Well-known experimental methods in parapsychology include card guessing, dice throwing, ganzfeld and remote viewing. This article describes some recent, less common approaches. Ball Selection Test The repetitive nature of many psi testing procedures leads to lack of motivation, resulting in poor scores. Suitbert Ertel, a statistician and psychologist at the…
Attempts to ground psi in quantum-inspired theory continue in experimental work on nonlocal correlations between psychological and physical variables. Karolina Kirmse has pursued this programme through correlational matrix studies and a proposed distant-intention design, while also confronting persistent replication problems and theoretical ambiguity. Kirmse’s master’s work tested Generalised Quantum Theory…
Serena Roney-Dougal is a British parapsychologist, educator and author. Her research has probed the relationship between meditation and psi performance, and she has speculated on a possible role in psi functioning played by the pineal gland. Career Serena Roney-Dougal was awarded a PhD in 1987 by Surrey University for investigating…
…286, Tabulation 1. Angel (1994) argued that Stevenson selectively chose which of Imad’s statements to credit but Barros (2004) showed that the identification of Ibrahim Bouhamzy did not rest on Imad’s parents’ mistaken inferences (Matlock, 2019, 105-6).Furthermore, re-examining his notes, Stevenson realized that Imad had never actually said the truck…
As host of the American public television series Thinking Allowed (1986–2002) and currently host of the YouTube channel New Thinking Allowed, Jeffrey Mishlove has interviewed hundreds of prominent experts on topics in parapsychology, consciousness and spirituality. He won an essay prize competition run by Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies in…
…1882-1900,” a project that was initiated by Alvarado early in his career, and on which he was working from 2019 to the fall of 2020, when he fell ill. This project, funded by the Parapsychology Foundation (2022) and by a Perrott Warrick Grant (2024), will be completed with the collegial…
Psi research in Asia and Australia has developed through a mix of local traditions, small laboratories, individual investigators and regional institutes over many decades. The record ranges from Australian ESP work and Japanese healing studies to Chinese macro-PK research and Indian contributions to reincarnation and consciousness studies. Australia alone spans…
Glenn Hitchman is a psychologist and parapsychologist based at the University of Northampton in the UK. His research has ranged cross implicit precognition, floatation-tank methods, ganzfeld participant selection and tests of morphic resonance, with results that are mixed but methodologically informative. Hitchman’s implicit precognition studies found only small or non-significant…
…of these methods. A 2019 systematic review on RPM found no English-language peer-reviewed studies with participants who actually had official autism diagnoses.19Banajee et al. (2018). Critics of The Telepathy Tapes argue that the podcast’s demonstrations used variants of FC, most notably S2C and RPM. While these methods typically did not…
