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	Claims of parapsychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rather than insert the words "purported" or "supposed" or "claimed" in every sentence and paragraph of each section, which would make for overly cumbersome reading, these claims are presented here in straightforward language.
		Though some parapsychologists still pursue the study of "macro" or large scale phenomena, such as spoon bending and events of the type reported from the era of the spiritualist mediums, these have not been well-established experimentally from the point of view of most parapsychologists.
		There are many theories or models being offered within parapsychology to account for various aspects of psi (psychic) phenomena, though there is no widely accepted comprehensive theory that accounts for all phenomena.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claims_of_parapsychology (811 words)

	Learn more about Parapsychology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parapsychology is the branch of science concerned with the study of mental phenomena, whether actual or purported, that are not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science.
		As the word for the field indicates, parapsychology is sometimes considered a sub-branch of psychology, and this arose historically since it involves the study of apparently mental faculties.
		In its modern form, parapsychology is an interdisciplinary field, which has attracted physicists, engineers, and biologists as well as psychologists and those from the softer sciences, many of whom have less regard for the mental aspects than an interest in the implications for all fields if psi phenomena should ever gain widespread acceptance.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pa/parapsychology.html (2871 words)

	Parapsychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As its name indicates, parapsychology is sometimes considered a sub-branch of psychology, and this has arisen historically since it involved the study of apparent mental faculties.
		The field of parapsychology overlaps many disciplines, including physics and biology, and often physicists, engineers and others trained in the hard sciences, in conjunction with stage magicians and other experts in deception, are in a better position to design experiments for certain types of phenomena than are psychiatrists or psychologists.
		Parapsychology is also seen as a taboo subject in science and the academy and individuals who show an interest in studying seemingly psychic phenomena, even from a skeptical point of view, often find themselves losing or being pushed out of employment, or denied funding.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parapsychology (4886 words)

	Parapsychology FAQ Page 1
		Writing for such a broad audience is a challenge, because gaining an appreciation of parapsychology today requires at least a passing knowledge of a wide range of topics, including statistics, experimental design, quantum mechanical theory, the sociology and philosophy of science, history of parapsychology, and the scientific literature on parapsychology.
		Parapsychology is also often linked, again inappropriately, with a broad range of "psychic" entertainers, magicians, and so-called "paranormal investigators." In addition, some self-proclaimed "psychic practitioners" call themselves parapsychologists, but that is not what we do.
		Some critics of parapsychology seem to believe that all parapsychologists have hidden religious motives, and that they are really out to prove the existence of the soul.
	www.parapsych.org /faq_file1.html (2042 words)

	Parapsychology - Background Info: General Info
		Parapsychology (and its predecessor, psychical research,) deals with confronting those anomalies that are connected with the human mind.
		"Fundamental to the controversy are the claims of parapsychology.
		Stories from people who claim to have had psychic experiences, such as prophetic dreams or escaping death as a result of an intuition, raise the question of whether this is merely coincidence or applied psi.
	parapsych.shinryuu.com /geninfo.html (3428 words)

	Parapsychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parapsychology is the study of mental phenomena actual or purported that are not currently within the framework of mainstream conventional science.
		In modern form parapsychology is an interdisciplinary field has attracted physicists engineers and biologists as as psychologists and those from the softer many of whom have less regard for mental aspects than an interest in the for all fields if psi phenomena should gain widespread acceptance.
		It seems the field of parapsychology has some degree general acceptance in the sense that its is amenable to scientific study in theory at least some of its practitioners in use sound scientific methods even if there no agreement about the results of the to date.
	www.freeglossary.com /Parapsychology (3007 words)

	Objections to ESP
		Parapsychology experimenters today generally take stringent precautions against the possibility of subject fraud by maintaining conditions absolutely precluding the possibility of information leakage of any sort to the subject.
		Most a priori objections to parapsychology are based on the common-sense notion that psi phenomena must contradict the established laws of physics.
		Other a priori objections to parapsychology are based on the implicit belief that the existence of psi phenomena could essentially undermine the entire scientific effort to provide a rational description of the universe.
	jeff.zaadz.com /blog/2006/5/objections_to_esp (1418 words)

	Parapsychology
		Certain clairvoyants claim to be able to see the aura (generally as a luminous, coloured halo).
		Its paranormal claims were controversially and damningly reported upon by the Society for Psychical Research in 1885.
		Parapsychology is primarily concerned to investigate evidence for and against the reality of paranormal phenomena.
	www.sgha.net /parapsy.html (6013 words)

	parapsychology
		Parapsychology is the search for paranormal phenomena, such as ESP and psychokinesis.
		Much parapsychology today attempts to find statistical oddities that can't be explained either by the laws of chance or by any other known natural causes.
		Parapsychologists who claim to have found positive results often systematically ignore or rationalize their own studies if they don’t support psi.
	skepdic.com /parapsy.html (1280 words)

