parapsychology

A spiritual and scientific perspective on babies’ consciousness, and how to communicate with and heal babies.

Verifying the purported past-life memories of children against the records of people who have died is part of a day’s work for Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson.

Even in the most convincing cases of children talking about past-life memories, some will find a grain of doubt. What do psychologists say about these children’s statements?

Declared dead, a man allegedly viewed the hospital in spirit, returning to tell what he saw. His surgeon was unable to provide a conventional explanation.

Two outstanding experiences created cracks in his armor of atheistic certainty and disrupted what he calls his “web of belief” based on modern science.

A 3-year-old seemed to know in detail about a confrontation his father’s acquaintance once had with a snake—but how he knew these details remains a mystery.

Many people have reportedly experienced the afterlife in some way, and many scientists have delved into what could be behind these experiences.

A theoretical physicist who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Henry Stapp says the existence of the soul fits within the laws of physics.

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by an estimated 200,000 Americans a year, and studies around the world suggest NDEs are a common human experience. They have been recorded in the folklore of many cultures, and reported by people from diverse backgrounds and in widely varying circumstances.

Materialism and psychical research are often viewed as antithetical. But psychic phenomena and the occult have been with us all throughout the development of science, and—like it or not—they have their place in modern science.

When people report having profound out-of-body experiences during close brushes with death, skeptics often attribute it to physiological and psychological factors.

“And suddenly I was ejected from my body and I wasn’t angry anymore,” she said. A blaze of light appeared and she felt an energy pervading everything, including herself.

The tendency to notice coincidences in one’s life, and to attribute meaning to those coincidences, is stronger in some people than in others.

In modern physics, certain quantum processes are deemed fundamentally random. But are they for sure?