Scientific Research

Scientific & Educational

Web sites featuring institutional and academic studies of the paranormal and
leading edges of scientific exploration, as well as skeptic resources

	Academy of Religion & Psychical Research: Encourages dialogue, exchange of ideas, education, and cooperation between clergy and academics of religion and philosophy and scientists, researchers and academics of all scientific and humanistic disciplines in the fields of psychical research and new disciplines as well as the historic sciences.
	Academy of Remote Viewing & Remote Influencing (ARVARI): A vast web site for explaining and reviewing experiments in Remote Viewing.
	American Association Electronic Voice Phenomena: AA-EVP is an association founded in 1982 by Sarah Estep to provide objective evidence that we survive death in an individual conscious state. The membership includes people who record paranormal voices, pictures and information from friends and loved ones on the other side through tape recorders, telephones, fax machines, television, computers and video recorders.
	Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC): This site promotes research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness.
	ADEC: The Association for Death Education and Counseling is a multi-disciplinary professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in death education, bereavement counseling, and care of the dying. Based on theory and quality research, ADEC provides information, support, and resources to its multicultural membership and, through them, to the public.
	Gregg Braden: New York Times best-selling author and guide to sacred sites throughout the world, Gregg Braden has been a featured guest for international conferences and media specials bridging the wisdom of our past with the science of our future. A former geologist and senior aerospace systems designer (Martin Marietta Aerospace, Phillips Petroleum, Cisco Systems) Braden is now considered a leading authority on the spiritual philosophy of the ancient Essenes and many indigenous traditions throughout the world. His journeys into the remote mountain villages, monasteries, and temples of times past, coupled with his background in the hard sciences, uniquely qualify him to bring the benefit of long-lost traditions to the forefront of our lives today.
	California Institute for Human Science: CIHS is a graduate school and researcher center, dedicated to research in bio-energy, subtle energies, integral psychology, and global consciousness for the 21st century. CIHS studies the integration of Eastern and Western medicine and philosophy,
	Center for Extraordinary Explorations: Site provided by Deborah Lindemann, a clinical hypnotherapist and researcher, dedicated to those experiences, and the research and study of: Alien Contact and UFOs, Reincarnation, Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences (OBE's and NDE's), Dreams, and Angelic Encounters. Check back often as this site expands with new research and articles.
	Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS): The mission of CTNS is to promote the creative mutual interaction between contemporary theology and the natural sciences. The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) strives to bridge these two disciplines. CTNS is a non-profit international membership organization dedicated to research, teaching and public service. It focuses primarily on the relation between contemporary physics, cosmology, technology, environmental studies, evolutionary and molecular biology and Christian theology and ethics.
	Consciousness Studies at The University of Arizona: Encourages the promotion of open, scientifically rigorous and sustained discussions of all phenomena related to the mindConsciousness Studies at The University of Arizona encourages the promotion of open, scientifically rigorous and sustained discussions of all phenomena related to the mind.
	Division of Perceptual Studies, Univ. of Virginia: The Division's main purpose is the scientific investigation of phenomena that suggest that currently accepted scientific assumptions and theories about the nature of mind or consciousness, and its relationship to matter, may be incomplete. Examples of such phenomena include various types of extrasensory perception, apparitions and deathbed visions, poltergeists near-death experiences (NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and claimed memories of previous lives. Submit your personal experiences!
	Earth Site: John McConnell is founder of Earth Day, and reminds us, "All individuals and institutions have a mutual responsibility to now act as Trustees of Earth, seeking the choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, foster peaceful progress, awaken the wonder of life, and realize the best potential for the future of the human adventure."
	Earthquakes: 'The Charlotte King Effect': This website offers the general public greater understanding of the 'signs' & 'warnings' proceeding a seismic event. Intuitive sensitive & pioneer of Biological Earthquake Prediction, Charlotte King is world-renowned and best known for her accurate prediction of the major eruption of Washington's Mt. St. Helen's, May 18, 1980. She was a mere 12 minutes off! This prediction threw her into the limelight and attracted the attention of scientists and journalists alike. Doctors, as well as the USA military, were perplexed by her unusual ability to hear sounds in the ULF, VLF, and ELF ranges. In more recent years, Charlotte has predicted the major quakes in Landers, Northridge, and Joshua Tree, California, as well as Turkey and Taiwan in 1999.
