About Me
Carlos S. Alvarado has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Edinburgh, and holds masters degrees in parapsychology (MS, John F. Kennedy University), and in history (MA, Duke University). His work has centered on survey research (on out-of-body experiences and other psychic experiences) and studies about the history of psychical research.
Alvarado is currently Scholar in Residence and Faculty at Atlantic University, Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Virginia, and Adjunct Research Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is on the editorial boards of theJournal of Near-Death Studies and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, and an Associate Editor of theJournal of Scientific Exploration. Alvarado is also the recipient of the 2010 Parapsychological Association’s Outstanding Contribution Award and of the 2010 Harold and Sherry Crasilneck Award for Best First Paper on Hypnosis published in theAmerican Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.
He is one of the editors of Research in Parapsychology 1993 (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998) and the author of booklets for introducing parapsychology to the general public (Getting Started in Parapsychology. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 2002; Apuntes para una Introducción a la Parapsicología. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1999). His scientific and scholarly work has been published in psychology, psychiatry, and parapsychology journals.
Email: carlos.alvarado@atlanticuniv.edu
Edited Books and Pamphlets
2001
The 44th Convention of the Parapsychological Association: Proceedings of Presented Papers. Raleigh, NC: Parapsychological Association.
1998
(Third editor, with N.L. Zingrone, M.J. Schlitz, and J. Milton). Research in Parapsychology 1993. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
2002
Getting Started in Parapsychology. New York: Parapsychology Foundation.
1999
Apuntes para una Introducción a la Parapsicología [In Spanish: Notes for an introduction to parapsychology] New York: Parapsychology Foundation. (First published in 1995 [Cuadernos de Información No. 1, Centro de Estudios Integrales de Puerto Rico]. San Juan, P.R.: Puente Publications.)
Selected Articles (2000-2011)
2011
(second author, with E. Cardeña). Altered consciousness from the age of Enlightenment through mid-20th century. In E. Cardeña and M. Winkelman (Eds.),Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives: History, Culture and the Humanities(Vol. 1, pp. 89-112). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
(first author, with M. Nahm). Introduction to Hereward Carrington’s “Vital Energy and Psychical Phenomena.”Journal of the Society for Psychical Research,75, 91-103.
Eusapia Palladino: An autobiographical essay. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 25, 77-101.
The importance of mediumship research. Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal, 2(1), 22-23. (Online:http://www.box.net/shared/l1qlqd45ap)
Upholding psychical research in front of psychologists: An excerpt from a paper by Charles Richet at the Fifth International Congress of Psychology (Rome, 1905).Psypioneer Journal, 7, 79-88.
2010
(first author, with Stanley Krippner). Nineteenth century pioneers in the study of dissociation: William James and psychical research.Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17, 19-43.
*Classic text No. 84: ‘Divisions of personality and spiritism’ by Alfred Binet (1896).History of Psychiatry, 21, 487-500.
“The dying mother:” Historical citations of Mary Goffe’s seventeenth-century near-death apparition.Journal of Near-Death Studies, 29, 241-253.
Investigating mental mediumship: Research suggestions from the historical literature.Journal of Scientific Exploration, 24, 197-224.
(first author, with N.L. Zingrone). Variables relacionadas con experiencias parapsicológicas: La absorción y los sueños [Variables related to parapsychological experiences: Absorption and dreams].Ciencias de la Conducta, 25, 115-137.
Nineteenth-century suggestion and magnetism: Hypnosis at the International Congress of Physiological Psychology (1889).Contemporary Hypnosis, 27, 48-60.
(second author, with Zingrone, N.L., & Cardeña, E.) Out-of-body experiences, physical body activity and posture: Responses from a survey conducted in Scotland.Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,198, 163-165.
Online resources for the history of out-of-body experiences and death-related phenomena.Journal of Near-Death Studies, 28, 143-162.
2009
(second author, with N.L. Zingrone & N. Agee). Psychological correlates of aura vision: Psychic experiences,dissociation, absorption, and synaesthesia-like experiences.Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 37, 131-168.
Ambroise August Liébeault and psychic phenomena. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 52, 111-121.
Modern animal magnetism: The work of Alexandre Baréty, Émile Boirac, and Julian Ochorowicz.Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 37, 1-15.
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century discussions of animal magnetism. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 57, 366-381.
