Introduction to mod.psi — A scholarly introduction to mod.psi, one of the earliest moderated Usenet newsgroups dedicated to the discussion of psychic phenomena and parapsychological research, active from the mid-1980s and hosted at the University of Lowell, Massachusetts.
On the Science of Psi Research — A Defense of Academic Parapsychology — A detailed, point-by-point defense of academic parapsychology research against common skeptical objections, with references to peer-reviewed literature including work by William James, Robert Jahn, and Charles Honorton — written by a researcher affiliated with the field in January 1987.
PSI, Witchcraft, and the Spiritual — A Practitioner's Framework — Sunny Kirsten of hoptoad.UUCP argues in mod.psi that science, witchcraft, and PSI phenomena are three distinct approaches to the spiritual, distinguished by their positions on God, human spirit, and whether prayer/magic can affect the physical world — and that academic parapsychology's failure to understand psi stems from its atheistic foundations.