- Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 - January 3, 1945) was an American who claimed psychic abilities. He claimed an ability to channel answers to questions on subjects such as health, astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis while in a self-induced trance. Although Cayce lived before the emergence of the New Age movement, he remains a major influence on its teachings. - Dean Radin
Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Petaluma, California, USA, on the Adjunct Faculty at Sonoma State University, on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association. - Uri Geller
Uri Geller is an Israeli-British performer and celebrity famous for his claimed psychic powers. Geller rose to fame after performing a series of televised performances which he said were paranormal demonstrations of psychokinesis, dowsing and telepathy. His performance included bending spoons, describing hidden drawings, and making watches appear to stop or run faster. Geller says he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind. - Robert Monroe
Robert Allan Monroe was a psychic researcher and author of "Journeys Out of the Body", a 1971 book that popularized the expression "out-of-body experience" (also called astral projection). Monroe was a conservative Virginia businessman who had his first out-of-body experiences in 1958. After much experimentation, he founded The Monroe Institute, … - Sylvia Browne
Most assuredly you've heard the phrase "innocent until proven guilty." I'm pretty much a believer in that saying. Our legal system is built around it -- and justifiably so. But what if an alleged psychic makes three promises on international television to test her extraordinary claims, yet makes no effort to do so? Should the phrase for that person become "guilty until proven innocent?" - Richard Wiseman
Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. Wiseman started his professional life as a magician, before graduating in Psychology from University College London and obtaining a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. Professor Wiseman is known for his critical examination and frequent debunking of unusual phenomena, including reports of paranormal phenomena. - Charles Tart
Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. (b. 1937) is internationally known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness (particularly altered states of consciousness), as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in scientific parapsychology. His two classic books, "Altered States of Consciousness" (1969) and "Transpersonal Psychologies" (1975), … - Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman (born June 23, 1928, Chelsea, Massachusetts) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and a noted critic of parapsychology. While attending Boston University as a young man, he also worked as a magician and mentalist, impressing the head of his department (among others) with his palm reading. He obtained a doctorate in psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1953, and then taught at Harvard for several years. - Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. - Raymond Moody
Raymond Moody (born June 30 1944) is a parapsychologist. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences, (a term which he coined in 1975). His best selling title is "Life After Life". Moody studied philosophy at the University of Virginia where he obtained a B.A. (1966), a M.A. (1967) and a Ph.D (1969) in the subject. He also obtained a Ph.D in psychology from West Georgia College, … - Gary Schwartz
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of Psychology teaching courses in psychology in the departments of Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. He is also the Director of The VERITAS Research Program of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Schwartz is the co-author of "The Living Energy Universe", … - Stanley Krippner
Stanley Krippner is an American psychologist and professor of psychology and an executive faculty member of the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, where his personal commitment to teaching has been honored by the establishment of an interdisciplinary chair for the study of consciousness. Prior to this, he was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, Kent OH, and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, … - Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer , as head of one of America's leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life. ... - James van Praagh
James Van Praagh (b. August 23 1958, Bayside, New York) is a best selling author, who describes himself as a medium with the ability to communicate with spirits of the dead. Van Praagh has written several books dealing with the subject of parapsychology. From 2002 to 2003, he hosted a syndicated daytime talk show entitled "Beyond With James Van Praagh." He subsequently partnered with CBS to produce several tv-movies and mini-series based on his books, … - Joseph Banks Rhine
Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 - February 20, 1980) (usually known as J. B. Rhine) was a pioneer of parapsychology. Rhine founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the "Journal of Parapsychology", and the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man. - Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, … - Kenneth Ring
Dr. Kenneth Ring is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of Near-death studies. He is also co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-death studies(IANDS). Ring has written several books about NDEs, including "Life at Death", "Heading Toward Omega", "The Omega Project", "Mindsight" and "Lessons from the Light". - Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce (b. 1955) is an English-born author living in Australia. - Direct Voice
Direct voice is a physical phenomenon of a voice reportedly originating in space without visible source or agency, under the control of a spiritual medium. Historically, such voices were said to be produced by special, which would sail about the séance room in the dark and approach a person for whom a message was intended. In later years the trumpets were dispensed with and the voices could be heard coming from all directions. - Chris French
Christopher C. French BA PhD CPsychol FBPsS FRSA is a psychologist and vocal skeptic specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. He is currently Professor of psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is head of their Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit which he founded in the year 2000 and is the co-editor of "The Skeptic" (UK) magazine with Victoria Hamilton. - Alister Hardy
Sir Alister Clavering Hardy (February 10, 1896 - May 22, 1985) was an Oxford-educated marine biologist, expert on zooplankton and marine ecosystems. He was the zoologist on the RRS Discovery voyage to explore the Antarctic between 1925 and 1927, and in his studies of zooplankton and its relationship with predators became expert in marine mammals such as whales. Hardy was the first Professor of Zoology at the University of Hull from 1928 - 1942, … - Bruce Greyson
