Telekinesis is part of the discipline called parapsychology, in which researchers study psychic phenomena.

心灵遥感的定律源于心灵学，心灵学的研究对象是超自然现象。

And there's like this world of parapsychology, which is like the study of these kind of psi phenomena.

这里有一个关于超心理学的领域，它研究的是这类超自然现象。

He holds a PhD in parapsychology along with advanced degrees in psychology.

他拥有超心理学博士学位以及心理学高级学位。

I completely agree and I think that's been the fundamentals of parapsychology for a very long time.

我完全同意，而且我认为这长期以来一直是超心理学的基本原则。

And what has happened to the concept of parapsychology?

那么，心灵学的概念又经历了怎样的变迁呢？

It's almost, in a way, tarnished the reputation of parapsychology.

这几乎在某种程度上玷污了超心理学的声誉。

He's interested in precognition and parapsychology, which, if anyone has seen the masterpiece of theoretical psychoanalysis, the movie Ghostbusters, will know.

他对预知能力和超心理学感兴趣，如果有人看过精神分析理论的巅峰之作《鬼影实录》的话，就会知道这一点。

He did a million different things but put his career on the line in his medical career in order to pursue parapsychology.

他涉猎广泛，却甘冒职业生涯之险，在医学领域毅然投身于超心理学研究。

He's published in academic journals, consulted on countless investigations, and continues to be a leading figure in the field of parapsychology.

他已在学术期刊上发表多篇论文，参与了无数次调查，并持续成为超心理学领域的领军人物。

Within parapsychology, you can count the number of funding bodies on one hand worldwide.

在超心理学领域，全球范围内你能数得出来的资助机构屈指可数。

And if parapsychology is not highly regarded, then it's rare to find universities that will even fund positions.

如果超心理学得不到高度重视，那么很少有大学会愿意资助相关职位。

I think there's another reason that's perhaps simpler, and that is that mainstream science does not regard parapsychology very highly.

我认为还有一个更简单的原因，那就是主流科学界对超心理学并不十分看重。

And on a visit to Vienna in 1909, Jung asks Freud for his opinion about parapsychology and Freud begins dismissing it as nonsense.

1909年卡尔·荣格访问维也纳时，问弗洛伊德对超心理学的看法，弗洛伊德开始将其斥为胡说八道。

He's a student of the paranormal, has written a number of books on the kind of offbeat subjects of Bigfoot ufology and parapsychology.

他是一位超自然现象的研究者，撰写了许多关于大脚怪、不明飞行物学和心灵学等非主流主题的书籍。

In the 1930s, the so-called father of parapsychology, Joseph Banks Rhine, tested in the lab whether people could use telekinesis to make a dice roll the way they wanted it to.

1930 年左右，所谓的心灵遥感之父，约瑟夫·本克斯·莱茵在实验室里进行了测验，测验的内容是人们是否能够通过心灵遥感的使用使投骰子的结果受自己的控制。

And it wasn't until later on that I found out that my great-great-grandfather was heavily involved in parapsychology in Ontario and ended up writing two books about it.

直到后来我才发现，我的曾曾祖父在安大略省对心灵学有着深入的研究，并最终撰写了关于这一主题的两本书。

And part of that is because Parapsychology, as with psychology, likes to study things in the lab because you can apply the scientific method more easily.

部分原因在于，与心理学一样， 超心理学倾向于在实验室中研究事物， 因为这样更容易应用科学方法。