Advanced Diploma in Parapsychology

1. Parapsychology - Revolutionary Research

This unit is a primer on how parapsychological research (formerly called psychical research) was carried out from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, through the twentieth century and concluding with reflections on the state of parapsychology today and its implications for science, society and spirituality. Original scholarly articles, dating from 1886 to 2007, are reproduced in the text, interwoven with extensive introductions and commentary by the editors, who conclude that evidence for at least some aspects of the paranormal is solid.

2. Developing Your Psychic Senses

This unit takes us on remarkable intellectual and intuitive journey by a psychotherapist into how to access and develop the sixth sense or "psi". We learn about multiple routes to psychic opening, what unfolding psychic awareness can feel like, the role of the implicate order, the use of imagery to access psi, and 23 tips for developing and maintaining psychic awareness. There is also a section on ethical issues of psychic work.

3. Testing Psychic Claimants

This unit gives careful, practical yet flexible guidelines to help researchers and investigators assess the purported abilities of those who claim to be psychic. The aim is to be fair to the person being researched or investigated, avoiding both false positive and false negative results.

4. Science and Unusual Experiences

The core text for this unit provides a collection of scientific papers on the investigation of unusual topics. Part I is concerned with scientific method and reasoning: science and experience, probability and coincidence, and the placebo effect. Part II looks at beliefs in the context of psychic fraud and astrology. Part III examines a range of unusual experiences: unconscious awareness, dreams telepathy, alien abduction, meditation, paranormal cognition and the near-death experience. A final chapter looks at society and the paranormal. The book is often fairly skeptical though it admits that science is only one way of understanding experience.

5. Channeling

An authoritative study of many types of channeling from both human and electronic sources. The original text has had 100 pages added for its new edition to take into account a range of new examples of channeled communication.

6. Conducting Extrasensory Perception Research

The student will learn how laboratory tests of ESP have been conducted over the past 50 years and how many of these experiments have had methodological problems. Though many writers have proposed how experiments should be made more rigorous, this study assembles a range of relevant material in one handy volume and gives checklists and guidelines for researchers. Students of this course will not have to conduct laboratory experiments but will learn the principles and practicalities of sound research. This unit should be of great help to editors, book reviewers, journalists and other researchers.

7. Psychic Warfare, Historical and Modern

A study of the practice of psychic spying over the past 5,000 years, from its origins in ancient Egypt, through the story of Queen Elizabeth I's spy John Dee, to Nazis and the occult, the CIA and the Cold War, the clandestine roles of Aleister Crowley and Ian Fleming, and the remote viewing activities of Joseph McMoneagle.

8. Authenticated Cases of the Paranormal I

In this unit you will study a superb collection of papers by world-famous experts: Guy Lyon Playfair on Mirabelli; Paola Giovetti on mediumship in Italy including the famed Eusapia Palladino; Gissurarson and Haraldsson's investigation of the mediumship of Indrida Indridason; Imich's study of the seances of Matylda; the physical mediumship of Teofil Modrzejewski; physical mediumship in pre-revolutionary and contemporary Russia; and a collection of spectacular cases of psychic phenomena in China. The text has a collection of rare illustrations.

9. Authenticated cases of the Paranormal II

A highly accessible account of favourite well-authenticated cases of psychic phenomena selected by Professor Archie Roy. The cases described are drawn from three continents and cover over 100 years of psychical research by some of the foremost investigators in the field. Professor Roy suggests his own theory of The Archives of the Mind which might go some way towards explaining these phenomena.

10. Evidence for the Afterlife

Evidence pointing to the existence of an afterlife comes from many sources, and this unit provides an overview and discussion of most of these angles of exploration including: modern parapsychology, apparitions, hauntings, mental mediumship, drop-in and cross-correspondence communication, physical mediumship, communication using instruments, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and reincarnation. Finally, the study focuses on what the nature of the afterlife – and our role as individuals in it - might be like.