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A term for fields of inquiry, phenomena, or belief systems that exist outside the boundaries of conventional scientific methodology—not because they're necessarily false, but because they cannot be adequately tested or explained by established scientific frameworks. Parascience includes parapsychology, telepathy, mediumship, psychic phenomena, astral projection, and aspects of religious, spiritual, and metaphysical experience. These domains often involve subjective experience, non-material claims, or phenomena that resist laboratory conditions. Mainstream science tends to dismiss parascience as pseudoscience, but the relationship is more complex: parascience asks questions science cannot answer, uses methods science does not validate, and explores territory science has declared off-limits. Whether this represents a frontier or a fantasy depends on who you ask.
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