Psi Encyclopedia

Two new articles:

Jenny Cockell
Jenny Cockell is an English author whose books  describe her memories of previous lives, and her successful attempts to trace some of them to real individuals and events. The most detailed, first described in Yesterday’s Children (1993), is of an Irishwoman who died in 1932 aged thirty-five, leaving behind eight children. Cockell believes she has also verified certain memories of a nineteenth century life in Japan, as a girl who drowned aged seventeen.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ny-cockell

Mary Sutton/Jenny Cockell
In this contemporary reincarnation case an English woman, Jenny Cockell, recalled memories of the life of a working class Irish woman in the early twentieth century. The case is unusual for the richness, strength and durability of the memories, and for their close correspondence to the life of a verifiable deceased individual, as was eventually confirmed by this person’s grown-up children.
Details are drawn from Cockell’s books Yesterday’s Children (1993) and Journeys Through Time (2008). 
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ny-cockell

Fascinating stuff! Thanks Chris!

Three new articles since the two noted above:

Stanley Krippner
Stanley Krippner is an American psychologist and parapsychologist, known for research in dream ESP, altered states of consciousness and shamanism. He is the author, co-author and editor of many books and articles on parapsychology and other topics, including Debating Psychic Experience (2010), Varieties of Anomalous Experience (2014), and the multi-volume Advances in Parapsychological Research (1977-2013).
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...y-krippner

Decline Effect in Parapsychology
The term ‘decline effect’ in parapsychology refers to a decline in experimental performance over time. This can be in the context of a single experimental run or over a series or runs. Declines in effect sizes have also been spotted across the lifetime of a particular mode of research, for example in ESP card guessing experiments. This article reviews various ways in which the decline effect manifests - mainly in the context of experimental psi research, but with some reference to its appearance in spontaneous phenomena - and the reasons that have been proposed to account for them.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...psychology

Robert Jahn
Robert Jahn was a plasma physicist who made notable contributions to the science of rocket propulsion. He was professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton, where he also founded and ran the PEAR anomalies research laboratory, specializing in the study of mind-machine interaction.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/robert-jahn

Two more new articles:

Fox Sisters
As children, Maggie and Kate Fox were at the centre of a poltergeist-type disturbance in 1848 that led to the emergence of Spiritualism, a religion based on communication with spirits of the dead. Together with their older sister Leah they went on to perform as spirit mediums, becoming embroiled in life-long controversy. In 1888 Maggie, supported by Kate, declared before a public audience that they had faked the rapping sounds that purported to be communications by unseen spirits. A year later she retracted her statement. The confession remains controversial, disbelieved by many who consider psychic phenomena to be genuine, but accepted by sceptics, who frequently cite it in arguments against paranormal belief.   
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/fox-sisters

Montague Ullman
Montague Ullman (1916-2008) was an American psychiatrist and parapsychologist who specialized in the study of dreams. In the 1960s he founded the Maimonides Dream Laboratory in New York City, where he and his co-experimenters demonstrated the ability of sleeping subjects to receive ESP impressions while in the dream state.  
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...gue-ullman

And another:

Regression Therapy
This article reviews the development of regression techniques in hypnotherapy, in which apparent past life memories are treated less as descriptions of true events than as metaphorical stories that assist with healing.  
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...on-therapy

Another new article:

Dorothy Eady/Omm Sety
Dorothy Eady was a British woman who as a small child became unaccountably obsessed with ancient Egypt following a near-fatal accident. She became a respected Egyptologist under the name of Omm Sety, and in later life lived near the ruins of the temple in which she claimed to have lived as a priestess.
Details of this case are found in Jonathon Cott’s biography The Search for Omm Sety (1987).  It was not investigated, and only a few of the ‘past life memories’ were independently corroborated. The case is included here as a possible, richly detailed example of replacement reincarnation.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...dyomm-sety

"replacement reincarnation" - interesting term, though it isn't something I'm particularly familiar with.

