Parapsychology Quotes

• I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Stupidity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.

  Russell Targ

  Science, Years, Data

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• We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.

  Gordon Stein

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

  Isaac Bonewits

  Art, Psychics, People

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• With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

  Aberjhani

  Soul, Mind, Firsts

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.28, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Support, Pseudoscience, Blind

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

  Susan Blackmore

  Progress, Growing, Study

  Susan Blackmore (2013). “Consciousness: An Introduction”, p.359, Routledge

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• Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.

  Lucio Russo

  Mean, Flying, Definitions

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.15, Springer Science & Business Media

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