Psi Text Resources Thread

[Laird]

ETA: a quick search of Amazon suggests that Mysteries of Knowledge has, in fact, not yet been released - at least on that site.

I see now that Gayle announced its release a few days ago:

MYSTERIES OF HEALING IS NOW AVAILABLE

Just received this book, haven't started reading it yet but flicking through it certainly seems like an absolutely fantastic and thorough summary on the subject of the history of "paranormal" powers and experiences. Could well become a must read classic on the subject!:

A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal - Amazon UK

"Superb survey of the paranormal ... Although serious in content, it is written in a light, often humorous, style which is a delight to read. As someone who has myself made a lifelong study of the paranormal, I cannot recommend it highly enough." – New York Times bestselling author Herbie Brennan
This is the most entertaining and broad survey of the paranormal ever made, combining forgotten lore, evidence from parapsychological experiments and the testament of scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, psychologists, physicists and philosophers, and also quite a few celebrities. Exploring the possibility that paranormal phenomena may be – and that some most likely are – objectively real, this travelogue through the twilight zone of human consciousness is both scientifically rigorous and extremely entertaining.
Readers may be surprised to learn that reputable scientists, among them several Nobel laureates, have claimed that telepathy is a reality, that Cleopatra's lost palace and Richard III's burial place were recovered by means of clairvoyance, and that an espionage program using psychics was set up by the US military! The author proposes that all humans (perhaps all living beings) are linked together in a sort of "mental internet" that allows us to exchange "telepathic emails" and make clairvoyant downloads of information. Could it be that what we usually call "supernatural" is a natural but little understood communication via this mental internet? An engaging, entertaining and informative analysis of a controversial subject, in which these phenomena are approached as potential expressions of unexplained powers of the human mind.

The Possible Role of Intention, Attention and Expectation in Remote Viewing

Joseph W. McMoneagle & Edwin C. May

Joseph W. McMoneagle has participated in 44 on-camera demonstrations of remote viewing 35 of which would be considered as successful; that is, if they had been assessed by the usual blind rank-order method, they would have easily been ranked correctly in first place. The question we address here is, ìWhat, if anything, is special about these cases?î Under US Government funding, the research track record of what is known as STARGATE was exceptional. Perhaps the success could be attributed to the near exclusive use of highly talented special participants. However, we speculate here that the ill-defined concepts of intention, attention, and expectation were/are major contributors to the success of application-oriented, laboratory, and media-centered trials. As an illustration of these points, we provide a detailed description of the protocol and results of a recent demonstration trial conducted for the National Geographic Channel that was carried out in LFRís remote viewing laboratory in Palo Alto, California. The produces and staff of Pioneer Productions dedicated one individual for four days just to prepare for the shoot. Her duties were to learn about what constitutes a good remote viewing target, identify 6 targets within 25 km from the laboratory, prepare two sets of target packs, identify a neutral 3rd party individual to secure these materials, and act as beacon person during the trial. The full team included a camera crew of three and a single producer. At the time of the trial all people present with the viewer were blind not only to the individual randomly selected target but also to the complete six-fold target pack. The response was blind rank-order assessed on-camera, and the correct target was matched as 1st place. The qualitative correspondence with the intended site was excellent and typical of the 35 of 44 other media trials provided by McMoneagle. This single trial serves as an exemplar of an ideal application of intention, attention, and expectation

[Laird]

Study Milestone Achieved: IONS and Harvard Complete Data Collection at Linga Bhairavi Consecration

By IONS Science Team for the IONS website on May 30, 2025.

Key questions driving this project include whether participation in a sacred yogic consecration can lead to measurable changes in well-being, mood, sleep quality, and physiological markers such as heart rate and neurotransmitter levels. The study also explores whether such an experience can influence intuitive capacities or deepen participants’ sense of interconnectedness. Researchers are investigating potential shifts in the surrounding environment, such as changes in patterns of negentropy, that may correlate with the event. Additionally, the study examines whether participants report new or intensified mystical or non-ordinary experiences, and whether any psychological or physiological effects persist up to two months following the consecration.

[Laird]

Exploring the Energy of People, Places, and Spaces — Through Your Questions

August 18, 2025
IONS Science Team
IONS Blog

In our recent ConnectIONS Live webinar, a conversation between IONS Director of Experience and Engagement, Kerstin Sjoquist, and IONS Scientist, Garret Yount, PhD, your curiosity took us on a journey through the science and mystery of subtle energy. We explored his book, Why Vibes Matter: Understand Your Energy and Use it Wisely, and his newly released IONS course: The Energy of People, Places and Spaces. 

There were so many fascinating questions that we weren’t able to get to them all, so we thought we would respond to some of the follow-up questions in a blog!

