question: "What is the relationship between consciousness and contact with Non-Human Intelligence via the Contact Modalities?"

The CCRI organization has been recently established, and while we have not formally initiated our academic research study, we aim to introduce our mission and research agenda by developing a co-edited 4-volume book series. Each book will be approximately 800 pages and titled: "A Greater Reality: The New Paradigm of Non-local Consciousness, the Paranormal and the Contact Modalities."

The five editors of our book series include Dr. Rudy Schild (Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University), Dr. Jon Klimo (Professor of Psychology at various universities for over 45 years), Dr. Jeffrey Long (a medical doctor, NDE research pioneer, and author of two NDE books), Dr. Michael Grosso (Ph.D. from Columbia University and Professor of Philosophy for over 40 years), and Reinerio (Rey) Hernandez, who attended UC Berkeley for a Ph.D. and was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship.

Rey Hernandez’s new book, "A Greater Reality - One Man’s Journey of Discovery", is now available.

Volumes 1 & 2 of the book A Greater Reality are our theoretical volumes and feature articles by Ph.D. academics, medical doctors and researchers who have focused on researching the connection between Consciousness and the Contact Modalities.

Volumes 3 - 6 feature articles written by more than 75 major Experiencers of the Contact Modalities who each have had many diverse contact experiences with perceived Higher Forms of Intelligence via the Contact Modalities. Volume 6 will be available August, 2025. (Vol 6 not yet available as of Nov 6, 2025 - Chris)

All books listed on this page are FREE to download. https://agreaterreality.com/BuyBooks

Consciousness Studies

This is a cool map of 325+ theories about Consciousness created by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Àlex Gómez-Marín

These are discussed in this video by Essentia Foundation (2 hours, 55 minutes long).

If you want to read the paper, it's here. "A Landscape of Consciousness: Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations and Implications"

The universe is aware of itself through all of us. Come get lost in The Library's virtual aisles to find out more about this astounding revelation.

https://www.organism.earth/library/

Opensciences.org

These are opensciences.org’s list of Research Organizations:

Organizations Promoting and Conducting Research

This directory catalogs a diverse range of institutes, associations, and research centers engaged in cutting-edge exploration across consciousness, transpersonal psychology, psychophysiology, and related disciplines. These organizations are dedicated to advancing our knowledge through rigorous scientific inquiry, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the integration of traditional and novel research methodologies. They aim to bridge the gap between empirical science and the broader dimensions of human and animal experience, challenging and expanding the boundaries of conventional scientific understanding.

Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences

AAPS logo

This pioneering non-profit is dedicated to open-minded, rigorous, and evidence-based research on consciousness. Founded on the principles laid out in the Manifesto for Post-Materialist Science the AAPS commits to exploring consciousness beyond the confines of materialism.

In 2023, the creativity of Academy students shone through in the inaugural issue of the AAPS Student Magazine, Consciousness Unexplained, featuring a rich mix of essays, art, and poetry on the primacy of consciousness. Additionally, the Academy hosts The Archive of Scientists’ Transcendental Experiences (TASTE), an innovative online journal curated by Charles Tart. TASTE offers a platform for scientists to share their transcendental experiences, with nearly a hundred stories collected to date, both anonymous and attributed. Scientists are encouraged to enrich this growing compendium with their own transcendental narratives.

AAPS Website Member Application

Alef Trust

The Alef Trust specializes in the field of transpersonal studies, exploring human experiences beyond the conventional sense of self through rigorous and transformative research. Covering a wide array of topics such as altered states of consciousness, mystical experiences, dreams, psychedelics and entheogens, shamanism, contemporary spirituality, spiritual practices, meditation and mindfulness, movement and dance, among other topics.

The Alef Trust's scholarly output and many student research dissertations demonstrate an impressive range and depth, spanning theoretical explorations to empirical studies across the spectrum of transpersonal psychology. This wide body of work shows the significance of the Trust's growing contributions.

Importantly, in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, the Trust also offers an online MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology, a PhD in Applied Transpersonal Psychology, and professional certificates in areas like Psychedelics, Transpersonal Coaching Psychology, and Attention Strategies Skills.

Alef Trust Research Publications by Faculty Research Dissertation Archive

Animal Navigation

Animal navigation is one of the great unsolved mysteries of science, and this website brings together information and ideas in a thought-provoking and open-minded way.

Animal Navigation Website

BIAL Foundation

Since 1994 the BIAL Foundation has supported nearly 800 projects involving hundreds of researchers from 29 countries, who've published over 2000 papers, over 1600 in indexed journals. Grants for research in Psychophysiology and Parapsychology are up to €60,000, determined by the Scientific board according to the needs of each project.

With the aim of encouraging research into the healthy human being, both from the physical and spiritual point of view, BIAL Foundation now opens a new call of its Grants Programme for Scientific Research 2022/2023.

Supported fields: Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.

Addressees: Scientific researchers, either individually or in groups.

Duration/commencement: Maximum 3 years; commencement between 1st of January and 31st of October 2023.

Total amount: Up to €60.000 per approved application.

Applications: No later than 31st of August 2022.

The following projects will not be considered eligible: a) Projects from Clinical or Experimental Models of Human Disease and Therapy; b) Projects whose main scope is eating behaviour, sexual behaviour, physical exercise or fundamental neuroscience.

Bial Foundation

Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies

The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) was founded in 2020 by aerospace entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow to support research into the survival of human consciousness after physical death and, following from that, the nature of “the afterlife.” In 2021, the Bigelow Institute awarded a total of $1.8 million in prize money for 29 winning essays from a dozen countries judged by an expert scientific panel to offer the best evidence for survival of consciousness after death.

In 2022, BICS announced a new funding program, “The Challenge,” offering up to $1 million for multiple research grants on contact/communication with the afterlife leading to wisdom acquisition. The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies is currently the leading organization in funding research into the survival of consciousness.

BICS Website

Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP)

The Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology of Lund University, Sweden, consists of a group of researchers and associates dedicated to the scientific study of unusual but not pathological experiences and events, including reputed parapsychological phenomena. We endorse programmatic research using a plurality of methodologies, and are open to diverse perspectives in this area, as long as they are informed and respectful. Our aim is to continue developing multidisciplinary, national, and international collaborations, and train undergraduate and graduate students in a supportive environment.

LACH Website

Hamatara Emet: The Interdisciplinary Science and Consciousness Institute

A possible impact of a spiritual reality on the visible world is rarely considered in the mainstream scientific establishment. Hamatara Emet is a new research institute formed to gather open-minded, rigorous scientists and intellectuals and foster the creation of integrated multidisciplinary research groups which will reexamine scientific findings while being free from preliminary spiritual or anti-spiritual assumptions. It is a virtual space that provides a fruitful multidisciplinary environment to raise new ideas, organise research groups, have papers peer reviewed and prepared for submission to scientific journals.

Hamatara Emet Website

Institut Metapsychique International

The Institut Metapsychique International (IMI) was established in 1919 under the patronage of Charles Richet, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology/Medicine. It is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the scientific study of psi phenomena, and constitutes the principal center in France for parapsychological research and information. Situated in the center of Paris, the IMI also provides courses, lectures, scholarly expertise and counseling on exceptional experiences. Its specialized library and archives include over 6000 titles.

IMI Website in French

Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene

The Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) in Freiburg, Germany engages in systematic and interdisciplinary research concerning insufficiently understood phenomena and anomalies at the frontiers of current scientific knowledge. They offer information, education and counseling for people with exceptional experiences, a comprehensive special library and a research archive for parapsychology and frontier areas of psychology.

The Institute maintains numerous scientific collaborations with universities and research institutes and supported research projects in and outside of Germany. Staff members of IGPP offer academic courses at the University of Freiburg and supervise diploma theses and dissertations.

IGPP Website

Institute of Noetic Sciences

The Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded in 1972 by Apollo 14 astronaut, Edgar Mitchell. IONS is a worldwide membership organization that conducts and sponsors research on human potential, including the role of perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention and intuition. It is especially concerned with phenomena that don't fit into the conventional scientific model. The word 'noetic' comes from the Greek word for intuitive knowing. It points towards a new science of the human mind much broader than psychology has been to date. The Institute has a campus in Petaluma, near San Francisco, and sponsors meetings, conferences, and publishes a regular review and research publications. Its research interests include subtle energies and energy medicine, exploring states of consciousness, and the role of spirit and intention in health and healing.

IONS Website

International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)

IANDS’ promotes a responsible, multi-disciplinary exploration of near-death and similar experiences, their effects on people’s lives, and their implications for beliefs about life, death, and human purpose.

IANDS provides reliable information to caregivers, experiencers, and the public through its quarterly magazine Vital Signs. The organizatino encourages interest in research and professional applications through its Journal of Near-Death Studies, through small grants and an NDE Research Fund, by organizing conferences and other programs, and with the publication of an indexed bibliography to the periodical literature on near-death experiences.

To help Near-death experiencers with the challenges they face, IANDS has created support and interest groups around the world.

IANDS Website Journal of Near-Death Studies

International Consciousness Research Laboratories

International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) is an international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational consortium of some 75 members, most of whom were associated with the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University as interns or research collaborators over its thirty-year history. The goal is to extend the work of PEAR into a broader range of inquiry: to encourage a new generation of creative investigators to expand the boundaries of scientific understanding; and to strengthen the foundations of science by reclaiming its spiritual heritage. Ultimately, ICRL seek to integrate the subjective and objective dimensions of human experience into a self-reflective Science of the Subjective.

ICRL Website

Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health

The Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (LACH) was established at the University of Arizona Department of Psychology to to creatively and responsibly apply mainstream scientific methods to frontier questions in consciousness and health. Their eight specific areas of research are: volution of Consciousness and Understanding (Universal Hypotheses and Post-Materialism), The Role of Consciousness in Health and Healing, Survival of Consciousness After Death, Quantum Holographic Consciousness, Group and Global Consciousness, Animal Consciousness, Other Worldly / Higher Spiritual Consciousness, and the Universal Intelligence Hypothesis. Gary Schwartz is the current director of the LACH.

LACH Website

Parapsychological Association

This Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psychic experiences such as telepathy, clairvoyance, remote viewing, psychokinesis, psychic healing and precognition. Such experiences seem to challenge contemporary conceptions of human nature and the physical world, and appear to involve the transfer of information in ways that are currently unexplained. The primary objection of the Parapsychological Association is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences. PA members develop and refine methodologies for studying psychic experiences and their physical, biological or psychological underpinnings. They assess hypotheses through experiments, conceptual models and field investigations in a spirit of open-minded skepticism. The PA provides an international forum of scholarly exchanges through annual conventions and through the publication of proceedings from these conferences. Affiliated with the PA is the peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Parapsychology.

Parapsychological Association Website

Parapsychology Foundation

This Foundation, based in New York City, gives grants and organizes conferences. It encourages and supports impartial scientific enquiry into such seemingly psychical aspects of human nature as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, mediumship, ghosts and hauntings, out-of-the-body experiences, reincarnation and other psychic experiences and phenomena. The Foundation provides professional resources and information to the academic and lay communities and serves as a clearing house for information on parapsychology and psychical research.

