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Henrich and colleagues argue that Western minds are psychologically unusual relative to global norms.
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Abraham surveys historical reports of gods, spirits, and celestial figures communicating in dreams.
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Barrett documents creative problem-solving in dreams, including scientific and mathematical insights.
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Otgaar and colleagues show that belief in repressed memories remains common among clinicians.
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Schredl identifies common dream themes across large population samples, including alien/UFO dreams.
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Faith and Krippner analyze visitation and entity dreams within a large dream sample.
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Pasulka explores UFO belief, technology, secrecy, and modern religious experience.
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Laughlin and Rock explain cultural differences in valuing dreams and altered states.
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Laycock examines historical roots of supernatural trauma narratives including witchcraft and possession.
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Robert Monroe’s pioneering description of OBEs that influenced later consciousness research.
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Raduga demonstrates that alien encounters can be induced during REM sleep paralysis.
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Gackenbach explores links between lucid dreaming, psi, and anomalous cognition.
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Blackmore critiques abduction narratives as products of sleep paralysis, hypnosis, and fantasy.
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Domhoff synthesizes dream research from cognitive science and content analysis.
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Bulkeley demonstrates word-search and thematic analysis techniques for large dream datasets.
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A seminal book presenting remote-viewing research conducted at SRI.
Targ, R., & Puthoff, H. (1977). Mind-Reach.
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J. B. Rhine’s summary of experimental evidence for ESP at Duke University.
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A foundational report on laboratory dream telepathy experiments conducted at Maimonides Hospital.
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Sheldrake proposes telepathic and extended-mind explanations for everyday anomalous perceptions.
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Radin examines scientific evidence for yogic siddhis and psi abilities.
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