This is a selected list of peer-reviewed journal articles about psi (psychic) phenomena, most published in the 21st century. There are also some papers of historical interest and other resources. A comprehensive list of important articles and books would run into the thousands. Click on the title of an article to download it.
The Parapsychological Association – an international professional organization for scientists and scholars interested in psi phenomena – is an elected affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest scientific organization in the world and the publisher of the journal Science, one of the most prominent scientific journals.
I mention this because some individuals who call themselves “parapsychologists” are not scientists. They are better described as paranormal enthusiasts, ghost hunters, exorcists, or other practitioners of occult or esoteric arts. While such activities are interesting to many in the general population, the people engaged in them are not practicing science as defined by the AAAS, and as such their use of the term parapsychologist is inappropriate.
Healing at a Distance
Astin et al (2000). The Efficacy of “Distant Healing”: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials
Leibovici (2001). Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial
Krucoff et al (2001).Integrative noetic therapies as adjuncts to percutaneous intervention during unstable coronary syndromes: Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Training (MANTRA) feasibility pilot
Radin et al (2004). Possible effects of healing intention on cell cultures and truly random events.
Krucoff et al (2005). Music, imagery, touch, and prayer as adjuncts to interventional cardiac care: the Monitoring and Actualisation of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA) II randomised study
Benson et al (2006). Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients
Masters & Spielmans (2007). Prayer and health: Review, meta-analysis, and research agenda
Radin et al (2008). Compassionate intention as a therapeutic intervention by partners of cancer patients: Effects of distant intention on the patients’ autonomic nervous system.
Schlitz et al (2012). Distant healing of surgical wounds: An exploratory study.
Radin et al (2015). Distant healing intention therapies: An overview of the scientific evidence
Physiological correlations at a distance
Duane & Behrendt (1965). Extrasensory electroencephalographic induction between identical twins.
Wiseman & Schlitz (1997). Experimenter effects and the remote detection of staring.
Schmidt et al (2004). Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses
Radin (2004). Event related EEG correlations between isolated human subjects.
Radin (2005). The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis.
Radin & Schlitz (2005). Gut feelings, intuition, and emotions: An exploratory study.
Schlitz et al (2006). Of two minds: Skeptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology.
Moulton & Kosslyn (2008). Using neuroimaging to resolve the psi debate.
Telepathy & ESP
Targ & Puthoff (1974). Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding.
Eisenberg & Donderi (1979). Telepathic transfer of emotional information in humans.
Bem & Honorton (1994). Does psi exist?
Hyman (1994). Anomaly or artifact? Comments on Bem and Honorton
Sheldrake & Smart (2000). Testing a return-anticipating dog, Kane.
Milton & Wiseman (2001). Does Psi Exist? Reply to Storm and Ertel (2001)
Sheldrake & Morgana (2003). Testing a language-using parrot for telepathy.
Sheldrake & Smart (2003). Videotaped experiments on telephone telepathy.
Delgado-Romero & Howard (2005). Finding and Correcting Flawed Research Literatures
Hastings (2007). Comment on Delgado-Romero and Howard
Radin (2007). Finding Or Imagining Flawed Research?
Storm et al (2010). A Meta-Analysis With Nothing to Hide: Reply to Hyman (2010)
Tressoldi et al (2011). Mental Connection at Distance: Useful for Solving Difficult Tasks?
Williams (2011). Revisiting the Ganzfeld ESP Debate: A Basic Review and Assessment
General Overviews & Critiques
Utts (1996). An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning
Alcock (2003). Give the null hypothesis a chance
Parker & Brusewitz (2003). A compendium of the evidence for psi
Carter (2010). Heads I lose, tails you win.
McLuhan (no date). Fraud in psi research.
Survival of Consciousness
van Lommel (2006). Near-death experience, consciousness, and the brain
Greyson (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died: “Peak in Darien” experiences
Kelly (2010). Some directions for mediumship research
Nahm et al (2011). Terminal lucidity: A review and a case collection.
Facco & Agrillo (2012). Near-death experiences between science and prejudice
Matlock (2012). Bibliography of reincarnation resources online (articles and books, all downloadable)
Precognition & Presentiment
Radin (2004). Electrodermal presentiments of future emotions.
McCraty et al (2004). Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 2. A System-Wide Process?
Radin & Borges (2009). Intuition through time: What does the seer see?
Bem et al (2011). Must psychologists change the way they analyze their data?
