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Academy of
Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Inc (formerly the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research)
The mission of the ASPS is to discern, develop and disseminate knowledge
of how paranormal phenomena may relate to and enhance the development of
the human spirit. The Academy also publishes The Journal of Spirituality and
Paranormal Studies and a substantive newsletter, The Searchlight.
www.lightlink.com/arpr
After-Death
Communications Project
The ADC Project was created
by Bill and Judith Guggenhiem in May, 1988 to conduct the first in-depth research of After-Death Communications. They collected more than 3,300 firsthand accounts from people who believe they have been contacted by a
deceased loved one.
www.after-death.com
Alister Hardy Trust
Religious Experience Research Centre at the
Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Wales
Lampeter, Ceredigion. Furthering the study of religious and spiritual
experience started by Sir Alister Hardy FRS in 1969.
www.alisterhardytrust.org.uk
American Society for Psychical Research
The ASPR is the oldest psychical research
organisation in the United States. For more than a century, the ASPR has supported the scientific investigation of extraordinary or as yet unexplained phenomena that have been called psychic or paranormal. The ASPR was founded in 1885 by a distinguished group of scholars who shared the courage and vision to explore the uncharted realms of human
consciousness.
www.aspr.com
Athanasia Foundation
The Athanasia Foundation is the
international name of the Stichting Athanasia voor onderzoek naar leven
na de dood en de evolutie van de persoonlijke ziel, based at Nijmegen,
the Netherlands. It was founded in 1996 by a group of Dutch scholars
interested in parapsychology, philosophy and psychology. Central to the
approach of Athanasia Foundation is the philosophical (ontological)
concept of a personal subject or "soul" that is not identical to the
body or brain and survives physical death.
www.geocities.com/athanasiafoundation/englishgeneral.html
Arthur Findlay College
Offers facilities as a residential centre where students can study
Spiritualist philosophy and religious practice, Spiritualist healing and
awareness, spiritual and psychic unfoldment and kindred disciplines.
Courses, lectures and demonstrations are all offered by leading
exponents, together with the additional features of a library, museum,
lake, magnificent grounds, recreational facilities and full board
accommodation.
www.arthurfindlaycollege.org
Arthur Findlay Society
Founded in November 2003 by Peter George Wakeham. The main aims are to
promote Arthur Findlay’s works and his scientific views on survival and
communication with those who have passed away.
www.arthur-findlay.co.uk
Association for Skeptical Investigations
This new website presents an investigation into the true meaning of Skepticism in Science. The
website is organised by the Association for Skeptical Investigation, the purpose of which is to promote genuine skepticism, the spirit of enquiry and doubt, within science. This includes an open-minded investigation of unexplained phenomena, a questioning of dogmatic assumptions, and a skeptical examination of the claims of self-proclaimed skeptics.
www.skepticalinvestigations.org
Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research
The
AIPR is a non-profit community association. Based in Sydney but with an Australia-wide membership base, it was established in 1977. The aims of the organisation are to collect, assess and disseminate factual information about parapsycological phenomena, to support and encourage parapsychology and to undertake other activities, for example fundraising and social
activities.
www.aiprinc.org
Beloff,
John
An
Honorary Fellow of the Department of Psychology at the University of
Edinburgh. Beloff was one of the four executors of Arthur Koestler's
will, and was the reason why Koestler's bequest, setting up a Chair of
Parapsychology, went to Edinburgh. Served for many years as Editor of
the Journal of the SPR.
http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/index.html
Blavatsky Study Center
This site contains hundreds of documents (including rare source material)
on the life, writings & teachings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91),
founder of modern Theosophy. Includes work by Richard Hodgson, Henry Sidgwick, Eleanor Sidgwick, William Eglington, Frank Podmore and many others.
www.blavatskyarchives.com
Braude, Stephen
Professor of Philosophy and
former Chairman of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Studied Philosophy and English at Oberlin College and the University of London, and in 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Prof. Braude
has also examined the evidence of parapsychology to see whether it would provide new insights into these and other traditional philosophical issues.
In 2003
he completed a book on the evidence for life after death
entitled Immortal Remains.
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~braude
Brazilian Medical Spiritist Association
The main purpose of AME-Br is promote the study of the Spiritist Doctrine, as established in the nineteen century by French philosopher and educator Allan Kardec, and its phenomena especially with regard to their relation, integration, and links with the areas of
philosophy, religion, and science, in particular with the medical
sciences.
www.amebrasil.org.br/ingles
Broad, C. D.
Includes
many online works by Cambridge philosopher and past SPR President, C. D. Broad.
