ESP, Telekinesis No Strangers to Academia

As reported in the previous post, the parapsychology unit at Princeton University is closing down. That’s bad news for the ESP researchers, but they hardly have nowhere to turn: a few reputable universities actually allow their professors to study this kind of thing. As in Edinburgh University, where the Koestler Parapsychology Unit […]

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As reported in the previous post, the parapsychology unit at Princeton University is closing down. That's bad news for the ESP researchers, but they hardly have nowhere to turn: a few reputable universities actually allow their professors to study this kind of thing.

As in Edinburgh University, where the Koestler Parapsychology Unit was founded with the intention to study "..the capacity attributed to some individuals to interact with their environment by means other than the recognised sensory and motor channels."

The blog MindHacks has this to say:

It is one of the few academic parapsychology units in the world and theunit takes pride in a strictly scientific approach to studying theparanormal.

Meanwhile, as I wrote back in 2005 for Wired News:

At the University of Arizona, a psychology laboratory devotes its time to investigating "dynamic info-energy systems" and a "survival of consciousness hypothesis." University of Virginia cardiologists have been studying whether heart patients enter "transcendental environments" in the operating room.

Here's the Wired News story about science's study of the paranormal. And another story about why alien abductees believe what they believe.