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- 2. What is Parapsychology? Parapsychology is the scientific and scholarly study of certain unusual events associated with human experience. These experiences have been called "psychic".
- 3. What is not parapsychology? In spite of what the media often imply, parapsychology is not the study of anything considered weird or bizarre. No is parapsychology concerned with astrology, UFOs, searching for Bigfoot, paganism, vampires, alchemy, or witchcraft.
- 4. What do parapsychologists study? Many feel that the strangest, and most interesting, aspect of parapsychological phenomena is that they do not appear to be limited by the known boundaries of space or time. In addition, they blur the sharp distinction usually made between mind and matter. In popular usage, the basic parapsychological phenomena are categorized as follows:
- 5. What do parapsychologists study? Psi : A neutral term for parapsychological phenomena. Psi, psychic, and psychical are synonyms. Telepathy : Direct mind-to-mind communication. Precognition: Also called premonition. Obtaining information about future events, where the information could not be inferred through normal means. Many people report dreams that appear to be precognitive. Clairvoyance : Sometimes called remote viewing; obtaining information about events at remote locations, beyond the reach of the normal senses.
- 6. What do parapsychologists study? ESP: Extra-sensory perception; a general term for obtaining information about events beyond the reach of the normal senses. This term subsumes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. Psychokinesis : Also called PK; direct mental interaction with physical objects, animate or inanimate. Bio-PK : Direct mental interactions with living systems. NDE : Near death experience; an experience reported by those who were revived from nearly dying. OBE : Out-of-body experience; the experience of feeling separated from the body, often accompanied by visual
- 7. What do parapsychologists study? Reincarnation: The belief that we live successive lives, with primarily evidence coming from the apparent recollections of previous lives by very small children. Haunting : Recurrent phenomena reported to occur in particular locations that include apparitions, sounds, movement of objects, and other effects.
- 8. Who is interested in Parapsychology? Physicists tend to be interested in parapsychology because of the implication that we have a gross misunderstanding about space and time and the transmission of energy and information. Biologists are interested because psi implies the existence of additional, unexplained methods of sensing the world.
- 9. Who is interested in Parapsychology Psychologists are interested for what psi implies about the nature of perception and memory. Philosophers are interested because psi phenomena specifically address many age- old philosophical problems, including the role of the mind in the physical world, and the nature of the objective vs. the subjective.
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