I had plenty of experiences in the taxi where I had the sense that it had been arranged for me to have someone as my passenger. (See my submission & comments for links)

> As anyone seen or read ("serious") research on this topic (or related)?

The most serious western research was done by the us government as a threat analysis of a mistranslation. U.S. Intelligence agencies got wind of a soviet psychic spying program. Iirc, "Bio-informatics" would have been a better translation. They snickered, then had an "oh shit what if...?" moment. So they funded a group at the Stanford Research Institute (no connection to the University), who spent 20+ years investigating human capacities. Methods of teaching "Remote viewing" were developed.

Once the Soviet menace had been defeated, the CIA came forward to say that they did have such a program and it definitely never worked and it was going to be shut down right away. Iirc, it's been a while since I read those items.

Ingo Swann has a nice website. He passed away in the last couple of years, but someone is keeping it online. Http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/

Have you ever seen those movies where UN-connected people being connected at the end?

"Enter The Void" by the director Gaspar Noe brings you an ancient idea or theory of how is death after live and the circle of life like Tibetans see, and one or maybe the most close-to-reality theories of death. At the beginning and before the chaos start (no important spoilers), a third actor says whats gonna happen in the all movie just by describing a resume of the book "The Tibetan Book of The Death" and this give you some interesting toughs about how para-psychology works. http://archiwum.radionafali.com/books/The%20Tibetan%20Book%2... [The book translated]

Shamanic drugs like Ayahuasca and magic-shrooms are really a powerful guide with to understand how life works, "para-psychology" after that seems like a fancy word to something too normal. Give a quick 30min read to this, the culture reading are so marvelously interesting... https://archive.org/details/SchultesHofmannPlantsOfTheGodsHe... [Schultes, Hofmann (the same as the bike LSD squares!) "Plants Of The Gods"]

[!] You don't have to use drugs, drugs are so magical but so special and hard to control that you can have a really happy and wise life without them and just by informing yourself and open your mind every day a little more. (everything can be real.. )

Out there are more theories, the matrix, solipsism, you been your own good and everything is a reaction of your-self, etc.

what you're looking for are so beautiful, but be humble with the knowledge and careful.

See:

1. The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal (1974)

and much less intriguingly:

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Bem