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What is SRU

The SRU is a foundation devoted to the theoretical and experimental study of alleged paranormal phenomena.

The central activity is parapsychological research, carried out by a core team of researchers, all of whom do these activities next to their professional occupations.

Formal reports of completed experiments are published in the international parapsychological journals. On request, SRU researchers also give lectures on parapsychological topics.

Short history of the SRU

In 1969 the 'Studiegroep Synchroniciteiten' was founded. This group was motivated to inquire into 'synchronicities', in particular 'why and how do they take place?'.

The psychologist/psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung had long ago coined the term 'synchronicity' to designate meaningful coincidences sometimes found among events that stem from different chains of events. Where Jung considered synchronicity as a non-causal explanation principle, SRU felt it more appropriate to add 'non-causal as far as current knowledge of behavioural and natural sciences is concerned'. In their opinion, the essential feature of parapsychological phenomena is that they are very unlikely according to classical probability theory.

In 1975 the name of the group was changed to the 'Synchronicity Research Unit'. By then SRU comprised five core members and twenty freelance researchers.

In 1976 SRU started an internal information service for all freelance experimenters, the SRU Bulletin, which was changed into a journal in 1979, since many people outside SRU showed an interest in its contents. The SRU Bulletin contained progress reports and results of ongoing experiments, plans for future research and essays, sometimes written by guest authors, in which specific topics were treated. The SRU Bulletin was published until 1993.

In 1979 SRU became a Foundation, registered in Eindhoven.

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