Parapsychology (from the Greek para — outside, near, around) is a pseudoscience that studies, but in fact promotes phenomena that go beyond the scientific approach. What the dead see, conversations with the spirits of the dead, how to see through walls without special equipment, how to learn to disperse clouds with your eyes and control the movement of other people’s vehicles with one thought power are typical topics of parapsychology. Together with esotericism, magic and mysticism, it is a kind of psychology of the miraculous.
Here are all the main words that relate to the topic «parapsychology»: Telepathy, Telekinesis (psychokinesis), Clairvoyance (and clairaudience), Claircognizance, Proscopia, Precognition, Retroscopy, Farsightedness, Suggestion (Mental Suggestion), Retropsychokinesis, Pyrokinesis (pyrogeny), Poltergeist , Dowsing, Information-perceptual dowsing, Energetic-perceptual dowsing, Psi-healing, Bioenergetic healing, Astral projection («out-of-body exit»), Astral double («astral body»), Ghost (phantom, apparition), Channeling, Spiritualism, Reincarnation , Materialization of «thought forms», Teleportation, Levitation, Skin-optical perception, Clair-smell, clair-touch, Bio-attraction of objects.
If you hear or read anything that uses these words in earnest, try to stay away from it.
Mostly women tend to believe in miracles. According to statistics for 2015, 4% of men and 67% of women turned to psychics, and in general, more than a million psychic healers are already practicing in Russia today.
There are many references to allegedly serious scientific commissions and the most rigorous scientific experiments that confirmed the existence of paranormal phenomena, but this is not entirely true … In 1977, a story gained fame that mentioned fraud committed by members of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Paranormal Reports (CISFR) USA. The physicist Dennis Rawlins, who was one of the co-founders of the CSPSP, claimed fraud he found in the CSPSP investigations of the research of the French statistician Michel Gauquelin, who published the results of statistical studies that partially confirmed the conclusions of predictive astrology. In particular, Dennis Rawlins called the statistical techniques used by the committee to test Gauquelin’s study «fake.»
And the most convincing and funny thing is that the famous American illusionist, TV presenter and popularizer of science James Randi several years ago offered a prize of ten thousand dollars to anyone who unambiguously and unequivocally demonstrates any of the so-called parapsychological or extrasensory phenomena. There are no people who want and are able to earn this money … See →