Archive for March, 2012

An Old Psychical Research Journal: The Annales des Sciences Psychiques

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., Atlantic University In 1891 a new journal of psychical research appeared in France, the Annales des Sciences Psychiques.  I explore aspects of the history of this publication in my latest article, with Renaud Evrard, entitled “The Psychic Sciences in France: Historical Notes on the Annales des Sciences Psychiques.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2012, [...]

Digital Libraries with Holdings of the Old Literature—V.

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., Atlantic University In a previous series of blogs in another site I presented the following links to digital collections with holdings of interest for the historical study of psychic phenomena: http://www.parapsych.org/blogs/carlos/entry/12/2011/5/digital_libraries_with_holdings_of.aspx http://www.parapsych.org/blogs/carlos/entry/14/2011/5/digital_libraries_with_holdings_of.aspx http://www.parapsych.org/blogs/carlos/entry/19/2011/6/digital_libraries_with_holdings_of.aspx http://www.parapsych.org/blogs/carlos/entry/34/2012/1/digital_libraries_with_holdings_of.aspx Here I present some of the holdings of the Hathi Trust Digital Library (http://www.hathitrust.org/), which has many useful [...]

Remote Viewing Article

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., Atlantic University A new remote viewing study has been published. Entitled “Remote Viewing the Future with a Tasking Temporal Outbounder,” it is authored by Courtney Brown (Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2012, 26, 81-110). Here is the published abstract: This study uses remote viewing in a predictive manner within the context of a [...]

Psychological Study of Mediums

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., Atlantic University  The current issue of the Journal of Parapsychology (2011, 75, 279-299) has a report of research contributing to the psychology of mental mediumship. Entitled “A Survey of Dissociation, Boundary Thinness, and Psychological Wellbeing in Spiritualist Mental Mediumship,” it is authored by Elizabeth C. Roxburgh (https://www.northampton.ac.uk/people/elizabeth.roxburgh) and Chris A. Roe [...]