	Greater Reality: This Greater Reality Internet Web site is dedicated to helping us all explore and understand the greater reality. The issues explored are remote viewing, psychic ability, life after death (the afterlife), the spiritual, the soul, the Higher Power (God, the Divine), clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, mediums, telepathy, the supernatural, extrasensory perception (ESP), precognition, near death experiences (NDEs), and how people can have happiness in life.
	IANDS: For those who have an interest in near-death experiences; those who have had a near-death experience (or related phenomena) and their loved ones; those who research these phenomena; those health-care professionals who care for the critically ill; those who are seriously ill; and those who have an interest in understanding the nature of human consciousness.
	ICRL: International Consciousness Research Laboratories was established in 1990 as an informal, multi-disciplinary consortium of accomplished scholars, all of whom are committed to collaborative scholarly exploration of the role of consciousness in physical reality. The organization has four primary goals: Strengthening the relevant empirical databases; Developing effective theoretical models; Communicating research results; Encouraging the interest of young scholars. Founded by Bob Jahn of PEAR Lab.
	International Academy of Conscientiology: This site offers an overview of activities and the sciences of Conscientiology and Projectiology. Browsing these pages you will find information about Out-of-Body Experience (aka astral projection or OBE), Vital Energy, Paranormal Phenomena, Psychic Abilities, Self Awareness, and Consciousness Development.
	ISSEEM: This is an interdisciplinary organization for the study of the basic sciences and medical and therapeutic applications of subtle energies. ISSSEEM was organized for the purpose of improving human health and welfare through the advancement of education, practice, training, and research in the emerging field of subtle energies and energy medicine by (a) increasing the knowledge of the membership about the fields of subtle energies and energy medicine via meetings, educational programs, publications, and special interest groups; (b) improving applications of subtle energies and energy medicine through high standards of professional practice, peer review, ethics, and education; (c) promoting Independent Exploration Groups; and (d) disseminating information to the public about subtle energies and energy medicine.
	Institute of Noetic Sciences: A nonprofit membership organization located in Northern California that conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. The institute explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.
	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP): Located in Palo Alto, CA, the ITP is a private, non-sectarian graduate school accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. For over twenty years the Institute has remained a leader at the forefront of psychological research and education, probing the mind, body, spirit connection. The Institute's challenging and transformative educational paradigm has attracted students from all over the world.
	International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA): Remote viewing is a novel perceptual discipline for gaining information not available to the ordinary physical senses. Used extensively by so-called "psychic spies" during the Cold War for classified military projects, it has a long history both as an intelligence gathering tool and as the subject of research and applications in the civilian world. Remote viewing has now taken a long step into the public domain with the formation of a professional association to propose standards, test performance, and promote peaceful use and development of this unique human mental capacity. This site offers lots of information and referrals for more.
	Survival After Death: SurvivalAfterDeath.org was originated by Thomas Jones of Wales and David Duffield of West Virginia in 2002 with the aim of publishing articles, books and photographs relating to survival after death and psychical research. They are an independent group which regularly cooperates with several distinguished psychical researchers and parapsychologists.
	Leading Edge International Scientific Group: This site offers Scientific, Social and Planetary Paradigm Research, including chat forums, discussion groups, articles, resources, and a vast number of links to scientific and esoteric perspectives of the dimension known as 'time,' as understood beyond linear.
	Man & the Unknown: This site includes much research of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVPs), life after death, the origins of the New Age articles, and much more.
	The Monroe Institute: Robert Monroe was the author of innumerable books on out-of-body/astral travel. The Institute promotes the evolution of human consciousness and the development of other states of awareness through personal experience using an audio technology called Hemi-Sync. The Monroe Institute is a non-profit research and educational organization which has investigated human consciousness for over forty years, and offers many programs to the public. Robert Monroe says: "The great illusion is that man has limitations."
