#Parapsychology
24 entries tagged Parapsychology.
People (8)
- Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was the novelist of Brave New World who pioneered the literary use of psychedelics in The Doors of Perception, visited Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation parapsychology group, helped seed the Esalen Institute and the Human Potential movement, and lectured on a coming pharmacological dictatorship he called the ultimate revolution.
- Andrija Puharich Andrija Puharich was a physician and parapsychologist who founded the Round Table Foundation in 1949, conducted Army-contracted ESP research at Edgewood Arsenal, brought Uri Geller to Stanford Research Institute for CIA-funded testing in 1972, and died alone and impoverished in 1995.
- Henry Belk Henry Belk was a North Carolina department store magnate and wealthy funder of Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation who brought Dutch psychic Peter Hurkos to Maine for testing in 1956 and helped finance Puharich's Brazilian expeditions.
- Leonid L. Vasilev Vasilev asserted that the publication of articles like Jacques Bergier's 'Thought Transfer, Weapon of War' and 'The Secret of the Nautilus' in French journals stimulated Soviet parapsychology research.
- Leonid Vasiliev By the early 1960s, Vasiliev was heading a well-funded parapsychology laboratory, and his work soon concentrated on 'remote-influencing' experiments, such as attempting to telepathically induce sleep in a distant receiver.
- Michael Murphy Michael Murphy is the Stanford-trained cofounder of Esalen Institute and a theorist of transformative human capacities who carried the Human Potential movement toward later wellness and technology culture.
- Peter Hurkos Peter Hurkos was a Dutch psychic who gained international fame for psychometry - divining information from objects by touch - and was studied by Andrija Puharich at the Round Table Foundation in 1956 before achieving notoriety as a police psychic consultant in the United States.
- Zhang Baosheng Zhang Baosheng was the most extensively tested EHBF practitioner in China's 1980s military parapsychology programs, conducting demonstrations of claimed object teleportation at Beijing research institutes before his abilities were widely attributed to sleight of hand.
Organizations (5)
- American Society for Psychical Research The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States, founded in 1885 by the philosopher and physician William James.
- Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory The Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory was a research unit founded in 1930 by J. B. Rhine, a botanist who sought to bring scientific rigor to the study of psychic phenomena.
- Esalen Institute Esalen Institute is the Big Sur retreat center founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Dick Price that became the seedbed of the Human Potential movement and whose Soviet-American citizen-diplomacy program drew documented CIA and FBI monitoring.
- Parapsychological Association The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of Parapsychology.
- Society for Psychical Research The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the world, founded in London in 1882.
Concepts (10)
- Backster Effect The Backster Effect is a controversial theory proposed by Cleve Backster, a former Central Intelligence Agency polygraph expert.
- Clairvoyance Clairvoyance is the purported paranormal ability to perceive information about physical reality through extrasensory means, distinguished from telepathy by its direct perception of external reality rather than mind-to-mind transmission, and the operative phenomenon underlying the U.S. government's STARGATE remote viewing program.
- Extrasensory Perception Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the claimed ability to receive information through means beyond the known sensory channels; the term was coined by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s and became the subject of sustained U.S. and Soviet government research programs through the Cold War.
- Precognition Precognition is the claimed psi ability to perceive future events before they occur, one of the phenomena studied in government parapsychology research programs throughout the Cold War alongside remote viewing and telepathy.
- Psi Psi is a general term in Parapsychology for psychic phenomena, encompassing abilities such as Extrasensory Perception (ESP) and Psychokinesis (PK).
- Psychokinesis Psychokinesis (PK), also known as telekinesis, is a claimed Psi ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction.
- Remote Viewing Remote Viewing is a controversial mental faculty or technique in which an individual is said to be able to acquire information about a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception (ESP) or 'sensing with the mind.
- Sheep-Goat Effect The sheep-goat effect is a term coined by parapsychologist Gertrude Schmeidler in 1942 to describe the tendency for individuals who believe in psi phenomena to score better in ESP and psychokinesis experiments than skeptics.
- Telepathy Telepathy is the claimed direct mental communication of thoughts or feelings between minds without conventional sensory channels, one of the core phenomena studied in government parapsychology programs including the Stargate Project and Soviet psi research.
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