Parapsychology Foundation Website

Plantando Consciencia

Plantando Consciência is a multidisciplinary non-profit organization in São Paulo, Brazil dedicated to ecodelic literacy and research. They investigate non-ordinary states of consciousness produced by these substances, and advocate for this Gaian technology as a reliable source of healing and learning. In order to do so, their work approaches many disciplines such as neurosciences, psychiatry, psychology, biology, physics, pharmacology, religion, anthropology and history, with the goal of understanding and legitimizing the use of these tools in the proper context, as well as their potential for medical and therapeutic use.

Plantando Consciencia Website

Rhine Research Center

The Rhine Research Center is a nonprofit research and education organization established to explore the unusual types of experiences that suggest capabilities as yet unrecognized in the domain of human personality, and to investigate those capabilities thoroughly by exact scientific methods. The Center is the successor to the Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory and carries forward that famed laboratory's research mission and educational programs. The current research emphasis is the application of these unusual capabilities in medicine, including intuitive diagnosis of illness and remote healing effects.

Rhine Research Center Website

Ronin Institute

The Ronin Institute is creating a new model for scholarly research that recognizes that the world outside of traditional academia is filled with smart, educated, passionate people who have a lot to offer to the world of scholarship. We aim to transform the way that scholarly research is coordinated and funded. Ultimately, we want anyone who is interested in pursuing high-quality scholarly research to be able to do so. Moreover, we want these people to be able to pursue their research in a way that is consistent with all of their life’s priorities.

Ronin Institute Website

Science Frontiers Digest of Scientific Anomalies

Science Frontiers is a bimonthly newsletter providing digests of reports that describe scientific anomalies; that is, those observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms. Over 2000 Science Frontiers digests have been published since 1976. Over 14,000 volumes of science journals, including all issues of Nature and Science have been examined for reports on anomalies. Disciplines include archaeology, astronomy, biology, geology, geophysics, mathematics, psychology and physics. The Science Frontiers Web sites includes over 2000 digests that are fully searchable.

Science Frontiers Website

Society for Interdisciplinary Studies

The SIS was formed in 1974 to consider the role global cosmic catastrophes may have played in our history, and even recorded by cultures worldwide in their oral and written ancient traditions. The society also consider the effect catastrophes have on other disciplines, such as biology, cosmology, geology, psychology, archaeoastronomy, astrophysics, linguistics, and other areas such as religion. Catastrophism demands that there should be corroboration between disciplines, making catastrophism truly interdisciplinary and inclusive. The society publishes Chronology and Catastrophism Review.

SIS Website

Templeton World Charity

The Templeton World Charity Foundation - which is separate from the regular Templeton Foundation - has a truly ambitious consciousness project. They've created a complex, six stage procedure for grant development, and don't accept unsolicited proposals (outside open calls for their target initiatives). Experiments involving psi would certainly be relevant to their intention to investigate, and decide between, rival theories of consciousness. Having significantly funded nearly 100 projects with large universities, small colleges, nonprofits and private companies, they have a real chance of moving the whole field forwards.

We aim to provide scientific breakthroughs and practical tools relating to the search for meaning, purpose, and truth.

Using a variety of funding, networking and outreach mechanisms, we will support targeted scientific experiments to investigate different theories of consciousness.

Templeton World Charity Foundation Templeton Prize

The Center for Consciousness Studies

The Center for Consciousness Studies (CCS), based at the University of Arizona, was formed in 1998 with a seed grant from the Fetzer Institute. The 1994 Tucson conference on "Toward a Science of Consciousness" is widely regarded as a landmark event, and the subsequent series of biennial conferences in Tucson organized by the Center have attracted extraordinary international, interdisciplinary interest. The Center is a unique institution whose aim is to bring together the perspectives of philosophy, the cognitive sciences, neuroscience, the social sciences, medicine, and the physical sciences, the arts and humanities, to move toward an integrated understanding of human consciousness. The Center is unique in its broad-spectrum approach. Other groups tend focus either on cognitive neuroscience, philosophy or purely phenomenal experiential approaches, whereas the Center not only integrates these areas, but "thinks outside the box" of conventional wisdom which has thus far, at least, failed to make significant breakthroughs. The Center has also inspired other groups such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness who organize other conferences.

CCS Website

The Electric Universe

This organization is skeptical about the assumptions on which mainstream astronomy and cosmology are founded. In particular its members question the assumption that gravitational fields are the dominant forces shaping the cosmos. They emphasize the role of electrical fields, currents and plasma discharges. They also criticize the assumption that objects exhibiting red shifts must be moving away from us. Instead, they suggest that red shift is more a measure of an object's youth than its velocity, and that the Universe is highly electrical in nature. Building on the work of modern plasma physics and cosmologists such as Halton Arp, they suggest a radically different approach to astronomy and cosmology, with significant ramifications in geology, history and biology. They also organize annual conferences and post regular online updates through the Thunderbolts Project website.

The Thunderbolts Project Peer-reviewed Papers Electric Universe Geology

Wal Thornhill: From Cosmic Currents to the Electric Sun | EU 2013 Conference

The Fortean Times

The Fortean Times is a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents. It was founded in 1973 to continue the work of Charles Fort, an eccentric independent researcher who was skeptical about scientific explanations for anomalous phenomena. He delighted in pointing out how scientists argued according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence, showing how inconvenient data were ignored, suppressed, discredited or explained away. He spent many years researching scientific literature in the New York Public Library and the British Museum and marshaled his evidence and set out his philosophy in a series of books published between 1919 and 1932. The Fortean Times continues his tradition in a lively and amusing form. Its sub-title is 'The Journal of Strange Phenomena'.

