Psi
O termo é geralmente usado por parapsicólogos para referir a
percepção extra-sensorial e a psicocinética no seu conjunto. O termo foi criado
por R.H. Thouless e B.P. Weisner no seu artigo de 1942 "The Present Position of
Experimental Research into Telepathy and Related Phenomena," (Proceedings of the
Society for Psychical Research, 47, part 166, pp. 1-19).
Links
- Evaluation of
Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena por Ray Hyman
- "Mere Puffery: The
Confessions of a Leading Psychic" por Al Seckel
- Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of
Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957), ch. 25.
- Hansel, C.E.M. The Search for Psychic Power : ESP and
Parapsychology Revisited (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).
- Hines, Terence. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
(Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990).
- Hyman, Ray. The Elusive Quarry : a Scientific
Appraisal of Psychical Research (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).
- Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York:
Prometheus Books,1982).
