…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…
Across cultures, mediums, shamans and possessed practitioners enter altered states to contact with spirits, ancestors or deities. Anthropologists and parapsychologists have interpreted these practices in different and sometimes conflicting ways: as social protest, healing, pathology, performance, embodiment, cognition, trance, or evidence of genuine spirit agency. In anthropological writing, spirit possession…
…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…
