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Famous parapsychologists

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  Rais Amrohvi
  
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  Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
  
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  Hans Bender
  
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  Susan Blackmore
  
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  William Crookes
  
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  Max Dessoir
  
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  Thomas Edison
  
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  Bob Garner
  
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  Gustave Geley
  
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  John Hasted
  
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  Charles Honorton
  
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  Robert G. Jahn
  
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  William James-founding father of American Psychology
  
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  Brian Josephson-Nobel Prize in Physics, 1973
  
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  Oliver Lodge
  
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  William McDougall
  
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  Gardner Murphy
  
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  Frederick W. H. Myers
  
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  Julian Ochorowicz
  
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  Harry Price
  
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  Dean Radin- Author of "The Conscious Universe", which examines the scientific evidence in parapsychology.
  
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  Jim D. Ray
  
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  Carl Reichenbach
  
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  Joseph B. Rhine
  
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  Charles Robert Richet
  
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  Carl Sargent
  
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  Helmut Schmidt
  
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  Albert von Schrenck-Notzing
  
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  Gary Schwartz-Has stated he has scientific proof of established contact with the dead
  
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  Stephan Schwartz
  
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  Henry Sidgwick
  
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  Ian Stevenson
  
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  Ingo Swann
  
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  Wilhelm Heinrich Carl Tenhaeff
  
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  Mark Twain
  
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  G. N. M. Tyrrell
  
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  Alfred Russel Wallace
  

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Claimed psychics

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  Sylvia Browne — received the Pigasus award, Category #4 for 2004 for claiming to "see" in July, 2004 that Osama Bin Laden was dead, predicting in 2003 that Saddam Hussein would be found dead by year's end, and other triumphs. Sylvia won in category #2 in 2003.
  
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  Kuda Bux firewalker
  
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  Edgar Cayce — claimed to be a psychic healer in the first half of the 20th century.
  
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  Miss Cleo
  
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  Mina Margery Crandon — last noted physical and mental medium in the USA
  
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  Gerard Croiset
  
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  Jeane Dixon can look across the room and make Uri Geller drop his spoon
  
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  William and Horatio Eddy — 19th Century Vermont psychics. Their spirit cabinet performances were very similar to that of the famous Davenport Brothers. This tradition is carried on by the team of Glenn Falkenstein and Frances Willard.
  
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  Tom Rannachan — Scottish "Psychic Medium" who claims to talk with the dead & receive accurate premonitions.
  
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  John Edward — Host of TV show "Crossing Over" in which he claimed to communicate with the dead.
  
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  Leslie Flint
  
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  Uri Geller — Israeli telekinetic, famous for bending handled spoons in television shows. Traveled the world with his confederates, who sometimes posed as news reporters. He was deported from Israel, his home country.
  
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  Stuart Harary probably means Keith Harary, OBEr
  
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  D. D. Home
  
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  Jim Jones — claimed to perform healings. He was the leader of the People's Temple that committed mass suicide in 1978
  
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  Joseph McMoneagle Former US Army intelligence officer, currently a corporate remote viewer
  
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  Wolf Messing — Stalinist seer. His daughter's puff book made him famous.
  
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  David Morehouse Government remote viewer
  
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  Dr. Mysterian
  
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  Stephan Ossowiecki
  
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  Eusapia Palladino— accused of using her foot to levitate table and other deceptions by conjurors in hiding who watched her methods at close hand. (Rinn, 1950)
  
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  Leonore Piper
  
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  Pat Price Government remote viewer
  
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  Sathya Sai Baba, big name Indian guru; materialization of small objects
  
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  S. G. Soal
  
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  Ingo Swann, involved in the formation of the remote viewing procedure.
  
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  Alex Tannous
  
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  James Van Praagh
  
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  Rev. B. Anne Gehman
  

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Critics of parapsychology

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  Susan Blackmore — Stopped lecturing and abandoned parapsychology altogether, because she could no longer endure the near fanatic and rude behavior of both believers and non-believers.
  
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  Milbourne Christopher — Noted Conjuring Historian. His works are frequently overlooked.
  
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  Ray Hyman- Conjuror and noted research psychologist
  
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  James Randi
  
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  Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini)
  

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Psychic investigations

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  Remote Viewing (includes Stargate project)
  
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  Global Consciousness Project
  

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References

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  Parapsychology, by Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi, Al-Kitaab Publication,1985.
  
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  The Conscious Universe, by Dean Radin, Harper Collins, 1997, ISBN 0062515020.
  
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  Parapsychology: A Concise History, by John Beloff, St. Martin's Press, 1993, ISBN 0312096119.
  
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  Parapsychology: The Controversial Science, by Richard S. PHD Broughton, Ballantine Books, 1991, ISBN 0345356381.
  
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  ESP,Seers & Psychics : What the Occult Really Is , by Milbourne Christopher,Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1970, ISBN 0690268157
  
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  The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research, by Ray Hayman, Prometheus Books, 1989, ISBN 0879755040.
  
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  Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Parapsychology, ed. Antony Flew, Prometheus Books, 1987, ISBN 0-87975-385-4
  
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  Sixty Years of Psychical Research : Houdini and I Among the Spirits, by Joseph Rinn, Truth Seeker, 1950
  
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  Roots of Consciousness, Jeffrey Mishlove, 2 editions
  

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