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Taking Psi Seriously in Scotland

Edinburgh University has a unit devoted to studying parapsychology — specifically, things like ESP, psychokenesis (moving things with your mind), and something called direct mental interaction between living systems (like "distant healing" — making someone better through the ether, apparently). There’s an article in The Psychologist about this (but you’ll need to pay to read […]

Edinburgh University has a unit devoted to studying parapsychology -- specifically, things like ESP, psychokenesis (moving things with your mind), and something called direct mental interaction between living systems (like "distant healing" -- making someone better through the ether, apparently).
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There's an article in The Psychologist about this (but you'll need to pay to read it). And the blog MindHacks has this to say:

It is one of the few academic parapsychology units in the world and theunit takes pride in a strictly scientific approach to studying theparanormal.

Here's a Wired News story of mine about science's study of the paranormal. And another story about why alien abductees believe what they believe.

The photo, by the way, is a bit of fun from Victorian times.

Thanks to Mindhacks!