Physicist-turned-parapsychologist Edwin C May became a central figure in late Star Gate remote-viewing research and in efforts to build a physicalist theory of psi. His work has ranged from laboratory studies and programme leadership to models treating precognition as the basic process underlying psychic functioning. May directed the US government-funded…
Micro-psychokinesis research has increasingly drawn on quantum-style models, time-series analysis and pre-registration rather than simple end-point scoring. Within this approach, one German researcher has explored whether putative observer effects emerge in oscillating patterns over time, especially in studies modelled on generalized quantum theory and pragmatic information. Dechamps has argued that…
Fatima Regina Machado is a Brazilian psychologist whose interests span poltergeist studies, transliminality, anomalous experience, and distant healing. Additionally, she has been concerned with training psychologists and has helped to build an interdisciplinary centre for studying the intersections of belief, subjectivity, culture, health and unusual experience. At Inter Psi, Machado…
Ray Hyman is a psychologist, amateur magician and leading critic of parapsychology. He has served appointments by government agencies to evaluate paranormal claims and testified as an expert witness in court proceedings. He is a co-founder of the Committee for Scientific Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), now the Committee for…
Suspicions of cheating by Carl Sargent, a British experimental psi researcher in the 1970s, voiced by Susan Blackmore, a leading critic of parapsychology, have become one of parapsychology’s most famous cautionary episodes, raising questions about protocol, inference, experimenter conduct and evidential fairness. However, close scrutiny fails to support Blackmore’s claims….
Some reincarnation cases look more like possession, challenging standard categories. After appearing to die but reviving, Sumitra Singh repudiated her former identity. She no longer identified herself as Sumitra but claimed to be an educated Brahmin woman named Shiva, who had been killed a few months earlier, then maintained that…
JW Dunne (1875–1949) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and aeronautical engineer who turned dream records into a theory of precognition and then a sweeping philosophy of time. The article links his best-selling dream experiments with his doctrine of serialism, showing how questions about future memory led him towards an elaborate account…
Experimental psi research continues to explore whether mental intention can register in physical systems designed to behave unpredictably. Brazilian physicist Gabriel Guerrer is one of a new generation of researchers testing consciousness-related effects with optical and noise-based devices, whist maintaining a focus on replicable laboratory procedures. Guerrer has pursued the…
Nicola J Holt is a British psychologist and psi researcher whose work has focused on the relationship of creativity and other personality traits with anomalous experiences. She has explored how imaginative style, intrapersonal awareness and experimental conditions may shape anomalous performance in both laboratory and everyday settings. Sender stability and…
