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...

is about 100 years since the earliest university studies and first research developments occurred which led to the founding of the Society for Psychical Research in London in 1882. Thus, it seems appropriate to have a symposium on what is now called parapsychology at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago. The founders of the society were exceptional persons. One, Sir Arthur Balfour, later became P...

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...

A defining aspect of Spiritual Emergency (SE) is ‘psychic opening’ which may predict psi performance. This study tested paranormal (psi) performance individuals who have or had experiences spiritual emergency (i.e., ‘SE-Experients’), and compared their against controls. The also assessed psychological aspects SE to differentiate it from psychosis other proposed psi-inhibitive symptoms—namely, a...

Key conclusions: Experimenter misconduct has occurred many times in parapsychology and is a constant threat. Undetected cases are likely. Routine practices for confirmatory experiments should include: (a) prospective public registration of experiments, (b) experimental procedures that make intentional or unintentional data alterations by one person difficult, and (c) sharing data for analyses b...

Profile Study of Low-Income Population Seeking the Services of the Clinic of the Latin American Center of Parapsychology Maria Helena Brandalise1,2* and Gilberto Safra3 1Department of Psychology, University of São Paulo/USP, Av. Prof. Mello de Moraes, 1721 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Post Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo,...