DEAN RADIN
This is a short list of peer-reviewed journal articles and books about psi phenomena. It includes articles of historical interest, general overviews, critical reviews, and descriptions of psi applications. These articles appeared in specialty journals as well as top-tier outlets, including Nature, Science, The Lancet, Proceedings of the IEEE, Psychological Bulletin, Foundations of Physics, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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A comprehensive review would run into the thousands of articles, so this list is necessarily highly selected. I will add more as time allows. Be sure to note the links at the bottom of this page; those websites contain many more articles. If you find broken or incorrect links, or you don't see an article that you think should be added here, please let me know.
The international professional organization for scientists and scholars interested in psi phenomena is the Parapsychological Association, an elected affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest mainstream scientific organization in the world. Anyone who claims that parapsychology is a pseudoscience doesn't know what they're talking about.
Can psi phenomena be repeated in controlled laboratory tests? Yes. Here's a good article that summarizes the state of the art as of 2018: Cardeña (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist. pdf
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This page was originally created by Dean Radin in 2015. Latest update: July 2021.
Distant healing
Astin et al (2000). The efficacy of “distant healing”: A systematic review of randomized trials. Annals of Internal Medicine. pdf
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Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: Randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal. pdf
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Krucoff et al (2001). Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot. American Heart Journal. pdf
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Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events.. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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Krucoff et al (2005). Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study. The Lancet. pdf
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Benson et al (2006). Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients. American Heart Journal. pdf
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Masters & Spielmans (2007). Prayer and health: Review, meta-analysis, and research agenda. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. pdf
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Schwartz & Dossey (2010). Nonlocality, intention, and observer effects in healing studies. Laying a foundation for the future Explore. pdf
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Schwartz et al (2015). Infrared spectra alteration in water proximate to the palms of therapeutic practitioners. Explore. pdf
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Schlitz et al (2012). Distant healing of surgical wounds: An exploratory study. Explore. pdf
Distant physiological correlations
Duane & Behrendt (1965). Extrasensory electroencephalographic induction between identical twins. Science. pdf
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Grinberg-Zylberbaum et al (1994). The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in the brain: The transferred potential. Physics Essays. pdf
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Wiseman & Schlitz (1997). Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Standish et al (2003). Evidence of correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging signals between distant human brains. Alternative Therapies. pdf
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Wackermann et al (2003). Correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated human subjects. Neuroscience Letters. pdf
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Schmidt et al (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses. British Journal of Psychology. pdf
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Radin (2004). Event related EEG correlations between isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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Standish et al (2004). Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated event-related signals between the brains of spatially and sensory isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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Richards et al (2005). Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence of correlated brain signals between physically and sensory isolated subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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Achterberg et al (2005). Evidence for correlations between distant intentionality and brain function in recipients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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Radin (2005). The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf
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Radin & Schlitz (2005). Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: An exploratory study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf
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Schlitz et al (2006). Of two minds: Skeptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology. British Journal of Psychology. pdf
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Radin et al (2008). Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system. Explore. pdf
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Moulton & Kosslyn (2008). Using neuroimaging to resolve the psi debate. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf
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Ambach (2008). Correlations between the EEGs of two spatially separated subjects − a replication study. European Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Hinterberger (2010). Searching for neuronal markers of psi: A summary of three studies measuring electrophysiology in distant participants. pdf
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Schmidt (2012). Can we help just by good intentions? A meta-analysis of experiments on distant intention effects.
