Psychical Research Foundation

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Psychical Research Foundation

A parapsychological research facility established in 1960 with funds from Charles E. Ozanne, a high school and college teacher interested in the question of survival of death. The foundation was created to investigate phenomena relating to the survival of human personality after death. The foundation serves as a scientific and educational research center to investigate the possibilities of continuation of consciousness after death of the physical body. Its research program includes study of sensitives, haunting and poltergeist phenomena, as well as out-of-the-body travel.

In 1960, William G. Roll became project director and is now president. Under Roll's leadership the foundation has established an outstanding record of parapsychological research on meditation, haunts, poltergeists, out-of-the-body experiences, and mediumship. Roll can be reached at Isleway House, Fairfield Plantation, Villa Rica, GA 30180.

The foundation conducts lectures, workshops and seminars on topics related to the question of survival after death. It sponsers volunteer field investigators to assist in its research. The foundation has a research division that is directed by Dr. Andrew Nichols, City College, Gainesville, Florida 32608. News of its activities are published in its quarterly bulletin Theta.

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