Lance Storm is Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, University of Adelaide. His research interests include anomalistic psychology, gambling behaviour and attitudes, Jungian analytical theory, and theories of perception, personality and therapy. He is particular interested in the use of emerging approaches in statistics and methodology to reach…
Mario Varvoglis is an American parapsychologist living in France. Since 1998, he has been President of the Institut Métapsychique International, a century-old foundation dedicated to psychical research. Career Soon after starting his undergraduate studies, in the 1970s, Mario Varvoglis took up an appointment at the Maimonides Hospital dream laboratory, investigating…
Though reincarnation researchers have not found evidence to support New Age notions of permanent ‘soul groups’ or ‘soul mates’, they have discovered cases in which people verifiably knew each other in previous lives. Background: Soul Mates The concept of ‘soul groups’ is strong in New Age belief. Popular reincarnation author…
…uses a true random number generator to select targets that users are invited to attempt to predict. Mossbridge presented her first analysis of the data from this website, showing significant precognition performance, at the 2019 Society for Scientific Exploration meeting. Her critical review of Sam Knight’s “The Premonitions Bureau” highlights…
This child reincarnation case from India was investigated together by two researchers, one of whom thought it was best interpreted as reincarnation, while the second attributed it to parents coaching the boy to validate their reincarnationist belief system. The case report has become an important source in sceptical commentary about…
Arthur Chattock belongs to the early scientific generation that moved between established physics and psychical research. Best known professionally for work in electrotechnology and radio-wave experiments, he also joined the SPR, lectured on telepathy and took part in small but historically revealing experimental thought-transference tests. One target was reproduced exactly,…
The Heartmath Institute is a non-profit founded in 1991 by Doc Childre with the aim of gaining a greater understanding of the relationship between heart and mind. The institute, based in Boulder Creek, California, conducts research on intuition, human energetic interactions and physiological investigations of global coherence. The Heartmath Institute…
Children’s claims to remember previous lives have been the focus of systematic study since 1961. Cases have been reported largely from Asian cultures with beliefs in reincarnation, although there are important Western cases also. Some children talk about having been strangers whom they seemingly could not have learned about by…
Maurice Grosse (1919–2006) was a successful engineer and inventor who in later life became interested in psychical research. He was the principal investigator of the 1977 Enfield poltergeist case, bringing to the task practical ingenuity, persistence and strong convictions about the value of fieldwork in exploring spontaneous psi events. Grosse…
