Organisations and Resources
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Online organisations and resources
- Skeptical Organizations (useful links to skeptical organisations)
- Psychology of Religion (by Michael Nielsen)
- Exceptional Human Experience Network (educational, research, and information resource organisation studying all types of anomalous experiences)
- Ian Rowland's web-site (an interesting, skeptical resource)
- Committee for the Scientific investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) (US skeptical organisation encouraging "critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view")
- James Randi Educational Foundation (an educational resource on the paranormal, pseudoscientific and the supernatural)
- TASTE (the archives of scientists' transcendent experiences)
- Astrology and Science (reports objective research into the claims of astrology and astrologers)
- Urban Legends Reference Pages (great for investigating the latest urban legends)
- The Skeptic's Dictionary (maintained by Robert T. Carroll, Professor of Philosophy, Sacramento City College)
- Yahoo's paranormal phenomena index (provides links to a fairly comprehensive A to Z of paranormal topics)
Publications
- Australian Journal of Parapsychology (published by the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research)
- European Journal of Parapsychology (peer-reviewed scientific journal for research — particularly theoretical and theory-driven empirical work — relating to the field of parapsychology)
- International Journal of Parapsychology (published by the Parapsychology Foundation)
- Journal of Parapsychology (affiliated journal of the Parapsychological Association)
- The Journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration (published by the Society for Scientific Exploration)
- The Skeptical Inquirer (published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal)
- The (UK) Skeptic Magazine (the UK's only regular magazine to take a sceptical look at pseudoscience and claims of the paranormal)
- The (US) Skeptic Magazine (a quarterly publication of the Skeptics Society)
- The Fortean Times (journal of strange phenomena)
Research Laboratories
- Division of Personality Studies, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, USA. (studying how the mind and brain relate and the question of postmortem survival)
- The Global Consciousness Project (field-REG study)
- Institut fuer Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP) (Institute for borderline areas of psychology and mental health, Freiburg, Germany)
- Koestler Parapsychology Unit (part of the psychology department at Edinburgh University)
- The Laboratories for Fundamental Research (includes the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory)
- Perrott-Warrick Research Unit (research into psychology and parapsychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK)
- Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (scientific study of consciousness-related phenomena)
- The RetroPsychokinesis Project (research into retrocausal psychokinetic effects)
- Rhine Research Center (includes the Institute for Parapsychology)
- Zetetics Laboratory, Center for Inquiry-France (Contains an intersting article called 'Save Our Science: Paranormal Phenomena and Zetetics' by Henri Broch)