Parapsychology
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"Meantime, indeed, the laws of Nature held their wonted way. As ever, that which the years had once brought they brought again; and every here and there some marvel, liker to the old stories than any one cared to assert, cropped up between superstition on the one hand and contemptuous indifference on the other. Witchcraft, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, Spiritism--these especially, amid many minor phenomena, stood out in turn as precursory of the inevitable wider inquiry."--Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903) by F. W. H. Myers |
Illustration: Henri Robin and a Specter, 1863 by Eugène Thiébault
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Parapsychology (from the Greek: παρά para, "alongside" + psychology) is the study of ostensibly paranormal psychological phenomena. 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.
See also
- Anomalous phenomenon
- Clairaudience
- Clairvoyance
- ESP
- List of spirituality-related topics
- Parapsychology basic topics
- Psychokinesis
- Prophecy
- Reality shifts
- Reincarnation
- Transpersonal psychology
