Parapsychology?

Question

Is there a college that offers parapsychology as a class?? Or course or whatever?? Or is it a career that you don't have a degree in?

Answer 1

Most every school that offers a degree in parapsychology is unaccredited. There are legitimate schools that offer individual classes and even programs, but even parapsychologists don't have parapsychology degrees. Just study psychology and choose to specialize in parapsychology in your post-grad work.

Answer 2

Franklin Pierce College (fully regionally accredited) offers a minor in Parapsychology as part of an undergraduate Psychology degree.

Most people working in the field of parapsychology do not have degrees in parapsychology but do hold Ph.D.s or other advanced degrees at the doctoral level in a traditional physical or social science.

I have included a link to the Parapsychological Association for you below so you can view the educations of the various members.

Answer 3

Parapsychology is the scientific and scholarly study of certain unusual events associated with human experience. These experiences have been called "psychic" for want of a better term.A common misconception is that a parapsychologist is a psychic, or someone who hunts for Bigfoot or UFOs, or an enthusiast of New Age thought or paranormal mysteries. These are incorrect. A parapsychologist is a scientist or scholar who is seriously interested in psychic experiences including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and mind-matter interactions,Unfortunately, many telephone books and on-line sites use parapsychologist as a synonym for psychic entertainer, mentalist, conjurer, astrologer, or psychic reader
This is an inaccurate use of the term "parapsychologist."
The Parapsychological Association is an elected affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific organization in the world. In contrast, organizations of psychic readers and mentalists are not members of the AAAS because they are entertainers, and not scientists.
International scientific societies interested in parapsychology include the following:
Parapsychological Association, a AAAS affiliate since 1969
Scientific and Medical Network
Society for Scientific Exploration
Society for Psychical Research, London, UK
American Society for Psychical Research, New York, NY, USA
The primary peer-reviewed parapsychological journals today include the following
European Journal of Parapsychology
Journal of Parapsychology
Journal of the American Society of Psychic Research
Journal of the Society of Psychical Research
Zeitschrift fur Psychologische Grenzgebiete
Other journals that have published parapsychological articles include:
Foundations of Physics
Journal of the Society of Psychical Research
Journal of Scientific Exploration
Proceedings of the IEEE
Psychological Bulletin
Statistical Science
Subtle Energies
Science
Nature
the best-known, actively endowed chair specifically on parapsychology is the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology, within the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. This permanent teaching and research Chair, currently held by Professor Robert Morris, has supported over a dozen graduate students into earning their doctorates with emphasis on parapsychological topics. Most of these graduates now hold teaching and research posts at accredited universities in Great Britain.
Most parapsychologists (and by this we mean professionally trained scientists, not "paranormal investigators") usually make a living teaching or doing some other conventional job. Only 30 to 40 people in the entire world are employed full time in this field as researchers, and fewer still are actually paid reasonable salaries to do so. Realistically, the chances of landing a decent job are extremely small, although as already mentioned, the situation in Europe is much better than in the United States.The payoff is that parapsychology, like other scientific frontiers, is an extremely challenging discipline with plenty of room for exploring creative ideas and making significant advancements to the state-of-the-art. If you expect fast solutions to easy problems, or absolute answers to clear questions, then parapsychology is definitely not for you. If you enjoy exploring the full range of human potential and pushing your creative talent to its limit, then there is no better discipline than parapsychology.
Many people would like to study human consciousness, parapsychology, transpersonal psychology, or some combination of these fields. While these topics are of great interest, the number of courses and degrees available in these topics are - surprisingly - very few. People often believe that there are undergraduate or graduate-level programs at universities known for having parapsychology labs, especially Duke University. And while it is not widely known, both Harvard and Stanford Universities have fellowships endowed explicitly for psychical research (but they don't advertise it)-but if you are able to Travel to
Europe you will have a better much understanding,rather than the 'traditional' close-minded point of view.

Answer 4

You might try researching this in one of two towns.

1. Casadega, FL
2. Casadega, NY

These two towns are well known for all types of related things including spiritual advisers..

I have been to the one in FL and was so fascinated by it.
The people are quite laid back, kind and gentle.

Just thinking about it makes me want to pack my bag!

Thanks for asking the question and good luck to you!

Answer 5

http://www.parapsychologydegrees.com/