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…the death of Mina herself (in November 1941).8Matlock (1987, 2019). Prince was assisted in running the Boston Society by Lydia W Allison, who served as its Secretary.9Berger & Berger (1991a). Research Much of the research conducted by the Boston Society was work done by Prince and reported in the society’s…
Matthew Smith is an applied psychologist and parapsychologist based at Buckinghamshire New University, where he has established a Centre for Positive Psychology. He has conducted studies probing whether feeling lucky reflects misperception alone, unconscious psi, or a more complicated mixture of personality, belief and circumstance. His doctoral work linked perceived…
…entirely on the side of the case subject.23Matlock (2017, 2019). James G Matlock Works Cited De Groot, J.J.M. (1901). The Religious System of China, Vol. 4. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill. Haraldsson, E., & Matlock, J.G. (2016). I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children’s Experiences of Reincarnation. Hove, UK: White…
Emerging from the intellectual orbit of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, this consortium seeks to understand consciousness through collaboration across science, art, education and health. It functions as a network, providing research grants, publications, workshops and public discussion in the wake of PEAR’s closure in 2007. ICRL grew…
Mark Boccuzzi represents a strongly contemporary strand of psi research in which mediumship, instrumental transcommunication, random systems, machine learning and AI are treated as parts of one experimental landscape. His work explores whether survival-related claims can be studied with tighter protocols, new technologies and unconventional datasets. Boccuzzi has helped study…
The ‘population problem’ in reincarnation research refers to the argument, first advanced in ancient times, that the continually growing human population proves the impossibility of reincarnation. However, when variable intermission lengths, nonhuman rebirth, new souls and other possibilities are allowed, this objection loses much of its force. Tertullian framed the…
Contemporary mediumship research has shifted from séance-room anecdote to tightly controlled laboratory design. Julie Beischel’s work sits at that transition, testing whether mediums can obtain accurate information under multiple blinding conditions while also exploring how mediumship is experienced, and whether after-death communication may have therapeutic value. Assisted after-death communication may…
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,…
