Have you ever watched a scary movie or a ghost movie, and wondered if the good guy or the healer really would do that in reality. Such as in the movie "Ghostbusters", they use proton packs, traps, and other ghost technology. They get slimed, zapped, and at times possessed. Have you ever just stopped yourself during the movie and wondered if this really would happen? Probably not, but now it is something to think about. Parapsychology is an interesting branch of psychology stemming from various origins, containing many subtypes, and having many uses and findings.

Parapsychology has been around for as long as time has been going. There are some findings as old as the bible (Parapsychology, 478). Although there is no specific time or place for the origination of parapsychology, many people have contributed to this science.

There are many powers that fall under parapsychology. ESP which stands for extrasensory perception, is the ability acquire information shielded from senses (Eysenck & Sargent, 11). PSI has two forms. Qualitive comprises those events that have a naturalistic basis and includes episodes of spontaneous psychic occurances in everyday life. Quantitive is evidence obtained in l

is a large scale of PK phenomena often attributed to spirits, but which are new thought to be due to a living person, frequently an adolescent (FAQ, 24). Psychic Dreams come in two forms. The most common is a realistic dream. In these dreams, a person senses a problem and can sometimes determine the problem. The other type of dream is symbolic. It's an unrealistic dream that is mostly fantasy. These dreams have symbolism in them and turn out to be an occurance that has happened or is going to happen (Broughton, 11-13). The least common type of apparent psychic experience is the hallucination. Although hallucinations seem to present new information, they are typically based on memories and other unconscious material (Broughton, 16).

" Parapsychology and Personal survival after death." Nov. 16, 2000

http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/paraps.html

http://www.archalon.com/parapsychology/parapsychology.htm

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