Practical Parapsychology

Episode 7: Transliminality: This week Cindy and Jim discuss the complicated details of transliminality; a trait that strongly predicts haunting experiences.

Episode 6: Paranormal Belief and Hauntings: This week Cindy and Brian discuss how paranormal belief is measured, its association with mental illness and cognitive deficits, the role of bias and belief in science, and how we should separate evidence and data from our interpretations of it.

Episode 5: Things You Wanted To Know About Possession, But Were Afraid to Ask. This week Jim and Brian have a discussion about possession across cultures, the degrees of severity that appear with possession, psychology diagnoses that parallel possession, and a healthy dose of warnings about non-professionals digging into possession cases.

Episode 4: Investigations and Case Documentation. In this episode, Brian and Cindy discuss tips and tricks for collecting information before you investigate a purportedly haunted location.

Measuring Haunting Phenomena II: Haunting and Imaginary Friend Accounts. In this episode, Jim Houran joins us again as we further discuss the SSE and use written haunting accounts to demonstrate how to code haunting narratives. In the second half, we talk about our imaginary friend research and demonstrate through more written accounts how the SSE can be used to clarify the core phenomena behind imaginary friends.

Measuring Haunting Phenomena I: Objective and Subjective Phenomena.: In this episode we discuss a scientific scale for measuring haunting phenomena: The Survey of Strange Events. Brian and Cindy discuss Objective phenomea (i.e. objects moving) versus Subjective phenomena (i.e. sensed presences, cuts and scratches...e.t.c) and how they relate to each other as well as validating them with evidence.

Parapsychology, Frank Drake, and the Drake S Equation : In our inaugural episode Brian and Cindy are joined by Dr. Jim Houran and discuss the passing of Frank Drake, his subtle influence on fringe science, and the Drake S equation: a formula to examine how much conventional explanations can account for the paranormal.