Hans Driesch (1867–1941), a German biologist and philosopher, advocated vitalism, the notion that human consciousness and other life phenomena are not explained solely by the laws that govern physical and chemical processes. Driesch considered psi phenomena to provide important empirical support for vitalism. His work initiated the development of holistic…
…de Investigación de la Sintergia y la Consciencia, which aims to become a major psi research centre in Mexico, and of which he is co-founder. He was program chair of the Parapsychological Association’s 2019 international convention in Paris. His research has expanded to include near-death experience studies, direct vision investigations,…
Victorian science did not always keep religion and psychical enquiry at arm’s length from each other. Scottish physicist Balfour Stewart (1828–87) used theories of energy, continuity and unseen realms to argue that telepathy, memory and postmortem existence might all belong within an enlarged natural order rather than outside it. Stewart…
…favorite is “Operation Tater Tot”). When the “psychic” takes the bait, the fraud is revealed. That revelation is then pushed through skepticism outlets on the web, and leads to subsequent protests outside other venues. 8Hale (2018). In 2019 the New York Times featured Gerbic and her Guerilla Skeptics involvement in…
Edward William Cox helped shape an early naturalistic response to mediumistic phenomena, treating them as genuine but non-spiritual effects of a bodily ‘Psychic Force’. His career linked law, publishing and experimental psychology at a formative moment in Victorian debates over Spiritualism, science, mind and human agency. Lawyer and publisher who…
…a shamanistic priestess and La Coruña. This city was originally founded by the Celtic people of the Brigantes and known as Brigantia. Jesse In 2019, Titus Rivas participated in a Facebook group around a Dutch-language book about postmortem survival, which he had written with Han Kuik. In September 2019, a…
Noreen Renier (b 1937) is an American psychic detective who claims to have worked on more than four hundred cases globally, mainly those related to murder, rape and missing persons. She also claims to be the first psychic ever to work with the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and…
…Human intuition. Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, Paris, France, 4-6 July 2019. Taylor, J. (2024). Contact with the Future: The Astonishing Power of Intuition and Precognition. Paperback and ebook: Amazon. 65 Endnotes 1 Taylor (2014). 2 Taylor (2019). 3 Taylor (2007). 4 Taylor (2024)….
British psychologist David Vernon is an active member of the Society for Psychical Research and the current editor of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. His published research includes articles on morphic resonance, telepathy, precognition, energy healing, as well as biofeedback techniques and creative problem solving. A 2024…
