Mattiussi, F. & Tressoldi, P. (2026). The Phenomenology of Advanced Meditation Experiences and Interpretation of the Nature of Human Consciousness. Spirituality Studies, 12,2,41-51.
Mattiussi, F., & Tressoldi, P. (2026). Advanced Meditators’ meaning, sense, and emotions related to the end of life. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1-12, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678261473104
Tressoldi, P., & Storm, L. (2026). The Myth of Publication Bias in Psi Research: A Comparison of Studies in Parapsychology and Mainstream Psychology. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 40,2, 232-240. https://doi.org/10.31275/20263793
Nonlocal Mind: Best Updated Empirical and Theoretical Evidence
Experimental evidence
Selection criteria: only peer-reviewed cumulative evidence
Nonlocal perception:
- Baptista, J. and Derakhshani, M. (2014). Beyond the coin toss: examining the Weisman's criticisms of parapsychology. Journal of Parapsychology, 78,1,56-79.
-Bem D, Tressoldi P, Rabeyron T and Duggan M. Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events. F1000Research 2015, 4:1188 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.7177.1)
-Bierman DJ, Spottiswoode JP, Bijl A (2016) Testing for Questionable Research Practices in a Meta-Analysis: An Example from Experimental Parapsychology. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0153049. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153049
- Cardeña, E. (2018). The Experimental Evidence for Parapsychological Phenomena: A Review. American Psychologist. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000236
-Duggan M., and Tressoldi P. (2018). Predictive physiological anticipatory activity preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: An update of Mossbridge et al’s meta-analysis [version 2; referees: 2 approved]. F1000Research., 7:407 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.14330.2)
- Dunne B.J. and Jahn R.G. (2003). Information and Uncertainty in Remote Perception Research. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 17 (2), pp. 207–241.
- Galak, J., Nelson, L.D., LeBoeuf, R.A., Simmons, J. (2012). Correcting the Past: Failures To Replicate Psi. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.doi: 10.1037/a0029709
- Katz, D. L., and Tressoldi, P. (2022). Remote Viewing Applications: A Survey of Present-Day RV Practitioners. Journal of Parapsychology, 86,135-157. http://doi.org/10.30891/jopar.2022.01.07
-Tressoldi, P. & Katz, L. (2023). Remote Viewing: A 1974-2022 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 37,3, 467-489.
- Mossbridge, J., Tressoldi, P.E. and Utts, J. (2012).Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology 3:390. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390.
- Radin, D. I. (2011). Predicting the unpredictable: 75 years of experimental evidence. In D. Sheehan (Ed)., Frontiers of Time: Quantum retrocausation: Theory and Experiments. American Institutes of Physics. Conference Proceedings, Volume 1408, pp. 204-217.
- Sarraf, M., Woodley of Menie, M.A., Tressoldi, P. (2021). Anomalous information reception by mediums: A meta-analysis of the scientific evidence. Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing, 396-402; doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2020.04.002
- Sherwood S. J. and Roe C. A. (2003). Review of Dream ESP Studies Conducted Since the Maimonides Dream ESP Programme. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10, 6–7, 85–109.
- Storm, L., Tressoldi, P. E., and Di Risio, L. (2010).Meta-analyses of free-response studies 1992-2008, assessing the noise reduction model in parapsychology. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 491–494. doi: 10.1037/a0019840
-Storm, L., Tressoldi, P. E., and Di Risio, L. (2012).Meta-analysis of ESP studies, 1987–2010: assessing the success of the forced-choice design in parapsychology. Journal of Parapsychology, 76,2, 243-274.
- Storm, L., Tressoldi, P. E., and Utts, J. (2013). Testing the Storm et al. (2010) Meta-Analysis Using Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches: Reply to Rouder et al.. Psychological Bulletin,1, 248–254.
-Storm, L., Sherwood, S.J., Roe, C.A., Tressoldi, P.E., Rock, A.J. & Di Risio, L. (2017). On the correspondence between dream content and target material under laboratory conditions: A meta-analysis of dream-ESP studies, 1966-2016. International Journal of Dream Research, 120-140.
-Storm, L. & Tressoldi, P. (2023). Assessing 36 Years of the Forced Choice Design in Extra Sensory Perception Research: A Meta-Analysis, 1987 to 2022. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 37,3, 517-535.
