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ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life
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First Sight Theory with Jim Carpenter

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Recent Posts

  • First Sight Theory with Jim Carpenter January 22, 2023
  • Interview about First Sight Theory July 1, 2020
  • Parapsychological Biography of James Carpenter May 6, 2020
  • Psychotherapy, Apparent ESP, and First Sight Theory November 16, 2018
  • BASIC TERMS IN FIRST SIGHT August 13, 2018
  • Upcoming Lecture: When Psi Events Happen in Psychotherapy, What are they For? June 25, 2018
  • What is “First Sight?” April 15, 2018
  • Interview of Jim Carpenter by Bernard Beitman, MD. June 9, 2017
  • WHEN PSI CAN BE NOTICED February 20, 2017
  • This is the most concise gist of key parts of first sight theory that I have been able to muster. December 11, 2016
  • New Amazon Review of First Sight October 1, 2016
  • Scientific Revolution, Orienting Contructs, and the Challenge of Parapsychology January 18, 2016

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    From the desk of Nan Zingrone, July 20th, 2021: It is with a broken heart that I am here to let those know who have not yet heard that Carlos passed away at the age of 66 on Friday, July 16th. A few days after his last post on this blog, we were in the […]
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    Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation. I recently published a summary and overview of the famous work of Nandor Fodor, Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science: Carlos S. Alvarado, Early Psychical Research Reference Works: Remarks on Nandor Fodor’s Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2020, 34(4), 717–754. [https://doi.org/10.31275/20201785] Abstract—Some early reference works about […]
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    Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation.   I hope the readers will find this list of books useful for Christmas.   These are old books about psychical research published between the early 1900s and the late 1950s. The writings of individuals such as William Barrett, Raynor Johnson, Joseph Maxwell, Ricardo Musso, Charles Richet, […]

Carpenter’s basic premise is that even if psi is currently anomalous in terms of known physical and neurobiological mechanisms, it is not psychologically anomalous. Like memories of past experiences, subliminal stimuli, and unconscious motives, psi is a nonconscious, continuously present resource in the development of all conscious experience.
In arriving at a conscious thought, perception, or intended action, we nonconsciously combine pertinent information from all these resources.. . . . Carpenter’s First Sight theory integrates many previously scattered and little understood findings in psi research and is richly generative in suggesting new lines of research. Overall, the theory constitutes a transformational contribution to both psi research and the psychology of consciousness.
Daryl J. Bem (Professor Emeritus, Cornell University), ESP is not a Psychological Anomaly, a review of First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life. PsycCRITIQUES, Vol 57(50), 2012.

In this engaging and beautifully crafted book Jim Carpenter shows in remarkable depth and detail how situating the paranormal in the context of other preconscious receptive and expressive processes allows us to understand a host of existing findings in a way that makes excellent psychological sense – a significant theoretical achievement that should command the attention of parapsychologists and mainstream psychologists alike. —Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia

Recent Posts

  • First Sight Theory with Jim Carpenter
  • Interview about First Sight Theory
  • Parapsychological Biography of James Carpenter

RSS Carlos Alvarado Blog

  • On Carlos S. Alvarado (1955-2021) July 20, 2021
    From the desk of Nan Zingrone, July 20th, 2021: It is with a broken heart that I am here to let those know who have not yet heard that Carlos passed away at the age of 66 on Friday, July 16th. A few days after his last post on this blog, we were in the […]
  • A Review of Nandor Fodor’s Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science January 3, 2021
    Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation. I recently published a summary and overview of the famous work of Nandor Fodor, Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science: Carlos S. Alvarado, Early Psychical Research Reference Works: Remarks on Nandor Fodor’s Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2020, 34(4), 717–754. [https://doi.org/10.31275/20201785] Abstract—Some early reference works about […]
  • Some Online General Books About Psychical Research December 21, 2020
    Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation.   I hope the readers will find this list of books useful for Christmas.   These are old books about psychical research published between the early 1900s and the late 1950s. The writings of individuals such as William Barrett, Raynor Johnson, Joseph Maxwell, Ricardo Musso, Charles Richet, […]

Carpenter’s basic premise is that even if psi is currently anomalous in terms of known physical and neurobiological mechanisms, it is not psychologically anomalous. Like memories of past experiences, subliminal stimuli, and unconscious motives, psi is a nonconscious, continuously present resource in the development of all conscious experience.
In arriving at a conscious thought, perception, or intended action, we nonconsciously combine pertinent information from all these resources.. . . . Carpenter’s First Sight theory integrates many previously scattered and little understood findings in psi research and is richly generative in suggesting new lines of research. Overall, the theory constitutes a transformational contribution to both psi research and the psychology of consciousness.
Daryl J. Bem (Professor Emeritus, Cornell University), ESP is not a Psychological Anomaly, a review of First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life. PsycCRITIQUES, Vol 57(50), 2012.

In this engaging and beautifully crafted book Jim Carpenter shows in remarkable depth and detail how situating the paranormal in the context of other preconscious receptive and expressive processes allows us to understand a host of existing findings in a way that makes excellent psychological sense – a significant theoretical achievement that should command the attention of parapsychologists and mainstream psychologists alike. —Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia

Recent Posts

  • First Sight Theory with Jim Carpenter
  • Interview about First Sight Theory
  • Parapsychological Biography of James Carpenter
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