(second author, with N.L. Zingrone). Pleasurable Western adult near-death experiences: Features, circumstances and incidence. In J.M. Holden, B. Greyson, & D. James (Eds.),The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences(pp. 17-40). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
Psychical research in the Psychological Review, 1894-1900: A bibliographical note.Journal of Scientific Exploration, 23, 211-220.
Nineteenth-century hysteria and hypnosis: A historical note on Blanche Wittmann.Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 37, 21-36.
(first author, with N.L. Zingrone & N. Agee). Experiencias parapsicológicas y de despersonalización: Una encuesta con una muestra norteamericana de la comunidad [In Spanish: Parapsychological and depersonalization experiences: A survey with a North-American community sample]. In F.E. da Silva (Ed.), V Encontro Psi: A Variedade das Experiencias Humanas(pp. 90-93). Brasil: Destak Gráfica for Instituto Pernabucano de Pesquisas Psicobiofísicas and Faculdades Integradas “Espírita,” Campus Universitairo Bezerra de Menezes.
Discussing parapsychology at Utrecht: The First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies. In C.A. Roe, W. Kramer & L. Coly (Eds.),Utrecht II: Charting the Future of Parapsychology(pp. 245-288). New York: Parapsychology Foundation / The Netherlands: Het Johan Borgmanfonds Foundation.
Early and modern developments in the psychological approach to out-of-body experiences. In C.D. Murray (Ed.),Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences(pp. 1-22). New York: Nova Science.
The spirit in out-of-body experiences: Historical and conceptual notes. In B. Batey (Ed.),Spirituality, Science and the Paranormal (pp. 3-19). Bloomfield, CT: Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies.
Frederic W.H. Myers online: I. General materials and reviews of Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.Psypioneer, 5, 162-169. (Online:http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP5.6June09.pdf)
Frederic W.H. Myers online: II. Original writings. Psypioneer, 5, 215-227. (Online:http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP5.7July09..pdf)
Leonora E. Piper online: Some Web resources. Psypioneer, 5, 87-92. (Online:http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP5.3March09..pdf)
Mesmeric mediumship: The case of Emma. Psypioneer, 5, 44-51. (Online:http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP5.2February09..pdf)
Learning about the history of parapsychology. Public Parapsychology. (Online:http://www.publicparapsychology.org/Public%20Parapsych/History%20of%20Parapsychology%20Guide%20-%20Alvarado.pdf)
2008
Note on Charles Richet’s “La Suggestion Mentale et le Calcul des Probabilités” (1884).Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 543-548.
(First author, with N.L. Zingrone). Out-of-body experiences and headaches: A research note.Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 72, 107-110.
A list of online materials for the historical study of psychical research and related subjects.Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 396-407.
Mesmerism online: A bibliographic review. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 36, 115-120.
Note on online books and articles about the history of dissociation. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 9, 107-118.
(first author, with N.L. Zingrone). Ian Stevenson and the modern study of ESP experiences.Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 44-53.
Further notes on historical ideas of human radiations: I. On electricity and other forces.Psypioneer, 4, 38-43. (Online:http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP4.2February08..pdf)
Further notes on historical ideas of human radiations: II. Od and psychometry.Psypioneer, 4, 63-69. (Online:http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP4.3March08..pdf)
Further notes on historical ideas of human radiations: III. The perispirit and mediumistic forces.Psypioneer, 4, 85-92. (Online:http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP4.4April08..pdf)
Further notes on historical ideas of human radiations: IV. Mental phenomena. Psypioneer, 4, 119-126. (Online: http://www.woodlandway.org/PDF/PP4.5May2008.pdf)
2007-2008
(first author, with N.L. Zingrone). Interrelationships of psychic experiences, dream recall and lucid dreams in a survey with Spanish participants.Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 27, 63-69.
2007
(second author, with A. Moreira-Almeida, & W. Zangari). Transtornos dissociativos (ou conversivos) [Dissociative (or conversion) disorders]. In M. Rodrigues, L. Neto, & H. Elkis (Eds.),Psiquiatria Basica (2nd ed., pp. 285-297). Porto Alegre, Brazil: Artmed.
Online historical materials about psychic phenomena. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 21, 607-615.
(with F.R. Machado, W. Zangari, & N.L. Zingrone). Perspectivas históricas da influência da mediunidade na construção de idéias psicológicas e psiquiátricas [In Portuguese: Historical perspectives of the influence of mediumship on the construction of psychological and psychiatric ideas]. Revista de Psiquiatria Clínica, 34 (supp.1), 42-53.
Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 25, 189-195.
On the use of the term out-of-body experience. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 71, 100-103.
2006
Human radiations: Concepts of force in mesmerism, spiritualism and psychical research.Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 70, 138-162.
(First author, with W. Kramer). Note on the term telergy. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 70, 170-176.
(First author, with M. Biondi & W. Kramer). Historical notes on psychic phenomena in specialised journals.European Journal of Parapsychology, 21, 58-87.
Neglected near-death phenomena. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 24, 131-151.
2005
Ernesto Bozzano and the phenomena of bilocation. Journal of Near-Death Studies,
23, 207-238.
Research on non-pathological dissociation. Ciencias de la Conducta, 20, 31-56.
(second author, with E. Kelly). Frederic William Henry Myers, 1843-1901. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 34.
2004
(with N.L. Zingrone). Experiencias parapsicológicas, absorción y sueños:
Un estudio con estudiantes de psicología de Puerto Rico [In Spanish: Parapsychological experiences, absorption and dreams: A study with psychology students from Puerto Rico]. In F.E. da Silva (Ed.),II Encontro Psi: Refletindo sobre o Futuro da Parapsicologia[II Psi Encounter: Reflexions on the Future of Parapsychology] (pp. 82-91). Curitiba, Brazil: Campus Universitario Bezerra de Menezes, Faculdades Integradas “Espírita.”
On the centenary of Frederic W.H. Myers’s Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. Journal of Parapsychology, 68, 3-43.http://www.survival-research.net/downloads/alvarado_myers_jp.pdf
Revision histórica del concepto de la radiación humana [Historical review of the concept of human radiation].Revista Argentina de Psicologia Paranormal, 15, 9-30.
2003
The concept of survival of bodily death and the development of parapsychology. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 67, 65-95.
(first author, with N.L. Zingrone). Exploring the factors related to the aftereffects of out-of-body experiences.Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 67, 161-183.
French mesmerism and hypnosis [books online]. Psychological Hypnosis, 12(3), 5-8.
Reflections on being a parapsychologist. Journal of Parapsychology, 67, 211-248.
(third author, with M. Francia Martínez, I. Roca de Torres, A. Martínez-Taboas, and S. Sayer). Dissociation, depression and trauma in psychiatric inpatients in Puerto Rico.Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 4, 47-61.
2002
Dissociation in Britain during the late nineteenth century: The Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1900.Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 3, 9-33.
Guest editorial: Thoughts on the study of spontaneous cases. Journal of Parapsychology, 66, 115-125.
(first author, with A. Martínez-Taboas). Parapsicología: Mitos y falacias que todo psicólogo debe reconocer [Parapsychology: Myths and fallacies that all psychologists should know].Revista Puertorriqueña de Psicología, 13, 99-125.
2001-2002
(second author, with N.L. Zingrone). The Dissociative Experiences Scale-II: Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and frequency of experiences.Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 21, 145-157.
2001
Eileen J. Garrett’s continued “adventures.” In E.J. Garrett, Adventures in the Supernormal(pp. 181-186). New York: Helix Press.
Features of out-of-body experiences in relation to perceived closeness to death.Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 189, 331-332.
(first author, with E. Coly, L. Coly, and N.L. Zingrone). Fifty years of supporting parapsychology: The Parapsychology Foundation (1951-2001). International Journal of Parapsychology, 12, 1-26. (http://www.parapsychology.org/dynamic/info/PFIJP122Alvarado.pdf)
2000
Getting started in parapsychology: A brief overview of English language materials. International Journal of Parapsychology, 11(1), 199-211.
Introduction to Michael Faraday’s essay on table-moving. International Journal of Parapsychology, 11(1), 153-163.
Introduction to Ernesto Bozzano’s analysis of hauntings and poltergeist cases.International Journal of Parapsychology, 11(2), 161-166.
Out-of-body experiences. In E. Cardeña, S.J. Lynn, & S. Krippner (Eds.), Varieties of anomalous experiences(pp. 183-218). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
La percepción extrasensorial y la alteración de conciencia: Una nota metodológica y conceptual con respecto al ganzfeld [In Spanish: Extrasensory perception and alteration of consciousness: A methodological and conceptual note in relation to the ganzfeld].Revista Argentina de Psicología Paranormal, 11, 41-57.