- Tressoldi PE (2011). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the case of non-local perception, a classical and Bayesian review of evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:117. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00117
- Tressoldi, P.E. (2013). How Much Evidence Is Necessary to Define the Reality of a Phenomenon? Frequentist, Bayesian, and Quantum Modeling of Ganzfeld ESP. In Stanley Krippner, Adam J. Rock, Julie Beischel, Harris L. Friedman, Cheryl L. Fracasso (Eds), Advances in Parapsychological Research 9. McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub, 2013, pp.97-109.
-Tressoldi, P., & Storm, L. (2021). Anomalous Cognition: An Umbrella Review of the Meta-Analytic Evidence. Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 1(1-2). https://doi.org/10.31156/jaex.23206
-Tressoldi PE and Storm L. (2021). Stage 2 Registered Report: Anomalous perception in a Ganzfeld condition - A meta-analysis of more than 40 years of investigation [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research 2021, 10:234 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51746.1)
- Tressoldi, P. & Katz, L. (2023). Remote Viewing: A 1974-2022 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 37,3, 467-489.
- Williams, B.J. (2011). Revisiting the Ganzfeld ESP Debate: A Basic Review and Assessment. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25, 4, 639–661.
- Zdrenka, M., Wilson, M. S. (2017). Individual Difference Correlates of Psi Performance in Forced-Choice Precognition Experiments: A Meta-Analysis (1945-2016). Journal of Parapsychology, 81, 9-30.
Nonlocal interaction:
- Bӧsch, H., Steinkamp, F., Boller, E. (2006). Examining psychokinesis: The interaction of human intention with random number generators—A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 497–523.
- Nelson, R. and Bancel, P. (2011). Effects of mass consciousness: changes in random data during global events. Explore, 7:373-383.
- Hodge, D.R. (2007). A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature on Intercessory Prayer. Research on Social Work Practice, 17, 2, 174-187. DOI: 10.1177/1049731506296170
- Kugel, W. (2011). A Faulty PK Meta-Analysis. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25, 1, 47–62.
- Masters. K.S. and Spielmans, G.I. (2007) Prayer and Health: Review, Meta-Analysis, and Research Agenda. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 30:329–338. DOI 10.1007/s10865-007-9106-7.
- Nelson, R. (2024). Global Consciousness: manifesting meaningful structure in random data. Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 24,2, 149-173.
-Orme-Johnson D.W., Oates R.M. (2009). A field-theoretic view of consciousness: Reply to critics. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 23(2):139-166.
-Orme-Johnson, D.W. & Fergusson, L. (2018). Global impact of the Maharishi effect from 1974 to 2017.: Theory and research. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research
Institute, 8, 13-79.
-Radin, D., Michel, L., & Delorme, A. (2016). Psychophysical modulation of fringe visibility in a distant double-slit optical system. Physics Essays, 29(1), 14-22.
-Roe, C. A., Sonnex, C., & Roxburgh, E. C. (2014). Two Meta-Analyses of Noncontact Healing Studies. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing,11:11-23
- Schmidt, S. (2012). Can We Help Just by Good Intentions? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Distant Intention Effects.The Journal of Alternative And Complementary Medicine,18, 6, 529–533.DOI: 10.1089/acm.2011.0321.
Theoretical interpretations:
Selection criteria: only peer-reviewed papers.
- Beauregard, M. (2014). The Primordial Psyche. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 21(7-8), 132-157.
- Bierman, DJ (2010). Consciousness induced restoration of time symmetry (CIRTS). A psychophysical theoretical perspective. Journal of Parapsychology, 24, 273-300.
-Carminati Galli, G., Martin, F and Carminati F. (2017). A Very Simple Quantum Model of
Mind and Matter. NeuroQuantology, 15,2,186-199.
-Carpenter, J.C. (2004). First Sight: Part one, A model of psi and the mind. Journal of Parapsychology, 68, 217-254.
-Carpenter, J.C. (2005). First Sight: Part two, Elaborations of a model of psi and the mind. Journal of Parapsychology, 69, 63-112.
- Facco, E., Lucangeli, D. and Tressoldi, P.E. (2017). On the Science of Consciousness: epistemological reflections and clinical implications. Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2017.02.007
- Hameroff, S. (2012). How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6:93.
