…expected by chance (p = 0.03).2Roe et al. (2018). In 2019 Saunders received a Perrott-Warrick grant for a dream ESP study exploring lucid dreams and their potential for precognitive content. Clinical Parapsychology Despite being relatively common, paranormal experiences are poorly understood and can be a source of distress for the…
Contemporary consciousness research sometimes approaches psi through neuroscience, online screening and healing studies rather than through older card-guessing paradigms alone. Arnaud Delorme, working across the US and France, has examined mediumship, biofield effects, perception and candidate selection in an effort to connect anomalous claims with measurable brain and behavioural data….
Recent psi research increasingly meets neuroscience on its own ground, using EEG, physiological recording and tightly structured laboratory tasks. Cédric Cannard represents this newer style of work, moving between altered states, presentiment, telephone telepathy and other anomalous claims while asking what measurable brain and bodily signatures, if any, accompany them….
…summary published by Etzel Cardena in the American Psychologist in 2019, which describes several classes of psi research that exhibit robust statistical repeatability.3Cardeña (2018). Mesmerism and Psychical Research In a 1984 paper, Bauer describes the impact of Mesmerism on psychical research.4Bauer (1984). Anton Mesmer, who graduated in medicine in 1764,…
Imants Barušs works at the meeting point of psychology, consciousness studies and parapsychology. His research stretches from altered states and spirituality to random-event generators, remote healing, past-life regression and theories about meaning and mind, reflecting a sustained effort to place anomalous experience within a broader philosophy of consciousness. Barušs attempted…
Spirit Possession in Anthroplogy and Parapsychology In the ethnographic literature, the term ‘spirit possession’ is often used to describe what parapsychologists refer to as ‘mediumship’. A standard parapsychologicical definition of ‘spirit medium’ might be: ‘A person who regularly, and often at will, receives purported communications from the dead (‘mental medium’)…
…and his associates’ explanations for inconsistencies, she later ‘spread defamatory rumours and insinuations of fraud’. Subsequently, Sargent refused to co-operate in further investigation and abandoned the field shortly afterwards. His co-experimenter Trevor Harley continued to assert his support of Sargent’s rebuttal in a communication.33Harley, June 2019. Personal communication. See also…
