Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience

Around half of bereaved adults report sense-of-presence experiences. Common, meaningful, hard to verify.

Hypoxia, hypercarbia, REM intrusion, endogenous DMT, and ketamine models reproduce many NDE features. Veridical cases resist the model.

Reports stretch back centuries. The few collective and 'crisis apparition' cases are intriguing; controlled study is essentially impossible.

Often subsumed under remote viewing in modern parapsychology. As an everyday claim, very poorly supported.

Reports stretch back centuries and across every culture. Most well-investigated cases reduce to pareidolia, infrasound, expectation, or fraud; the broader 'soul of the dead' reading is essentially unverifiable.

A tradition rich in reports — Joseph of Cupertino, Daniel Dunglas Home, TM 'yogic flying' — but zero reproductions under controlled conditions. The investigated cases reduce to fraud or illusion.

Most 'intuition' is unconscious inference. A small subset of presentiment studies suggests something else may also be in play.

Most claimed mediumship is reproducible by cold reading. Some controlled lab studies (Beischel and others) report small but anomalous effects.

A consistent core experience — peace, light, life review, OBE — reported across cultures and prospective hospital studies.

The reported experience of knowing, sensing, dreaming, or picturing a future event before it happens — sometimes called premonition, presentiment, future sensing, or anomalous anticipation. Real as a common human report; controversial as evidence the future is being directly perceived.

Famous macro demonstrations have collapsed under scrutiny. Lab work on random event generators shows very small effects, hotly disputed.

The CIA's declassified Stargate program ran for two decades and reported above-chance results. The official 1995 review judged the operational utility insufficient.

Most reports happen at sleep boundaries or in peripheral vision — exactly where the brain is most prone to producing humanoid silhouettes. The 'external entity' reading is a much larger claim.

Decades of ganzfeld and card studies report small effects at meta-analytic level. Critics argue methodological flaws explain them.

Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.

Whether anything of mind continues.

Reports of contact with the deceased.

Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.

Structured experiences during cardiac arrest and crisis.

Telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, PK.

Lab-tested claims of telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, and PK.

World religions and traditions, scored as systems.

A balanced synthesis of telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, presentiment, psychokinesis, and skeptical methodological objections.

A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.

What NDE studies support, what they do not prove, and why the phenomenon remains one of the strongest spiritual-adjacent evidence clusters.

A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.

Useful modern counterweight to earlier RNG meta-analyses because it focuses on evidential strength rather than only significance testing.

Important for apparition and ADC pages because it shows how common bereavement-related perceptions can be without requiring a paranormal interpretation.

One of the strongest brain-based counterweights in the NDE debate because it shows near-death neural activity can become organized rather than simply switching off.

A concise, mainstream skeptical anchor for NDE interpretation pages; especially useful paired with replies from NDE researchers.

Foundational sceptical reply — also helped trigger the broader replication-crisis conversation in psychology.

Important physiological counter-evidence because it connects NDE reports to measurable blood-gas variables rather than relying on a purely speculative brain model.