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf
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Jensen & Parker (2012). Entangled in the womb? A pilot study on the possible physiological connectedness between identical twins with different embryonic backgrounds. Explore. pdf
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Parker & Jensen (2013). Further possible physiological connectedness between identical twins: The London study. Explore pdf
Remote viewing (clairvoyance), telepathy, general ESP
Remote viewing (clairvoyance)
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Targ & Puthoff (1974). Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding. Nature. pdf
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Puthoff & Targ (1976). A perceptual channel for information transfer over kilometer distance: Historical perspective and recent research. Proceedings of the IEEE. pdf
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May et al (1990). Advances in remote-viewing analysis. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Spottiswoode (1997). Apparent association between effect size in free response anomalous cognition experiments and local sidereal time. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Telepathy and general ESP
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Eisenberg & Donderi (1979). Telepathic transfer of emotional information in humans. Journal of Psychology. pdf
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Bem & Honorton (1994). Does psi exist? Psychological Bulletin. pdf
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Hyman (1994). Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
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Bem (1994). Response to Hyman. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
Milton & Wiseman (1999). Does psi exist? Lack of replication of an anomalous process of information transfer. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
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Sheldrake & Smart (2000). Testing a return-anticipating dog, Kane. Anthrozoös. pdf
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Sheldrake & Smart (2000). A dog that seems to know when his owner to coming home: Videotaped experiments and observations. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Storm & Ertel (2001). Does psi exist? Comments on Milton and Wiseman's (1999) meta-analysis of ganzfeld research. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
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Milton & Wiseman (2001). Does Psi Exist? Reply to Storm and Ertel (2001). Psychological Bulletin pdf
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Sheldrake & Morgana (2003). Testing a language-using parrot for telepathy. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Sheldrake & Smart (2003). Videotaped experiments on telephone telepathy. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Sherwood & Roe (2003). A review of dream ESP studies conducted since the Maimonides dream ESP programme. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf
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Delgado-Romero & Howard (2005). Finding and correcting flawed research literatures. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf
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Hastings (2007). Comment on Delgado-Romero and Howard. The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf
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Radin (2007). Finding or imagining flawed research? .The Humanistic Psychologist. pdf
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Storm et al (2010). Meta-analysis of free-response studies, 1992–2008: Assessing the noise reduction model in parapsychology. Psychological Bulletin pdf
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Storm et al (2010). A meta-analysis with nothing to hide: Reply to Hyman (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf
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Tressoldi (2011). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the case of non-local perception, a classical and Bayesian review of evidences. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
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Tressoldi et al (2011). Mental connection at distance: Useful for solving difficult tasks? Psychology. pdf
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Williams (2011). Revisiting the ganzfeld ESP debate: A basic review and assessment. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Rouder et al (2013). A Bayes Factor meta-analysis of recent extrasensory perception experiments: Comment on Storm,
Tressoldi, and Di Risio (2010). Psychological Bulletin pdf
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Storm et al (2013). Testing the Storm et al. (2010) Meta-Analysis using Bayesian and frequentist approaches: Reply to Rouder et al. (2013). Psychological Bulletin pdf
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Storm et al (2017). On the correspondence between dream content and target material under laboratory conditions:
A meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies, 1966-2016. International Journal of Dream Research pdf
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Storm & Tressoldi (2020). Meta-analysis of free-response studies 2009-2018: Assessing the noise-reduction model ten years on. pdf
General reviews and applications
Overviews and commentaries​
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Rao & Palmer (1987). The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. pdf
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Utts (1996). An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Alcock (2003). Give the null hypothesis a chance. Journal of Consciousness Studies pdf
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Parker & Brusewitz (2003). A compendium of the evidence for psi. European Journal of Parapsychology pdf
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Jahn & Dunne (2005). The PEAR Proposition. Explore. pdf
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Carter (2010). Heads I lose, tails you win. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
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Schwartz (2010). Nonlocality and exceptional experiences: A study of genius, religious epiphany, and the psychic. Explore. pdf
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Utts (2016). Appreciating statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association. pdf
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Cardeña (2018). The experimental evidence for parapsychological phenomena: A review. American Psychologist. pdf
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Schwartz (2018). Nonlocal consciousness and the anthropology of religion. Explore. pdf
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Reber & Alcock (2019). Searching for the impossible: Parapsychology’s elusive quest. American Psychologist. pdf
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Rabeyron (2020). Why most research findings about psi are false: The replicability crisis, the psi paradox, and the myth of Sisyphus. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
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Applications
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Kolodziejzyk (2012). Greg Kolodziejzyk's 13-year associative remote viewing experiment results. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
Schwartz (2019). The location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure in Marea, Egypt, including a comparison of electronic remote sensing and remote viewing .Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Schwartz and DeMattei (2020). The discovery of an American brig: Fieldwork involving applied remote viewing
Including a comparison with electronic remote sensing. .Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Survival of consciousness
Braude (1992). Survival or super-psi. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
van Lommel et al (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. The Lancet. pdf
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Braude (2005). Personal identity and postmortem survival. Social Philosophy and Policy pdf
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van Lommel (2006). Near-death experience, consciousness, and the brain. World Futures. pdf
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Beischel & Schwartz (2007). Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol. Explore. pdf
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Braude (2009). Perspectival Awareness and Postmortem Survival. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Neppe (2009). A detailed analysis of an important chess game revisiting "Marcozy versus Korchnoi" Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
