Students Beware I ve been trying to improve this page for some time but with very little success PEAR was founded in the late 70s in part to replicate the Parapsychology research at SRI done by Hal Puthoff the Fundamental Fysiks Group and others whose work inspired the physics classic The Dancing Wu Li Masters 1979 and which is the topic of MIT Professor of the History of Science David Kaiser s 2011 book How the Hippies Saved Physics Modern physics was born in the early 1900s thanks in no small part to the geniuses like Wolfgang Pauli who incepted the quantum theory In addition to his work in theoretical physics Pauli had an avid curiosity to explore the psychologicalhe collaborated with analytical psychologist Carl Jung for many years the duo publishing The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche in 1952 Their private papers are published by Princeton University Press as Atom and Archetype Both of these men expressed an interest in parapsychology and ESPboth as they related to synchronicity in psychology and randomness in physics Arthur Miller s dual biography 137 Jung Pauli and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession 2010 recounts their friendship and mentions PEAR in its introduction Miller basically says the two of them would have heartily approved Robert Jahn PEAR s program director quotes an extensive passage from Pauli discussing ESP in his 2012 book Quirks of the Quantum Mind quoted in a section above Now Robert Jahn is an aerospace engineer variously sponsored by the Air Force and NASA and Princeton s former Dean of Engineering Puthoff similarly is an electrical engineering Ph D from Stanford who worked for the CIA in Project Stargate and has also been variously been sponsored by the Navy the Air Force NASA etc Yet because he s a parapsychologist and because of his interests with zero point energy his Wikipedia page has been heavily vandalized much like the PEAR oneand this is not a surprise since PEAR s research was in many ways an outgrowth of Puthoff s earlier research Rupert Sheldrake another parapsychologist has had his Wikipedia page vandalized again very much like this PEAR one If you re a student beware of this PEAR articleit does not explain the nature of breadth of PEAR s experiments The previous history section I wrote for the PEAR article that was promptly removed good sources for future improvement incorporation If you re looking for a primary source I d recommend looking at any of Jahn s three books or the enormous library of PEAR s publications freely available on their website Science and the Taboo of Psi former PEAR researcher Dean Radin The Global Consciousness Project Roger Nelson I don t know that how much effort I ll be putting toward the future improvement of this article given the general unwillingness of others to concede the possible validity of parapsychology