…ability.16Storm & Tressoldi (2023). Mediumship In 2020 Tressoldi and coworkers published a review of studies that tested the ability of mediums to gather information about a deceased individual under controlled conditions.17Sarraf et al. (2020). Fourteen papers published between 2001 and 2019, describing 18 experiments were analyzed. The overall outcome was…
Peter A Bancel represents a mathematically and theoretically minded approach to parapsychology. Trained as a physicist, he has worked on global event data, meta-analytic method, micro-PK and precognition, often asking whether anomalous findings are best explained by collective consciousness, decision processes or deeper weaknesses in existing theory. In micro-PK work,…
Rupert Sheldrake is a British biologist and author of more than a hundred scientific papers and fifteen books (six of them in collaboration with other authors). He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich, Switzerland’s leading think tank.1Frick, Gloor, &…
Research at the intersection of mainstream psychology and parapsychology is exploring whether mind and matter might relate through subtle, time-dependent patterns rather than simple one-off effects. German psychologist Markus Maier is contributing to this effort with experiments on psychokinesis and precognition. Maier has argued that micro-PK may appear as oscillating…
Caroline Watt is a Scottish psychologist and founder member of the University of Edinburgh’s Koestler Parapsychology Unit, holding the post of chair there between 2016 and 2024. Now emeritus professor of parapsychology, she has made contributions to understanding psi from both a proponent and sceptic angle, with an emphasis on…
Dick Bierman is a Dutch psychologist and parapsychologist. His career links parapsychology with mainstream experimental psychology, psychophysiology and even quantum foundations. His experimental psi research has included work on ESP and presentiment effects. He has also experimented on the role of consciousness in the quantum collapse. Bierman helped develop early…
Alexander Batthyány brings together philosophy of mind, existential psychotherapy and research on anomalous experiences around death and dying. His work points away from narrowly reductionist models and towards questions of meaning, lucidity and consciousness that become especially pressing at the end of life. Batthyány’s work in logotherapy keeps the search…
The best-studied physical signs in reincarnation cases are birthmarks that match fatal wounds, but physical correspondences between lives may be expressed in other ways. Some signs reflect the manner in which a person died; others are related to aspects of his or her core identity. These phenomena go beyond chance…
Some early psychical investigators moved easily between frontier physics and frontier claims about survival. Irish physicist and inventor EE Fournier d’Albe (1868–1933) belonged to that world, combining scientific invention with speculative writing before becoming especially remembered for his sceptical investigation of the Goligher mediumistic circle. Fournier d’Albe was an accomplished…
