Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense, includes reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retrocognition.

Zener cards were first used in the 1930s for experimental research into ESP.

Parapsychology

Parapsychology is a pseudoscience concerned with the investigation of paranormal and psychic phenomena. Parapsychologists study telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.

Camille Flammarion

(1842-1925) French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics.

Some works: La pluralité des mondes habités (The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds), 1862. God in nature, 1866 (Flammarion argues that the mind is independent of the brain). Récits de l'infini, 1872 (translated into English as Stories of Infinity in 1873): (i) Lumen, (ii) History of a Comet; (iii) In Infinity. L’inconnu et les problèmes psychiques (published in English as: L’inconnu: The Unknown), 1900, a collection of psychic experiences. Mysterious psychic forces: an account of the author's investigations in psychical research, together with those of other European savants, 1907. Death and its mystery—proofs of the existence of the soul; Volume 1 to 3 (1921-1923).

Arthur Conan Doyle

(1859-1930) Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.

Doyle had a longstanding interest in mystical subjects. In 1887 he joined the Society for Psychical Research.

The wrote The New Revelation (1918), The Case for Spirit Photography (1925), The History of Spiritualism (1926), among others.

William Crookes

(1832-1919) British chemist and physicist. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875 and the Crookes radiometer.

Notable awards: Royal Medal (1875), Davy Medal (1888), Albert Medal (1899), Copley Medal (1904), Order of Merit (1910) and Elliott Cresson Medal (1912).

Crookes became interested in spiritualism in the late 1860s. Between 1871 and 1874, Crookes studied the mediums Kate Fox, Florence Cook (Katie King), and Daniel Dunglas Home.

Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner

(1834-1882) German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions and proved Christian Doppler's theory on the effect of motion of the color of stars.

Zöllner first became interested in Spiritism in 1875 when he visited the scientist William Crookes in England. Zöllner wanted a physical scientific explanation for Spiritism and came to the conclusion that physics of a four-dimensional space may explain spiritualism. Zöllner attempted to prove that spirits are four-dimensional and set up his own experiments with the medium Henry Slade. These experiments were recorded by Zöllner in a book titled Transcendental Physics in 1878.

Charles Richet

(1850-1935) French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic animals, and breathing. He won the Nobel Prize "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis" in 1913.

It has been shown that as regards subjective metapsychics the simplest and
most rational explanation is to suppose the existence of a faculty of
supernormal cognition ... setting in motion the human intelligence by
certain vibrations that do not move the normal senses.

Richet's works on parascientific subjects, which dominated his later years, include Traité de Métapsychique (Treatise on Metapsychics, 1922), Notre Sixième Sens (Our Sixth Sense, 1928), L'Avenir et la Prémonition (The Future and Premonition, 1931) and La grande espérance (The Great Hope, 1933).

Franz Mesmer

(17347-1815) German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called animal magnetism, sometimes later referred to as mesmerism. The theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850. In 1843 the Scottish physician James Braid proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from animal magnetism.

De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ("The Influence of the Planets on the Human Body", 1766).

J. B. Rhine

(1895-1980) Founded scientific research in parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding a lab at Duke University (~1937).

Alfred Russel Wallace

(1823-1913) British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection (jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858).

Wallace was strongly attracted to unconventional ideas (such as evolution). His advocacy of spiritualism and his belief in a non-material origin for the higher mental faculties of humans strained his relationship with some members of the scientific establishment. In addition to his scientific work, he was a social activist who was critical of what he considered to be an unjust social and economic system in 19th-century Britain.

Notable awards Royal Medal (1868), Gold Medal of the Société de Géographie (1870), Darwin Medal (1890), Founder's Medal (1892), Linnean Medal (1892), Copley Medal (1908), Darwin-Wallace Medal (Gold, 1908) and Order of Merit (1908).

Other names

Bozzano, Lodge, Asakov, Lombroso, Delanne, Imbassahy*, Hernani*.

Ian Stevenson

(1918-2007) Canadian-born U.S. psychiatrist. Stevenson became known internationally for his research into reincarnation, the idea that emotions, memories, and even physical injuries in the form of birth-marks, can be transferred from one life to another. But he was never able to suggest what kind of process might be involved.

His major work was the 2,268-page, two-volume Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects (1997). This reported two hundred cases of birth-marks that, he believed, corresponded with a wound on the deceased person whose life the child purported to recall.

Rupert Sheldrake

(1942-) Known by the books "Seven Experiments That Could Change the World" (1995) and "The Science Delusion" (Science Set Free, 2012).

TED (BANNED) Talk "The Science Delusion":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg

Ideas: "morphic resonance"; "10 scientific creeds".

1. Everything is essentially mechanical. Dogs, for example, are complex mechanisms, rather than living organisms with goals of their own. Even people are machines, 'lumbering robots', in Richard Dawkins's vivid phrase, with brains that are like genetically programmed computers.
2. All matter is unconscious. It has no inner life or subjectivity or point of view. Even human consciousness is an illusion produced by the material activities of brains.
3. The total amount of matter and energy is always the same (with the exception of the Big Bang, when all the matter and energy of the universe suddenly appeared).
4. The laws of nature are fixed. They are the same today as they were at the beginning, and they will stay the same for ever.
5. Nature is purposeless, and evolution has no goal or direction.
6. All biological inheritance is material, carried in the genetic material, DNA, and in other material structures.
7. Minds are inside heads and are nothing but the activities of brains. When you look at a tree, the image of the tree you are seeing is not 'out there', where it seems to be, but inside your brain.
8. Memories are stored as material traces in brains and are wiped out at death.
9. Unexplained phenomena like telepathy are illusory.
10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that really works.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

The 2008 film, starred by Ben Stein, contends that the mainstream science establishment suppresses academics who believe they see evidence of intelligent design in nature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5EPymcWp-g

Life After Life

The investigation of a phenomenon survival of bodily death

Dr. Raymond A. Moody, Jr.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6569986/geenl/Raymond_Moody_Life_After_Life.pdf

[Portuguese1]

Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain

Ostrander, Sheila, and Lynn Schroeder

New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1970

Papers

Websites

http://obraspsicografadas.org/

Triple aspect

[Portuguese] Por Silvio Chibeni.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6569986/geenl/tripliceaspecto.pdf