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.

* Jaime Licauco ( GS, HS, AB )-guru of Philippine parapsychology and paranormal studies ; author and writer ; former professor, New Age philosophy and Parapsychology, Department of Philosophy and Human Resource Development

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

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

The Rhine Research Center is a hub for research and education in Parapsychology.

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.

" It is the successor to the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Rhine's later laboratory, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ).

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.

Modern dactylomancy is usually associated with spiritualism and new age beliefs, rather Parapsychology.

In the Encyclopedia of Occultism And Parapsychology the cambion is said to be the direct offspring of the incubus and the succubus, foregoing any need for human involvement.

1985: The population of the city is 440, 000 ; Edinburgh University institutes a Chair of Parapsychology

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.

* Parapsychology FAQ Frequently asked questions, by the Parapsychological Association, one of the major groups studying parapsychological phenomena.

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.

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 ).

* 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.

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.

" It explores all possible theories in an a priori fashion, rather than the possibility of theory in general.

* The Roman commander Marcus Valerius Laevinus explores the possibility of an alliance with the Aetolian League as the Aetolians are once again ready to consider taking up arms against their traditional enemy, Macedonia.

His posthumous novel Maurice explores the possibility of class reconciliation as one facet of a homosexual relationship.

Working against time before the new trial, Wimsey first explores the possibility that Boyes took his own life.

The most radical of all of the books, " Cross of Blood " explores the possibility of Tenctonese female Cathy Frankel getting pregnant with human Matt Sikes ' child.

" In the book proper, Davies briefly explores: the nature of reason, belief, and metaphysics ; theories of the origin of the universe ; the laws of nature ; the relationship of mathematics to physics ; a few arguments for the existence of God ; the possibility that the universe shows evidence of intelligent design ; and his opinion of the implications of Gödel's incompleteness theorem, that " the search for a closed logical scheme that provides a complete and self-consistent explanation is doomed to failure.

of Homer, William Irwin, Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble wrote that " They Saved Lisa's Brain " in detail explores " the possibility of a utopian alternative to politics as usual in Springfield.

The novel The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov explores simultaneously the potential unity of all races, and the possibility of conflict inherent in all first contacts: even as members of different races understand each other, their disparate ways may endanger both their worlds, even the fabric of their respective universes.

Also, despite the fact that the book follows the Robinsonade genre conventions, it explores the possibility of a female adventurer rather than a typically male one.

In 2003 he published Christkind, a science fiction novel about time travel which explores ethical dilemmas surrounding the possibility of killing baby Hitler.