"I have an extreme dislike for vague, confused, and oracular writing; and I have very little patience with authors who express themselves in this style. I believe that what can be said at all can be said simply and clearly in any civilized language or in a suitable system of symbols, and that verbal obscurity is almost always a sign of mental
confusion" said Broad.
www.ditext.com/broad/cdbroad.html
Centre
for Fundamental and Anomalies Research
C-FAR was formed by science professionals with multi-disciplinary interests who have specific ideas about how scientists, philosophers and others could work together to tackle
questions about the nature of mankind and the world. These ideas have resulted in a structured agenda of research projects that we wish to promote, as well as a methodology for using the results to refine that
agenda.
www.c-far.com
Classics in the History of Psychology
This
website is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca
Cognitive Sciences Laboratory
For over 20 years, the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory has been the center
for government-sponsored parapsychology research in support of its
intelligence program most recently known as 'Star Gate'.
www.lfr.org/LFR/csl
College of Psychic Studies
Founded in 1884, the College
of Psychic Studies is an educational charity. We seek to promote spiritual values and a greater understanding of the wider areas of human consciousness, welcoming the truths of all spiritual traditions and, equally, each and every individual.
www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk
Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
CSICOP 'encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and
fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and
disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to
the scientific community and the public' ... they claim.
www.csicop.org
Division of Personality Studies
The
DPS is a unit of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine of the University of Virginia's Health System. It was founded in 1967, when Dr. Ian Stevenson resigned as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry to become Director of the Division and Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry, positions he served in for the next 35
years.
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/personalitystudies
European Journal of Parapsychology
The European Journal of Parapsychology (EJP) is a peer-reviewed
scientific journal for research - particularly theoretical and
theory-driven empirical work - relating to the field of parapsychology.
The Journal's aim is to stimulate and enhance activity in
parapsychology, particularly in Europe, by publishing Articles, Research
Notes, Reviews and Comments that offer insight into or criticisms of
parapsychological research. The Journal also publishes peer-reviewed
Student Research Briefs.
www.ejp.org.uk
First Spiritual Temple
The First Spiritual Temple is a nondenominational Christian Spiritualist
Church, founded by Marcellus Seth Ayer on June 28, 1883. Includes
several interesting pages on
mediumship, Eileen Garrett, Eileen Roberts and trance mediumship.
www.fst.org
George
Hansen
George Hansen was professionally employed in parapsychology laboratories for eight
years - three at the Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina, and five at Psychophysical Research Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. His experiments included remote viewing, card guessing,
ganzfeld, electronic random number generators, séance phenomena, and ghosts.
His papers in scientific journals cover mathematical statistics, fraud and deception, the skeptics movement, conjurors in parapsychology, and exposés of hoaxes. He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
www.tricksterbook.com
Hicks, Barbara
Website of medium Barbara Hicks. Includes
articles such as "The Problem: Can individual human consciousness
survive the death of the individual's body?" by Walter Meyer zu Erpen;
"Pure Spiritualism" by Gordon Higginson; "Mediumship" by Gordon
Higginson; "Spiritualism: The Coming World" Religion by Arthur Findlay.
www.medium2000.org
Horizon
Research Foundation
The
HRF is a separate and independent charitable organisation that aims to provide support for scientific research and understanding into the state of the human mind at the end of life. It aims to do this by raising funds for high quality scientific projects and provide various educational tools such as lectures, conferences and information booklets for the public as well as healthcare
professionals.
www.horizon-research.co.uk
Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie
und Psychohygiene
Traditionally the Institute engaged in interdisciplinary research
concerning anomalous phenomena (extrasensory perception, altered states
of consciousness, psychokinesis, etc.). The current research mission is
to achieve an improved understanding of mind-matter relationships from
the perspectives of the humanities, social sciences and natural
sciences.
www.igpp.de/english/welcome.htm
Institut Métapsychique International
The
IMI is a recognised private foundation devoted to the scientific study of the phenomena known as "paranormal" and aims to restore in France a tradition of reflection and scientific studies on the ignored human potentialities. It's first director was Dr. Gustave, who founded the IMI in 1919. Past presidents also include Charles Richet, Eugene Osty and Jean Meyer.
www.metapsychique.org
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
The
ITP is a private, accredited, non-sectarian graduate school offering residential and distance-learning degree programs for professional, educational and personal growth. Its unique curriculum focuses on six core areas of inquiry: the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, physical, social and
creative.
