The mediums with whom the Parapsychology Foundation is working in this experiment are in a waking or only slightly dissociated state, so that the sitter can make comments, ask and answer questions, instead of talking with a `` control '' who speaks through an entranced sensitive.

Parapsychology explores this possibility, but the existence of the paranormal is not accepted by the scientific community.

John Beloff in his book Parapsychology: A Concise History ( 1997 ) has written that in the Western world parapsychology has been " driven by desire to confound materialism or reductionism " and that there has only been a minority of parapsychologists who have advocated physical theories for psi.

For example, the experiments at the PEAR laboratory were criticized in a paper published by the Journal of Parapsychology, in which parapsychologists independent from the PEAR laboratory concluded that these experiments " depart from criteria usually expected in formal scientific experimentation " due to " roblems with regard to randomization, statistical baselines, application of statistical models, agent coding of descriptor lists, feedback to percipients, sensory cues, and precautions against cheating.

After publishing a paper on reincarnation in 1960, Stevenson was invited to travel to India and Sri Lanka by self-professed psychic and founder of the Parapsychology Foundation Eileen J. Garrett.

While a postgraduate, Matthew was awarded the Gertrude Schmeidler Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Parapsychology by the Parapsychological Association.

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

Rhine founded the institutions necessary for parapsychology's continuing professionalization in the U. S. — including the establishment of the Journal of Parapsychology and the formation of the Parapsychological Association, and also the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ), a precursor to what is today known as the Rhine Research Center.

He was awarded the Parapsychological Award for a Distinguished Career in Parapsychology in 1996 and the Dinsdale Memorial Award from the Society of Scientific Exploration in 2002.

During this period, other related organizations were also formed, including the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine ( 1970 ), the Institute of Parascience ( 1971 ), the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute of Noetic Sciences ( 1973 ), the International Kirlian Research Association ( 1975 ), and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory ( 1979 ).

During this time, other notable organizations were also formed, including the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine ( 1970 ), the Institute of Parascience ( 1971 ), the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute for Noetic Sciences ( 1973 ), and the International Kirlian Research Association ( 1975 ).

He was the founder and president of the International Institute of Projectiology and Conscienciology ( IIPC ), and is also a long standing member of the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in New York, USA, the Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) in London, England, the Brazilian Association of Parapsychology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others.

His areas of research include major religious traditions, new religions and alternative religions, Occultism and Parapsychology, New Age, and vampirology.

Parapsychology is the pseudoscientific study of paranormal psychic phenomena, including ESP.

Parapsychology – field of research that studies a number of ostensible paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation and apparitional experiences.

Parapsychology is the use of scientific methods to study paranormal psychological phenomena, such as extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, and survival of consciousness after death.

Dr. Karlis Osis, Director of Research at the Parapsychology Foundation, described the basis for the experiment in a tomorrow article, ( `` New Research On Survival After Death '', Spring 1958 ).

Parapsychology, including the study of clairvoyance, is an example of pseudoscience.

* Hoyt L. Edge, Robert L. Morris, Joseph H. Rush, John Palmer, Foundations of Parapsychology: Exploring the Boundaries of Human Capability, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1986, ISBN 0-7102-0226-1

* Benjamin B. Wolman, ed, Handbook of Parapsychology, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977, ISBN 0-442-29576-6

* Shepard, Leslie ( editor ), Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1978

* Spence, Lewis, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 1920.

Rhine also founded an autonomous Parapsychology Laboratory within Duke and started the Journal of Parapsychology, which he co-edited with McDougall.

In 1957, Rhine and Joseph Gaither Pratt wrote Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind.

Rhine later established the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ) and the Institute for Parapsychology as a successor to the Duke laboratory.

B. Rhine at a workshop on parapsychology which was held at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University.

In 1985 a Chair of Parapsychology was established within the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh.

Since Professor Morris ' death in 2004 the Chair of Parapsychology has remained vacant.

Among these are the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh ; the Parapsychology Research Group at Liverpool Hope University ( this closed in April 2011 ); the SOPHIA Project at the University of Arizona ; the Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology Research Unit of Liverpool John Moores University ; the Center for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes at the University of Northampton ; and the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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