Abstract

Reviews research examining the distribution of psychic ability along the continuum of evolution/development of consciousness and addresses whether the empirical results of parapsychology (including methodological issues relevant to understanding the place of parapsychological phenomena, experiments, and narrative and longitudinal approaches to experiences and meaning) can be reconciled with transpersonal theory. Subjective and objective data, collected by parapsychologists along the ontogenetic and phylogenetic continuums, tend to undermine the prepersonal/transpersonal distinction in models of consciousness and suggest that psychologists will need to consider empirical data from the full spectrum of consciousness rather than focus on manifestations at a particular level when building theories incorporating psychic phenomena.