Spirituality: The Legacy of Parapsychology

Parapsychology and Spirituality: Implications and Intimations

The "Enemies" of Parapsychology

The author regards as "enemies" of parapsychological research (1) those critics who confuse parapsychology with popular superstition, (2) those parapsychologists who know all the pieces of evidence for the reality of psi effects but who lack the capacity to integrate and to evaluate that evidence as a whole, and (3) those professional psychics whose faltering attempts to apply psi for profit gi...

Parapsychology: Science or Pseudo-Science?

Do paranormal or parapsychologicalinvestigationsmeet the criteria often said to characterize pseudo-science? Mainstream and non-mainstream research is compared through content analysis of selected samples of mainstream journals from several fields and of non-mainstream (‘‘fringe’’) journals. Oral communication processes were studied at an annual meeting of the ParapsychologicalAssociation. Thou...

The Spirituality Questionnaire: Core Dimensions of Spirituality

Jochen Hardt, Sonja Schultz, Carola Xander, Gerhild Becker, Malgorzata Dragan Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Email: [email protected]...

Averting the legacy of kidney disease-focus on childhood

World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being rela...