What if You Can Conjure a Ghost With Your Mind?
We’ve all been there – you freak yourself out telling stories or watching a horror movie and all of a sudden you’re seeing poltergeists everywhere. But what about people who have actually caused paranormal phenomena to happen, with just the power of their brains?
Reincarnation Case Report from Japan
Dr. Masayuki Ohkado, from the Faculty of General Education, Chubu University, Japan, has just published an article entitled “A Case of a Japanese Child with Past-Life Memories”
Signs of Life – Windbridge Institue Co-Founders on the Message of Mediumship
In January Windbridge Institute Co-founders Julie Beischel, PhD, and Mark Boccuzzi joined the Forever Family Foundation’s Bob and Phran Ginsberg in conversation about their wide ranging research into the phenomena of mediumship
People in Parapsychology: VIII. Harvey J. Irwin
Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Rhine Research Center, interviews Dr. Harvey J. Irwin, a pioneer in the study of Out of Body Experiences and co-author of the widely used textbook – Introduction to Parapsychology
Oliver Lodge, Psychical Research and German Physicists: Heinrich Hertz and Max Planck
Since its foundation in 1882, the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), the first large organisation to scientifically investigate controversial phenomena associated with mesmerism and spiritualism, has boasted a considerable number of notable physical scientists among its members.
A Phenomenological Evolution of Parapsychology’s Philosophy of Science
Jacob Glazier traces parapsychology’s understanding of its scientific practice beginning with William James, continuing through J. B. Rhine,and up until the present day, and provides guidelines for realigning it as a serious scientific discipline.
The Woman Who Can Will Herself Out Of Her Body
After a class on out-of-body experiences, a psychology graduate student at the University of Ottawa came forward to researchers to say that she could have these voluntarily, usually before sleep. “She appeared surprised that not everyone could experience this,” wrote the scientists in a study describing the case, published in February in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
The Church of the Paranormal
Don’t be shy. Depending on your poll of choice, anywhere from a third to nearly half of you either believe in ghosts or are pretty sure you do. And if not ghosts, then aliens, mediums, or astrology, for which belief has either held steady or risen over the last couple of decades.More than two-thirds of Americans hold at least one paranormal-unsanctioned by religion-belief, according to the Baylor Religion Survey.
A History of Parapsychology and Psychical Research by George Hansen
June 15, 2013, Observatory Room Brooklyn NY, George Hansen, Author of The Trickster and the Paranormal presents – A History of Parapsychology and Psychical Research discussing the storied legacy of scientific investigation into psychic phenomena.
Explorations of Past Developments in Psychical Research: 2013
Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Rhine Research Center highlights some of the work he has published in 2013, exploring the history of parapsychology and related areas.