Fortean Times Website

The Foyle Research Institute of Monaco (FRI)

Consciousness

Medical Therapeutics

Aeronautics & Space Sciences

Headed by philanthropist Christopher Foyle, FRIM supports innovative and controversial science in seven areas.

While the institute accepts unsolicited proposals for funding, any proposal must be highly innovative and impactful. Their focus is on near term applications more than basic research, however they encourage proposals for ideas "outside your area of expertise" or simply "research you would like to see but can't do yourself".

"In order to reduce the amount of paperwork for researchers, the Foyle Research Institute of Monaco (FRIM) will be using a "Pre-Proposal" system, whereby researchers will be requested to submit a 1-3 page executive summary of the research they are proposing. Using such a system serves both the researchers and FRIM, in that researchers do not have to spend a great deal of effort developing a fully detailed proposal and risk it not being accepted for funding."

— FRI Proposal Guidelines

The Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences (INREES)

The Institute for Research on Extraordinary Experiences (INREES) presents rigorous scientific research while keeping in mind, as emphasized by the scientists themselves, that the knowledge we have about the nature of reality is limited and uncertain. It offers testimonials on unexplained experiences reported in good faith by tens of thousands of people, allowing them to be heard without prejudging. It also provides advice and support for these people, considering the unjustified skepticism they often face.

INREES Website

The Institute for Venture Science

IVS is interested in a wide range of subjects, from gravity, magnetism, relativity and the physics of water to consciousness, NDEs and remote viewing to cancer and global warming.

"The Institute for Venture Science (IVS) will fund high-risk, non-traditional scientific inquiries that may produce fundamental breakthroughs. We identify the most promising challenges to prevailing paradigms. We then simultaneously fund multiple research groups worldwide for each selected challenge."

"The IVS will fund the idea, not just the person advancing that idea. That is, it will seek out and fund multiple groups using diverse approaches to pursue the same unconventional idea. A dozen – even a half dozen - groups cannot be ignored. Challenger and orthodoxy will therefore compete on equal footing, and the better of the two approaches will soon prevail."

The Institute for Venture Science Website

The International Academy of Consciousness

The International Academy of Consciousness (IAC) is a truly global non-profit research and education organization with a presence in nine countries, as well as a research campus in Portugal. The IAC conducts formal and informal research on psychic phenomena, particularly involving the out-of-body experience and the projection of consciousness outside of the physical body using individual experience, the development of intersubjective abilities, and laboratory research methodologies. IAC publishes research papers and articles related to the study of the consciousness. IAC also offers a Global Award for Scientific Contribution to Conscientiology to encourage researchers who've made significant advances in consciousness science.

Although IAC is an organization which studies and teaches techniques to develop psi capacities, it advocates a sense of healthy, open-minded skepticism. The IAC is not affiliated with any religious, political, or governmental organization and its activities are solely for research and educational purposes.

IAC Website

The Laszlo Institute

The Laszlo Institute seeks to become a leading-edge, internationally recognized center of research, promoting the new paradigm emerging in science and society, and exploring and disseminating its implications and applications in regard to human wellbeing and social and ecological sustainability.

Their mission is to open fresh theoretical and practical perspectives based on cutting-edge scientific research, bringing together open-minded scientists and lay people to develop and communicate emerging ideas.

About The Laszlo Institute

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) was established in 1998 by the US Congress at the National Institute of Health to support research on complementary and alternative medicine. The NCCIH advocates for quality science, rigorous research and an open-minded enquiry into which practices work, which do not, and why. Its over-riding mission is to find reliable information about the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medical practices. The Center has a budget of about $100 million per year and gives grants for innovative research to test alternative and complementary therapies, for conducting controlled randomized clinical trials, for investigating placebo effects, and for investigating acupuncture. It also provides training opportunities for researchers and career development awards. This is by far the best-funded organization for pioneering research in unconventional areas.

NCCIH Website

The Nature Institute

The Institute serves as a local, national, and international forum for research, education, and the exchange of ideas about the re-visioning of science and technology in an effort to realign humanity with nature. The Nature Institute's methodology is inspired by integrative thinkers and scientists, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, Owen Barfield, and Kurt Goldstein.

The Nature Institute Website

The Scientific and Medical Network

The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN) is a worldwide professional community and membership organisation for open-minded, rigorous and evidence-based enquiry into themes bridging science, spirituality and consciousness. It promotes a cultural shift in our understanding of reality and human experience beyond the limits imposed by exclusively materialist and reductionist approaches.

The Network brings together discerning people who are inclined to a non-materialist interpretation of the universe and who have a sympathetic interest in parapsychological and spiritual matters. It plays a critical role as a supportive group, where everyone’s efforts towards developing an open and disciplined mind may be refined. Hence Network conferences, seminars and special interest groups provide a safe haven in which frontier issues and ideas at the interface between science, spirituality and consciousness can be freely explored and tested against the evidence, furthering personal growth and inner development.

SMN is the co-ordinator of the Galileo Commission, and publishes the Paradigm Explorer journal.

SMN Website the Galileo Commission

The Society for Psychical Research

The Society for Psychical Research, founded in Britain in 1882, is the longest-established organization anywhere in the world for exploring unexplained human abilities. Its purpose is to "advance the understanding of events and abilities commonly described as 'psychic' or 'paranormal' without prejudice and in a scientific manner." The Society does this by promoting and supporting important research and by publishing scholarly reports. It acts as a forum for debate, organizes conferences, meetings and study days and publishes a peer-reviewed scientific journal, The Journal of the Society for Psychical Research and a more informal newsletter, The Paranormal Review.