www.itp.edu
Also:
The ITP established the William James Center for Consciousness Studies in 1994 to serve as the research arm of the Institute. The aim of the Center is to encourage and support a broad range of studies of consciousness and of the mind which have clear implications for the field of transpersonal psychology. Research at the Center encourages the development, initiation and evaluation of possible practical applications of the principles that emerge from the research, e.g., in education, business, wellness, counseling, therapy and spiritual guidance.
www.itplibrary.org/wjccs.htm
International Academy of Consciousness
This site offers an overview of IAC's activities and the sciences of
Projectiology and Conscientiology, which study consciousness beyond the
brain, investigating psychic awareness and paranormal phenomena.
www.outofbody.org
International Association for Near-Death Studies
IANDS' mission is to respond to needs for information and support concerning near-death and similar experiences. Our goals are; To encourage thoughtful exploration of all facets of near-death and similar experiences; To provide reliable information about near-death and similar experiences to experiencers, caregivers, researchers, and the public; To serve as a contact point and community for people with particular interest in near-death and similar experiences.
www.iands.org/home.html
International Foundation for Survival Research
The main purpose of this all-volunteer
organisation is public education about life-after-death
evidence. The IFSR's second purpose is to support ongoing survival research around the world. Several types of research hold much promise for increasing our understanding of the human consciousness and its ability to withstand and survive physical death.
www.expbeyond.org
William James
website
Everything you ever wanted to know about
William James. Includes books, letters, excerpts, articles, essays, reviews and links to
similar William James websites. Free online versions of Principles
of Psychology and The Varieties of Religions
Experience.
www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/james.html
Josephson,
Brian
Website
of Brian Josephson, Nobel Prize winning physicist and director of
the Mind-Matter unification Project of the Theory of Condensed Matter at
the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10
Keen, Montague
Created by Montague Keen's wife Veronica
Ford-Keen in 2005 to promote and commemorate the life and work of this
outstanding modern psychical researcher.
www.montague-keen.com
Koestler Parapsychology Unit
The unit is part of the psychology department at Edinburgh University.
Our aim is to conduct systematic and responsible research into the capacity attributed to some individuals to interact with their environment by means other than the recognised sensorimotor channels.
http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk
Krippner, Stanley
Website of psychologist and parapsychologist Stanley Krippner.
www.stanleykrippner.com
Flint, Leslie, Educational Trust
The Leslie Flint Educational Trust was created to preserve, record, authenticate and promote the work of
independent direct voice medium Leslie Flint. The Trust has released a selection of taped sittings from a varied selection of communicators including Maurice Chevalier, Mahatma Gandhi, Rudolph Valentino and Sir Winston Churchill amongst
others. Flint once said: "I think I can safely say I am the most tested medium this country has ever produced... I have been boxed up, tied up, sealed up, gagged, bound and held, and still the voices have come to speak their message of life eternal."
www.leslieflint.com
Jones-Hunt, Jackie
Dr. Jackie Jones-Hunt has researched the experiential and theoretical
aspects of shamanic paranormal phenomena, OBEs, NDEs and mediumship for
over 25 years. She has taught Psychical Research and Consciousness
Studies at Warwick University and other colleges in the UK
intermittently between travel and research for over twenty years. She is
author of Seances with God: God through the
Ages and teaches Consciousness Studies/Psychical
Research at Strathclyde University and Paisley University, Glasgow,
Scotland. She is currently conducting monthly and bi-monthly seminars at
her home in Scotland: Victorian Mansion, Langside Dr, Newlands, Glasgow.
For more information on these courses email her at jackiejones-hunt@btconnect.com.
www.jackiejoneshunt.co.uk
Lexscien: Library of
Exploratory Science
Lexscien is an initiative of The Centre for Fundamental and Anomalies
Research (C-FAR). Subscribers can receive access to Journals,
Proceedings and magazines from the Society for Psychical Research, Rhine
Research Center, Society for Scientific Exploration , Institut
Métapsychique International, Parapsychological Association, Exceptional
Human Experiences Network and European Journal of Parapsychology.
www.lexscien.org
Mishlove,
Jeffery
An impressive website
which includes work on William Crookes, Charles Richet, Daniel D Home, Florence Cook and many others. Also includes photographs of materialisations and paraffin wax mounds.
www.williamjames.com/Folklore/MINDOVER.htm
National Spiritualist Association of Churches of the United States of
America
The
NSAC is the oldest and largest organisation for the science, philosophy and
religion of modern Spiritualism in the United States of America. We have been serving this global religious movement since our inception on September 27, 1893.
www.nsac.org
Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute
The
PNI does both clinical and forensic consultations for patients with neuropsychiatric and psychopharmacologic difficulties. It is directed by parapsychologist Vernon M Neppe MD, PhD, a full member of the Parapsychology Association and
past President of the South African Society for Psychical Research.
www.pni.org
and www.pni.org/research/anomalous
Parapsychological
Association
The
PA is the international professional organisation of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of ‘psi’ (or ‘psychic’) experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, remote viewing, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition.
