John Kruth has been executive director of the Rhine Research Center since 2009. His research interests include bioenergy in healing, physical correlations with psi experiences, and the application of potentially useful psi technologies. Kruth takes the position that qualitative case material can sharpen experimental design, rather than being dismissed as…
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…
Systematic study of children who speak about previous lives has grown from scattered early reports into a substantial research programme. Investigators compare statements, behaviours, phobias and physical marks with deceased individuals, asking whether information, emotion and even bodily traces can carry over from one life to another. Since 1961, more…
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…
Helmut Schmidt (1928–2011) was a German-born US-based parapsychologist who pioneered the use of random event generators in psychokinesis research, often achieving highly significant scoring rates in his experiments. He also contributed to theory, arguing that psi is not some transcendent property of mind but rather involves a natural neural quantum…
…books, published research, films, and open-access resources related to the Institute’s mission.7https://windbridgeinstitute.com/best-of-2019/ In 2019, the Institute launched the Psi Hacking Project, a ‘local and online community effort to connect makers, artists, tech hackers, citizen scientists, seekers, entrepreneurs, and the general public to the ever-expanding body of parapsychological research to encourage…
Daryl Bem occupies an unusual place in psi research: a mainstream social psychologist whose work on retroactive influence dragged precognition into one of psychology’s most visible journals. The debate around his experiments became a test case for questions about replication, statistics, publication bias and the evidential standards applied to psi….
Persistent memories of another life can shape emotions, identity and decisions over decades. In one of the best known modern reincarnation cases, Jenny Cockell’s childhood memories of dying young in Ireland led her to a verifiable family she later felt compelled to find and reconnect. The case nonetheless has come…
Fame, humour and sceptical intelligence did not spare Mark Twain (1835–1910) from uncanny experience. Alongside the career that made him one of America’s best-known writers, he reported a prophetic dream, striking episodes of ‘mental telegraphy’, and other experiences that deepened his sympathy for psychical research. Twain dreamed his brother Henry’s…