The Psi Encyclopedia is a new resource being created by the Society for Psychical Research in London, partly as an alternative to Wikipedia and its pseudo-skeptical bias against Psi topics.

SPR Website Psi Encyclopedia

The Society for Scientific Exploration

The Society was founded in 1982 by a committee of scientists and scholars to foster the study of questions that are amenable to scientific investigation, without restriction. Despite the enormous advances in science in the last century there are important areas that remain almost unexplored, some of great public interest. Is the mind a machine or an entity in some sense independent of the body? Is there credible evidence that life exists on other planets, or that our solar system has ever been visited by extra terrestrial beings? Some areas have technological potentials that could be of great benefit. Do some human beings have the capacity of locating water and other resources? Are there sources of energy available to mankind other than sunlight, fossil fuels and nuclear energy? The Society has about 800 members and associates from more than 45 countries and provides a forum for the presentation and criticism of research. It holds regular meetings and conferences and publishes a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Scientific Exploration.

SSE Website

TV NUPES

NUPES, Núcleo de Pesquisas em Espiritualidade e Saúde (The Interface Between Sciences, Spirituality And Health), is a Brazil-based bilingual internet TV channel in Portuguese and English on spirituality, science and health.

TV NUPES YouTube Channel

Water Research

Recent research on water has revealed many surprises, including the existence of highly-ordered regions of water near hydrophilic surfaces, so-called Exclusion Zones, and the ability of structured water to draw energy form ambient infra-red radiation, with many biological implications. Recent discoveries about this "fourth phase" of water could lead to new technologies for filtration, desalination and water-based solar energy. One of the leaders in this field is Dr Gerald Pollack, at the University of Washington, Seattle. Pollack is also the editor of Water, a multidisciplinary research journal. Researchers form many water-related disciplines meet at the Annual Conferences on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of water, which are remarkably open-minded scientific gatherings.

Water Research Website

World Institute for Scientific Exploration (WISE)

WISE conducts scientific research and development in social, biomedical and natural science fields. Their worldwide resource center has over 30,000 pages covering all aspects of complementary medicine, consciousness, new forms of energy, anomalous phenomena, and other subjects; including people, organizations and periodicals.

WISE Website The WISE Worldwide Resource Center

WISE publishes their own multidisciplinary WISE Journal which covers mysterious phenomana in science, technology, history, and other fields of knowledge. It was formerly called the WISE Newsletter.

WISE Journal, Volume 6, No. 4 (Winter, 2017)

WISE Journal, Volume 6, No. 3 (Autumn, 2017)

WISE Journal, Volume 6, No. 2 (Summer, 2017)

WISE Journal, Volume 6, No. 1 (Spring, 2017)

WISE Journal, Volume 5, No. 4 (Winter, 2016)

WISE Journal, Volume 5, No. 3 (Autumn, 2016)

WISE Journal, Volume 5, No. 2 (Summer, 2016)

WISE Journal, Volume 5, No. 1 (Spring, 2016)

WISE Journal, Volume 4, No. 4 (Winter, 2015)

WISE Journal, Volume 4, No. 3 (Fall, 2015)

WISE Journal, Volume 4, No. 2 (Summer, 2015)

WISE Journal, Volume 4, No. 1 (Spring, 2015)

WISE Journal, Volume 3, No. 3 (December, 2014)

WISE Journal, Volume 3, No. 2 (October, 2014)

WISE Journal, Volume 3, No. 1 (Spring, 2014)

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Thoughts on science from Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author of Science Set Free.

Searching for the Mind

Jon Lieff, MD, explores the interface of biology, neurology, and the mind.

The Last Frontier

Exploring the afterlife and transforming our fear of death, by Julia Assante.

Mind-Energy

Parapsychology articles and news.

Interviews with presenters from the University of Arizona Science of Consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNDcpkKXg2UioJKxTZI-ZA/videos

Catalog of academic journals on consciousness studies, including the Journal of Consciousness Studies

https://www.imprint.co.uk/product-category/books-shop/consciousness-studies/

https://www.imprint.co.uk/product/jcs/

Current research in consciousness studies newsletter from the government (free subscription).

https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=NIH-CONSCIOUSNESS-RESEARCH-SG&A=1

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice - free subscription to this new journal from the American Psychological Association

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/cns

https://www.apa.org/

Read the Neuroscience of Consciousness Journal online for free.

https://academic.oup.com/nc/pages/consciousness-science-and-its-theories

Consciousness News Wire lists the latest news in Consciousness Studies in snippets linked to complete articles."

https://medicalxpress.com/tags/human+consciousness/

The online newspaper the Independent offers current news and human interest stories in Consciousness Studies

https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/consciousness?CMP=ILC-refresh

Scientific American lists numerous articles on consciousness work.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/consciousness/

Submit your own research or read original works in Consciousness Studies at the Frontiers in Psychology site.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/sections/consciousness-research

Phys.org offers a page on consciousness articles links and a free subscription to ther Science-X-Daily newsletter.

https://phys.org/tags/consciousness/

The Conversation is an academic magazine with news and articles in Consciousness Studies.

https://theconversation.com/us/topics/consciousness-1923

Free subscription to the TS Digest, a digital edition of The Scientist magaizne with articles on Consciousness Studies.

https://www.the-scientist.com/tag/consciousness

The Monad Manifesto offers a variety of articles and videos on topics in Consciousness Studies.

https://monadmanifesto.com/

https://www.monadmanifesto.com/newsletter

Science of nonlocal Consciousness by Patrizio Tressoldi and Michael Duggan

What if Consciousness were primary? Primary to everything we know and we may know, e.g. matter, energy, time, space, brain, concepts, feelings, emotions, etc. and hence essentially nonlocal?

