Serious research into consciousness and the questions at its edges.
Explore peer-reviewed research, landmark studies and emerging work on near-death experiences, mediumship, telepathy, Remote Viewing, reincarnation, psi, consciousness and the possibility of survival beyond death.
Read the methods. Check the limitations. Follow the original sources. Decide for yourself what the evidence means.
Channeling & extended consciousnessHelané Wahbeh
MediumshipJulie Beischel
Near-death experiencesBruce Greyson
ReincarnationJim TuckerMeet some of the researchers asking the difficult questions.
From clinical psychiatry to statistics and neuroscience, their work has helped turn unusual questions into testable ones.
Helané Wahbeh
Director of Research, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Clinical researcher exploring consciousness, exceptional human experiences and channeling across disciplinary boundaries.
View researcher profileJulie Beischel
Director of Research Emerita, Windbridge Research Center
Researcher known for controlled, blinded studies of mediumship, including tests of accuracy and the experiences reported by mediums.
Researcher profileBruce Greyson
Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia
Psychiatrist and leading figure in modern NDE research, best known for developing the widely used Greyson Near-Death Experience Scale.
Researcher profileJim Tucker
Former Director, UVA Division of Perceptual Studies
Psychiatrist whose work has centred on children who report memories of previous lives.
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Dean Radin
Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Experimental researcher investigating psi, precognition and possible interactions between mind and physical systems.
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Jessica Utts
Professor Emerita of Statistics, UC Irvine
Statistician known for evaluating evidence in parapsychology, including US government-sponsored research into Remote Viewing.
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Julia Mossbridge
Cognitive neuroscientist
Cognitive neuroscientist studying time perception, consciousness and physiological findings associated with precognition.
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Marjorie Woollacott
Professor Emerita, University of Oregon
Neuroscientist whose work spans meditation, attention and questions at the boundary between brain and consciousness.
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Near-Death Experiences & Consciousness
Research on near-death experiences alongside work examining consciousness itself, from its structure and mechanisms to its relationship with the brain.
Mediumship
Controlled studies asking whether specific, accurate information can be reported when ordinary routes of information are carefully restricted.
Telepathy
Experiments testing whether information can pass between people without any known sensory channel.
Remote Viewing
Laboratory research and historical programmes testing whether people can describe distant or hidden targets without ordinary sensory access.
Reincarnation
Case research on children who report memories attributed to previous lives, including details that can sometimes be checked against people, places and historical records.
The surprise is not that this research exists. It is how much of it has been published.
Decades of research sit across journals, university archives and specialist publications, much of it difficult to find unless you already know where to look.
This database brings the work into one place without stripping away the details that matter: methods, limitations, competing interpretations and unanswered questions.
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Each detailed entry explains the study in clear language without losing the method, uncertainty or nuance.
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Each research entry links back to the original paper, journal, university or institution wherever possible.
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Findings are presented alongside the study design, sample, limitations and unresolved questions.
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Self-Reported Near-Death and Near-Death-Like Experiences in a Chinese Online Sample
Recurring features included out-of-body experiences, bright light, peaceful emotions, life review and encounters with deceased or spiritual beings.
Local field potential changes during euthanasia may parallel with near death experience
The study reports changes in neural field-potential activity around euthanasia that the authors discuss as potentially relevant to neurophysiological models of near-death experiences.
Telecommunication Telepathy: A Meta-Analysis
Across the meta-analytic dataset, hit rates were significantly above chance, with a standardised random-effects estimate of about 0.17 and an overall significance reported as p = 1 × 10^-7. The paper reports an average hit rate roughly 8.6 percentage points above mean chance expectation in the principal set of electronic-communication telepathy studies. Precognitive control tests were at chance. Results from Sheldrake and colleagues did not differ significantly from independent replications. Selected participants performed significantly better than unselected participants, and hit rates were higher when callers and participants shared an emotional bond. The authors’ publication-bias analyses did not remove the overall above-chance pattern.
Qualitative thematic analysis of the phenomenology of near-death experiences
The published study reports findings directly relevant to its stated research question in consciousness and exceptional-experience research.
What is being published now.
New papers, reviews and notable developments, selected for relevance and summarised with direct links to the original sources.
New 1,678-case analysis finds shorter death-to-birth intervals after unexpected deaths
University of Virginia researchers reported that more unexpected deaths were associated with shorter intervals between the reported previous death and the child's birth, with median intervals falling by roughly 40 to 45 per cent across the unexpectedness range.
Read the sourceSystematic review examines more than 70 years of ESP neuroimaging research
A new NeuroImage review surveyed 143 reports covering 129 studies. The authors identified several reported physiological patterns, alongside major methodological weaknesses including small samples and limited independent replication.
Read the sourceResearchers test the stability of the NDE Rasch hierarchy over two decades
A 2026 Consciousness and Cognition paper revisits the structure of near-death experience features and tests whether their ordering remains stable across datasets collected years apart.
Read the sourceNew paper proposes a broader approach to veridicality in out-of-body experiences
Researchers propose looking beyond laboratory targets alone by also considering experiential authenticity, context and independently checkable information when evaluating out-of-body reports.
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