Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation While I am preoccupied with preserving PF’s legacy and attempting to fundraise  I think it more than important to recall the contributions of Eileen Coly, PF’s second President and of lesser import perhaps, my beloved mother.  It is true that Eileen Garrett as our founder remains still on the world stage but the PF would literally not have been as productive without the quiet  capable hands of our second President.  In point of fact the organization was in very real danger of closing as no one was anxious to take ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation Happy Spring everyone– made that much more happy with the upcoming ParaMooc 2024!  PF and Anna Damalas and I  personally are so excited to once again stand as  staunch supporters  of this Massive Open Online Course  since  its inception in 2015. The brainchild of the late Dr. Carlos Alvarado and Dr. Nancy Zingrone it has reached countless students and researchers with valuable information and illumination of concepts and avenues for future research.  Natasha Chisdes has long provided administrative supp ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation I have recently been made aware of some justifiable questions concerning the accessibility of the Garrett Library.  I reached out to Dr. Beth Saunders,  Curator and Head of Special Collections and Gallery of the Albin O. Kuhn Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County which presently maintains the Library.  PF continues to purchase books for the collection albeit with difficulty due to our  present poor finances which I seek to ameliorate. In response to my query she has reported, “ We continue to catalog ..read more

Anastasia Damalas Parapsychology Foundation Administrator Regular readers of this blog might be surprised by the by line. Our President, Lisette Coly and I felt it fitting, as we turn the page to the foundation’s next chapter that we have a new narrator for this month’s blog. I have had the pleasure of working for the foundation for over 9 years, and although the PF no longer has the resources to employ Lisette and I, we are still committed to the aims of the foundation, to disseminate quality information about the science of Parapsychology. Over seven decades of work have been devoted to gath ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation It is with an extremely heavy heart that I must share that Parapsychology Foundation will run entirely out of money next month just a few months shy of celebrating 72 years of productive operation in December. Our Board of Trustees, The late Eileen Coly our Second President, and I have long realized since we have had no major financial support since the death of our co-founder and benefactress, The Honorable Frances P. Bolton in 1977 coupled with no more assets to leverage, this end would be inevitable even while we tried our best to do ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation The science of things spiritual was the title of a two day symposium programmed by photographer, author and student of the paranormal, Shannon Taggart. Shannon over the years has become a PF grantee and our Rogo Award Winner for Parapsychological Media and subsequent good friend. She has been convening these thought provoking symposiums annually for nine years on the last weekend of July, aided in part by her husband Ralph at the Lily Dale Assembly in upstate New York, outside of Buffalo. She is the author of the critically acclaimed pho ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation Part of my “supernormal legacy” is an appreciation of a book written by my grandmother “Life is the Healer” published in 1957 by Dorrance and Company.  She stated, “My own role in contributing somewhat toward concrete incidents of healing is based on a gift of perception that I never sought. Rather, I often felt that these gifts more or less used me, that I was compelled to focus attention on the human mechanism and its various interacting components. It was not always easy to control these faculties, to prevent them from flooding m ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation I recently came across within the pages of the Parapsychology Foundation’s Newletter of January-February 1960 a recap of an article penned by the famed psychologist and  PF colleague,  Dr. Gardner Murphy, which bears the test of time and I believe remains relevant for present day  academicians and researchers.  The article was published in The Journal of the American Psychological Association, entitled “Trends in the Study of Extrasensory Perception”.  Although Dr. Murphy addressed himself primarily to psychologi ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation In an introduction to a volume Garrett edited of an anthology, Beyond the Five Senses,  from her “Tomorrow Magazine”, the psychic version as apart from the earlier literary version I resonated to statements from the 1950’s that I think bear repeating as a reminder for those of us presently engaged in psychical research and parapsychology. “In thinking of any science in its modern form, it is well that we remember the deep roots it has in the past.  What is called parapsychology, for example, began when ancient man now forg ..read more

Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation What motivated Eileen J. Garrett to dedicate her life to delving into the complexities of psychic phenomena with all its ramifications which culminated in the founding of Parapsychology Foundation, an organization my mother and I and now her great granddaughter all have administered in her absence?  Life Magazine once described my grandmother as ‘Probably one of the best-known and most reliable psychics in the world.”  In several of her  books some still in print such as Adventures in the Supernormal, Awareness, Call Me Lu ..read more