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Definitions

Psychical research and parapsychology are concerned with the scientific investigation of the ways that organisms communicate and interact with each other and with the environment, that appear to be inexplicable within current scientific models. Stories of the paranormal (apparitions, prophetic dreams and visions, inexplicable awareness of events faraway, divination, miraculous cures etc) have been with us since antiquity, but it was only in the 19th century that the subject began to be studied in a systematic and scientific way.

Did You Know?

• Some of the top Parapsychologists in the world are Psychologists, Neuroscientists, Physicists and Nobel Prize winners.
• Several historians have persuasively demonstrated the influence of Psychical Research on the development of concepts in what is todays mainstream Psychology.
• In the 1940's, Neuroscience was considered and received funding as Psychical Research.

Parapsychology - Is a discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and life after death using the scientific method. Parapsychological experiments have included the use of random number generators to test for evidence of precognition and psychokinesis with both human and animal subjects, sensory-deprivation and Ganzfeld experiments to test for extrasensory perception, and research trials conducted under contract to the United States government to investigate whether remote viewing would provide useful intelligence information.The results of such experiments are regarded by some parapsychologists as having demonstrated the existence of some forms of psychic abilities. Source: Wikipedia.org

Psychical Research - Is concerned with the scientific investigation of the ways that organisms communicate and interact with each other and with the environment, that appear to be inexplicable within current scientific models. Psychical research is a diverse and multidisciplinary field of research. Source: Society for Psychical Research

Anomalous Cognition (AC) — A form of information transfer in which all known sensorial stimuli are absent. In this process some individuals are able to gain access to information from events outside the range of their senses by a currently not understood mechanism. Several synonyms for this phenomenon are in use: Remote Viewing (RV), Clairvoyance, and ESP.

Anomalous Perturbation (AP) — A form of interaction with matter in which all known physical mechanisms are absent. In other words, some individuals are alleged to be able to influence matter by an as yet unknown process. This phenomenon is also known Psychokinesis (PK). Source: Cognitive Sciences Laboratory

Parapsychology Publications

Pay Publications - Overviews

• An Introduction to Parapsychology - by Harvey J. Irwin & Caroline A. Watt, pub. 2007
• Entangled Minds: Extraordinary Experiences in a Quantum Reality - by Dean Radin, Pub. 2006
• Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century - by E.F. Kelly, E.W. Kelly, A. Crabtree, A. Gauld, M. Grosso and B. Greyson, pub. 2006
• Parapsychology: Research on Exceptional Experiences - by Jane Henry, pub. 2005
• States Of Consciousness - by Charles T. Tart, pub. 2001
• Parapsychology: The Controversial Science - by Richard S. Broughton, pub. 1991

Pay Publications - History of Psychical Research

• A New Science of the Paranormal: The Promise of Psychical Research - by Lawrence LeShan, pub.2009
• Parapsychology: A Concise History - by John Beloff, pub. 1993

Other Pay Publications

• Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness - by Russell Targ, pub. 2004
• The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe - by Lynne Mctaggart, pub. 2003
• Best Evidence: An Investigative Reporter's Three-Year Quest to Uncover the Best Scientific Evidence for ESP, Psychokinesis, Mental Healing, Ghosts and Poltergeists, Dowsing, Mediums, Near Death Experiences, Reincarnation, and Other Impossible Phenomena That Refuse to Disappear - by Michael Schmicker, pub. 2002
• Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception - by Charles Tart, pub. 2001
• The Physics of Consciousness: The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life - by Evan Harris Walker, pub. 2000
• Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spritual Healing - by Russell Targ, pub. 1999
• The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena - by Dean Radin, pub. 1997
• Mysticism and the New Physics - by Michael Talbot, pub. 1993
• The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal - by Lawrence LeShan Ph.D., pub. 1974

Free Publications

• The Search for Evidence: There is no single feature that gives the 'stamp of scientific authenticity' to a researcher's activities - by Caroline Watt, pub. 2009
• Science and the Afterlife - A Review of a Lecture Presented at the San Diego Bereavement Consortium - Arthur Rosengarten, Ph.D., pub. 2009
• Contacts by Distressed Individuals to UK Parapsychology and Anomalous Experience Academic Research Units – A Retrospective Survey Looking to the Future - by Claudia Coelho, Ian Tierney and Peter Lamont, pub. 2008
• Making our Presence Known - The teaching of parapsychology in higher education is generally met with raised eyebrows, but it is a great subject for stimulating critical thinking - by Caroline Watt, pub. 2007
• Consciousness and the Physical World - by Doug Stokes, pub. 2006
  
