Pierre Macias experiments and data
The ESP-Nexus page for Pierre Macias exists as a placeholder — it notes him as a researcher in parapsychology but states that full biographical content, affiliations, research summary, and citation-grounded coverage are pending a curator and generator pass. No substantive content has been published there yet.
The sources retrieved for this question do not contain information about Pierre Macias’s experiments or data. The sources retrieved cover unrelated topics — Pierre Janet’s relationship to psychical research [4], near-death experience research [5], and other parapsychology-adjacent subjects — and none of them describe work by Pierre Macias.
Two “Pierre” names do appear in the retrieved sources: Pierre Janet, the 19th–20th century French psychologist whose boundary with psychical research is examined in Évrard, Pratte, and Cardeña (2018) [4], and Jean-Pierre Jourdan, a co-author on a near-death experience study [5]. Neither is Pierre Macias.
Without sourced content, I can’t describe Macias’s experimental work, report any data, or make attributions about his research program — doing so would mean fabricating claims the site’s grounding policy explicitly prohibits.
What you can do:
- Check the Pierre Macias page directly for updates once the curator pass is complete.
- If you have a specific published study by Macias you’d like to discuss, sharing the title or DOI would help narrow whether anything relevant is in the library.
- The Scientists section and Studies section may surface related work as the site’s coverage expands.
References
- Ironside, R. (2023). Death, Ghosts, and Spiritual Tourism: Conceptualizing a Dark Spiritual Experience Spectrum for the Paranormal Market. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 37, pp. 586–601. https://doi.org/10.31275/20233227
- Alvarado, C. S. (2004). On the Centenary of Frederic W.H. Myers’s Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. Journal of Parapsychology, 68, 3–43.
- Chair, E. P. t. o. t. o. t. o. P. (2024). Editorial Fiction, Facts and the Disenchantment of Psi Gerhard Mayer This year, the 66th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association (PA) was held in the beautiful city of Mérida on the Yuc. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik / Journal of Anomalistics, 24, 291. https://doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2024.291
- Évrard, R., Pratte, E. A., & Cardeña, E. (2018). Pierre Janet and the enchanted boundary of psychical research. History of Psychology, 21, 100–125. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000086
- Jourdan, J., & Smythies, J. R. (2019). An Exploratory Study of Perceptual and Cognitive Features in Near-Death Experiences: A Proposed Model and Research Recommendations. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 37.
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