As I’ve mentioned in other places, reading in parapsychology and related areas should be done with discrimination, as the accuracy and quality of what’s written, and it’s adherence to basic rules of scholarship and science, varies a great deal. That’s a polite way of saying some of what you’ll find is about as accurate as one can get with the present state of our knowledge, some is considerably tailored to promote particular belief systems, and some is just plain inaccurate. But you can’t be very discriminating at the beginning when you’re just learning about the material and ways of studying it, you do have to depend on authorities to get started. So here is a list of books, some recent, some more classical, compiled by me and parapsychologist colleagues1 that we consider accessible to the non-specialist, interesting, and accurate.


Alvarado, C. (2002). Getting Started in Parapsychology. New York: ***publisher
Alvarado, C. (2005). What is parapsychology? Parapsychology Foundation Lyceum. En línea: http://www.pflyceum.org/64.html ***a book or online only?
Bauer, H. H. (2001). Science or Pseudoscience. Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Beloff, J. (1993). Parapsychology. A Concise History. London: Athlone Press.
Beloff, J. (1993). Parapsychology: A Concise History. St. Martin's Press.
Benor, D. (2002). Healing Research. Vol. 1. Southfield, MI:Vision.
Broughton, R. (1991). Parapsychology. The Controversial Science. ***place: Rider.
Broughton, R. (1991). Parapsychology: The Controversial Science. New York: Ballantine Books.
Broad, C.D. (1962). Lectures on Psychical Research. ***place: Routledge.
Cardeña, E., Lynn, S.J., & Krippner, S. (Eds.) (2000). The Varieties of Anomalous Experience. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Carter, C. (2007) *Parapsychology and the Skeptics. ***place: Sterling House.
Collins, H. M., & Pinch, T. J. (1982). Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Cornell, T (2002). Investigating the Paranormal. New York: Helix Press.
David Ray Griffin, Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality. ***place: State University of New York Press.
Dilley, F. (Ed.) (1995) Philosophical Interactions with Parapsychology: The Major Writings of H.H. Price. ***place: St. Martin's Press.
Dossey, L. (1993). Healing Words. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
Feather, S. & Schmicker, M. (2006). The Gift: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People. New York: St. Martins Press.
Gauld, A. & Cornell, T. (1979). Poltergeists. ***place: Routledge.
Gauld, A. (1982) Mediumship and Survival. ***place: Paladin.
Gauld, A. (1982). Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations, London: Heinemann.
Grim, P. (Ed.). (1990). Philosophy of Science and the Occult. Second Edition. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Henry, J. (Ed.) (2005). Parapsychology: Research on Exceptional Experiences. London: Routledge.
Hess, D. J. (1993). Science in the New Age. The Paranormal, Its Defenders and Debunkers, and American Culture. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Inglis, B.(1984). Science and Parascience. Hodder and Stoughton,
Inglis, B. (1986). The Paranormal. ***location: Paladin.
Irwin, H.J., & Watt, C. (2007). Introduction to Parapsychology (5th ed.) Jefferson, NC: MacFarland.
James, W. (***) The Works of William James: Essays in Psychical Research ***location: Harvard.
Kelly, E., Kelly E., Crabtree, A., Gauld, A., Grosso, M. & Greyson, B. (2006). Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century. ***location: Rowman & Littlefield.
MacKenzie, A. (1982). Hauntings and Apparitions ***location: Heinemann.
Mayer, E. (2008). Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism and the Inexplicable Power of the Human Mind. New York: Bantam.
McMoneagle, J. (1997). Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads.
McMoneagle, J. (2002). The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy. Charlottesville VA: Hampton Roads.
McMoneagle, J. (1998). The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium. Charlottesville VA: Hampton Roads.
Pilkington, R. (2006). The Spirit of Dr. Bindelof: The Enigma of Séance Phenomena.****location: Anomalist Books.
Radin, D. (1997). The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. ***location: HarperOne.
Radin, D. (2006). Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality. ****location: Paraview.
Ring, K. (2006). Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the Near-death Experience. ****location: Moment Point Press.
Rink, K. (1985). Heading Toward Omega. ***location: Harper Perennial.
Roll, W (1972). The Poltergeist. ***location: Nelson.
Schoch, R. & Yonavjak, L. (2008) The Parapsychology Revolution: A Concise Anthology of Paranormal and Psychical Research. New York: Tarcher.
Schwartz, G. (2003). The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death. ***location: Atria.
Schwartz, S. (1978). The Secret Vaults of Time. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Revised edition Hampton Roads Publishers, 1999.
Schwartz, S. (1983). The Alexandria Project. New York: Doubleday/Friede. Authors Guild revised edition, 2000.
Schwartz, S. (2007). Opening to the Infinite. Buda: Nemoseen Media, 2007.
Schwartz, S. (2009). Mind Rover: Explorations with Remote Viewing(original academic edition out of print, in press, revised edition, ****place: Nemoseen Media).
Stephen B. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination. ***location: Brown Walker Press.
Stephen B. (2003). Immortal Remains. ***location: Rowman and Littlefield.
Stephen B. (1997). Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science. ***location: University Press of America.
Taylor, E. (1999). Shadow Culture. Psychology and Spirituality in America. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint.
Tucker, J. (2005). Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous Lives. New York: St. Martins Press.
Tyrrell, G. N. M. (1947) The Personality of Man. New York: Penguin,
Zingrone, N. (2006). Growing your own branch on parapsychology's family tree: What basic literacy in the field can do for you. Parapsychology Foundation Lyceum. En línea: http://www.pflyceum.org/106.html Book or just online?
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For skepticisms from different perspectives:

Alcock, J. (1990). Science and Supernature: A Critical Appraisal of Parapsychology. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.
Carter, C. (2007). Parapsychology and Skeptics. Pittsburg, PA: Sterling House.
Hansel, C.E.M. (1989). The Search for Psychic Power: ESP & Parapsychology Revisited. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.
Kurtz, P. (Ed.). (1985). A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
Hyman, R. (1989). The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
Wiseman, R. (1997). Deception & Self-Deception: Investigating Psychics. Amherst, NY: Prometheus.
Zingrone, N.L. (2002). Controversy and the problems of parapsychology. Journal of Parapsychology, 66, 1-30.
Zingrone, N.L. (2006). Complicating the conversation: Rhetoric, substance, and controversy in parapsychology. Journal of Parapsychology, 69, 3-21.
Zingrone, N.L. Failing to go the distance: On critics and parapsychology. Skeptical Investigations. En línea: http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/New/Examskeptics/Zingrone_critics.html
Zusne, L., & Jones, W.H. (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (segunda edición). Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

1 Andreas Sommer, Carlos Alvarado, Dean Radin, Eberhard Bauer, Gary Schwartz, Guy Playfair, Jim Carpenter, Larry Dossey, Michael Sudduth, Nancy Zingrone, Neal Grossman, Sally Rhine Feather, Stephan Schwartz and Vernon Neppe