The questions asked and answered:

Olga responded to Dr. Yount’s statement during the ConnectIONS Live webinar that we can only measure subtle energy indirectly because current technology does not exist to measure it directly. Olga’s follow-up question was, “What about tools that we have to measure the sizes of auras?”
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James asked what Dr. Yount thinks about Hermeticism, which teaches that intentional thoughts shape reality.
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Ben asked how the heart’s toroid field was measured in the HeartMath Institute study that Dr. Yount mentioned in the webinar.
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Christina asked, “What’s the difference between mind and consciousness?”
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Todd asked, “What was the name of the Japanese healing practice specifically associated with radiation treatment? And, is there a link or source you could point me to? And Juli asked how Johrei works and whether it is the same as Reiki.
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Alice asked how Qigong compares to Johrei and Reiki.
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Claire asked if Dr. Yount would be willing to share some of the qigong practices he and his father did while his father was co-existing with cancer.
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Colin asked if newly discovered “superradiant states” in tryptophan networks might relate to subtle energy reception and transmission, and if this has led to any ideas for future research.
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Eleanor asked why music is such a powerful healing force.
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Bob asked about Dr. Yount’s thoughts on Wilhelm Reich’s orgone energy.

[Laird]

Psi Phenomena: Some Recent Evidence

Aug 18, 2025
Matt Colborn
WHAT LIES BEYOND (Substack)

One aim of my book was to persuade interested members of the public, and maybe scientists, that parapsychology was more than just ‘woowoo’ or ‘pseudoscience’. However, for obvious practical reasons, the discussion of well over a century of research and controversy had to be fairly brief.

So I thought that it might be beneficial to provide a list of resources for people who want to take a ‘deeper dive’ into the evidence for psi. Here, I’m focussing on lab evidence and papers from the last decade or so.

Matt then offers a great list of resources (although I say that not having read many of them myself).

The following quote from Matt's article is also interesting in the context of the exchange on the Feeling the Future experiments in the recent and ongoing veridical NDE debate thread, mostly between @sbu and @InterestedinPsi, in which @sbu claims that a purportedly failed replication of those experiments proves that psi research in general fails to replicate, from post #23 onwards, also including (so far) posts #24, #25, #28, #33, #36, #39, #44, #45, #57, #81, #82, #83, #84, #89, and #90:

The skeptical ‘trump card’ is the failure of experimental replication. This is essentially where one set of scientists gets positive results but others don’t. French himself underlines the failures of replication for one particular experimental paradigm, the ‘feeling the future’ precognitive priming experiments. And this has been conceded by researchers in parapsychology. Etzel Cardeña in his 2025 paper discussing the latest evidence for psi admits that “The only paradigm that seems to have had mostly lack of or at best mixed recent replications is that of precognitive priming” (Cardeña, 2025; paper linked below).

@sbu, note the "only" in that quote. The resources provided by Matt might generally be worth your examining, given that in post #90 you finally admitted:

I'm not well-versed in psi.

[Laird]

THE STRANGE CASE OF AMYR AMIDEN
Stanley Krippner
May 27, 2026
Stanley’s Substack

Another group member remembered:

“After arriving, we were conducted to the restaurant and had an excellent vegetarian lunch. Lunch was almost over, and I was standing close to where Stan Krippner and a stranger were sitting. Suddenly, something fell to the ground with a slight noise. It looked like a small piece of mud about 2” by 1” by 1”. I paid no attention, but Stan picked it up and found a smooth stone inside, about 1/2” in diameter.... Whilst talking at lunch with Stan, the conversation with the stranger shifted to Jesus Christ. At this mention of Jesus, red spots appeared on the backs of each hand of the stranger and on the palms. We were invited to look at this manifestation of the “stigmata.” The stranger was introduced as Amyr Amiden. He is of medium height and has a grey beard. He was born in Brazil into an Islamic family, although all religions are the same to him now.”

Asked to reflect on an interview with Amyr, a member of the group recounted:

“Apparently, his father and grandfather were ‘sensitive.’ All his siblings were ‘sensitive,’ but only he and his grandfather manifested ‘apports’ -- the anomalous appearance of objects with no easily discernible source. Amyr claims he can ‘astral travel’ and return with information that can be checked later. He says there have been reports of his ‘bilocation,’ but he has no control or awareness when this occurs. He has healing abilities and claims to have healed a few lepers in the initial stages of their illness, but not in later stages.”

One night, as our group was having dinner with Amyr, our meal was interrupted by a thunderstorm. I noted that this was exactly the type of weather that would be conducive to apports and went outside, just in time to see a volley of small. polished stones cascade on the hood of a parked car. I dutifully picked them up and brought them back to our table, noting that thunderstorms seem to facilitate these and similar phenomena. On another occasion, Roberto Crema told Amyr that his daughter hoped he would give her a birthday present. Amyr asked how old Dr. Crema’s daughter was, and he replied “twelve.” Immediately, a small ring dropped out of nowhere, containing twelve small rhinestones.