The Philip C. Paul papers contain books, booklets, brochures, certificates (copies), conference schedules, correspondence, flyers, journal articles, handwritten and typed letters, the Last Will and Testament of Philip C. Paul, lecture outlines for use on overhead projectors, magazines, membership cards, microfiche, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notices, pamphlets, photographs, postcards, reprints, resumes, surveys, technical proposals, tests, and unpublished articles.

Subjects, which cover the time period from 1972 to 2002, include the American Institute of Hypnotherapy, books by Darwin Gross, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Channeling, Coincidence, Conscientiology, Controlled Offensive Behavior, Dreams, Extraphysical Lucidity, Healing, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, The Monroe Institute, Near-Death Experiences, Out-of-Body Experiences, Paranormal Voices, Paraphysics, Parapsychology, Possessions, Projectiology, Prophecy, Psibrary, Psychokineses, Reincarnation, a report on "An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications" (1995), Seances, Skeptics, Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology Research, Soviet Psi Research, and UFOs.