	MUFON ~ Mutual UFO Network: The world's largest civilian UFO research organization, MUFON's mission is the systematic collection & analysis of UFO data, with the ultimate goal of learning the origin & nature of the UFO phenomenon. The Mutual UFO Network, Inc. is an international scientific organization composed of people seriously interested in studying and researching the phenomenon known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) by combining their mutual talents, areas of expertise, and investigative efforts.
	P.E.A.R. Lab ~ Princeton University: Princeton Engineering Anomolies Research Laboratory provides for rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice.
	Lloyd Pye: Featuring Lloyd's book, Everything You Know is Wrong, with many examples given to illustrate that Darwinism does not, as advertised, explain either how life first came to be on Earth, or how it has subsequently developed into the millions of plant and animal species that have existed since then. It also shows why and how the pressures exerted by Creationists force Darwinists to support a theory with no verifiable basis in the fossil record.
	Reality Shifters: Cynthia Larson, researcher and author, offers discussions of the physical and spiritual principles behind the change points at the source of synchronicity, coincidence, and answered wishes and prayers. Discover how to measure and increase your energy field, how your thoughts and feelings change the world and how to live lucidly -- seeing the world improve moment by moment with your thoughts and feelings.
	Skeptics Society & Magazine: The Skeptics Society is a scientific and educational organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers, and anyone curious about controversial ideas, extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas and the promotion of science. Our mission is to serve as an educational tool for those seeking clarification and viewpoints on those controversial ideas and claims.
	Society for Scientific Exploration: SSE provides a critical forum of rationality and observational evidence for the often strange claims at the fringes of science. Hosts annual conferences in USA and international conferences bi-annually in Europe.
	Charles T. Tart, Ph.D.: Dr. Tart is a Core Faculty member of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, is internationally known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. His two classic books, Altered States of Consciousness (1969) and Transpersonal Psychologies (1975), became widely used texts that were instrumental in allowing these areas to become part of modern psychology. Most current book available is Body Mind Spirit.
	T.A.S.T.E.: This site is an online journal devoted to transcendent experiences that scientists have reported. It lets scientists express these experiences in a safe place, collects and shares them to debunk the stereotype that 'real' scientists don't have 'spiritual' or 'mystical' or 'psychic' experiences; builds a database of these experiences for future research; and helps us understand the full range of the human mind.
	NDEs and the Afterlife: An Internet forum dedicated to Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), including NDE research, NDE experts, notable NDEs, and scientific evidence of survival after death. This web site is hosted by Kevin Wiiliams, author of Nothing Better Than Death.
	Ken Wilber: With sixteen books on spirituality and science, and translations in twenty countries, Wilber is now the most translated academic author in the United States. He is seen as an important representative of transpersonal psychology, which emerged in the sixties from humanistic psychology, and which concerns itself explicitly with spirituality. For the fundamental and pioneering nature of his insights, he has been called "the Einstein of consciousness."
	World Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC): Hosted by author/researcher Mark Macy, this site is devoted to EVP research and results. Scientists and researchers from various countries began to get mind-boggling spirit contacts through electronic devices near the end of the 20th Century. They received pictures from the worlds of spirit across TV and computer screens, chatted with invisible friends by phone and radio, and took pictures of themselves "posing" with departed colleagues and loved ones in specially equipped labs where the invisible becomes visible. Today the young field of research called instrumental transcommunication (ITC) is giving us new insights into a larger reality while changing the way we look at our world. Check out Mark's books at the ADC Bookstore!
	Victor Zammit: Victor, an Australian attorney, was initially suspicious of the New Age Movement for its blatant commercial exploitation of people’s basic instinctual tendency for spiritual development. However, he did have a number of psychic/spiritual experiences which set him questioning, reading and researching. Adopting a scientific criterion, Victor was able to select that information which could withstand and pass the many rigid tests of objectivity. His book, A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife, has been accessed by more than a million and a half people from sixty five countries over the last five years.