r/parapsychology

Hii. I'm building an independent research society for anomalous phenomena, and I'm looking for people who actually want to investigate things with me

For the past while I've been building something called the Order of the Lion's Bell.

It's ambitious, maybe ridiculously so.

The idea is to create an independent research society around anomalous experiences, psychical research, UAP, consciousness, folklore, strange historical cases, intelligence material and other subjects that tend to fall between established fields.

Think old independent research societies like the BSRA, the practical case work of groups like MUFON, and a little bit of the spirit of The X-Files. Im looking for Mulders

Not people who automatically believe everything strange. People who are willing to follow a lead because it is strange, interesting or unresolved.

We already have our own app and research system where we can build Case Files, preserve experience reports, collect books and documents, record claims and evidence, keep correspondence and eventually look for patterns across a growing database.

But the system is just the filing cabinet.

What I actually want is a group of people using it together. Members are called Heralds, and I want them to have their own cases, research interests and areas of expertise.

We are also building our own journal, The Bell, where we can publish investigations, field reports, correspondence, archival discoveries, experiments and questions that other researchers may be able to help answer.

There is a chivalric and philosophical side to the Order as well, but at its heart it is about fellowship, responsibility for the work and preserving knowledge.

Because I think a lot of us are already doing this alone.

We're reading the weird books. Saving obscure PDFs. Finding something fascinating and having nobody around who cares enough to spend three hours investigating it with us. I'd like to turn that into a community.

The infrastructure is finally there. Now I need people to actually fill the files with me. If you've ever wanted your own strange little corner of the archive to investigate, message me or check the project through my profile 🔔

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