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Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. [1] Criticized as being a pseudoscience, the majority of mainstream scientists reject it.
This is a list of notable conspiracy theories.Many conspiracy theories relate to supposed clandestine government plans and elaborate murder plots. [3] They usually deny consensus opinion and cannot be proven using historical or scientific methods, and are not to be confused with research concerning verified conspiracies, such as Germany's pretense for invading Poland in World War II.
This is a list of notable magazines on paranormal, anomalous and Fortean phenomena. These magazines are generally opposed by skeptical magazines. 3rd Stone – an Earth mysteries magazine; defunct; Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing; Fate – broad array of accounts of the strange and unknown
The phrase "Anomalistic Psychology" was a term first suggested by the psychologists Leonard Zusne and Warren Jones in their book Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (1989) which systematically addresses phenomena of human consciousness and behaviors that may appear to violate the laws of nature when they actually do not.
The Roots of Coincidence is a 1972 book by Arthur Koestler.It is an introduction to theories of parapsychology, including extrasensory perception and psychokinesis.Koestler postulates links between modern physics, their interaction with time and paranormal phenomena.
Apparitional experiences appear prima facie more compatible with the philosophical theory of representationalism. According to this theory, the immediate objects of experience when we are perceiving the world normally are representations of the world, rather than the world itself. These representations have been variously called sense-data or ...
Explore the Wikipedia category dedicated to unexplained phenomena, featuring a collection of mysterious events and occurrences.