Born 1940 to 1969
Researchers and authors born between 1940 and 1969 entered a field dominated by experimental parapsychology, unresolved debates and expanding interdisciplinary interest. This subcategory gathers articles on figures of that generation whose work helped to renew discussion of psi the lab and beyond, survival, healing, consciousness and related anomalous experiences.
Carlos S Alvarado
Researcher, author and educator (1955–2021) in the field of parapsychology, with a focus on the history of early psychical research.
Loyd Auerbach
American mentalist, parapsychologist and author of books about hauntings and survival, who aims to educate the public about the paranormal.
Peter A Bancel
American experimental physicist who carries out psi-research at the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris.
Imants Barušs
Canadian psychologist and author specializing in consciousness studies, including phenomena suggestive of postmortem survival.
Eberhard Bauer
German psychologist and parapsychologist, whose research interests include cultural and historical aspects of psychical research in Germany.
Daryl Bem
Daryl Bem, an American social psychologist, has carried out landmark experiments on precognition.
William Bengston
American sociologist and practitioner of ‘energy healing’ (1950–2025) who engaged in successful laboratory tests.
Dick Bierman
Dutch psychologist and experimental parapsychologist, . His work includes research on the role of consciousness in quantum collapse.
William Braud
American experimental parapsychologist (1942–2012), pioneer of study of distant mental influence on living systems (DMILS).
Stephen E Braude
American philosopher and parapsychologist (1945–2026) remembered for his field investigations of apparent psychokinesis.
Richard S Broughton
Experimental psi researcher concerned with cognitive and evolutionary aspects of ESP.
Göran Brusewitz
Swedish researcher who has studied psi connections between twins and has linked parapsychology to holistic biology.
Etzel Cardeña
Mexican-born psychologist with interests in consciousness, dissociation and altered states related to psi.
James Carpenter
American clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and parapsychologist, best-known for his innovative First Sight Theory of psi.
Bernard J Carr
British cosmologist whose research interests centre on a theory of physics capable of accommodating psi phenomena.
Jenny Cockell (author)
English author whose books describe her memories of previous lives, some of which she was able to identify.
Deborah Delanoy
Psychologist who has conducted research in ESP and direct mental interaction with living systems (DMILS).
York Dobyns
A long-term member of the research team at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory.
Larry Dossey
Larry Dossey is an American physician and author of books about psychic experiences, healing and nonlocal consciousness.
Brenda J Dunne
American parapsychologist (1944–2022), whose remote viewing and psychokinesis research made important contributions.
Hoyt Edge
American philosopher who has carried out psi research, principally in the area of psychokinesis.
Lionel Fanthorpe
Retired Anglican priest, author of numerous popular fiction and non-fiction works relating to occult and paranormal phenomena.
Christopher C French
British psychologist and prominent parapsychology sceptic who has carried out his own laboratory psi research.
Joe Gallenberger
American clinical psychologist noted for psychokinesis training programs carried out over two decades in Las Vegas casinos.
Bruce Greyson
American psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who is the world's leading authority on near-death experiences.
Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum
Mexican psychologist and consciousness researcher who carried out experiments in telepathy and extraocular vision.
Nicola J Holt
British psychologist and psi researcher, whose work has focused on the relationship of psi to creativity and other personality traits.
Charles Honorton
American parapsychologist (1946–1992) who helped pioneer the ganzfeld sensory deprivation technique of ESP testing.
Edward F Kelly
American psychologist and parapsychologist concerned especially with consciousness and its relation to psi functioning and postmortem survival.
Emily Williams Kelly
American psychologist with interests in near-death experiences, end-of-life phenomena, and reincarnation.
James E Kennedy
American psi researcher specializing in experimental research, methodology and theoretical development.
Walter von Lucadou
German physicist interested in consciousness studies who has developed a theory of psi based on quantum mechanics.
James G Matlock
American anthropologist and leading reincarnation researcher with a multicultural and interdisciplinary approach.
Edwin C May
American physicist and parapsychologist, notable for his direction of the US government-funded Star Gate remote viewing program.
Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
American psychoanalyst (1947–2005) who became interested in psi following a startling anomalous experience.