This is an old philosophical stance, which we can trace in the idealism, panpsychism, some forms of dualism, mental monism, dual aspect monism, etc. and at the core of Taoism and Buddhism.

Is it possible to test this metaphysical axiom with the scientific tools? Is it possible a Science of nonlocal Consciousness?

This collection aims at offering the best theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary scientific contributions related to this topic.

https://www.scienceopen.com/search#('order'~0_'context'~('collection'~('id'~'8b47bc50-71f2-403e-977e-a3d05f1eeb91'_'kind'~0)_'kind'~11)_'v'~4_'kind'~77)

Events and Conferences

The University of Arizona Center for Consciousness STudies

The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences have been held annually since 1994, alternating yearly between Tucson, Arizona in even-numbered years, and other locations around the world in odd-numbered years. TSC locations have included Italy, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Hong Kong, INdia, California, Switzerland, and FInland

https://10times.com/e13z-xf2g-0zr3

https://consciousness.arizona.edu/science-consciousness-conference

ASSC Annual Conference

The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) is an academic society

that promotes rigorous research and coordinates annual conferences directed toward

understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. The

ASSC includes members working in the fields of cognitive science, medicine,

neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities.

https://theassc.org/

https://theassc.org/assc-26/

The Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies (ASCSI)

The Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies (ASCSI) aims to offer an arena

where those with an interest in the study of consciousness and the fringe sciences can

gain access to articles, links and other research to educate and interchange ideas in the

zone where spirituality and scientific research interface. Our main event of the year is our

annual conference. We feature a wide range of exceptional speakers presenting subject

matter that appeals to both scholars and the general public. At the academy we wish to

provide a venue for those who wish to publish, the Academy prints two publications, The

Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies and The Searchlight, available to those

with paid memberships to ASCS. No new conferences have yet been schedules by this

organization. View the CONFERENCE PROGRAM from the last conference.

https://ascsi.org/

https://www.inacsl.org/inacsl23

The International Focusing Institute (TIFI)

The weeklong Conference is the flagship event of The International Focusing Institute (TIFI) and began in 1979. You will go online on Zoom on your computer to experience the plenaries, but all else will be in person (including Home Groups and in-person workshops offered by fellow participants). You have the option to attend additional workshops online, but the daily plenaries are the only times you are required to be online. Location: Dominican Retreat Centre, Tallaght Village, Dublin 24, Ireland.

https://focusing.org/event/weeklong-advanced-focusers-2023

https://focusing.org/more/about-institute

The Cognitive Science, Human Experience and Consciousness Conference (ICCSHEC)

aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to

exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Cognitive

Science, Human Experience and Consciousness Conference. It also provides a premier

interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and

discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges

encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Cognitive Science, Human Experience

and Consciousness Conference.

https://waset.org/cognitive-science-human-experience-and-consciousness-conference-in-february-2024-in-washington

Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) offers free online webinars on topics in

Consciousness Studies. Archives of previous webinars are open to non-members for one

week following the event; members have unlimited access. You can sign-up on their

webinar page to receive notifications about upcoming webinars. The mission of IONS is to

reveal the interconnected nature of reality through scientific exploration and personal

discovery. Their scientists apply the rigors of their respective disciplines to explore such

phenomena, with a focus on understanding humanity’s inherent interconnectedness and

the inner wisdom common to us all. The idea is that when we collectively embody our true

interconnection and embrace our inner wisdom, we envision the creation of a more

compassionate and thriving world.

https://noetic.org/experience/connections-live/

https://noetic.org/about/

Other Conferences about Consciousness
https://conferenceindex.org/conferences/consciousness

Universities Offering Consciousness Studies
https://opensciences.org/universities-consciousness-studies

Books

“Must Have” Compendium Books mentioned in Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters

There are numerous books of various kinds that talk about ghostly episodes. As we lack the space here to provide full annotated bibliographies of all the classic and current texts that students should ideally read, we will instead present our list of “must have” compendium works that cover a wide range of haunt-related issues and broader topics in parapsychology. Having these works will go a long way towards grounding you in the academic research that already exists on hauntings and the related world of high-strangeness:

• Auerbach, L. (2016). ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Parapsychologist’s Handbook. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. A reprint of a popular 1991 book that is highly accessible to lay readers about parapsychological hypotheses for ghostly episodes.

• Cardeña, E., Lynn, S.J., & Krippner, S. (Eds.) (2014). Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence. American Psychological Association. A set of academic reviews and treatises on various anomalous phenomena, including ghost-type experiences. It is an excellent general primer on high-strangeness.

• Cardeña, E., Palmer, J., & Marcusson-Clavertz, D. (Eds.). (2015). Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st century. McFarland. Another good overview of various issues of theory and practice in parapsychology that augment a general understanding of high-strangeness.

• French, C.C., & Stone, A. (2013). Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience. Red Globe Press. A lay reader friendly introduction to the psychology of paranormal belief and experience, with a strong emphasis on the scientific method.

• Gauld, A., & Cornell, A.D. (1979). Poltergeists. Routledge, Kegan & Paul. Illustrative poltergeist cases from all over the world are presented, dating from the 16th century to the late 20th century.

• Houran, J. (Ed.) (2004). From Shaman to Scientist: Essays on Humanity’s Search for Spirits. Scarecrow Press. A collection of academically-diverse reviews and treatises that delve into the psychological and sociocultural contexts that have accompanied and shaped ghost and poltergeist research over the centuries.

