Hernani Guimarães Andrade and the Brazilian Institute of Psychobiophysical Research

Record summary

Hernani Guimarães Andrade founded the Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisas Psicobiofísicas in 1963 and investigated mediumship, reincarnation reports, poltergeist-like disturbances and psychokinesis. The institute provides a specific organizational lead for tracing Brazilian parapsychology during the period, including case files, terminology and links to international researchers. Its conclusions were generally sympathetic to survival and psi hypotheses, so it is especially useful for source-bias comparison. The institute’s reports require independent checking of interviews, controls, translations and publication history.