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…
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…
Melvyn John Willin (born 1951) is an English musician, psychical researcher and archivist whose work has centred on music-related paranormal claims, hauntings, witchcraft and related anomalies. A longtime Society for Psychical Research Council member and archives liaison officer, he has authored books, articles and studies in the field. Willin completed…
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…
