The transmission

The Teachers

1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.

1,020 teachers  ·  42 traditions

Family

30 teachers

William Crookes
Parapsychology & Survival Research
William Crookes
An eminent chemist who staked his scientific reputation on testing mediums under laboratory conditions.
1832–1919
Henry Sidgwick
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Henry Sidgwick
A rigorous Cambridge moral philosopher who lent intellectual respectability to the scientific study of the par…
1838–1900
Edmund Gurney
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Edmund Gurney
He tried to put ghosts and telepathy under the discipline of evidence.
1847–1888
Charles Richet
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Charles Richet
Metapsychics: rigorous science of psychic phenomena
1850-1935
William McDougall
Parapsychology & Survival Research
William McDougall
Purposive mind and the science of psychical research
1871-1938
J.W. Dunne
Parapsychology & Survival Research
J.W. Dunne
Precognitive dreams; serial time
1875-1949
Hereward Carrington
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Hereward Carrington
Critical investigation of mediumship
1880-1958
Louisa E. Rhine
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Louisa E. Rhine
Spontaneous psychic experiences as data
1891-1983
J.B. Rhine
Parapsychology & Survival Research
J.B. Rhine
Experimental parapsychology; ESP and PK
1895-1980
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Willis Harman
Global mind change through shifting consciousness
1918-1997
Ian Stevenson
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Ian Stevenson
Reincarnation case studies; survival research
1918-2007
Edgar Mitchell
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Edgar Mitchell
Noetic sciences / consciousness research
1930-2016
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Michael Newton
The soul's existence between incarnations
1931-2016
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Ingo Swann
Mind can perceive distant targets
1933-2013
Kenneth Ring
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Kenneth Ring
NDE as transformative evolution of consciousness
1935-present
Parapsychology & Survival Research
P.M.H. Atwater
Aftereffects of the near-death experience
1937-present
Daryl Bem
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Daryl Bem
Precognition as a testable retroactive effect
b. 1938
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Betty Eadie
Embraced by the Light: an afterlife of love and purpose
1942-present
Pim van Lommel
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Pim van Lommel
Prospective NDE study; nonlocal consciousness
1943-present
Raymond Moody
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Raymond Moody
Near-death experience; coined 'NDE'
1944-present
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Gary Schwartz
Mediumship and survival experiments
1944-present
Brian Weiss
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Brian Weiss
Past-life regression therapy
1944-present
Uri Geller
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Uri Geller
Mind over matter as public spectacle
1946-present
Bruce Greyson
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Bruce Greyson
Measuring the near-death experience
b. 1946
Jacobo Grinberg
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Jacobo Grinberg
Syntergic theory of consciousness
1946-disappeared 1994
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Charles Honorton
Ganzfeld telepathy experiments; autoganzfeld
1946-1992
Joe McMoneagle
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Joe McMoneagle
The U.S. Army's Remote Viewer 001, trained in altered states of consciousness.
b. 1946
Eben Alexander
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Eben Alexander
Consciousness independent of the brain
b. 1953
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Etzel Cardeña
Anomalous experience as legitimate scientific subject
b. 1957
Jeffrey Long
Parapsychology & Survival Research
Jeffrey Long
Large-sample case study of NDEs
contemporary