The primary objective of the Parapsychological Association is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences.
www.parapsych.org
Parapsychological
Foundation
The
PF is a not-for-profit foundation which provides a worldwide forum supporting the scientific investigation of psychic phenomena. The Foundation gives grants, publishes pamphlets, monographs, conference proceedings and the
International Journal of Parapsychology, hosts the Perspectives Lecture Series, conducts the Outreach Program, and at its facility on the upper-east side of New York City, maintains the Eileen J. Garrett Library with its collection of more than 10,000 volumes and 100 periodicals on parapsychology and related
topics.
www.parapsychology.org
Parapsychological
Foundation Lyceum
The
PF Lyceum will afford student and teacher alike the benefit of the Foundation's unique position within the science of parapsychology, allowing us to draw upon our knowledge of the latest developments in the field, our close association with scholars actively engaged in parapsychological studies, and our appreciation and knowledge of the field's rich and varied history. Lyceum will be a vital and ever-growing resource available to students of psychical research world
wide.
www.pflyceum.org
Parapsychology and Personal Survival After Death
An interesting webpage created by Michael Rogge containing information and images on Out-of-the-body experiences, Near-Death-Experiences, Deathbed visions, Apparitions, Communications from the dead, Physical phenomena,
Reincarnation and more.
www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/paraps.html
Paraview Books
Paraview is an innovative multimedia company specializing in mind, body,
and spirit and the frontiers of science and culture.
www.paraview.com
The (State of) Pernambuco Institute for Psychobiophysics Research
The IPPP offers parapsychology courses, makes researches on spontaneous
cases and laboratories controlled situations, and gratuitously gives
orientation and counseling to people undergoing problems of
parapsychological nature or to people with paranormal skills.
www.parapsicologia.org.br/english.htm
Price, Harry
Created by Paul Adams in 2005 and dedicated
to the life and work of Harry Price. A very comprehensive website
containing rare books, articles, journals and photographs by and about
this famous psychical researcher.
www.harryprice.co.uk
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
The
PEAR program was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G.
Jahn, then Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice.
www.princeton.edu/~pear
Psychognosia
Psychognosia is a privately-funded, not-for-profit centre for the
dissemination of reliable information on the scientific study of
anomalous phenomena (parapsychology), consciousness studies and related
areas. Co-directors, John Knowles, M.A., and Linda Leblanc studied at
the Institute for Parapsychology (Rhine Research Center), Durham, North
Carolina, U.S.A.
www.psychognosia.org
Mack, John E., Institute
The mission of the John E. Mack Institute is
to explore consciousness and the process of individual and social
transformation; and to apply the emerging knowledge to pressing
psychological, spiritual and cultural issues. The Institute is named in
recognition of Dr John Mack, Pulitzer Prize winning author and Professor
of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School.
www.johnemackinstitute.org
Roll, Michael
The Campaign for Philosophical Freedom,
headed by Michael Roll, is working to achieve a philosophical balance in the media, and to increase public awareness of the existence of scientific proof that we all survive
death.
www.cfpf.org.uk
Near Death Experiences and the Afterlife
Headed by Kevin Williams this is the #1 ranked website on Near Death
Experiences. Includes a huge collection articles and news items on all
aspects of NDE's and related subjects.
www.near-death.com
Parapsychology, The Journal of
Free online archive of articles from The Journal of Parapsychology
- a publication providing coverage and analysis of parapsychology
research.
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320
Physical Mediums
Articles on physical mediums such as D. D. Home and Franek Kluski.
www.fortunecity.com/roswell/seance/78/ind2.htm
Psi
Mart
Psi-Mart.com serves all levels of interest in
parapsychology - from student to researcher - with its own publications, videos, CDs, and a vast collection of reprints from classic to cutting edge. The best books and videos available from others are also offered here.
www.psi-mart.com
Scientific and Medical Network
The
SMN aims to deepen understanding in science, medicine and education by fostering both rational analysis and intuitive insights. It questions the assumptions of contemporary scientific and medical thinking, so often limited by exclusively materialistic reasoning.
