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Carlos Alvarado Blog

The Legacy of Carlos S. Alvarado July 10, 2024
From the desk of Nan Zingrone For those of you who don’t know me. I am Carlos Alvarado’s widow. I promised when I wrote to you about Carlos’s passing in July of 2021 that I would start posting on this blog, to keep you folks up-to-date on things related to his legacy. Six days from […]
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 […]

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

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Carlos Alvarado Blog

The Legacy of Carlos S. Alvarado July 10, 2024
From the desk of Nan Zingrone For those of you who don’t know me. I am Carlos Alvarado’s widow. I promised when I wrote to you about Carlos’s passing in July of 2021 that I would start posting on this blog, to keep you folks up-to-date on things related to his legacy. Six days from […]
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 […]

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

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