Abstract

Proposes that parapsychological phenomena can be divided into 3 major groups: informational, energetic (psychophysical), and prognostic. Information phenomena indicate that humans, animals, and plants possess unknown senses that enable them to obtain information about deeper properties and processes of other beings and the environment. Energetic phenomena suggest that under certain conditions an individual can become a source of energetic influences of an unknown nature. Prognostic phenomena indicate that unknown laws exist that determine the being and development of animate and inanimate nature. Respective branches of parapsychology not only use the means and methods of some established sciences (biophysics, biochemistry, electrophysiology, electronics, and psychology), but also develop their own methods. Parapsychological phenomena reflect a unique sphere of reality different from everything to which the everyday consciousness has accustomed itself. Parapsychology is organically connected with psychology, representing its extension and development; with sociology, discovering new properties and aspects of society and social consciousness; with physics, indicating existence of new forces and particles; with cosmology, revealing harmony and wholeness of being; and with philosophy, demonstrating the role of humans in the world.