The history of parapsychology is reflected in many ways in the individual biographies of a number of researchers, but also in those of “normal” people and so-called mediums with paranormal abilities. The processing and presentation of such biographies or biographical aspects that are relevant to border area research represent a continuous subject of research in this scientific field and a concrete task for studies at the IGPP. The personal and scientific legacies kept in the archive of IGPP as well as individual experience reports and correspondence provide important sources for this.
Pictured top right: Mannheim clairvoyant Arthur Orlop (1912-1984).