	Myswizard » Parapsychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parapsychology is the study of the evidence of mental awareness or influence of external objects without interaction from known physical means.
		That is, the prevailing experimental methodology and conventions of statistical analysis in parapsychology have not been susceptible to such critiques since the 1940s and 1950s when Feller first raised his criticisms.
		The bulk of the refinements to the methodological repertoire of the field of parapsychology — both in terms of experimental method and in terms of statistical and other evaluative techniques — have come from this segment of the community, that is, from the so-called “proponents”.
	www.myswizard.com /2006/01/02/parapsychology (4935 words)

	NTS Fact Sheet - ESP
		Parapsychology is the term used for the serious study of such claims.
		What is usually studied are the unverified, anecdotal claims of Madam Whiffle, the medium, or Uri Geller, the Israeli stage magician, or Aunt Tillie who remembers this funny thing that once happened to her.
		Rhine claimed in his 1934 book, Extra-Sensory Perception, to have found overwhelming evidence of ESP. However, other psychologists were unable to replicate his results, and it is now generally conceded that Rhine's experiments were poorly designed and allowed leakage of information between subject and tester.
	www.ntskeptics.org /FACTSHTS/esp.htm (2121 words)

	Debunking the Mysterious
		Parapsychology officially began in February 1882, when a London group of believers, spiritualists, and scientists - refugees from the 'Darwinian Revolution,' which replaced the powers of God with the processes of evolution - founded the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).
		The effect is significant because of the field's lack of diversity: only a handful of scientists study parapsychology; they are concentrated in a few large labs, and most of them believe in psi anyway.
		However, caution is certainly needed; parapsychology has made claims of evidence to overthrow the establishment since 1882.
	www.rso.cornell.edu /scitech/archive/95sum/para.html (1826 words)

	FAQpara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This was written as a general introduction to parapsychology for individuals ranging from advanced high-school students to professionals with little or no background in parapsychology.
		Parapsychology is also often linked, again inappropriately, with a broad range of "psychic" entertainers, magicians, and so-called "paranormal investigators." In addition, some self-proclaimed "psychic practitioners" call themselves parapsychologists, but that is not what we do, as this FAQ will help to clarify.
		In general, physicists tend to be interested in parapsychology because of the implication that we have a gross misunderstanding about space and time and the transmission of energy and information.
	twm.co.nz /FAQpara.htm (2164 words)

	Response to Ray Hyman's Report (AIR)
		On pages 4 and 5 of their September 29, 1994 SAIC final report, May, Luke and James summarize four reports that do precisely what Professor Hyman claims is not done in parapsychology; they put forth the accumulated evidence for anomalous cognition in a variety of formats.
		In this regard parapsychology in on par with scientific questions like the impact of electromagnetic fields on health, or the cross-cultural differences in memory that have been observed by psychologists.
		"Parapsychology is the only field of scientific inquiry that does not have even one exemplar that can be assigned to students with the expectation that they will observe the original results (p.
	anson.ucdavis.edu /~utts/response.html (1205 words)

	Parapsychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parapsychology is an outgrowth of the spiritualism movement in the ]ate 1800s in Great Britain and the United States.
		Rhine's claims of statistically significant results were controversial, and the experiments often proved unrepeatable – repeatability of results being a benchmark of scientific validity.
		They claim that subjects who believe in parapsychological phenomena tend to do better on the tests, as do subjects who are given immediate feedback after each guess.
	www.occultopedia.com /p/parapsychology.htm (3873 words)

	Parapsychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Parapsychology is the scientific study of 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 principles.
		Somewhere between these two extremes is the open-minded inquirer who has no particular axe to grind and is willing to consider the evidence on its own merits.
	www.webspawner.com /users/parapsychologyinform/index.html (263 words)

	Norpointe's Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Another category of performer has emerged over the years, a group that might be termed "psychic entertainers." These individuals are usually non-committal (at least in public) about their "powers" but limit their so-called psychic endeavors to public demonstrations conducted solely for purposes of entertainment.
		Parapsychology has never offered this type of proof and, consequently, it enjoys very little esteem among academicians and scholars, most of whom view it as a pseudoscience.
		Those who claim to be able to call forth psychic powers on demaind, as, for example, when the show starts or the client arrives, are inevitably engaging in deception.
	hometown.aol.com /Norpointe/index.html (2370 words)

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	Dreams and Parapsychology
		Parapsychologists have therefore taken an interest in the study of dreams, with the hope that dreams can be used to support their claims about extrasensory perception.
		On most research questions, such a small pay-off would lead to the abandonment of the effort because science is characterized by a continuing critique of traditional ideas and the search for new ideas.
		Third, it is surprising how minor and rare the precognitions and connections are in the few dream studies that claim to have found them.
	members.tripod.com /~o45tu/para.htm (660 words)

