Research Timeline
The history of consciousness research — from the founding of the SPR in 1882 to today
1880s
1882
Society for Psychical Research
1882
Society for Psychical Research Founded
1930s
1930
J.B. Rhine Establishes Parapsychology Lab at Duke
1935
Rhine Research Center
1950s
1957
Parapsychological Association
1960s
1966
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation
Tier 21970s
1972
SRI International — Psi Research Program
1972
CIA Stargate Program Begins
1973
Institute of Noetic Sciences
1974
Psi and Internal Attention States
Tier 21974
Information Transmission Under Conditions of Sensory Shielding
Tier 21979
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
1980s
1982
Society for Scientific Exploration
1983
The Near-Death Experience Scale
Tier 21985
Koestler Parapsychology Unit
1990s
1994
BIAL Foundation
1994
Does Psi Exist? Replicable Evidence for an Anomalous Process of Information Transfer
Tier 11996
An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning
Tier 11997
Science of the Subjective
Tier 22000s
2000
LMU München — Allgemeine Psychologie II
2001
Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study
Tier 12004
Distant intentionality and the feeling of being stared at: Two meta-analyses
Tier 12006
Meta-analysis of mind-matter interaction experiments
Tier 12007
Anomalous Information Reception by Research Mediums Demonstrated Using a Novel Triple-Blind Protocol
Tier 22007
PEAR Laboratory Closes After 28 Years
2008
Windbridge Research Center
2010s
2010
Meta-Analysis of Free-Response Studies, 1992-2008
Tier 12011
Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect
Tier 32012
Predictive Physiological Anticipation Preceding Seemingly Unpredictable Stimuli: A Meta-Analysis
Tier 12013
Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Previous Lives
Tier 22014
AWARE — AWAreness during REsuscitation — A prospective study
Tier 12014
AWARE Study: Largest NDE Investigation
2015
Anomalous Information Reception by Research Mediums Under Blinded Conditions II: Replication and Extension
Tier 22018
The Experimental Evidence for Parapsychological Phenomena: A Review
Tier 12019
Connected: The Emergence of Global Consciousness
Tier 22019
Galileo Commission Report Published
2020s
2023
AWAreness during REsuscitation-II
Tier 138 events spanning 1882–2023