| Edgar Cayce | Known as the "sleeping prophet", Cayce gave thousands of readings, many of which were transcribed by a stenographer. He was called the sleeping prophet because of his unorthodox method of meditation. He would lie down, close his eyes, and appear to enter into an altered state of consciousness. Most of his readings concerned health, but he is also well known for his discourses on Atlantis, Bible interpretation and world affairs. Cayce founded the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, VA. |
| Loren Coleman | Loren Coleman is one of the world's leading cryptozoologists. An honorary member of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, and several other international organizations. He is also a Life Member of the International Society of Cryptozoology. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. |
| Sigmund Freud | There is a side of Sigmund Freud that is often overlooked is his interest in the paranormal. Freud was fascinated by dreams and spent a great deal of time studying prophetic and telepathic occurrences in them. |
| Hanz Holzer | Often called the father of ghost hunting, Hans Holzer was a precocious child born in Vienna Austria. At a very early age Hans wrote poems and stories dealing with death and its aftermath. Hans has authored 96 books on the psychic subjects and studying the paranormal. |
| Carl Jung | Contemporary, and friend of Freud, C G Jung dedicated most of his professional career studying his "Acausal Connecting Principle". This principle is to paranormal studies what Einstein's theory of relativity is to physics. Jung was driven to find how a person could become more intuitively aware of these forces in order to actively shapes event around them by communication with the "Collective Consciences". |
| Harry Price | As a lifelong magician, Harry Price was a natural at finding out fake psychics and mediums. Due to the large amount of false psychics his lifelong beliefs in the paranormal were shaken and he all but turned his back on the study until he met a young Austrian psychic Wili Schnieder. Bolstered by witnessing the abilities of the young Austrian, Price continued exploring psychic phenomena using scientific procedures. The National Laboratory of Psychical Research opened in Queensbury Place, London, in 1926 with Price being named as the Honorary Director. |
| Konstantin Raudive | The father of ITC (Instrumental Trans-Communications), Raudive began his experiments in recording spectral voices in the early 1960's. The phenomenon was first called PVP (Paranormal Voice Phenomena, now known as EVP Electronic Voice Phenomena) and was accomplished by patching a tape recorder to a radio. As the operator glided the dial up and down the frequencies any "voices" that were heard signaled the time to start the recorder. During playback, all obvious human voices were to be discarded and only the voices in the background noise were to be examined. Because of the fact that he used a radio in his experiments, many scientists discounted his experiments as examples of hearing what you want to hear. Over the years the radio has been replaced with a microphone, and the white noise often comes from an electronic generator instead of a radio. |
| Joseph Banks Rhine | Joseph Rhine is credited with bringing scientific controls to the study of Psycho Kinesis. His early studies of rolling dice to determine if an observer could effect the outcome or not morphed into a decades long test in which the odds added up to over 10,000 to 1 against the possibility of chance. The Rhine Research institute in Durham NC is the worlds oldest and best-known research facilities dedicated to paranormal study. |
| Montague Summers | An eccentric British author and member of the clergy known primarily for his many volumes writing on the subjects of witches, warewolfs, and vampires – all of which he professed to believe in. |
| Troy Taylor | Author of 37 books, including ‘The Ghost Hunters Handbook’, and president of the American Ghost Society. |
| Nikola Tesla |
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