Journal of anomalistics
December 1, 2025
Evelyn Elsaesser, Chris A Roe, Callum E Cooper et al.
A spontaneous and direct After-Death Communication (ADC) occurs when a person unexpectedly perceives a deceased person. These contacts, which appear to be initiated by the deceased, are perceived through the senses of sight, hearing, touch, or smell. Often, the experient simply senses the presence of the deceased. ADCs occur while awake, asleep or falling asleep (in a hypnagogic state of...
Journal of anomalistics
July 24, 2025
James Houran, Debra Katz, J C Williamson et al.
This case study examines the phenomenon of dimensional-slips, i. e., anomalous distortions or perceptions of spacetime that may involve transcendental content or themes. Our investigation specifically centers on “Nell,” a known ‘haunted’ woman who documented four experiences of perceived physical transports to other realms. Using a mixed-methods approach, we employed AI-assisted content...
Journal of anomalistics
July 24, 2025
Gerhard Mayer
Dechamps PDF full text Abstract In the Generalized Quantum Theory (GQT), a theory designed to describe psychophysical phenomena, the subjective and objective aspects of reality are considered to be complementary. The research presented here focused on investigating such a macroscopic complementarity between subjective and objective reality descriptions within the context of color assessment. In...
Journal of anomalistics
June 30, 2023
Cedar S. Leverett
A special acknowledgment for the enriching period of time working with Gerhard and Nan on special issue
Journal of anomalistics
December 1, 2022
Caroline Watt
In this paper the author provides a personal perspective on the theme of women in parapsychology. She reflects on her journey in academia, from being the first in her farming family to go to university, to joining the University of Edinburgh in 1986 as Research Assistant to the first Koestler Professor Robert Morris, to her current position as the second holder of the Koestler Chair of...
Journal of anomalistics
December 1, 2022
Eberhard Bauer
The dominant and most popular figure in German parapsychology after the Second World War was Professor Hans Bender, who founded in 1950 the "Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V." (IGPP for short) [Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health] in his birthplace and hometown of Freiburg im Breisgau, directed it until his death on 7 May 1991 and...
Journal of anomalistics
June 1, 2018
Birgit Menzel
1 citation
This article presents a discussion of publications in Anglo-American and German research, mainly since 2000, on topics related to Altered States of Consciousness (ASC). It is motivated by an unprecedented expansion of brain-research which has fostered a boom of reductionist models of the human mind with visions of a technologically augmented humanity and numerous successful neuro-enterprises....