A curated overview of the most important external sources for the serious, scientific engagement with mediumship, near-death experiences and consciousness research – from academic research institutes to peer-reviewed journals and specialised encyclopedias. All links lead to external providers.
Structured overview platforms on consciousness, mediumship and psi research – ideal as an entry point and for research on individual researchers, cases and concepts.
Online encyclopedia maintained by the Society for Psychical Research, with hundreds of thoroughly researched articles on researchers, studies, cases and concepts in consciousness and parapsychology research. The gold standard for research in the field.
Initiative by scientists (including Rupert Sheldrake and Larry Dossey) advocating for an opening of mainstream science toward consciousness and psi phenomena. Access to texts, videos and researcher profiles.
Platform and YouTube series by Jeffrey Mishlove (PhD in parapsychology, UC Berkeley), winner of the 2021 BICS essay competition. Long-form deep interviews with virtually every important researcher in the field – from Schwartz to Beischel to Tressoldi.
Active academic and independent research institutions running their own studies on consciousness, mediumship and near-death experiences.
University-based research unit founded by Ian Stevenson in 1967. Today active with Jim Tucker (reincarnation research), Bruce Greyson (NDE), and Edward & Emily Kelly (consciousness survival). One of the largest databases of exceptional experiences worldwide.
Research centre in Tucson, Arizona, founded in 2008 by Julie Beischel. Quintuple-blind mediumship research, certification of research mediums, and applied research on grief support through afterlife contact.
The German address for consciousness research. Focus areas: experimental parapsychology, anomalistic psychology, and counselling for people with exceptional experiences. The "Model of Pragmatic Information" developed by Walter von Lucadou is one of the field's most original theoretical contributions.
Founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Research on consciousness, intuition, healing and psi phenomena. Home of Dean Radin, senior scientist and author of several standard works (Entangled Minds, Real Magic).
Belgian research team led by Steven Laureys and Charlotte Martial, using neuroimaging methods to investigate states of consciousness in coma patients and near-death experiencers. Internationally one of the most respected addresses for the neuroscientific study of NDEs.
Platforms collecting and documenting near-death experience reports for both experiencers and researchers.
The world's largest collection of near-death experiences, with more than 5,000 detailed reports and a standardised online questionnaire of over 100 items. Freely accessible to experiencers and researchers, multilingual.
The oldest international organisation dedicated to research and support around near-death experiences, founded in 1981. Publisher of the Journal of Near-Death Studies; local support groups worldwide; online conferences.
German-language counterpart to IANDS. Brings together experiencers, relatives and researchers; offers reports, conferences and counselling in the German-speaking world.
Peer-reviewed journals in which the central studies on mediumship and consciousness research are published.
Quarterly journal of the SPR, founded in 1884. Publication venue for the Roy/Robertson Glasgow studies and Schwartz's VERITAS papers, among many others. One of the oldest continuously published journals in its field.
Peer-reviewed Elsevier journal at the intersection of science, healing and consciousness research. Publication venue for Beischel's quintuple-blind studies and Tressoldi's mediumship meta-analysis.
The only peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to the scientific study of near-death experiences. Published by IANDS; founded in 1981 as Anabiosis – Journal of Near-Death Studies.
One of the oldest peer-reviewed journals in experimental parapsychology, founded in 1937 by J. B. Rhine at Duke University. Today published by the Rhine Research Center.
Privately funded foundations that finance a significant share of serious consciousness research worldwide.
Portuguese private foundation that has been funding worldwide research projects on consciousness and exceptional experiences since 1994. A key funder of, among others, Beischel's early work at the Windbridge Institute.
Foundation launched in 2021 by US entrepreneur Robert Bigelow. Known for an essay competition with a total of US $1.8 million in prize money on evidence for the survival of consciousness after physical death – the winning essays are freely available.
Scientific societies that have shaped the field methodologically for up to 140 years and publish member journals.
Founded in London in 1882, the oldest continuously active research society in the field. Co-founders included Henry Sidgwick, Frederic W. H. Myers, and William James. Publisher of the Psi Encyclopedia and the JSPR.
Scottish branch of the SPR, long shaped by Archie Roy and Tricia Robertson. Currently led by Tricia Robertson; organises regular study days and lecture series in Glasgow.
International professional association for parapsychologists, founded in 1957. Since 1969 an affiliated member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – a notable status in the wider scientific landscape.
Founded in Boston in 1885, the oldest psychical research society in the United States. Now based in New York; maintains its own library, archive, and the Journal of the ASPR.
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