After his thesis (1970) about yogatherapy, he became involved in research in altered states of consciousness : yoga, meditation, relaxation, hypnosis, dream and trance.

He studied interactions between sounds and human being, and therapeutic applications of these data, regarding dyslexia, voice training, etc.

He was interested for a long time in two parapsychological topics : telepathy and precognition.

He follows the thougths of Freud about existence and hidden manifestation - through the unconscious process - of telepathy. He published at Psychoanalytic meeting some of the case stories he met during psychoanalysis of several patients. With M. Benaïm he performed a theoretical study of the psychoanalytic and micro-sociological data and conditions for a group to be a unity.

He was involved in the critical study of possession phenomenon as well as "exorcism".

Experiment convinced him of the reality of precognition (non accepted by Freud). He assumes parapsychological skills can grow by learning. For that purpose, he studied a feedback device for enhancing telepathy or precognition.

He conducts a yet running group vote-majority experiment, begun ten years ago. The protocol uses a fully automatised choice of the targets, displaying them, feedback, duration for answering, etc It is currently under statistical evaluation by three teams of statisticians.

He is also interested in Word Association Jungian test which was automatized by Alexis Champion. It will allow to differenciate efficiency of ESP when using "emotional words" versus "neutral words"

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
With Monique Widmer, Own Death Prediction in an hagiographic classical Corpus (2002)

Meditation : admission to the essential being and desire, Spiritual approach in psychiatry "meditation & psychotherapy", international conference, Lyon, France, March 18-19, (1994)

with E. Bardou and C. Lambic, Control Experiment in man on the sedative effect of disulfiran, an inhibitor of dopamine-beta-hydroxylase, Biological Psychiatry, New York, 15-4-1980.

Parapsychology at School, Montalembert, Toulouse, (1974)

Les Sciences Cognitives et la Psychanalyse, Séminaire de doctorat, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, 5-7 Janvier 1998; publié dans "Chronique N°4, 1998", Faculté de Philosophie, pp. 113-121.

Many publications (books, translated in several languages, papers, etc) can be found on Bernard Auriol’s website.

We thanks the Parapsychological Association Board (www.parapsych.org) for the permission to publish the above material.