Background and purpose Mediumship is the ostensible phenomenon of human-mediated
communication between deceased and living persons. In this paper, we perform a meta …

Abstract The recent Bigelow Institute contest rewarding the" best" evidence for life after
death epitomizes much of what's wrong with the current state of survival research, its …

Signs of Reincarnation provides the first comprehensive look at the belief in reincarnation
and the evidence for past lives from historical records, anthropological studies, and …

Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your
assumptions about who you are. Who are you? Are you just a brain? A brain and a body? All …

A review of nearly 20 years of sociocultural research and trends on" ghostly
episodes"(ghosts, haunted houses, and poltergeists) suggests that personal accounts …

This participatory team science project extended Laythe and Houran's (2022) prior
application of a famous probabilistic argument known as the 'Drake equation'to the question …

The idea of 'life after death'transcends philosophy or religion, as science can test predictions
from claims by both its advocates and skeptics. This study therefore featured two …

Research suggests that scientists display confirmation biases with regard to the evaluation
of research studies, in that they evaluate results as being stronger when a study confirms …

This essay explores factors that arguably hinder progress in the domain of parapsychology
that deals with ghostly episodes-apparitions, haunts and poltergeist-like outbreaks. An …

Highlights•Self-sustenance, communication, and replication are observed in nonbiological
systems.•Every system requires a bidirectional exchange of information with the …