• Houran, J., & Lange, R. (Eds.). (2001). Hauntings and Poltergeists: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. McFarland. Provides detailed academic overviews of ghostly episodes theory and research up to 2001. As described earlier, this textbook comprises chapters by some of the world’s foremost authorities, summarizing their own work and expressing reflections in the areas of sociocultural, physical-physiological, and psychological perspectives.

• Irwin, H.J. (2009). The Psychology of Paranormal Belief: A Researcher’s Handbook. University of Hertfordshire Press. Although not a book on ghost research per se, it is an invaluable resource to understand many of the psychological correlates and potential mechanisms underlying belief in the paranormal.

• Jawer, M.A. (2020). Sensitive Soul: The Unseen Role of Emotion in Extraordinary States. Park Street Press. An effective exploration of the interrelation of emotion with processes that underlie some anomalous and exceptional human experiences. An excellent book to bolster one’s general education on high-strangeness.

• Martin, M. & Augustine, K. (Eds.) (2015). The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case Against Life After Death. Rowman & Littlefield. A diverse set of academic reviews and treatises from different disciplines that take a critical view of the idea that human consciousness survives physical death.

• Roll, W.G. (2004). The Poltergeist. Cosimo, Inc. A reprint of a classic 1972 text that provides an historical overview of “poltergeist” disturbances and discusses the latest research findings (at the time) that seemingly support the role of “recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis” (RSPK) in “poltergeist” disturbances.

• Storm & M.A. Thalbourne (Eds.) (2006). The Survival of Human Consciousness: Essays on the Possibility of Life After Death. McFarland. A good collection of academic treatises that are sympathetic to the notion of discarnate agency.

For our bibliophilic readers, there are many other compendia of haunting cases and experiences to suit your tastes. However, the above sources are those that we know are rooted in good investigation and science. Just remember the watchwords: educated and humble.

References for Citizen Scientists

Green, A. (1973; 2016). Ghost hunting, a practical guide. Arima Publishing: Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk.

Parsons, S. (2015). Ghostology: The art of the ghost hunter. White Crow Book: Hove, UK.

Parsons, S. (2018). Guidance notes for investigators of spontaneous cases: Apparitions, hauntings, poltergeists and similar phenomena. Society for Psychical Research: London.

Additional resources for citizen scientists

Auerbach, L. (2003). Ghost hunting: How to investigate the paranormal. Ronin Publishing: Berkeley, CA.

Baker, I., & O’Keeffe, C. (2007). Ethical guidelines for the investigation of haunting experiences. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 71.4, 216–229.

Bangkok Chumacero, S. (2019). Stuff paranormal Investigators need to know, volume 1: What the eyes see and ears here the mind believes. Independently published.

Cornell, T. (2002). Investigative the paranormal. Parapsychology Foundation: New York.

Price, H. (1936). Confessions of a ghost hunter. Putnam & Co. Ltd., London.

Books I recommend (Chris):

Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters

Books by Alex Matsuo (Residential Cases and Ghost hunting)

Books by Steven T. Parsons

> Ghostology: The Art of the Ghost Hunter (get the revised edition - the blue one - because it's more current and includes a discussion about ghost apps)

> Guidance Notes for Investigators of Spontaneous Cases: Apparitions, Hauntings, Poltergeists and Similar Phenomena

> Paracoustics: Sound & the Paranormal

> Using Equipment: Guidance Notes for Investigators of Apparitions, Hauntings, Poltergeists and Similar Phenomena

Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries by Benjamin Radford

How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age

book by Lewis Vaughn and Theodore Schick

For online investigations:

Verification Handbook

https://verificationhandbook.com/

>in case you need to investigate things online; download them for free they're quite useful

Adam Reyes' Recommended books

https://www.facebook.com/TheV2Project/posts/4136038199764685

Podcasts

A PODCAST that's HIGHLY RELEVANT for people who are CURIOUS about the NATURE OF REALITY after listening to the TELEPATHY TAPES

Hello r/TheTelepathyTapes

My name is Ben. I've recently seen a few posts on this sub where people talk about interviews involving Diane Hennacy, Jeff Tarrant, Mona Sobhani, Leslie Kean, Helané Wahbeh, Marjorie Woollacott, Dean Radin, and others... to be honest it feels like every time someone mentions a scientist in these areas, I have already interviewed them.. So, on some of these posts I have felt compelled to comment mentioning that I have also interviewed these people. Some of the mods of this sub generously suggested I create a post combining these links, so that's what this is...

Firstly, I'll give a little bit of info / background about the show:

It's called Unravelling the Universe, and via open-minded interviews with scientists, academics, researchers, and experiencers, the show explores topics and phenomena primarily related to three questions:

What is the nature of reality? (Psi phenomena, consciousness, time, dreams, & more)
What happens after we die? (NDEs, past-life memories, mediumship, & more)
Are we alone in the Universe, or on Earth? (The UAP / UFO phenomenon)

We are approaching our 100th episode, and have probably recorded 50+ interviews that are highly relevant to those of you that are curious about reality after listening to the TT. Obviously I'm not going to include 50 links in this post, so I'll share a selection of the most relevant or most important (in my opinion). However, if the show seems interesting to you, I highly recommend you have a scroll through the previous episodes and see what grabs your interest!

All interviews are available to watch on YouTube or to listen to on Spotify, Apple, and lots of other podcast apps!