(Charles) Bruce Greyson, M.D. (b. October 1946), is a prominent researcher in the field of Near-Death Studies. Greyson, along with Kenneth Ring, Michael Sabom, and others, built on the pioneering Near Death research of Raymond Moody, Jr, George Richie, and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, bringing the field of study to greater prominence. Bruce Greyson is Chester F.Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and the division director of The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), … - J. Gordon Melton
John Gordon Melton (b. September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, … - Hans Bender
Hans Bender was a lecturer on the subject of parapsychology, who was also responsible for establishing the parapsychological institute "Instituts für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene" in Freiburg. For many years his pipe smoking, contemplative figure was synonymous with German parapsychology. He was an investigator of 'unusual human experience', e.g. poltergeists and clairvoyants. One of his most famous cases was the Rosenheim Poltergeist. - Arthur Ford
Arthur Ford (January 8, 1897 - January 4, 1971) was an American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient and in 1955 founded the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. - George P. Hansen
George P. Hansen is a writer and parapsychologist. One of his known works include "The Trickster and the Paranormal", which mostly deals with liminality and the paranormal. Hansen worked with parapsychology during eight years before finishing "The Trickster". - John Keel
John A. Keel (born March 25, 1930) is a ufologist, parapsychologist and journalist currently residing in New York, USA. John Keel is arguably one of the most widely read and influential ufologists since the early 1970s. Although his own thoughts about UFOs and associated anomalous phenomena have gradually evolved since the mid 1960s, Keel remains one of ufology's most original and controversial researchers. - Erlendur Haraldsson
Erlendur Haraldsson is a Professor emeritus Faculty of social science at the University of Iceland who, despite having retired from his former post at the University of Iceland, continues to be an active academic. He has published work in various parapsychology journals, and done work with Ian Stevenson and Karlis Osis researching reincarnation. As well as doing work in Iceland, Haraldsson worked in the United States and at the University of Freiburg, in Germany. - David Wilcock
David Wilcock is a professional intuitive consultant, clairvoyant, visionary, channeller, and popular speaker. He has appeared on television interviews and a large number of radio talk shows (like Coast to Coast AM), lectured in the United States and Japan, and is author of a number of magazine articles, an online book, and co-author of "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce", … - Michael Daniels
Dr Michael Daniels (born 1950) is a British transpersonal psychologist and parapsychologist. He is currently a senior lecturer in Psychology and program leader for the MSc in Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. A Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, … - Stephen E. Braude
Stephen E. Braude is an American philosopher and parapsychologist. He is a past president of the Parapsychological Association and a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is also an accomplished jazz pianist and composer. - Harold E. Puthoff
Harold E. Puthoff, Ph.D., (b. 20 June 1936) is an American physicist involved in research on various advanced physics and, earlier in his career, paranormal topics. - Frank Podmore
Frank Podmore (5 February 1856 - 14 August 1910) was an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society, and writer on psychic matters. Born at Elstree, Hertfordshire, Podmore was the son of Thompson Podmore, headmaster of Eastbourne College. He was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Oxford (where he first became interested in spiritualism and joined the Society for Psychical Research - this interest remained with him throughout his life). - Edmund Gurney
Edmund Gurney (March 23, 1847 - June 23, 1888), English psychologist, was born at Hersham, near Walton-on-Thames. He was educated at Blackheath and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a high place in the classical tripos and obtained a fellowship. His work for the tripos was done, said his friend FWH Myers, in the intervals of his practice on the piano. Dissatisfied with his own executive skill as a musician, he wrote "The Power of Sound" (1880), … - Hans Eysenck
Hans Jürgen Eysenck was a psychologist most remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the living psychologist most frequently cited in science journals. Hans Eysenck was born in Germany, but moved to England as a young man in the 1930s because of his opposition to the Nazi party. Eysenck was the founding editor of the journal "Personality and Individual Differences", … - Jack Sarfatti
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a number of popular works on quantum physics and consciousness. He is known for his iconoclastic ideas, and is interested in what he sees as the breakdown of the paradigm that posits science and the humanities as separate disciplines, … - David Marks
David Marks is a psychologist and professor at City University in London, UK. After completing his PhD at Sheffield University he migrated to New Zealand where he taught at the University of Otago. In 1986 he returned to the UK as Head of the School of Psychology at Middlesex Polytechnic before moving to City University in 2000. He founded and edits the Journal of Health Psychology (Who's Who, 2007). - Jeane Dixon
Jeane Dixon was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions and a best-selling biography. - Paul Devereux
Paul Devereux is an author, researcher, lecturer, broadcaster, artist and photographer based in the Cotswolds, England. Devereux is a Research Fellow with the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group at Princeton University. His work primarily deals with archaeological themes and ancient lifeways, ecopsychology, ley lines, geomancy, unusual geophysical phenomena, and consciousness studies, spanning the range from academic to popular. - Grant Wilson
Grant Steven Wilson is the co-founder (with Jason Hawes) of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), based in Warwick, Rhode Island, and co-star and co-producer of the Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters", which as of June 2007 is now beginning its 4th season. He and his wife, Reanna, have three young children, all boys. He is also a writer and illustrator of fantasy characters and role-playing game characters.
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