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Historical Figures of the Parapsychological Association

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Parapsychological Association (PA) was founded in 1957 with the mission to advance parapsychology as a science, promote scholarly exchange, and provide a professional network for researchers investigating psychic phenomena. Over the decades, the PA ... More

The Koestler Chair of Parapsychology

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Koestler Chair of Parapsychology is a unique academic post dedicated to the scientific study of paranormal phenomena. It is housed within the Koestler Parapsychology Unit (KPU) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. ... More

Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL)

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL) was an independent research facility established in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1979 by parapsychologist Charles Honorton. It specialized in experimental research on extrasensory perception (ESP), ... More

The Global Consciousness Project V2

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Global Consciousness Project 2.0 (GCP 2.0) is the next generation of the original Global Consciousness Project, aiming to test whether collective human consciousness affects physical systems. Building on over a decade of RNG-based data, GCP 2.0 ... More

The Global Consciousness Project

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Introduction The GCP was motivated by prior PEAR research suggesting that RNG outputs could deviate from chance expectation in the presence of human intention. The central hypothesis is that during moments of “global coherence” in human ... More

Most Compelling Research on Remote Viewing

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

“Remote viewing” (RV) refers to double-blind, free-response descriptions of hidden, randomly selected targets, typically locations or images. The most substantial evidence base comes from U.S. government–sponsored programs at SRI/SAIC (a.k.a. Star Gate ... More

Most Compelling Research in Parapsychology

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

This review highlights the strongest, most-cited empirical lines of evidence in parapsychology—studies that (a) employed relatively tight controls, (b) were synthesized in major meta-analyses, or (c) generated large, multi-decade databases. ... More

Is Extrasensory Perception (ESP) Real?

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Extrasensory perception (ESP) refers to the acquisition of information through means beyond the known senses, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. Decades of laboratory research have tested ESP claims using forced-choice card ... More

Is Telepathy Real

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Telepathy—information transfer without ordinary senses—has been tested for decades using controlled “free-response” methods, especially the ganzfeld procedure. The most-cited supportive evidence comes from (a) meta-analyses of ... More

Is Precognition Real?

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Precognition—the apparent acquisition of information about future events through means not explained by conventional inference—has been tested using controlled laboratory protocols since the early 20th century. This review examines the ... More

Is Psychokinesis Real?

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Is Psychokinesis Real? Abstract Psychokinesis (PK)—purported mind–matter interaction—has been studied for nearly a century using progressively tighter experimental controls. This article reviews the most cited supportive evidence ... More

Dean I Radin

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Early Life & Entry into Parapsychology Dean Ivan Radin was born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. He developed an early fascination with science and technology, earning a BSEE (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Massachusetts ... More

Marilyn J Schlitz

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Early Life & Entry into Parapsychology Marilyn J. Schlitz was born in 1957 in Detroit, Michigan. She developed an early interest in questions of consciousness, healing, and the boundaries of human potential. She earned her BA in Sociology and ... More

Carlos Alvarado

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Early Life & Entry into Parapsychology Carlos S. Alvarado was born in 1955 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Fascinated from a young age by psychic phenomena and the history of psychical research, he pursued a BA in Psychology from the University of ... More

Stanley Krippner

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Rick E Berger, PhD on Sunday, August 10, 2025

Early Life & Entry into Parapsychology Stanley Krippner was born on October 4, 1932, in Geneva, Illinois. He developed early interests in hypnosis, dreaming, and anomalous experiences, pursuing undergraduate studies in psychology and education ... More

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The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. First established in 1957, the PA has been an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1969.

The mission of the PA is to:

Promote scholarship and scientific inquiry into currently unexplained aspects of human experience
Disseminate responsible information to the wider public and to the scientific community
Integrate this information with knowledge from other disciplines

As a non-profit, non-adjudicating organization, the PA endorses no ideologies or beliefs other than the value of rigorous scientific and scholarly inquiry. There is a level of membership for everyone interested in the scientific and scholarly advancement of parapsychology. Join or donate today.