YouTube links to some of the most relevant / important interviews:

Dr. Diane Hennacy (Powell) (ft. in the TT)
Dr. Jeffrey Tarrant (ft. in the TT)
Dean Radin, PhD (Leading psi researcher - link to 1st interview but have interviewed Dean 3x)
Julie Beischel, PhD (Windbridge (founder) mediumship research)
Dr. Edward Kelly (A leading scientist in consciousness / psi studies, author of Irreducible Mind - link to 1st of 3 interviews)
Mona Sobhani, PhD (Neuroscientist interested in consciousness / spirituality)
Dr. Jim Tucker (world's leading authority on children who remember past-lives)
Helané Wahbeh (Director of Research at Institute of Noetic Science)
Leslie Kean (Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates the Evidence for an Afterlife)
Prof. Marjorie Woollacott (Neuroscientist on Near-Death Experiences & more)
Prof. Stanley Krippner (Original dream telepathy researcher and one of the all time legends of consciousness related research - linked to 1st of 2 interviews)
Gail Hayssen (A naturally gifted psychic talks candidly about it all - 1st of 2 interviews with Gail)
Dr. Michael Nahm (Biologist on unsolved riddles of consciousness and reality - 1st of 2 interviews)
Bruce Leininger (Talking about his son's past-life memories - one of the most famous cases of this type EVER)
Dr. Bruce Greyson (One of the world's leading authorities on NDEs)

There are so many more that I could have included, but I will leave it there! To find the interviews on podcast apps search for Unravelling the Universe and get your scroll on!

When I next interview Diane or Jeff (hopefully soon!) I will probably post here to ask if any of you have any questions for them about the TT, although in case you miss that, feel free to include questions for them on this post.

Since I'm already posting, I thought I'd also include a small number of links to what I think are some of the most important books that explore these kinds of phenomena:

The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena by Dean Radin, PhD
Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Dr. Edward Kelly et al
Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife by Leslie Kean
BEFORE: Children's Memories of Previous Lives by Dr. Jim Tucker (2 in 1 book)

I hope you check out the show, and I hope that it helps you to learn much more about this mysterious reality that we share. If you have any questions for me, please don't hesitate to ask! Thank you for not judging me too much for my self-promo ;)

TLDR: If you are curious about reality after listening to the TT, check out my show where I interview scientists (including Diane Hennacy) about similar phenomena. Just search Unravelling the Universe on YouTube / Spotify / podcast apps.

source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTelepathyTapes/comments/1iadhm4/a_podcast_thats_highly_relevant_for_people_who/

Disclaimer of authors: Podcasts are highly entertaining and good sources to become familiar with haunting topics, but they are not presented by experts and it may be hard to get fact based information from them so you must have critical thinking

Big Seance: My Paranormal World

Campfire Tales

Coast to Coast AM

Haunted https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/haunted

Last Podcast on the Left (LPOTL)

RuneSoup

The Paranormal Podcast with Jim Harold

The X Zone with Rob McConnell

Twilight Tales: A Discourse of Anomalistic, Supernatural, & Paranormal Phenomena

Source: Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Phenomena

Skills

HOW TO CONDUCT A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION (Paranormal Philippines Method) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcu7awJVIiI

Study investigation if you can (not just Paranormal Investigation but Investigation in general, like what real detectives do because it helps with finding the truth)

Also, there are many ways to know something but you have to know when they are best used and what their strengths and limitations are, and much better if you have interdisciplinary knowledge because the Paranormal is a tricky topic to study. Or at least have contacts with experts in different fields

Different ways to know something

https://www.facebook.com/paranormalphilippinesoriginal/posts/pfbid0LuEgLDi8PwpYZMGD7f78BfKdokuw6bNjsdAJ1aHtoah4XeFL9PgeDbEF2tucn9FJl

How To Maximize The 4 Ways Of Knowing

https://www.facebook.com/paranormalphilippinesoriginal/posts/pfbid033hzadZ3B9z5bVZeKGXPL9Xp5dtkKoKP62jhXK6Lzyum2Y5y2SEwpTkuHVmNvME1Ml

Adam Reyes' Required subjects for paranormal investigation

https://www.facebook.com/TheV2Project/posts/4193634024005102

What should a Paranormal Expert study

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1643573709011159&id=209219895779888&mibextid=Nif5oz

Adam Reyes' Tips for Aspiring Paranormal Investigators

https://www.facebook.com/TheV2Project/posts/4153813084653863

Please please please if you're mildly interested consider going all the way and sharing your insights and experiences to the world…

Thank you so much

- Chris

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Books

“Must Have” Compendium Books mentioned in Ghosted! Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters

References for Citizen Scientists

Additional resources for citizen scientists

Books I recommend (Chris):

Podcasts

A PODCAST that's HIGHLY RELEVANT for people who are CURIOUS about the NATURE OF REALITY after listening to the TELEPATHY TAPES

Dr. Diane Hennacy (Powell) (ft. in the TT)

Dr. Jeffrey Tarrant (ft. in the TT)

Dean Radin, PhD (Leading psi researcher - link to 1st interview but have interviewed Dean 3x)

Julie Beischel, PhD (Windbridge (founder) mediumship research)

Dr. Edward Kelly (A leading scientist in consciousness / psi studies, author of Irreducible Mind - link to 1st of 3 interviews)

Mona Sobhani, PhD (Neuroscientist interested in consciousness / spirituality)

Dr. Jim Tucker (world's leading authority on children who remember past-lives)

Helané Wahbeh (Director of Research at Institute of Noetic Science)

Leslie Kean (Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates the Evidence for an Afterlife)

Prof. Marjorie Woollacott (Neuroscientist on Near-Death Experiences & more)

Prof. Stanley Krippner (Original dream telepathy researcher and one of the all time legends of consciousness related research - linked to 1st of 2 interviews)