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RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS
Society for Psychical Research - Founded in 1882, the SPR is the oldest scientific society with a focus on survival research. Members were many eminent scientists such as Nobel Prize laureates Charles Richet and Madame Curie, or psychologists Sigmund Freud, C. G. Jung, and William James. Publishes the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (1884 to date) and the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (1882 to date), which have contained some of the most important contributions to the field.
Division of Personality Studies - Unit of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia with a research focus on apparitions, Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences, deathbed visions, and cases of the reincarnation type. Founded 1967 by Ian Stevenson, the DOPS is the only university-based research unit worldwide mainly conducting empirical investigations into the problem of survival.
Society for Scientific Exploration - Anomalies research society with a wide focus on exceptional human experiences and the sociology of science. Publishes the noted Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Parapsychological Association - An Affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the PA is the leading international professional organisation of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of 'psi' (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, precognition, and survival-related phenomena.
Parapsychology Foundation - The PF is a non-profit foundation which provides a worldwide forum supporting the scientific investigation of 'psychic' phenomena. The Foundation gives grants, publishes pamphlets, monographs, conference proceedings and the peer-reviewed International Journal of Parapsychology.
Liverpool Hope Parapsychology Research Group - University-based research group dedicated to the study of anomalous or ‘psychic’ experiences. Other experiences studied by the group include experiences that suggest that human personality or consciousness may exist outside of a physical body. For example, members of the group study out-of-body experiences, mediumship phenomena, and haunting phenomena.
Gesellschaft für Anomalistik - A German equivalent of the Society for Scientific Exploration. Organises meetings and workshops, and publishes a peer-reviewed journal, the Zeitschrift für Anomalistik.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
Journal of Scientific Exploration
International Journal of Parapsychology
Journal of Parapsychology
European Journal of Parapsychology
Journal of Near-Death Studies
Zeitschrift für Anomalistik
OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
Library of Exploratory Science (Lexscien) - Contains rare and important books in the field, e.g. F.W.H. Myers' Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, or Gurney, Myers & Podmore's Phantasms of the Living in PDF format and formatted text. Access to the collection after free registration. SPR members have full access to all published volumes of the Journal and Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.
The International Survivalist Society - Webpage containing a wealth of both scholarly and popular survival-related literature in HTML format. Many classical texts related to the problem of survival (full articles as well as complete books in HTML) by authors such as Myers, Podmore, James, Barrett, Broad, Carrington, Driesch, Ducasse, Hyslop, Lodge, McDougall, Murphy, Price, Richet, Salter, Thomas, Tyrrell, and contemporary authors such as Alvarado and Braude.
The PsyPioneer - A monthly electronic newsletter with very rare and interesting contributions about the history of psychical research and related areas.
Exceptional Human Experience Network - The EHEN is an educational, research, and information resource organisation studying all types of Exceptional Human Experiences (EHE). Founded by Rhea A. White.
Archives of Scientists' Transcendend Experiences - TASTE is an online journal devoted to transcendent experiences that scientists have reported. It lets scientists express these experiences in a psychologically (and professionally) safe space.
SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE: ORGANISED SCEPTICISM
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal - CSICOP is the leading sceptics organisation. Despite their mission statement according to which "CSICOP encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public" there is evidence that the mission of CSICOP is propaganda of scientistic ideologies rather than scientific exploration.
Skeptical Investigations - Website aiming at the promotion of "genuine skepticism, the spirit of enquiry and doubt, within science. This includes an open-minded investigation of unexplained phenomena, a questioning of dogmatic assumptions, and a skeptical examination of the claims of self-proclaimed skeptics."
Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften - GWUP, German affiliate of CSICOP.
Skeptizismus.de - German website containing information and critical reflections about organised scepticism. Initiated by a founding member of the GWUP.
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