Helmut Schmidt (parapsychologist) - Definition and Overview

Helmut Schmidt is a German-born parapsychologist. In the early 1970s he pioneered research into the effects of human consciousness on machines called random number generators or random event generators at the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology.

Schmidt's early psychokinesis experiments involved machines with one red and one green light. Subjects would attempt to make one light illuminate more than another. Schmidt claimed success rates of 1–2% above what would be expected at random over a large number of trials, and claims that this has been replicated by at least 75 different labs worldwide.

According to Dr. Richard Broughton of the Institute for Parapsychology: "Schmidt and those who followed him caused a fundamental shift in how we perceive psychokinesis."