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Greyson (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died: “Peak in Darien” experiences. Anthropology and Humanism pdf
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Kelly (2010). Some directions for mediumship research. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Kelly & Arcangel (2011). An investigation of mediums who claim to give information about deceased persons. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease pdf
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Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics pdf
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Facco & Agrillo (2012). Near-death experiences between science and prejudice. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience pdf
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Matlock (2012). Bibliography of reincarnation resources online (articles and books, all downloadable) pdf
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Beischel et al. (2015). Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension. Explore pdf
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Neppe et al. (2019). .The remarkable Besant-Leadbeater studies in quantal clairvoyance (quantal remote viewing) correlate profoundly with the Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence Quantal models in Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm. IQNJ pdf
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Precognition
Honorton & Ferrari (1989). “Future telling”: A meta-analysis of forced-choice precognition experiments, 1935-1987. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Spottiswoode & May (2003). Skin conductance prestimulus response analyses, artifacts and a pilot study. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Radin (2004). Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1. The Surprising Role of the Heart. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2. A System-Wide Process? Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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Radin & Lobach (2007). Toward understanding the placebo effect: Investigating a possible retrocausal factor. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine pdf
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Radin & Borges (2009). Intuition through time: What does the seer see? Explore. pdf
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Bem (2011). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology pdf
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Bem et al (2011). Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology pdf
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Bierman (2011). Anomalous switching of the bi-stable percept of a Necker Cube. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Radin et al (2011). Electrocortical activity prior to unpredictable stimuli in meditators and non-meditators. Explore. pdf
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Radin (2011). Predicting the unpredictable: 75 years of experimental evidence. Explore. pdf
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Tressoldi et al (2011). Let your eyes predict : Prediction accuracy of pupillary responses to random alerting and neutral sounds. SAGE Open. pdf
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Galek et al (2012). Correcting the past: Failures to replicate psi. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf
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Mossbridge et al (2012). Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
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Bem et al (2014). Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events. F1000Research. pdf
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Mossbridge et al (2014). Predicting the unpredictable: Critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf
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Schwarzkopf (2014). We should have seen this coming. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. pdf
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Mossbridge et al (2015). We did see this coming. arXiv.org . pdf
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Woody and Lynn (2018). Perspectives on precognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf
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Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Precognition as a form of prospection: A review of the evidence. Psychology of Consciousness pdf
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Schooler et al (2018). Entertaining without endorsing: The case for the scientific investigation of anomalous cognition. Psychology of Consciousness . pdf
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Houran et al (2018). Cross-examining the case for precognition: Comment on Mossbridge and Radin (2018) .Psychology of Consciousness. pdf
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Schwarzkopf (2018). On the plausibility of scientific hypotheses: Commentary on Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Psychology of Consciousness. pdf
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Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Plausibility, statistical interpretations, physical mechanisms and a new outlook: Response to commentaries on a precognition review. Psychology of Consciousness pdf
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Maier et al (2020). A preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier et al. (2014, Exp. 4) testing retroactive avoidance. PLOS One. pdf
Theory
Josephson & Pallikari-Viras (1991). Biological utilisation of quantum nonlocality. Foundations of Physics. pdf
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May et al (1995). Decision augmentation theory: Towards a model of anomalous mental phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Houtkooper (2002). Arguing for an observational theory of paranormal phenomena. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Bierman (2003). Does consciousness collapse the wave-packet? Mind and Matter. pdf
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Dunne & Jahn (2005). Consciousness, information, and living systems. Cellular and Molecular Biology. pdf
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Henry (2005). The mental universe. Nature. pdf
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Hiley & Pylkkanen (2005). Can mind affect matter via active information? Mind & Matter. pdf
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Lucadou et al (2007). Synchronistic phenomena as entanglement correlations in generalized quantum theory. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf
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Rietdijk (2007). Four-dimensional physics, nonlocal coherence, and paranormal phenomena. Physics Essays. pdf
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Bierman (2010). Consciousness induced restoration of time symmetry (CIRTS ): A psychophysical theoretical perspective. Journal of Parapsychology. pdf
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Tressoldi et al (2010). Extrasensory perception and quantum models of cognition. Neuroquantology. pdf
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Tressoldi (2012). Replication unreliability in psychology: elusive phenomena or “elusive” statistical power? Frontiers in Psychology. pdf
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Kauffman & Radin (2021). Is brain-mind quantum? A theory and supporting evidence. arXiv. pdf
Mind-matter interaction
Studies of historical interest
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Crookes (1874). Researches in the phenomena of spiritualism. The Quarterly Journal of Science. pdf
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Crookes (1874). Notes of séances with DDH (physical medium Daniel D. Home). pdf
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Medhurst & Goldney (1964). William Crookes and the physical phenomena of mediumship. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
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Merrifield (1885/1971). Merrifield’s report (on D. D. Home). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
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Zorab (1971). Were D. D. Home’s ‘spirit hands” ever fraudulently produced? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. pdf
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Experimental studies and meta-analyses
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Jahn (1982). The persistent paradox of psychic phenomena: An engineering perspective. Proceedings of the IEEE. pdf
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Schmidt (1987). The strange properties of psychokinesis. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Schmidt (1990). Correlation between mental processes and external random events. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Radin & Nelson (1989). Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems. Foundations of Physics. pdf