- Hameroff, S. (2014).Consciousness, free will and quantum brain biology. The ORCH OR Teory.Proceedings of the 10th Bial Foundations Symposium, "Behind and Beyond the Brain", 145-184.
- Jahn, R. and Dunne, B.J. (2008). Change the rules!. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 2, 193–213
- Kastrup, B. (2018). The Universe in Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 25, 125-155.
- Kauffman, S. A., & Radin, D. (2023). Quantum aspects of the brain-mind relationship: A hypothesis with supporting evidence. Biosystems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104820
- Keppler, J. (2016). On the Universal Mechanism Underlying Conscious Systems and the Foundations for a Theory of Consciousness. Open Journal of Philosophy, 6, 346-367.
- Klein, S. (2014). The Two Selves. Oxford University Press.
- von Lucadou, W., & Romer, H. (2007). Synchronistic phenomena as entanglement correlations in generalized quantum theory. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14(4), 50-74.
-Maier, M. and Buechner, V. (2016). Time and Consciousness. InAnticipation Across Disciplines. Mihai Nadin (Ed). SpringerVerlag
-Marwaha, S. B., & May, E. C. (2015). A Refutation of the Dualist Perspective in Psi Research. Journal of Consciousness Studies,22(5-6), 70-95.
- Marwaha, S. (2017). Trident (Triśūla) model (T-M) of body-mind-consciousness: a comprehensive monist–dualist model of Psi. In B. Nalini & Rosetta Joseph (2017). "Reflections on the Man, the Mind and the Mission: A Festschrift on the 85th birthday of Koneru Ramakrishna Rao.
-Marwaha, S. B., & May, E. C. (2019). Informational Psi Collapsing the Problem Space of Psi Phenomena. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik,19, 12-51.
- Mossbridge, J., Radin, D. (2018). Precognition as a form of prospection: A review of the evidence. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5, 78-93.
- Taylor, J. (2014). The nature of precognition. Journal of Parapsychology,78(1), 19-38.
- Theise, N.D. and Kafatos, M.C. (2016). Fundamental awareness: A framework for integrating science, philosophy and metaphysics. Communicative & Integrative Biology,9 , 3.
- Tressoldi, P. E. (2013). Does System1 Process Both Local and Nonlocal Information in Intuitive Judgment and Decision Making? Evidence and a Research Agenda Proposal. Psychology, 1, 798-803.
- Pederzoli, L., Giroldini, W., Prati, E., & Tressoldi, P. E. (2017). The Physics of Mind-Matter Interaction at a Distance. NeuroQuantology, 15, 3:114-119
-Tressoldi, P.E., Facco, E. and Lucangeli, D. (2016). Emergence of qualia from brain activity or from an interaction of proto-consciousness with the brain: which one is the weirder? Available evidence and a research agenda. ScienceOpen Research. DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-SOCSCI.AY054B.v1
- Walach, H. Römer, H. (2011). Generalized Entanglement - A Nonreductive Option for a Phenomenologically Dualist and Ontologically Monist View of Consciousness. In Walach, Harald; Schmidt, Stefan; Jonas, Wayne B. (Eds.) Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality. Springer Science.
-Walach, H., vonLucadou, W. and Römer, H. (2014).Parapsychological Phenomena as Examples of Generalized Nonlocal Correlations—A Theoretical Framework.Journal of Scientific Exploration, 28, 4, 605–631.
- Walach, H. (2014). Mind -Matter interaction. On the rollercoaster from data to theory and back again. Proceedings of the 10th Bial Foundations Symposium, "Behind and Beyond the Brain", 85-114.
-Walach, H, Tressoldi, P. & Pederzoli, L. (2016). Mental, behavioural and physiological nonlocal correlations within the Generalized Quantum Theory framework. Axiomathes: doi10.1007/s10516-016-9290-6
-Williams, B.J. (2021). Minding the Matter of Psychokinesis: A Review of Proof- and Process-Oriented Experimental Findings Related to Mental Influence on Random Number Generators. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 35, 4, 829–932
- Woollacott, M., & Weiler, M. (2025). Neural filters to conscious awareness and the phenomena that reduce their impact. International Review of Psychiatry, 1-15.
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