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Alvarado, Carlos S. “Guest editorial: Thoughts on the Study of Spontaneous
Cases – Editorial.” Originally published in The Journal of Parapsychology,
June 2002. Available from FindArticles.com:
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Alvarado, Carlos S. “Reflections on Being a Parapsychologist.” Journal of
Parapsychology, vol. 67, pp. 211-248 (2003). Available from:
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/articles/alvarado/parapsychologist.htm
Bauer, Eberhard. “Criticism and Controversy in Parapsychology - - An
Overview.” European Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 5, pp. 141-166 (1984).
Bem, Daryl J... Does Psi Exist? The World & I, 215-219, August 2004.
Bem, Daryl. J. Ganzfeld phenomena. In G. Stein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the
paranormal (pp. 291-296). Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books (1996)
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Braud, William G. “Lability and Inertia in Conformance Behavior.” Journal
of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. 74, pp. 297-318 (1980).
Burns, Jean E. “What is Beyond the Edge of the Known World?” Journal of
Consciousness Studies, vol. 10, No. 6-7, pp. 7-28 (2003). [Also published in
Psi Wars: Getting to Grips with the Paranormal, edited by James Alcock, Jean
Burns, and Anthony Freeman. Charlottesville, Va., and Exeter, UK: Imprint
Academic, pp. 7-28 (2003).]
Carpenter, James C. Parapsychology and the Psychotherapy Session: Their
Phenomenological Confluence, Journal of Parapsychology Vol. 52, 213+ (1988).
Carpenter, James C. First Sight: Part One, A Model of Psi and the Mind,
Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 68, pp. 217-254 (2004).
Carpenter, James C. First Sight: Part Two, Elaboration of a Model of Psi
and the Mind. Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 69, pp. 63-112 (2005).
Carpenter, James C. (2005). Implicit measures of participants’ experiences
in the ganzfeld. Confirmation of previous relationships in a new sample. .
Proceedings of Presented Papers: The Parapsychological Association 48th
Annual Convention, 36-45.
Carpenter, James .C. (2002). The intrusion of anomalous communication in
group and individual psychotherapy. Clinical observations and a research
project. 4º Simposio da Fundação Bial: Behind and Beyond the Brain. Porto:
Casa do Médico.
Child, Irvin L. “Psychology and Anomalous Observations: The Question of ESP
in Dreams.” American Psychologist, vol. 40, pp. 1219-1230 (1985).
Dalkvist, Jan. “The Ganzfeld Method: Its Current Status.” European Journal
of Parapsychology, vol. 16, pp. 19-22 (2001).
De Graaf, Theo K., and Joop M. Houtkooper. “Anticipatory awareness of
emotionally charged targets by individuals with histories of emotional
trauma.” Originally published in The Journal of Parapsychology, Spring 2004.
Available from FindArticles.com:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320/is_1_68/ai_n13699201
Delanoy, Deborah L. “Anomalous Psychophysiological Responses to Remote
Cognition: The DMILS Studies.” European Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 16,
pp. 30-41 (2001).
Delanoy, Deborah "Experimental Evidence Suggestive of Anomalous
Consciousness Interactions", 2nd Gauss Symposium, Munich, August 1993.
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/psi/delanoy/delanoy.html
Drewes, Athena A. “Dr. Louisa Rhine’s letters revisited: The children.”
Journal of Parapsychology , Dec 2002. Available from FindArticles.com:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320/is_4_66/ai_97754937
Dunne, Brenda J. and Robert G. Jahn. “Information and Uncertainty in Remote
Perception Research.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 17, No. 2, pp.
207-241 (2003).
Ed ge, Hoyt, Luh Ketut Suryani, Niko Tiliopoulos, and Robert Morris. “Two
cognitive DMILS studies in Bali.” Journal of Parapsychology (Fall 2004).
Available from FindArticles.com:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320/is_2_68/ai_n16107400
Fontana, David. “Survival Research: Opposition and Future Developments.”
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. 68, pp. 193-209 (2004).
Greyson, Bruce. “A Typology of Near-Death Experiences.” American Journal of
Psychiatry, vol. 142, pp. 967-969 (1985).
Greyson, Bruce. “Can Science Explain the Near-Death Experience?” Journal of
Near-Death Studies, vol. 8, pp. 77-92 (1989).
Gruber, Elmar R. “PK Effects on Pre-Recorded Group Behavior of Living
Systems.” European Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 3, pp. 167-175 (1980).