Robert McLuhan
British journalist, a prominent interpreter of parapsychology for general readers and the principal architect of the Psi Encyclopedia.
Herb Mertz
Author of The Selection Effect (2020), which describes a long-term self-study with a random event generator.
Antonia Mills
Canadian anthropologist and reincarnation researcher who studied beliefs and experiences in India and British Columbia.
Jeffrey Mishlove
American parapsychologist who as host of New Thinking Allowed has interviewed hundreds of experts on psi-related topics.
Robert Morris
American psychologist and parapsychologist (1942–2004) who chaired Edinburgh University's Koestler Parapsychology Unit.
Roger Nelson
Experimental psychologist and parapsychologist who founded the long-running Global Consciousness Project.
OHKADO Masayuki
Japanese linguist whose psi research centres on children's memories of previous lives and of the period between lives.
John Palmer
American psychologist and parapsychologist who has conducted psi research using a range of experimental and theoretical approaches.
Adrian Parker
Anglo-Swedish clinical psychologist and parapsychologist who was among the first researchers to adopt the ganzfeld technique.
Satwant Pasricha
Indian clinical psychologist known for her research on childhood past life memories and near-death experiences.
Michael A Persinger
American-Canadian psychologist (1945–2018), inventor of a device that sought to induce paranormal-seeming experiences.
Annekatrin Angelika Puhle
German researcher whose work touches on cultural history, dreams, apparitions, magic and anomalous light experiences.
Dean Radin
Dean Radin is an American scientist known for innovative experiments in the study of consciousness and psi phenomena.
Glen Rein
Glen Rein is an American biochemist who has investigated the influence of human intention on DNA activity.
Titus Rivas
Dutch theoretical psychologist and philosopher who has studied near-death experiences and children who recall previous lives.
D Scott Rogo
Author, musician and paranormal researcher (1950-1990) who became a public figurehead for parapsychology.
Serena Roney-Dougal
British psi researcher and educator whose research has probed the relationship between meditation and psi performance.
Carl Sargent
British parapsychologist (1952–2018) whose successful ganzfeld telepathy experiments were attacked by a prominent sceptic.
Marilyn Schlitz
American social anthropologist and psi researcher, studying distant intentionality, healing and special gifted populations.
Gary Schwartz
American psychology professor at the University of Arizona who has engaged in mediumship and psi healing research.
Stephan A Schwartz
American researcher whose experimental research focuses on remote viewing, which he has used in psychic archaeology.
Rupert Sheldrake
British biologist known for his theory of 'morphic resonance' and innovative experiments on telepathic capabilities of animals.
Richard Silberstein
Australian neuroscientist who conducted a brain imaging study that appears to confirm telepathic interactions between itwins.
S James P Spottiswoode
American physicist who has carried out psi research with an emphasis on seeking physical correlates to psi performance.
Fiona Steinkamp
Philosopher who has carried out psi research in Germany and Britain, principally on mind-matter effects and precognition.
Elisabeth Targ
American psychiatrist (1961–2002) whose 1999 study on the effect of prayer on AIDS patients became the subject of controversy.
Michael Thalbourne
Australian psychologist (1955–2010) whose wide research interests included psi and mystical experience.
Jim B Tucker
Child psychiatrist who succeeded Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia in studying children's claims to remember previous lives.
Jessica Utts
Leading American statistician who has endorsed statistical methods and findings in parapsychology, notably with the Star Gate programme.
Dieter Vaitl
German consciousness researcher who directed the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (IGPP) for two decades.
Mario Varvoglis
American parapsychologist living in France, president of the Institut Métapsychique International.
Harald Walach
German clinical psychologist and psi researcher who has worked with physicists to develop a theory of psi based on quantum mechanics.
Caroline Watt
Scottish psychologist who has made contributions to understanding psi from both a proponent and sceptic angle.
Zofia Weaver
Council member of the Society for Psychical Research (b 1947) with a particular interest in the history of mediums in her native Poland.
Marjorie Hines Woollacott
American neuroscientist who has studied the veridical and transformative effects of near-death experiences.
Nancy L Zingrone
American psychologist and parapsychologist who is among the most active workers in disseminating information about the field.