…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…
Arthur J Ellison (1920–2000) was an engineer-administrator who helped keep psychical research institutionally respectable while also backing controversial field investigations. Not only did he have a leadership position at the SPR, he studied Uri Geller, Matthew Manning and the Scole Circle, moving easily between laboratory-minded inquiry to fieldwork on macro-PK…
Debates over survival often hinge on whether extraordinary experiences can be dismissed as fantasy, hallucination or faulty memory. Titus Rivas has argued against that reduction, drawing on near-death cases, reincarnation research and pre-birth memories to claim that some reports deserve evidential rather than merely psychological treatment. Riva argues that carefully…
Swarnlata Tiwari (née Mishra) is an Indian woman who, as a girl, remembered many facts and people from her previous life. Her former home was identified purely from her description, written down before her memories were verified. She also performed dances accompanied by songs in a language she had never…
Stephen E Braude (1945–2026) was a combative philosopher of parapsychology who pressed the evidential significance of macro-PK, mediumship and spontaneous cases while challenging mechanistic assumptions. He combined conceptual analysis with field investigation, arguing that the best physical phenomena are often found ‘in the wild’ rather than the laboratory. Braude argued…
Rollin McCraty is an American psychophysiologist who has carried out research linking emotion, physiology and anomalous perception. His work on presentiment, biofield-style interactions, group coherence and geomagnetic coupling has explored whether cardiac measures may register subtle information before conscious awareness. Heart-rate changes in one study appeared seconds before emotionally arousing…
