The Science of the Paranormal -- The Paranormal Podcast 918

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Author and researcher J.M. DeBord returns to discuss his book The Science of the Paranormal and the question at the heart of it all: can paranormal experiences be studied in a serious, scientific way? The conversation spans telepathy, psychokinesis, reincarnation, remote viewing, and precognitive dreams, drawing on real experiments, documented cases, and decades of research that suggest these phenomena may be far more than imagination or coincidence. Highlights include discussion of government-funded remote viewing programs, well-known reincarnation cases investigated by medical professionals, and lab studies showing measurable effects tied to psychic functioning. J.M. also explains why dreams often act as the doorway into these experiences and why modern paranormal entertainment has blurred the line between spectacle and legitimate research. It’s a grounded, curiosity-driven conversation that challenges assumptions and invites listeners to think differently about how the mind and reality may actually work. You can find his book, The Science of the Paranormal: The Truth Behind Telepathy, ESP, Reincarnation, and More Mysterious Phenomena, at Amazon: https://amzn.to/490Ys1i Thanks J.M. -- This post contains Amazon affiliate links that benefit Jim Harold Media when you make a qualifying purchase. Thank you for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is there a science of the paranormal?
0:02.7	Is it even possible?
0:04.2	We'll talk about it up next with J.M. DeBoard on the Paranormal podcast.
0:24.1	Welcome to the paranormal podcast.
0:25.7	I am Jim Harold.
0:30.7	And it's a very appropriate topic for this show because it is the paranormal podcast.
0:36.6	And I often joke when I started this show 20 years ago, there weren't many podcasts.
0:55.6	I'm like, well, I want to start a podcast on the paranormal? What could I call it? Oh, paranormal podcast. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but that seemed pretty obvious to me. So I have been fascinated with the paranormal all my life and fascinated with the idea. Is it something we can quantify? Is it something we can measure? Is it something we can weigh? Or is it something else? And there's a recent book out, The Science of the Paranormal, the Truth Behind Telepethy,
1:01.3	ESP, reincarnation, and more mysterious phenomena. And our guest today, and he's been on the show
1:08.3	many times, J. M. DeBorty is the author of the Dream Interpretation Dictionary. He's probably one of the
1:14.8	foremost interpreters of dreams on the planet. He's written multiple books. He's appeared in
1:20.4	popular media, and he is here again with us. J.M. DeBoard, welcome to the program.
1:31.2	Thank you for joining us and anxious to talk about the science of the paranormal.
1:37.2	It's great to be back, first of all, and I knew that this subject would be one that you and your audience would really dig.
1:39.7	And by the way, speaking of your audience, Jim, I just want to give a shout out to them
1:43.6	because I have
1:44.3	been on your show many times before going back more than a decade. And every time I'm on,
1:49.9	I get this great response. I can see it in my social media numbers. I can see it if it's like
1:55.4	for the podcast we talked about last time. When your video version released released we saw a big spike in numbers and then
2:02.0	when the audio version was released we saw an even bigger spike in numbers and it was directly
2:06.7	correlated so we want to thank you and your audience for helping us to bring our message our
2:14.0	information our stories to your people oh great well. Well, I've got a great audience,
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