Hardy, Christine. “Tackling the Mind-Matter Problem from a Consciousness
Perspective.” In: Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the
Future of Psychical Research. Michael A. Thalbourne and Lance Storm,
editors. Foreword by Brian D. Josephson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and
Company, pp. 230-241, (2005)
Honorton, Charles. “Rhetoric over Substance: The Impoverished State of
Skepticism.” In K. Ramakrishna Rao, editor. Charles Honorton and the
Impoverished State of Skepticism. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1994, pp.
191-214. (Originally published in Scienza & Paranormale, vol. 1, no. 3, June
1993)
Jahn, Robert G. and Brenda J. Dunne, The Pertinence of PEAR in the Pursuit
of Global Health, Special issue of EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and
Healing, Vol. 3, No. 3, 191-345 (2007).
Kennedy, J. E. “The Capricious, Actively Evasive, Unsustainable Nature of
Psi: A Summary and Hypothesis.” The Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 67, pp.
53-74 (2003).
Krippner, Stanley Anomalous Experiences and Dreams in Deirdre Barrett and
Patrick McNamara, The New Science of Dreaming, (2007)
Krippner, Stanley Geomagnetic Field Effects in Anomalous Dreams and the
Akashic Field, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution , vol. 62,
Nos. 1-2, January-March 2006 , pp. 103-113(11)
May, Edwin C. “Towards the Physics of Psi: Correlations with Physical
Variables.” European Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 16, pp. 42-52 (2001).
Nelson, Roger D. “Gathering of Global Mind.” No date. Available from:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/story.html
Palmer, John. “Progressive Skepticism: A Critical Approach to the Psi
Controversy.” Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 50, pp. 31-44 (1986).
Palmer, John. “ESP in the Ganzfeld: Analysis of a Debate.” Journal of
Consciousness Studies, vol. 10 (no. 6-7), pp. 51-68 (2003).
Palmer, John, and Neppe, Vernon. “ A Controlled Analysis of Subjective
Paranormal Experiences in Temporal Lobe Dysfunction in a Neuropsychiatric
Population.” Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 67 , pp. 75-97 (2003) .
Parker, Adrian, and Göran Brusewitz. “A Compendium of the Evidence for
Psi.” European Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 18, pp. 29-48 (2003).
Persinger, M. A., and G. B. Schaut. “Geomagnetic Factors in Spontaneous
Telepathic, Precognitive, and Postmortem Experiences.” In Debra H. Weiner
and Roger D. Nelson, editors, Research in Parapsychology, 1986. Metuchen,
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Radin, Dean. “Unconscious Perception of Future Emotions: An Experiment in
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Radin, Dean “ Eve nt-Related Electroencephalographic Correlations Between
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Radin, Dean and Roger Nelson. “Meta-analysis of Mind-Matter Interaction
Experiments: 1959-2000.” Available from:
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“2000.”)
Rauscher, Elizabeth A., and Russell Targ. “The Speed of Thought:
Investigation of a Complex Space-Time Metric to Describe Psychic Phenomena.”
Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 15, pp. 331-354 (2001).
Roll, William G. “Poltergeists, Electromagnetism and Consciousness.”
Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 75-86 (2003).
Schlitz, Marilyn J., and Charles Honorton. “Ganzfeld psi performance within
an artistically gifted population.” Journal of the American Society for
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Schmeidler, G. R. “Psi-Conducive experimenters and psi-permissive ones.”
European Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 13, pp. 83-94 (1997)
Schmidt, Helmut. “Comparison of PK Action on Two Different Random Number
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Sheldrake, Rupert, and Aimée Morgana. “Testing a Language-Using Parrot for
Telepathy.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 17, pp. 601-615 (2003).
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Sheldrake, R. and P. Smart. “A dog that seems to know when his owner is
coming home: videotaped experiments and observations”. Journal of Scientific
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Stanford, Rex G. “Toward Reinterpreting Psi Events.” Journal of the
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Stanford, Rex G., Robert Zenhausern, Adelle Taylor, and Mary Ann Dwyer.
“Psychokinesis as Psi-Mediated Instrumental Response.” Journal of the
American Society for Psychical Research, vol. 69, pp. 127-133 (1975).
Stevens, Paul. “The effect of weak magnetic fields on a random event
generator: reconsidering the role of geomagnetic fluctuations in microPK
studies.” European Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 20, pp. 135-149 (2005).
Stevenson, Ian. “Thoughts on the Decline of Major Paranormal Phenomena.”
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(1990).
Targ, Russell, and Jane E. Katra. “Remote Viewing in a Group Setting.”
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Targ, Elisabeth, Marilyn Schlitz, and Harvey J. Irwin. “Psi-Related
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Wiseman, R., and C. Watt. “Experimenter differences in cognitive correlates
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Wiseman, Richard, and Marilyn Schlitz. “Experimenter effects and the remote
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