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Radin & Ferrari (1991). Effects of consciousness on the fall of dice: A meta-analysis.. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Jahn et al (1997). Correlations of random binary sequences with pre-stated operator intention: A review of a 12-year program. Journal of Scientific Exploration pdf
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Freedman et al (2003). Effects of frontal lobe lesions on intentionality and random physical phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Bosch et al (2006). Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
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Radin et al (2006). Reexamining psychokinesis. Psychological Bulletin. pdf
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Radin et al (2006). Assessing the evidence for mind-matter interaction effects. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Radin (2006). Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction. Journal of Scientific Exploration. pdf
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Radin. (2008). Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge. Explore. pdf
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Radin et al (2012). Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments. Physics Essays. pdf
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Radin et al (2021). Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern: Exploratory evidence of a causal influence. Physics Essays pdf
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Shiah & Radin (2013). A randomized trial investigating the roles of intention and belief on mood while drinking tea. Explore. pdf
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Shiah et al (2017). Effects of intentionally treated water on growth of Arabidopsis Thaliana seeds with cryptochrome mutations. Explore. pdf
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Freedman et al (2018). Mind-matter interactions and the frontal lobes of the brain: A novel neurobiological model of psi inhibition. Explore. pdf
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Schwartz (2019). Water, wine and the sacred, an anthropological view of substances altered by intentioned awareness, including objective and aesthetic effects.. Explore. pdf
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Walach et al. (2020). Evidence for anomalistic correlations between human behavior and a random event generator: Result of an independent replication of a micro-PK experiment. Psychology of Consciousness. pdf
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Field Consciousness Studies
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Nelson et al (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events. Foundations of Physics Letters. pdf
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Crawford et al (2003). Alterations in random event measures associated with a healing practice. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. pdf
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Nelson & Bancel (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: Changes in random data during global events. Explore. pdf
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Bancel (2017). Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration. Explore. pdf supplementary
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Nelson (2017). Weighting the parameters, a response to Bancel's "Searching for global consciousness: A seventeen year exploration". Explore. pdf
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Holmberg, U. (2020). Stock returns and the mind. Journal of Consciousness Studies. pdf
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Recommended sources
Professional Societies
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Society for Psychical Research
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Society for Scientific Exploration
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Academic and Private Research Institutes
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Institute of Noetic Sciences (USA)
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Duke University Parapsychology Laboratory records 1893-1984
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Parapsychology Foundation (USA)
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International Metapsychic Institute (France)
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Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia (USA)
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Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (Germany)
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Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (USA)
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Laboratories for Fundamental Research (USA)
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Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh (Scotland UK)
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Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology, Lund University (Sweden)
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Psychical Research Foundation (USA)
PRF Articles
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Funders
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Bial Foundation (Portugal)
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Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (USA)
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Active Researcher Sites
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Charles Tart's website
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Patrizio Tressoldi's website
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Michael Nahm's website
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Andreas Sommer's website
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Markus Maier's website
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Chris Roe's website
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Stephan Schwartz's articles or alternative site
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James Spottiswoode's articles
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Carlos Alvarado and Nancy Zingrone's website
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Garret Moddel's University of Colorado "psiphen" website
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Deceased Researcher Sites
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Suitbert Ertel's articles
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Recommended books
Besides my own books (shameless plug), this is my minimal recommended reading list for those serious about getting up to speed on the psi literature. A good starter library might consist of about 50 titles. A comprehensive library would easily run over 1,000 volumes. The links point to Amazon out of convenience, but these books are available wherever books are sold. If you don't see a book that ought to be here, let me know.
Scholarly works
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Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century link
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Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality link
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First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life link
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Definitive series on the US government's classified program of psychic espionage
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The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972-1995. Volumes 1 - 4 link
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Excellent, multidisciplinary anthology on the state of the art of psi research (as of 2015)
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Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century. link
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Popular books
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Is There An Afterlife?: A Comprehensive Overview of the Evidence link
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Life Before Life: Children's Memories of Previous Lives link
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A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal: Our Secret Powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition link
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The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn link
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Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness. link
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The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge link
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