Etzel Cardeña holds the endowed Thorsen Chair in psychology at Lund University in Sweden, where he directs the Center for Research on Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP). Among his books are Varieties of Anomalous Experience published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the two-volume Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, and Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century.

In this video, rebooted from 2021, he shares his observations concerning the strong interest in psi, psychical research, and parapsychology expressed by visual artists with a particular focus on modern art. The conversation is highly illustrated with artwork from Hieronymus Bosch, August Strindberg, Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, André Breton, Remedios Varo, Victor Brauner, Alex Grey, Susan Hiller, Marina Abramovic, plus Gilbert and George. This interview is based on a paper recently published in the Journal of Parapsychology. Interested viewers can get a free copy of the paper from Etzel Cardeña if they write him at etzel9@yahoo.com.

(Recorded on January 5, 2021)

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Published on June 2, 2026