Four more articles:

Ingo Swann
Ingo Swann (1933-2013) was an American artist whose psychic ability led him to participate in successful ESP and psychokinesis experiments. Swann made notable contributions to remote viewing research at the Stanford Research Institute, which became the basis for the US military's Star Gate psychic spying program.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/ingo-swann

Maroczy Chess
In 1985, a chess game was arranged between Russian grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi and a deceased grandmaster, the Hungarian Geza Maroczy, making his moves via a medium who specialized in automatic writing. Korchnoi won after 47 moves. The game, played over the course of almost eight years, was publicized on German TV and in popular books and magazines. Given the complexity of alternative explanations, the case is widely considered to be convincing evidence for the survival of consciousness after death.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...oczy-chess

Unusual Ways of Testing for Psi
Well-known experimental methods in parapsychology include card guessing, dice throwing, ganzfeld and remote viewing. This article describes some recent, less common approaches.
[Ball Selection Test; Correlational Matrix; ESP in Psychotherapy; Mood Scores and ESP; Maharishi Effect]
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ting-psi-0

Russell Targ
Russell Targ is an American physicist, laser pioneer and parapsychologist who was based for much of his career at the Stanford Research Institute.  Targ collaborated with his physicist colleague Harold Puthoff in the study of  long-distance clairvoyance, for which they coined the term ‘remote viewing’. They were contracted by the Central Intelligence Agency to create the psychic espionage program later known as Star Gate.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ssell-targ

Some more recent articles:

Mediumship and Pathology
From its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, mediumship was considered by some scientists and medical professionals to be a pathological phenomenon, explicable in terms of nervous and psychological disturbance. Others viewed the paranormal elements of mediumship as genuine while holding an underlying pathology to be the cause. This article describes a range of such views held during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...-pathology

Gardner Murphy
Gardner Murphy (1895-1979) was an American psychologist, parapsychologist and author who made major contributions to psychology and parapsychology in a career that spanned six decades. Murphy believed that the findings of parapsychologists had much to teach about psychology, and vice versa, and that researchers in each field should pay attention to the other.  
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ner-murphy

Charles Tart
Charles Tart is an American psychologist and parapsychologist internationally known for research on the nature of consciousness. He co-founded the sub-discipline of transpersonal psychology and has experimented widely in psi and out-of-body experiences.  Tart considers his primary goal is ‘to build bridges between the scientific and spiritual communities and to help bring about a refinement and integration of Western and Eastern approaches for knowing the world and for personal and social growth’.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...arles-tart

Some more recent articles:

Indridi Indridason
Indridi Indridason (1883-1910) was an Icelandic trance medium who produced physical phenomena of strength and variety comparable to that of DD Home, but who, unlike Home was unknown outside his own country. The phenomena were closely observed by investigators and detailed records were kept.  A skeptical Icelandic scientist subjected Indridi to close scrutiny with strict controls, but was unable to detect fraudulent behaviour, while continuing to observe striking phenomena.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...indridason

Robert Monroe
Robert Monroe (1915-1995) was an American radio broadcast executive and entrepreneur who became adept in out-of-body experiences.  His patented Hemi-Sync technology, a means of inducing such states, is the basis of consciousness training programs offered at his research centre, The Monroe Institute. He wrote about these activities and experiences in three books: Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Far Journeys (1985) and Ultimate Journey (1994).
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ert-monroe

Global Consciousness Project
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international collaboration of scientists and engineers that tests the claim, insisted on by sages throughout history, that there exists a unified field of human consciousness. The project looks for evidence that thoughts, emotions and perceptions may potentially cohere in response to major world events, producing detectable effects.  Data collected from a worldwide network of random output devices has been found to show small but statistically significant deviations that suggest this is indeed the case.
https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...ss-project

(The last article is by Roger Nelson, the founder of the Global Consciousness Project. Unfortunately it mentions the differing interpretations of the data only in passing, and doesn't really deal with the debate between Nelson and Peter Bancel over whether this is really a reflection of "global consciousness" or an experimenter psi effect.)