There is an enormous amount of information on the web concerning non-local consciousness. I have attempted to only include those of a scientific nature that are accessible to a general public and easy to navigate. Dividing them into different groups has not been easy partly due to the nature of the topic (non local consciousness and its interaction with the physical world) and partly because most sites are fairly broad. In the future I will try to include a more comprehensive description of the contents of each site.

If you have comments or which to suggest new links, please let me know.

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Near Death Experiences

Raymond Moody, was the first doctor to draw attention to the phenomenon and coined the phrase "Near Death Experience". His site contains information about his books, his research and more.

Melvin Morse, who as a paediatrician focuses on NDE's in children, also has an impressive website.

Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife is a quite extensive site dealing with most aspects of the NDE. Though the bulk of the material is anecdotal stories research and physical verifications as well as religio-philosofical implications are discussed.

The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) is the grand central station of NDE cases. A site (and organisation) of some significance, especially from a professional experience.

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Healing

College of Psychic Studies was founded in 1884 and is an educational charity. The College programme details Lectures, Workshops, Special Events, Private Consultations and Healing Programmes which are among the numerous activities available for members and non-members.

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Non-Local Consciousness and Extra Sensory Perception

Charles Tart is one of the most important actors on the stage of non-local consciousness. He has researched several central issues within the area of ESP and is editor of the online publication TASTE, also focused on research into the field.

The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice. Since that time, an interdisciplinary staff of engineers, physicists, psychologists, and humanists has been conducting a comprehensive agenda of experiments and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality.

The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona encourages the promotion of open, scientifically rigorous and sustained discussions of all phenomena related to conscious experience. Check out Dr. Hameroff who is an Anesthesiologist at the University and studies microtubules in the brain, protein skeleton networks which may be our link with non-local reality.

The Consciousness Research Laboratory conducts scientific research on commonly-reported but poorly understood human experiences called "psychic". CRL focuses on controlled, laboratory studies of such experiences as mind-matter interaction phenomena, distant healing, clairvoyance and precognition.

The Esalen Center for Theory & Research supports essential philosophic, academic, and research aims of the Esalen Institute. It evaluates frontier inquiry, creates networks of pioneering individuals, and works to catalyze new discoveries that promote personal and social transformation.
Check out the Conference Summary of Survival of Bodily Death, An Esalen Invitational Conference.

The Parapsychology Foundation was established in 1951 to encourage and support impartial scientific inquiry into the psychical aspects of human nature such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis.

The Rhine Research Center is a non-profit research and education organization established to explore the unusual types of experiences that suggest capabilities as yet unrecognized in the domain of human personality, and to investigate those capabilities thoroughly by exact scientific methods.

The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) Was founded in 1982 by a committee of fourteen scientists and scholars who had identified the need for a new type of scientific organization, one that would foster the study of all questions that are amenable to scientific investigation without restriction. It deals with a great range of topics apart from non-local consciousness issues and contains references to much late-breaking research.

The Koestler Parapsychology Unit is located within the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The objective of the unit is to develop a systematic and responsible research programme that would integrate this controversial area into the ongoing research and teaching activities of the university community.

PSYCHOGNOSIA is a privately-funded, not-for-profit centre for multidisciplinary research and parapsychological investigations into anomalous phenomena and related disciplines. This includes such areas as reincarnation, past-life memories, poltergeist & haunting phenomena, mediumship, altered states of consciousness and out-of-body (OOBE).

PSI STUDIES is Peter B. Lloyd homepage. It includes an index of his books and essays in consciousness studies. He proposes that phenomena such as telepathy, telecognition ('remote viewing'), telekinesis, and retrokinesis - which presently are profoundly baffling to physical science, can be given a natural, coherent, and comprehensive account if we take eighteenth century philosopher George Berkeley's ontology as our starting point.

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Remote Viewing

The Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) was organized March 18, 1999, by selected scientists and practitioners meeting in conjunction with the first professional conference on Remote Viewing. The concluded objective was to create an organization which would provide a mechanism for evaluating the discipline, encourage scientifically sound research, propose ethical standards and provide overview educational information to the public. One of IRVA's major tasks is to maintain a credible and responsible Remote-Viewing focused internet site.

The Homepage for Controlled Remote Viewing provides information about controlled Remote Viewing.

Remote Viewing Instructional Services inc. is a commercial site.

 

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Various

The National Institute of Discovery Science is dedicated to studying both UFOs and the survival of consciousness after death. It is an eclectic assortment of top scientists, politicians, and thinkers. You'll find Jim Whinnery's research on pilots who have experimentally induced NDEs is on the site.

The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology is a private, non-sectarian graduate school accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. For over twenty years the Institute has been at the forefront of psychological research and education, probing the mind, body, spirit connection.

Superpowers of the Human Biomind has more of a New Age feel to it, but contains a few articles of scientific interest (though admittedly, there is more to life than scientific interest.

Spiritonline is similar to the above.

New Falcon Publications offer several interesting titels on related topics, apart from Beyond Death

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Out-Of- Body Experiences

THE LUCIDITY INSTITUTE is concearned with the phenomenon of lucid dreaming and the out-of-body experience which can be induced this way. It contains many interesting articles and tips on how to have lucid dreams through practice.

The Monroe Institute is probably the most interesting and scientific site dealing with the out-of-body experience. It also contains an in-depth description of the hemisphere-synchronisation audio techniqes developed at the institute. I am definetely going to take their courses as soon as opportunity presents itself.

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Sceptical Resources

The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) aims to encourage the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminate factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public.
Whether it reaches this fairly straightforward aim or not is for you to decide, but critical thought (when uncontaminated by bias, which sadly is very rare) is beneficial to all parties involved and should be encouraged.

World of Dawkins is zoologist Richard Dawkins website. He has written several excellent books on the topic of evolution, such as The Selfish Gene, but appears to be critical to anything paranormal which he consideres unscientific. This is perhaps only to be expected as the word "paranormal" itself implies something slightly magical. The study of non-local consciousness and related topics is of course an attemt to reduce the paranormal to the normal, but it appears that Dawkins, like many other scientists of the classical mindset, however brilliant, feels this to be a complete waste of time.

At The Godless Website the "ungodly celebrate the ethical importance of science". They are dead set against all unscientific nonsense such as ESP, and concepts such as the Soul or God. It's fun. I kind of like it.

The Skeptics Society is a scientific and educational organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers, and anyone curious about controversial ideas, extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas and the promotion of science. Their "mission is to serve as an educational tool for those seeking clarification and viewpoints on those controversial ideas and claims." Personally, I'm sceptical of anyone who is on a mission to do anything, as this usually implies a fairly rigid mindset. The objective seems to be one of "debunking" rather than sceptical inquiry, at least as far as parapsychology is concerned, but there are several good articles revising other topics. Or at least they apper so to me. In any case, arguments are healthy. Most of the time.

The Skeptic's Dictionary (Skepdic) is a pretty good idea, but a bit of a let-down, I feel. Intended to provide definitions, arguments and essays on subjects supernatural, occult, paranormal and pseudoscientific, it fails to address much of the research I have referred to on this site and in my book. The sometimes patronising tone (towards the handfull of "psychics" that aren't charlatans and are surprised that they can't perform in a laboratory environment, for instance) isn't very suitable if the intention is to sound like a dictionary either. I was also surprised to find that none of the litterature included here is included under the relevant headings in the Skepdic, despite that other litterature of later publishing dates apparently made the cut. This gives one the impression that material that cannot be easily discarded is merely ignored. If this is the case I cannot say, but whatever the case is, it definetely leaves something to be desired.

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