Bierman (2011). Anomalous switching of the bi-stable percept of a Necker Cube
Radin (2011). Predicting the unpredictable: 75 years of experimental evidence
Galek et al (2012). Correcting the past: Failures to replicate psi
Theory
Josephson & Pallikari-Viras (1991). Biological utilisation of quantum nonlocality
May et al (1995). Decision augmentation theory: Towards a model of anomalous mental phenomena
Houtkooper (2002). Arguing for an observational theory of paranormal phenomena
Bierman (2003). Does consciousness collapse the wave-packet?
Dunne & Jahn (2005). Consciousness, information, and living systems
Henry (2005). The mental universe
Hiley & Pylkkanen (2005). Can mind affect matter via active information?
Rietdijk (2007). Four-dimensional physics, nonlocal coherence, and paranormal phenomena
Tressoldi et al (2010). Extrasensory perception and quantum models of cognition.
Mind-Matter Interaction
Crookes (1874). Researches in the phenomena of spiritualism
Crookes (1874). Notes of séances with DDH
Medhurst & Goldney (1964). William Crookes and the physical phenomena of mediumship.
Merrifield (1885/1971). Merrifield’s report (on D. D. Home)
Braude (1985). The enigma of Daniel Home.
Zorab (1971). Were D. D. Home’s ‘spirit hands” ever fraudulently produced?
Jahn (1982). The persistent paradox of psychic phenomena: An engineering perspective.
Schmidt (1987). The strange properties of psychokinesis.
Schmidt (1990). Correlation between mental processes and external random events
Radin & Nelson (1989). Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems
Radin & Ferrari (1991). Effects of consciousness on the fall of dice: A meta-analysis
Jahn et al (1997). Correlations of random binary sequences with pre-stated operator intention: A review of a 12-year program.
Nelson et al (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events.
Crawford et al (2003). Alterations in random event measures associated with a healing practice
Bierman (2004). Does consciousness collapse the wave function?
Jahn & Dunne (2005). The PEAR Proposition.
Radin et al (2006). Reexamining psychokinesis.
Radin et al (2006). Assessing the evidence for mind-matter interaction effects.
Radin (2006). Experiments testing models of mind-matter interaction.
Radin. (2008). Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge.
Nelson & Bancel (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: Changes in random data during global events.
Radin et al (2012). Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments
Radin et al (2013). Psychophysical interactions with a double-slit interference pattern
Radin et al (2015). Psychophysical interactions with a single-photon double-slit optical system.
Potential Applications
Carpenter (2011). Laboratory psi effects may be put to practical use: Two pilot studies
Schwartz (1980/2000). Location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure … [by remote viewing]
Some recommended books (click to see book details at Amazon.com)
Radin (1997, 2009). The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
Radin (2006). Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
Irwin & Watt (2007). An Introduction to Parapsychology
Mayer (2008). Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind
Kelly et al (2009). Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
Tart (2009). The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal Is Bringing Science and Spirit Together
Carter (2010). Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death
Van Lommel (2011). Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience
Sheldrake (1999; new edition 2011) Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
Alexander (2012). Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife
Carpenter (2012). First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life
Carter (2012). Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics
Targ (2012). The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities
Beischel (2013). Among Mediums: A Scientist’s Quest for Answers
Sheldrake (2003; new edition 2013) The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind
Radin (2013). Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities
Broderick & Goertzel (2014). Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports
May and Marwaha (2014). Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory
Kelly (2014). Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality
Cardeña (2015). Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century.
May & Marwaha (2015). Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science
Websites with access to more articles
Daryl Bem: Click here
Brian Josephson: Click here
Edwin May: Click here
Stephan Schwartz, Click here
Rupert Sheldrake: Click here
James Spottiswoode: Click here
Charles Tart: Click here
Russell Targ: Click here
Patrizio Tressoldi: Click here
Jessica Utts: Click here
Richard Wiseman: Click here
Journal of Scientific Exploration: Click here
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory: Click here or here.
Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia: Click here
Esalen Center for Theory and Research: Click here
Windbridge Institute: Click here.
Koestler Unit of the University of Edinburgh: Click here.
Videos
Greyson (2008). Consciousness without brain activity: Near Death Experiences (United Nations talk)
Radin (2008), Science and the taboo of psi (Google TechTalk)
Sheldrake (2008) The extended mind (Google Tech Talk)