• Research Assistants or Budding Scientists? A Review of 96 Undergraduate Student Projects at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit - by Caroline Watt, pub. 2006
• Anomalous Cognition: Two Protocols for Data Collection and Analysis - by Edwin C. May, Ph.D.
  Laboratories for Fundamental Research, pub. 2006
• The Mind and the Out-of-Body - Staff and Agencies at Manchester University
• Einstein's Close Encounter: The great physicist took his own peep at the paranormal 74 years ago. George Pendle tells of 'spooky action' - by George Pendle, pub. 2005
• Consciousness, Information, and Living Systems - by B.J. Dunne and R.G. Jahn, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, pub. 2005

• Putting the Psi Into Science - ESP experiments may be unusual, but the method is rigorous even if the results are varied - by Oli Usher, pub. 2005
• Yoga and Parapsychology: Linking Indian Philosophy of Consciousness with Western Science - by Serena Roney-Dougal, Psi Research Centre, Glastonbury, pub. 2004
  
• Great Expectations - by Mark Pikington, pub. 2004
• Primary Perception - by Mark Pikington, pub. 2004
• What Educated Citizens Should Know about Statistics and Probability - by Jessica Utts, American Statistician, pub. 2003
• The Global Mind - by Mark Pilkington, pub. 2003
• Spiritual Motivations of Parapsychologists? Empirical Data - by Charles T. Tart, pub. 2003
• Arguing for an Observational Theory of Paranormal Phenomena - Journal of Scientific Exploration - by J.M. Houtkooper, pub. 2002
• Anomalies and Constraints: Can Clairvoyance, Precognition, and Psychokinesis be Accommodated Within Known Physics? - Journal of Scientific Exploration - by R. Shoup, pub. 2002
• Towards the Physics of Psi: Correlation with Physical Variables - European Journal of Parapsychology - by E. May, pub. 2001
• To be or not to be! A ‘Paraphysics’ for the New Millennium - Journal of Scientific Exploration - by J.E. Beichler, pub. 2001
• The Challenge of Consciousness - Journal of Scientific Exploration - by R.G Jahn, pub. 2001
• The Efficacy of "Distant Healing': A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials - Mario Varvoglis, Ph.D., pub. 2000

• The Significance of Statistics in Mind-Matter Research - by Jessica Utts, Journal of Scientific Exploration, pub. 1999
• Physical Basis of Intentional Healing Systems - by Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, pub. 1999
• Advice for Newcomers to Parapsychology I. Preliminary Notes on Experimental Procedure for GESP Studies - by R. Reinsel Ph.D., pub. 1999
• Out of Body Experiences: How to have them and what to expect - by Robert Peterson, pub. 1997
• The Paranormal: the Evidence and its Implications for Consciousness - Jessica Utts, pub. 1996
• Experimental Evidence Suggestive of Anomalous Consciousness Interactions - by Deborah L. Delanoy, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, pub. 1996
• The Paranormal: The Evidence and its Implications for Consciousness - by Jessica Utts and Brian D. Josephson, pub. 1996
• ESP and the Brain: Current Status - by Edwin May, pub. unknown
• Psychic Archeology - by Mario Varvoglis, Ph.D., pub. unknown
• Out-Of-Body Experiences (OBE or OOBE) - by Mario Varvoglis, Ph.D., pub. unknown
• Hypnosis and Psi - by Mario Varvoglis, Ph.D., pub. unknown
• What is Psi? What Isn't? - by Mario Varvoglis, Ph.D., pub. unknown
• Decision Augmentation Theory: Toward a Model of Anomalous Mental Phenomena - by Ediwin C. May, Jessica M. Utts, and S. James P. Spottiswoode, pub. 1995
• Applications of Decision Augmentation Theory - by Ediwin C. May, Jessica M. Utts, S. James P. Spottiswoode, and Christine L. James, pub. 1995
• Target and Sender Dependancies in Anomalous Cognition Experiments - by Nevin D. Lantz, Wanada L. Luke, and Edwin C. May

• Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer - by Daryl J. Bem and Charles Honorton, pub. 1994
• Replication and Meta-Analysis in Parapsychology - by Jessica Utts, pub. 1991
• Other Worlds: Out-of-Body Experiences and Lucid Dreams - by Lynne Levitan and Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., pub. 1991
• Biological Utilisation of Quantum NonLocality - by Brian D. Josephson and Fotini Pallikari-Viras, pub. 1991
• The Complimentarity of Consciousness - by Robert G. Jahn, Princeton Enineering Anomalies Research, pub. 1991
• Psi Research and the Human Brain's "Reserve Capacities" - by Stanley Krippner, PhD, Saybrook Institute, pub. unknown
• Physical Aspects of Psychic Phenomena - by Robert Jahn, Princeton University, pub. unknown
  

