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Psychologist and prominent skeptic. Led the critical evaluation of ganzfeld research. Co-authored the Joint Communiqué with Honorton.
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Began as a parapsychology researcher, became a prominent skeptic. Her journey is a key case study in the field.
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Psychologist whose ESP: A Scientific Evaluation was a foundational skeptical critique.
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Mathematician, science writer, co-founder of CSICOP.
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Co-founder of the SPR. Author of Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. Central figure in founding psychical research.
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Philosopher and psychologist. First president of the ASPR. Investigated Leonora Piper extensively.
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Philosopher and first president of the SPR. Led the founding generation of psychical research.
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Psychiatrist whose synchronicity concept became foundational to theoretical parapsychology.
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Biologist. Developed morphic resonance theory and conducted research on telepathy in animals and humans.
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Founded 1882, London. Oldest psychical research organization. Still active. First SPR president: Henry Sidgwick.
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Founded 1885, New York. First US psychical research organization. William James was its first president.
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Founded 1957. International professional organization for parapsychologists. Affiliated with AAAS since 1969.
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Founded 1935 by J.B. Rhine at Duke University. Now independent. Publishes the Journal of Parapsychology.
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Founded 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Dean Radin is chief scientist. Conducts consciousness and psi research.
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Founded 1985, University of Edinburgh. Only university-based parapsychology research unit in the UK.
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1979–2007, Princeton University. Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne. Decades of RNG and remote perception research.
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1962–1978, Brooklyn NY. Ullman and Krippner. Landmark dream telepathy research.
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SRI International remote viewing program 1972–1995. Targ, Puthoff, May. Government-funded classified research.
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Founded 1951 by Eileen Garrett. Funds research internationally.
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Founded 1994, Braga Portugal. Major European psi research funding source.
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Founded 1937, Trinity College Cambridge. Key UK funding source for psychical phenomena research.
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1933–1934. Rhine & Pratt at Duke. Landmark long-distance clairvoyance. Most cited and most criticized experiment in the field.
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1978–1995. US government-funded remote viewing. Targ, Puthoff, May at SRI and SAIC. Declassified 1995.
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2011. Daryl Bem. Nine JPSP experiments claiming retroactive influence. Ignited the replication crisis debate in psi research.
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1985–1986. Produced the Joint Communiqué establishing methodological standards for future ganzfeld research.
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1993–1998. Keen, Ellison, Fontana for SPR. Extensive physical mediumship investigation. Produced the Scole Report.
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1977–1978. Grosse and Playfair for SPR. Most extensively documented modern poltergeist case.
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1885–1915. James, Hodgson, Lodge. Three decades of systematic investigation. Most documented mediumship case in history.
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1998–present. Roger Nelson and Dean Radin. Worldwide RNG network detecting correlations with major world events.
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Myers, 1903. Two-volume foundational work. Introduced subliminal self theory. Most influential book in psychical research history.
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J.B. Rhine, 1934. Introduced the term ESP and reported early Zener card experiments. Launched modern experimental parapsychology.
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Edward Kelly et al., 2007. 800+ page scholarly review challenging purely materialist models of mind.
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Dean Radin, 1997. Synthesis of psi research for a general audience. Gateway text for many researchers and readers.
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Dean Radin, 2006. Explores quantum framing for psi phenomena.
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Founded 1937 by J.B. Rhine at Duke. Oldest peer-reviewed parapsychology journal. Published by Rhine Research Center.
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Published since 1884. Oldest psychical research journal.
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Published since 1882. Long-form research reports. Contains the most detailed historical case investigations.
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Benjamin Wolman, ed., 1977. Comprehensive academic reference. Standard text for decades.
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Edge, Morris, Palmer, Rush, 1986. Academic textbook used in university parapsychology courses.
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Umbrella term for anomalous processes of information and energy transfer. Contested definition with major theoretical implications.
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The hypothesis that some aspect of consciousness persists after physical death. Central theoretical question of psychical research.
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Alternative to survival hypothesis — apparent survival evidence explained by extraordinarily powerful psi from living agents.
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Myers’s framework positing a vast subliminal consciousness underlying ordinary awareness. Influenced both psychology and parapsychology.
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Sheldrake’s theory proposing patterns transmitted through non-material fields. Applied to explain telepathy and collective memory.
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Frameworks invoking quantum mechanics — entanglement, non-locality, observer effects — to explain psi. Multiple competing models.
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Neutral scientific term for apparent information acquisition outside normal sensory channels. Preferred in government research contexts.
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Philosophical framework arguing mind is not confined to brain or body. Applied to ground psi in mainstream cognitive science.
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Scoring significantly below chance in psi tasks — theorized as psi operating in reverse rather than random chance.
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Schmeidler’s finding that belief in psi (sheep) correlates with above-chance scoring; disbelief (goats) with below-chance.
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1977–1978, Enfield London. Hodgson family. Grosse and Playfair for SPR. Most documented modern poltergeist case.
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1913–1938, St. Louis. Pearl Curran’s automatic writing produced prolific literary output purportedly from a 17th-century English woman.
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1952–1956, Colorado. Virginia Tighe under hypnosis described 19th-century Irish life. Sparked modern reincarnation research movement.
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2000–2004, Louisiana. Child with detailed knowledge of WWII pilot. Investigated by Jim Tucker at UVA. One of the most verified modern cases.
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1885–1915, Boston. Most thoroughly investigated trance medium in history. James, Hodgson, and Lodge studied her over 30 years.
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1930s, Delhi. Early systematic reincarnation case investigated by government committee 1936. Influenced Ian Stevenson’s methodology.
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1972–1974, Toronto. Group created fictional ghost “Philip” and produced apparent PK phenomena through focused group intention.
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1921, UK. SPR cross-correspondence case suggesting coordinated posthumous agency through multiple mediums.
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1993–1998, Scole Norfolk. Five-year investigation of the Scole Group. Senior SPR researchers produced the detailed Scole Report.
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