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,…
Rupert Sheldrake (b 1942) is a British biologist whose hypothesis of morphic resonance complements genetics in explaining how physical form comes into being and is retained over generations. This controversial theory has implications for memory and psi performance which Sheldrake has explored in a variety of imaginative tests. Sheldrake helped…
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 has been contributing to this effort with experiments on psychokinesis and precognition. Maier has argued that micro-PK may appear as…
…of Exceptional Experiences and Cognition, the Journal of Parapsychology, L’Évolution Psychiatrique and HEGEL. Evrard was elected president of the Parapsychological Association in 2019 and co-edited its bulletin Mindfield with Annalisa Ventola and Nikolaos Koumartzis from 2018 to 2024. His awards include the 2009 Gertrude Schmeidler Outstanding Student Award from the…
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…
