Primary sources, published studies, and key documents
The courses at MMI are grounded in real research — government programmes, university studies, peer-reviewed journals, and published case records. This page collects the most important primary sources so you can investigate them yourself. Everything listed here is either freely available online, available through a university library, or available to purchase.
Government & Declassified Documents
The Stargate Archive
The complete declassified output of the US government’s remote viewing programmes — Project Gondola Wish, Project Grill Flame, Project Center Lane, Sun Streak, and Stargate — spanning 1972 to 1995. Over 12,000 pages including experimental protocols, session transcripts, and programme evaluations.
CIA Freedom of Information Electronic Reading Room — cia.gov/readingroom — search “Stargate”
Relevant courses: P-I1 · P-I2 · P-A1 · S-S1
The Monroe Institute Gateway Experience Assessment (1983)
A declassified US Army intelligence report assessing the Monroe Institute’s Gateway Process — its theoretical framework, the Hemi-Sync technology, and its potential applications for intelligence work. One of the few official government documents to engage seriously with altered states research.
National Security Archive and CIA FOIA reading room — search “Gateway Experience” or document CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5
Relevant courses: S-I1 · K-I1
The AIR Report on the Stargate Programme (1995)
The American Institutes for Research evaluation commissioned by Congress. Produced by statistician Jessica Utts and sceptic Ray Hyman. Utts concluded the evidence for remote viewing was statistically significant and warranted serious scientific attention. Hyman agreed the statistics were above chance but contested the interpretation. Both documents are worth reading together.
Parapsychological Association website — parapsych.org — and multiple academic archives
Relevant courses: P-I1 · P-I2 · S-S1
Peer-Reviewed Studies
Van Lommel et al. — “Near-Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest” (2001)
The landmark prospective study of 344 cardiac arrest patients published in The Lancet. Documents near-death experiences in patients who were clinically dead with no measurable brain activity, and examines the implications for the relationship between consciousness and the brain.
The Lancet, Volume 358, Issue 9298 — PubMed (search: van Lommel NDE Lancet 2001)
Relevant courses: K-I2 · S-S1 · S-A1
Radin et al. — “Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern” (2012)
Dean Radin’s experiments at the Institute of Noetic Sciences testing whether focused human attention can influence quantum interference patterns. The effect was statistically significant across multiple replications.
Physics Essays, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2012) — ResearchGate: search “Radin double-slit consciousness 2012”
Relevant courses: E-I2 · E-I3 · S-S1 · S-A1
Utts — “An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning” (1995)
Statistical analysis of the Stargate programme’s remote viewing data by Professor Jessica Utts of UC Davis. Her conclusion: “It is clear to this author that anomalous cognition is possible and has been demonstrated. This conclusion is not based on belief, but rather on commonly accepted scientific criteria.”
Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1996) — also at parapsych.org
Relevant courses: S-S1 · P-I1 · P-I2
Stevenson — “American Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives” (1983)
Ian Stevenson’s systematic documentation of American children reporting apparent past-life memories, published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. Representative of the larger body of work from UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 171, No. 12 — PubMed or university library
Relevant courses: K-I4 · S-S1
Sheldrake & Smart — “Experimental Tests for Telephone Telepathy” (2003)
A series of controlled experiments testing whether subjects can identify callers before answering the phone at rates above chance. Results were significantly above chance.
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 67 (2003) — also at sheldrake.org/research
Relevant courses: C-S1 · C-I1 · S-S1
Jahn & Dunne — “On the Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness” (1986)
One of the foundational papers from Princeton’s PEAR Laboratory, proposing a quantum mechanical framework for understanding mind-matter interaction.
Foundations of Physics, Vol. 16, No. 8 (1986) — university library or ResearchGate
Relevant courses: E-I2 · E-I3 · S-A1
Journals & Publications
Journal of Parapsychology
Since 1937
The primary peer-reviewed journal for experimental psi research. Covers telepathy, remote viewing, precognition, and mind-matter interaction. Back issues via the Rhine Research Center.
Rhine.org
Journal of Scientific Exploration
Since 1987
Peer-reviewed journal covering anomalous phenomena across multiple scientific disciplines. Many articles freely available.
scientificexploration.org
EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing
Integrative medicine
Covers integrative medicine, biofield research, and the intersection of consciousness and healing. Relevant to H series students.
ScienceDirect
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Open access
Open-access peer-reviewed journal. The consciousness and altered states sections carry relevant research on meditation, brainwave states, and anomalous cognition.
frontiersin.org — free
Research Institutions
University of Virginia — Division of Perceptual Studies
Founded by Ian Stevenson in 1967. Conducts ongoing research into near-death experiences, past-life memories in children, deathbed visions, and related phenomena. The most academically credible institution working in this area.
med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
Research institute founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Conducts peer-reviewed research into consciousness, including Dean Radin’s ongoing psi experiments.
noetic.org
Rhine Research Center
The continuation of J.B. Rhine’s original Duke University parapsychology laboratory. Conducts ongoing research and maintains the Journal of Parapsychology archive.
Rhine.org
The Monroe Institute
Founded by Robert Monroe. Conducts research on consciousness and altered states using Hemi-Sync technology, and offers residential programmes based on the Gateway Process.
monroeinstitute.org