Free Old Publications

• The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineering Perspective - by Robert G. Jahn, pub. 1982
• Parapsychology - by Montague Ullman M.D., pub. 1980
• Psi and Psychiatry - by Montague Ullman M.D., pub. 1979
• Psi Functioning and Altered States of Consciousness: A Perspective - by Charles T. Tart, pub. 1978
• Mind-body Interactionism in the Light of the Parapsychological Evidence - by John Beloff, pub. 1976
• Subjectivity and Objectivity: Further Aspects of Psychological Growth - by Paul Rosenfels, Princeton Enineering Anomalies Research, pub. 1974
• Psychic Exhaustion and the Growth Process - by Paul Rosenfels, pub. 1977
• Psychopathology and Psi Phenomena - by Montague Ullman M.D., pub. 1977
• Mind-body interactionism in the Light of the Parapsychological Evidence - by John Beloff, pub. 1976
• Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind - by J.B. Rhine and J.G Pratt, pub. 1957
• Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism - by William Crookes, FRS, pub. 1926
• The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal - by Hereward Carrington, pub. 1921
• Psychography: A Treatise On One Of The Objective Forms Of Psychic Or Spiritual Phenomena - by William Stainton Moses, pub. 1878

International Journals

• CLAP_Portugal
• eJAP - the electronic Journal for Anomalous Phenomena
• eJAP
• Japanese Journal of Parapsychology
• Journal of Parapsychology
• Journal of Scientific Exploration
• Luce e Ombra rivista trimestrale di parapsicologia e dei problemi connessi
• Quaderni di Parapsicologia
• Radius Psi Magazine
• Australian Journal of Parapsychology
• European Journal of Parapsychology
• Il Mondo del Paranormale. Rivista di parapsicologia, tematiche affini, insolito
• Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
• Journal of International Society of Life Information Science
• Journal of Near-Death Studies
• Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
• Metapsichica
• Revista Argentina de Psicologia Paranormal
• Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Journal
• Zeitschrift fur Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie

Parapsychology Information

• Parapsychology - Wikipedia.org
• Parapsychology FAQ Frequently asked questions, by the Parapsychological Association, a professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psychic phenomena, affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1969.
• Parapsychology FAQ - This FAQ was originally written for the web in 1995. For more detail on all of these topics, see The Conscious Universe (HarperEdge, 1997), or Entangled Minds (April 2006, Simon & Schuster).
• Parapsychology FAQ - Parapsychological Association
• Parapsychology Glossary - Parapsychological Association
• Parapsychology - by the Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Library - Research - The Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Historical Terms Glassary - Parapsychological Association
• What Is Anomalous Experience? - by the Pacific Neuropsychicatric Institute
• Publications - Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
• Publications - Lawrence Berkeley National Labratory - Physics Division
• Paranormal Phenomena - The starting place for exploring paranormal phenomena and the unexplained, including ghosts, ESP, psychic phenomena, strange science, and more paranormal phenomena.
• Paranormal Phenomena Newsletter - About.com
• Psychic Phenomena - About.com Guide to Paranormal Phenomena
• ESP and Psychokinesis Articles - About.com, ESP, telepathy, telekinesis, channeling, remote viewing and more.

Parapsychology Communities & Groups

• The Paranormal Research Society - The Paranormal Research Society is looking for members that are interested in the unusual, and unexplained...
• National Paranormal Research Association - We are an association of Paranormal research groups. Our goal is to open communication between all types of paranormal researchers so we can share ideas, techniques and stories. Anyone interested in the field can become a member.
• Parapsychology and Related Sciences - We explore apparitions, hauntings, poltergeist(RSPK), electronic voice phenomena(EVP), near-death experiences(NDEs), out-of-body experiences(OBEs), and reincarnation. These are known as survival topics. Telepathy, remote viewing, precognition, clairvoyance, exceptional human experiences(EHE), and moving things with the mind(PK). These are known as psi. Survival and psi make up the science of parapsychology.
• Parapsychology SIG of MENSA - This group was formed in 1982 as a forum in which to share the investigation and use of our sixth sense and to understand, develop, and refine our psychic potential. Additionally, this group serves as a "safe haven" in which to openly discuss all aspects of the paranormal, without fear of ridicule. All who are interested in this subject matter are welcome.
• Frontiers Of The Mind - Do you believe in the power of the mind? Do you believe in the infinite potential of the mind? Is it possible to open doorways in the mind and to discover superconsciousness? This group is dedicated to opening these doorways through practices and exercises.
• Strange Science - Examining topics such as: Psychic Abilities, Time Travel, Cold Fusion, Paranormal Phenomena, Occult, Eugenics, Astral Projection, UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life, Parapsychology, Alchemy, NDE, Life After Death, etc; Reincarnation, Conspiracies, The Science of Magick, Cryptozoology, Mysticism, Cryonics, Human Transcendence, and other subjects on the edges of science.
• Parapsychology Forum - SciForums.com
• Metaphysics, Psychology & Psychic Phenomena Forum - Unexplained-mysteries.com
• Parapsychology and Alternative Medicine Forums - Mind-energy.net