	Parapsychology - Psychic Phenomena.
		Subjective is "here, in the head," and objective is "there, out in the world." Parapsychology then is the study of phenomena suggesting that the assumption of a strict separation between subjective and objective may be wrong.
		She claimed she had a vision of our brother Ernest killed in battle and she had come home to give support to mother.
		She claimed she was the best left over cook in the world, which actually could have been true.
	www.world-mysteries.com /sci_4.htm (13831 words)

	Honorton the meta-analyst - Charles Honorton Journal of Parapsychology, The - Find Articles
		For anyone who has followed the history of parapsychology, there can be no doubt that the use of meta-analysis is an important part of that history.
		Even the early meta-analyses used in parapsychology relied on this "vote-counting" method of determining whether replication was evident.
		Certainly there were quantitative reviews of broad areas of parapsychology before the introduction of meta-analysis (see Schechter, 1987, for some references); but the widespread acceptance of meta-analysis as a way to consider controversial claims in medicine and the social sciences has made it ideal for examining claims in parapsychology as well.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2320/is_n1_v57/ai_14527233 (907 words)

	parapsychology
		parapsychology, study of mental phenomena not explainable by accepted principles of science.
		Such early efforts attempted to dissociate psychical phenomena from spiritualism and superstition, and particularly to investigate mediums and their claims of evoking spirits or apparitions.
		Many scientists criticize the claims made by parapsychologists, arguing in particular that there can be no proof of such phenomena.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0837604.html (262 words)

	Koestler’s Legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Author of Parapsychology: The Controversial Science (1991), he is one of a number of American parapsychologists now working in the UK.
		Broughton claims that parapsychology actually has a better record of repeatable experimenters than experiments, and feels that might be explained by the idea that brain activity in human beings is essentially random.
		This sets parapsychology apart from conventional scientific dogma, Jahn agrees, but feels that what parapsychology is dealing with is the “second half of human experience”.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/201_koestler3.shtml (1108 words)

	Parapsychology and the Supernatural
		This center is a non-profit research and education organization established to explore the unusual types of experiences that suggest capabilities as yet unrecognized in the domain of human personality, and to investigate those capabilities thoroughly by exact scientific methods.
		Their library is one of the largest parapsychology libraries open to the public and is located in New York City.
		He wrote the recently published "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural." The Foundation has set a $1 million paranormal challenge which is yet unclaimed.
	www2.lib.udel.edu /subj/psyc/resguide/parapsyc.htm (556 words)

	EXPLANATIONS OF THE SUPERNATURAL with MICHAEL SCRIVEN, Ph.D.
		We're all confronted with claims of the so-called paranormal and supernatural.
		The problem with parapsychology is that it never quite jells into a set of systematic procedures or events or phenomena, so that it's never quite clear what adjustments you've got to make for it.
		And so when faced with parapsychology, or claims from within parapsychology, their immediate reaction is to deny it because it's threatening to them; instead of which they should say, how interesting, and let's look at the evidence.
	www.intuition.org /txt/scriven3.htm (3889 words)

	Parapsychology and Extra
		Again, it is much easier to find books that support claims of parapsychology than those which refute it.
		Clearly supportive of ESP claims but also willing to acknowledge some of the weakness and problems.
		An interesting set of critical investigations by journalists, magicians, and paranormal investigators of the claims of various famous psychic crime-busters.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sch/beliefs/b-esp.htm (578 words)

	Life After Death
		Keep in mind that a belief in life after death does not require a belief in ghosts and that a belief in ghosts and other spirits does not logically entail a belief that mediums, spiritualists, and channelers can make contact with them or any other spiritual essence.
		A psychologist who has spent much of her professional life in sympathetic attempts to explore claims of parapsychology looks at the psychology and biology of near-death experiences.
		Despite book cover claims to the contrary this is hardly an unbiased treatment, but it does provide a readable albeit somewhat credulous summary of paranormal phenomena associated with the after-life such as after-death experiences, ghosts, hauntings, and séances.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sch/beliefs/b-death.htm (547 words)

	Parapsychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		From time to time prominent skeptics have participated in the design and execution of parapsychological experiments.
		A few parapsychologists are skeptics, for example Chris French and his colleagues at the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths University of London, and Richard Wiseman and his colleagues at the Perrott-Warrick Research Unit in the Psychology Department of the University of Hertfordshire, both of which units are affiliates of the Parapsychological Association.
		The most hotly debated issue is the interpretation of the existing body of evidence that the field of parapsychology has gathered to date.
	knowallabout.com /p/pa/parapsychology.html (2841 words)

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