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Jeffrey Mishlove — Experiments and Data

The sources retrieved for this question give a clearer picture of Mishlove as a theorist, educator, writer, and media producer than as an experimental investigator in the laboratory sense. Here is what the sources actually support.

Roles documented in the sources

Educational and institutional work. A 2024 editorial in the Journal of Scientific Exploration describes Mishlove advocating for graduate-level parapsychology education through CIHS (California Institute for Human Science), emphasizing both objective and subjective approaches to psi research ^[1].

Essay and theoretical writing. His 2021 Bigelow Institute essay Beyond the Brain surveys the evidence for survival of consciousness — drawing on near-death experiences, out-of-body accounts, reincarnation cases, and physical mediumship — and concludes that the overall database supports the possibility of post-mortem survival ^[2]. This is a synthetic, argumentative work rather than a report of original experiments.

Theoretical contribution. With Brendan C. Engen, Mishlove published a theoretical paper in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2007) proposing “archetypal synchronistic resonance” — a framework drawing on Jungian archetypes as organizing structures for paranormal experience ^[5]. This is a conceptual model, not an experimental dataset.

Case study / biographical investigation. His book The PK Man is cited in the 2021 essay as documentation of macro-psychokinetic phenomena in a single individual, which Mishlove presents as grounds for taking the phenomenon seriously as a research subject ^[2].

Media and editorial platform. The New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel and television series he hosts is referenced across several sources as a vehicle for interviewing researchers — including Russell Targ, whose 2024 volume of interviews Mishlove edited [Russell Targ page], and Debra Lynne Katz, who has served as guest host on the show since 2023 [Debra Lynne Katz page]. This is a dissemination and interview platform, not an experimental one.

What the sources do not contain

The retrieved sources do not include reports of controlled psi experiments — no randomized trials, no effect sizes, no hit rates — conducted by Mishlove as principal investigator. The sources retrieved for this question do not establish him as having run laboratory experiments in the way that, say, a ganzfeld or remote-viewing researcher would.

If you are looking for experimental data on specific phenomena Mishlove has written about — remote viewing, near-death experience, psychokinesis — the Studies section and the Russell Targ page carry audited quantitative material on those research programs. If you have a specific study or experimental claim in mind that you associate with Mishlove, naming it would let the library be searched more precisely.

Skeptical critiques

The sources retrieved for this question carry no skeptical engagement with Mishlove’s specific claims or methods — no published critique, failed replication, or methodological objection is present in the retrieved material. The section is omitted rather than invented.