www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/home.htm
Scottish Society for Psychical Research
The objectives of
the SSPR are to investigate all types of phenomena known as paranormal or
parapsychological, and
to collect, classify and study reports of such phenomena. We have a team of volunteer investigators who are willing to investigate spontaneous cases of ostensible paranormal
phenomena. Our Society takes no corporate view, but leaves its wide range of members to make up their own minds.
www.sspr.co.uk
Sheldrake, Rupert
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of
Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999), a sequel to his best-selling
Seven Experiments that Could Change the World (1994). His most recent book is
The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (Hutchinson 2003). He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco.
www.sheldrake.org
Smith, Susy: The Mediumship of Mrs Leonard
The full chapters to Suzy Smith's The Mediumship of Mrs Leonard,
hosted on Don Watson's website.
www.enformy.com/LeonardTOC.htm
Sociedad Espiritista Cubana
This website in Spanish, which includes a Google English-translator, is
about the Cuban Spiritist Society regarding Spiritualism and its
relationship with Kardecian Spiritism (based on Allan Kardec's
doctrine). It also explores mediumship and has many inspiring messages
from Spirit Guides. In addition, it contains a very valuable section
about scientific evidence.
www.sociedadespiritistacubana.com
Society for Psychical Research
The purpose of the SPR is to advance the understanding of events and abilities commonly described as 'psychic' or 'paranormal', without prejudice and in a scientific manner. The Society does this by promoting and supporting important research, and by publishing scholarly reports of a high standard. It acts as a forum for debate by organising educational activities, and by disseminating information about current developments.
www.spr.ac.uk
Society for Scientific Exploration
Founded in 1982 by a committee of fourteen scientists and scholars who had identified the need for a new type of scientific
organisation, one that would foster the study of all questions that are amenable to scientific investigation without restriction.
www.scientificexploration.org
Spirit
Texts
Large collection of books and articles related to trance mediumship and
spiritualism.
www.harvestfields.ca/ebook/spirit/ac.htm
Spirit
Writings
For centuries men and women have been
unexplainably inspired to speak and set down on paper words that were "not their own." With the blossoming of
spiritualism in the mid-1800's, Allan Kardec, A. J, Davis, T. L. Harris,
W. S. Moses, Madame Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, Helene Roerich and many others continued a tradition started earlier with
Emanuel Swedenborg and which continues to this day.
www.spiritwritings.com
Survival eBooks
Personal website of David Duffield. Contains
books such as Thirty Years Among the Dead by Carl Wickland, Thirty
Years of Psychical Research by Charles Richet, Transcendental Physics
by
Johann Zöllner, The Wisdom of the Gods by H. Dennis Bradley and many
full length Leslie Flint recordings.
www.survivalebooks.org
Survival
Research Institute of Canada
As a charitable
organisation for the advancement of education,
the SRIC's primary purpose is to pursue and promote studies in the field of survival research, which is investigation into whether some part of the human consciousness or personality, commonly referred to as "spirit," survives physical death and whether that spirit is able to communicate with the living.
www.islandnet.com/sric
Survival
Research Network
Dedicated to the impartial and critical scientific evaluation of
reported phenomena suggesting the continuity of human consciousness
after bodily death. Also provides information about the range and
quality of the scientific survival research literature from the 1880s to
date. Hopes to attract individuals sympathetic with the standards of
survival research as outlined in the
Introduction, in order to exchange ideas about possible research
projects, and to advance survival research scientifically and
politically.
www.survival-research.net
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Dedicated to celebrating the life and work of the
British naturalist, evolutionist, and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace
(1823-1913). Includes various kinds of information on one of the most fascinating figures in the history of
science.
www.wku.edu/~smithch
Webster, James
Former professional magician (and member of The Magic Circle), and researcher into survival after death and all aspects of the "paranormal".
Webster sat twice with the Scole Group and witnessed phenomena which, in his
professional opinion, could not be duplicated by trickery.
www.jamesw.clara.net
Veritas Research Program
The Veritas Research Program of the Human
Energy Systems Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Arizona was created by Gary Schwartz primarily to test the
hypothesis that the consciousness (or identity) of a person survives
physical death.
http://veritas.arizona.edu/index.htm
The Voice Box
Encourages the promotion, development,
education and safe practice of all forms of mediumship, with particular
emphasis on physical mediumship. Includes modern séance reports and
biographical articles on some famous mediums.
www.the-voice-box.com
Zammit,
Victor
A lawyer and retired Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the New South Wales and the High Court of
Australia presents the case for the afterlife. Irrefutable and objective evidence for survival after
death, says Zammit.
www.victorzammit.com
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