Psi / psychic phenomena evidence.
Telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, PK. This hub collects the relevant claims, strongest and weakest evidence positions, source records, and map/library views for the cluster.
Related research reports
The Evidence for Spiritual Claims: A Careful Overview
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
Psi and Anomalous Experience Evidence
A balanced synthesis of telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, presentiment, psychokinesis, and skeptical methodological objections.
Best Evidence for an Afterlife
A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.
Strongest claims in this topic
Remote viewing
The CIA's declassified Stargate program ran for two decades and reported above-chance results. The official 1995 review judged the operational utility insufficient.
Telepathy
Decades of ganzfeld and card studies report small effects at meta-analytic level. Critics argue methodological flaws explain them.
Precognition
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.
Apparitions
Reports stretch back centuries. The few collective and 'crisis apparition' cases are intriguing; controlled study is essentially impossible.
Clairvoyance
Often subsumed under remote viewing in modern parapsychology. As an everyday claim, very poorly supported.
Intuition can exceed normal inference
Most 'intuition' is unconscious inference. A small subset of presentiment studies suggests something else may also be in play.
Weakest or most speculative claims
Humans can physically levitate
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.
Animals can sense distant events
Anecdotes of dogs anticipating their owner's return or sensing distant trauma are common. Controlled video studies show some signal, contested.
Precognitive dreams
Given how many dreams we have, occasional 'matches' are statistically inevitable and powerfully memorable.
Intention affects physical systems
PEAR-style RNG studies, water crystal claims, plant-growth experiments — small effects in some, refuted in others.
Key verified sources
Useful as a claimed replication/extension of the 2007 Windbridge-style protocol; still controversial, but much stronger than anecdotal stage mediumship.
The most-cited modern meta-analysis on presentiment; central to debate about whether physiology can show anticipatory responses to future stimuli.
The most-discussed modern empirical paper claiming evidence for precognition; directly triggered the Wagenmakers et al. critique and helped catalyse psychology's broader replication-crisis conversation.
One of the strongest pro-psi statistical summaries published in a mainstream APA journal.
Anomalous information reception by research mediums under blinded conditions II: Replication and extension
Useful as a claimed replication/extension of the 2007 Windbridge-style protocol; still controversial, but much stronger than anecdotal stage mediumship.
Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis
The most-cited modern meta-analysis on presentiment; central to debate about whether physiology can show anticipatory responses to future stimuli.
Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect
The most-discussed modern empirical paper claiming evidence for precognition; directly triggered the Wagenmakers et al. critique and helped catalyse psychology's broader replication-crisis conversation.
Meta-analysis of free-response studies, 1992–2008: Assessing the noise reduction model in parapsychology
One of the strongest pro-psi statistical summaries published in a mainstream APA journal.
Anomalous information reception by research mediums demonstrated using a novel triple-blind protocol
A core positive mediumship paper because it explicitly targets cold reading, sitter cueing, experimenter cueing, and fraud as alternative explanations.
Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators - A meta-analysis
The key modern meta-analytic source for micro-PK claims: important because it reports a signal but also makes the interpretive weakness visible.
An assessment of the evidence for psychic functioning
Core pro-remote-viewing evaluation from the Stargate review period; should be paired with Hyman's evaluation to show the interpretive split.
Does psi exist? Replicable evidence for an anomalous process of information transfer
A central pro-psi anchor for ganzfeld/free-response claims, especially telepathy-style information transfer under sensory-reduction conditions.
Phantasms of the Living
The canonical historical case base for spontaneous precognition and related psi-style experiences; cited across the field as the starting point for spontaneous-case methodology.
A Bayesian analysis reveals evidence against micro-psychokinesis
Useful modern counterweight to earlier RNG meta-analyses because it focuses on evidential strength rather than only significance testing.