Topic outline of parapsychology

Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to demonstrate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and life after death using the scientific method. Phenomena studied include extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, and survival of consciousness after death; parapsychologists call these phenomena "psi", a neutral term non-suggestive of what causes the phenomena or experiences. [Thouless, R. H. (1942). "Experiments on paranormal guessing". "British Journal of Psychology", "33", 15–27.] Parapsychology is a fringe science because it involves research that does not fit within standard theoretical models accepted by mainstream science. So far, none of the paranormal phenomena studied by parapsychology has been proved to exist.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to parapsychology:

Essence of parapsychology

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* Fringe science
* Paranormal psychology
* Psionics
* Psychic

History of parapsychology

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* History of extrasensory perception

Basic parapsychology concepts

* Abacomancy
* Altered state of consciousness
* Anomalous cognition
* Anomalous operation
* Apparitional experience
* Apparitions
* Astral body
* Aura (paranormal)
* Clairaudience
* Clairsentience
* Clairvoyance
* Cold reading
* Death-warning
* Direct voice
* Dowsing
* Ectoplasm (paranormal)
* Extra-sensory perception (ESP)
* Exorcist
* Ganzfeld experiment
* Ghosts
* Global Consciousness Project
* Haunted house
* History of parapsychology
* Holotropic Breathwork
* Hot reading
* IANDS
* Journal of Parapsychology
* List of psychic abilities
* Materialization (parapsychology)
* Medical intuitive
* Medium (spirituality)
* Mediumship
* Mental Radio
* Metaphysical levitation
* Mind-Body Intervention
* Morphic field
* National Laboratory of Psychical Research
* Near-death experience
* Near-death studies
* Oneirology
* Out-of-body experiences
* Paranormal
* Parapsychological Association
* Parapsychology
* Pauli effect
* Poltergeist
* Psi (parapsychology)
* Precognition
* Prescience
* Project Alpha
* Psychic reading
* Psychic
* Psychokinesis
* Psychometry
* Pyrokinesis
* Radiesthesia
* Remote Viewing
* Research results in parapsychology
* Retrocognition
* Rhine Research Center
* Scientific investigation of telepathy
* Survivalism (life after death)
* Stargate Project
* Telekinesis
* Telepathy
* Therapeutic touch
* Transliminality
* Transpersonal experience
* Unexplained Mysteries
* Veridical dream
* Zener card
* Zulu mythology

Parapsychologists

* Stephen E. Braude
* Michael Daniels
* Rosemary Ellen Guilley
* Bruce Greyson
* Thelma Moss
* Frank Podmore
* Harold E. Puthoff
* Joseph Banks Rhine
* Dean Radin
* Kenneth Ring
* William Roll
* Bill Sweet
* Charles Tart
* Waldo Vieira
* Richard Wiseman

Parapsychology lists

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References

See also

* List of paranormal subjects
* Paranormal
* Psychology

External links

* [http://www.parapsych.org/faq_file1.html Parapsychology FAQ] Frequently asked questions, by the Parapsychological Association, a professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psychic phenomena, affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1969.

* [http://findarticles.com/p/search?qt=parapsychology FindArticles.com Index] Large number of articles about parapsychology, from publications such as the "Journal of Parapsychology" and the "Skeptical Inquirer".

* [http://csicop.org Committee for Skeptical Inquiry] Organization formed in 1976 to promote scientific skepticism and encourage the critical investigation of paranormal claims and parapsychology.