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consciousness research

4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Bruce Greyson

American psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who is the world's leading researcher of near-death experiences — developing the Greyson Scale for measuring NDE depth, co-editing The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences, and writing After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond.

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Ed May

American parapsychology researcher who led the government-funded remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute (later moved to Science Applications International) — a physicist by training who became one of the most systematic researchers of anomalous cognition (ESP, precognition).

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Kelly Chase

Parapsychology researcher associated with the Windbridge Research Center — involved in mediumship research and anomalous cognition studies.

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Ingo Swann

Ingo Swann was an American psychic, artist, and consciousness researcher who played a foundational role in the development of remote viewing — a technique for perceiving distant or shielded locations through extrasensory means — at the Stanford Research Institute in collaboration with Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff during the 1970s. His protocols became the foundation for the US government's classified STARGATE program.

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