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…
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…
Gary Schwartz is a psychology professor at the University of Arizona who has engaged in psi research, notably with regard to mediumship and healing. His work has spanned bereavement readings, random-event studies and attempts at instrument-based spirit detection, while repeatedly drawing criticism over method and interpretation. Schwartz’s early mediumship experiments…
