Paranormal
Electronic Voice Phenomena: Signal or Noise?
Investigators record voices on tape that weren't heard in the room. We look at auditory pareidolia, radio interference and the will to hear.
Sojan TS
Writer and researcher exploring psychology, parapsychology and the edges of human experience.
Consciousness
Out-of-Body Experiences in the Lab
Using virtual reality and stimulation of the temporoparietal junction, scientists can now induce the sense of leaving one's body.
Demonology
Discernment: Telling the Psychological from the Spiritual
How careful investigators separate illness, suggestion and fraud from the rare accounts that resist every natural explanation.
Psychology
Why Smart People Believe Strange Things
Intelligence doesn't protect against unusual beliefs. Sometimes it makes them more elaborate. A look at motivated reasoning and belief.
Demonology
Demonology in Ancient and Medieval Writings
From desert monks to medieval scholars: how earlier generations described spiritual oppression, and what they took care to rule out first.
Demonology
Oppression or Illness? What Case Histories Teach Us
Classic case histories show why medical and psychological assessment always comes first, and what remains once it has been done.