Category: Parapsychology

  • Famous Cases of Real Doppelgangers

    Famous Cases of Real Doppelgangers

    French Author Guy De Maupassant encountered his own double. Culture Club / Getty Images Do you have a body double or a doppelganger? There are many instances of two people who are not related yet closely resemble one another. But the phenomenon of a phantom self is something more mysterious.  Doppelgangers vs. Bilocation…

  • How a Medium’s Brain Changes in a Trance

    How a Medium’s Brain Changes in a Trance

    A medium practices psychography, or writing the words of the dead while in a trance. (Image credit: Julio Peres) The supernatural experience of having the dead communicate through the living has now been analyzed with brain scans. Their brain activity suggests those more expert at entering these otherworldly trances often experienced a drop…

  • Is Reality All in the Mind?

    Is Reality All in the Mind?

    All our experiences—all our perceptions, sensations, dreams, thoughts and feelings—are forms appearing in consciousness. It doesn’t always seem that way. When I see a tree it seems as if I am seeing the tree directly. But science tells us something completely different is happening. Light entering the eye triggers chemical…

  • ESP: What can science say?

    ESP: What can science say?

    Ever answer a phone call, only to hear the person you were just thinking of on the other end? Ever had a dream about something that later actually happened? Ever felt like somebody read your mind? Some people may interpret these sorts of experiences as extrasensory perception, or ESP. ESP…

  • The 9 Most Convincing Parapsychology Studies Ever Conducted

    The 9 Most Convincing Parapsychology Studies Ever Conducted

    The existence of paranormal research suggests that even the most hardened of skeptics want to believe that “there are more things on heaven and earth that are dreamt of in their philosophies,” to paraphrase Shakespeare. However, accredited scientific research into the paranormal remains controversial. Even comprehensive and evidence-heavy studies are often still considered…

  • Introduction to Parapsychology

    Introduction to Parapsychology

    Fundamentals of paranormal research About Parapsychology and Psychical Research Psychical Research and Parapsychology are scientific approaches to the study of apparently paranormal phenomena. The “paranormal” (beside or beyond the normal) refers to unusual experiences that do not seem to be explainable in terms of our everyday understanding or known scientific…

  • 30 Witnesses Say: “No One Really Dies”

    30 Witnesses Say: “No One Really Dies”

    When an aging friend appeared to be suffering from “existential angst” as he recovered from serious health challenges, I gave him one of my books, No One Really Dies, in the hope that he might see a larger and brighter picture of what’s ahead if he didn’t survive much longer in…

  • Feuds & Regrets in the Afterlife

    Feuds & Regrets in the Afterlife

    The story of the Ross sisters, as communicated through the mediumship of Geraldine Cummins, (below) perhaps the most accomplished automatist of the 20th Century, suggests that family grudges and feuds carry over into the afterlife if not resolved before death. The story also suggests that we can have concerns and…

  • Alien Bases In The Mountains! The Remarkable Remote-Viewing Revelations Of Pat Price

    Alien Bases In The Mountains! The Remarkable Remote-Viewing Revelations Of Pat Price

    While many people find the idea of alien visitors as at least something plausible, the notion of extraterrestrial bases right here on Earth providing a permanent presence to these otherworldly beings is quite simply a step too far. The fact is, though, there are many claims and suggestions of just…

  • Science of the Paranormal: Can You Trust Your Own Mind?

    Science of the Paranormal: Can You Trust Your Own Mind?

    (Image credit: © Michal Bednarek | Dreamstime.com) “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty…