Psience Quest

(2018-08-04, 09:02 AM)Typoz Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting point. Perhaps the most pure data comes from experiences outside the lab. For example Radin's own remarkable synchronicity, discussed elsewhere, which was not even registered in his own mind as an 'experiment'.

Obviously it wasn't an experiment. It was a spontaneous event.

As for Dean Radin's point, it doesn't make any sense as a reason for not pre-registering experiments. If you want to pre-register an experiment without anyone knowing the details beforehand, you can just email an encrypted file to a registry.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, Jeffrey Mishlove reacts to Dean Radin's address positively - the zeitgeist is moving in favour of parapsychology, things are looking up, the PA's membership is at record levels, everyone is questioning authority, we're on a roll and so on:



According to Radin and Mishlove, the only problem seems to be that when you put the word "parapsychology" into Google a lot of negative stuff comes up. But maybe that can be solved by changing the name ...

(2018-08-05, 08:07 AM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, Jeffrey Mishlove reacts to Dean Radin's address positively - the zeitgeist is moving in favour of parapsychology, things are looking up, the PA's membership is at record levels, everyone is questioning authority, we're on a roll and so on:

Mishlove refers to an essay entitled "The Schism within Parapsychology", about the relationship between parapsychology and occultism, mysticism and religion, which he published in the Zetetic Scholar in 1981. It can be read here, at page 78 (page 80 of the PDF file):
http://www.tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZS-I...larNo8.pdf

The same issue includes responses from other parapsychologists.

(2018-08-04, 07:32 AM)Doug Wrote: [ -> ]The PA (Parapsychological Association) is currently holding its 61st annual conference. Two of the first day's talks were streamed live and have been saved to the PA's Youtube channel as videos. They are:

1) Dean Radin's presidential address:

These videos have been taken down, but here's the proper one for Radin's address:

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here are links to a video version of Charles Tart's invited address to the Parapsychological Association, which he was unable to give owing to illness:

(2018-08-04, 07:32 AM)Doug Wrote: [ -> ]The PA (Parapsychological Association) is currently holding its 61st annual conference. Two of the first day's talks were streamed live and have been saved to the PA's Youtube channel as videos. They are:

...

2) A talk by John Kruth, executive director of the Rhine Research Center (looks like he might have filled in for Charles Tart):

That has been taken down for some reason, but here are edited highlights from a talk by Kruth on 15 June at the Rhine Research Centre, presenting the results of recent PK studies:


In the comments, someone asks whether these results have been published, and this reply is posted by the RRC:
"Some of this work was previously presented at conference, and some if scheduled to be presented at the conference of the Parapsychological Association in August. The meeting is in northern California.  The research on the unconscious micro-PK effects on machines was supported by the BIAL Foundation of Portugal, and that work was presented in Portugal in April.
There are plans to submit it for peer reviewed journal publication, but it has not yet been published.  Keep an eye on the Rhine website (www.rhine.org) for more information on the research and for details of publication."

(2018-06-28, 07:17 PM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Courtesy of the SPR website, here are details of the Supernatural in Contemporary Society Conference, due to take place in Aberdeen on 23-24 August. The keynote speakers are David Clarke and Dennis Waskul (the SPR website says speakers will also include Jack Hunter, Robin Wooffitt, Terence Palmer and Leo Ruickbie):
https://www3.rgu.ac.uk/news-and-events/c...rence-scsc

Videos of the presentations at the conference are now available to view online here:
https://www3.rgu.ac.uk/news-and-events/c...rence-scsc

Here's the full list:
Dr Rachael Ironside – Welcome and Introduction
Professor Dennis Waskul - Let’s Summon Demons! The Promise of the Supernatural (Keynote)
John Sabol - Time, Social Compass, and the Return: Relevant Revenants as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Professor Peter Reid - The ancient dame, the given ground and the quaking fever: the enduring legacy of witchcraft and superstition in the fishing communities of North-East Scotland
Dr Andrea Kitta - Slender Man and the Unacknowledged Common Experience of the Supernatural
Dr Tom Clark - The Devil rides in: ‘Cinematic Satanism’, ‘the swinging sixties’, and the idea of evil in civil society
Dr Derek Johnston - Understanding History and Causality through the Television Ghost Story
Hayley Lockerbie & Dr Graeme Baxter - “Blood has been spilt on that spot”: exploring the relationship between the supernatural and the library and information sciences
Dr Eva Kingsepp - Ghosts, extraterrestrials and re-enchantment: Possibilities and challenges in regional tourism
Dr David Clarke - "What's all this stuff about flying saucers?": Extraordinary personal experiences from The National Archives UFO Project (Keynote)
Professor Christopher Bader - Science or Religion? Framing within the Bigfoot Subculture.
Filip Andjelkovic - Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds: Psychical Research, psychoanalysis, and the Philip Experiment
Dr Jack Hunter - Anomalistics and Ecology: Exploring the Threads
Alicia Edwards - A guide to the geography of Ghostland: Ghost Tourism Narratives and the Mapping of ‘Haunted London'
Dr Terence Palmer - Supernatural Experiences in the Hospital Environment
Dr Leo Ruickbie - Victorian Ghost Hunters in the 21st Century: Conflict, Continuity and the Society for Psychical Research
Paula Fenn - The Liminality of Modern Day Exorcists

David Metcalfe's latest Psi in the News listing includes two of Jeffrey Mishlove's "New Thinking Allowed" interviews with researchers who have worked on remote viewing.


Edwin May:



Russell Targ:

(2018-11-19, 11:27 PM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]David Metcalfe's latest Psi in the News listing includes two of Jeffrey Mishlove's "New Thinking Allowed" interviews with researchers who have worked on remote viewing.


Edwin May:

On Skeptiko, K9! has drawn attention to the exchange around 12 minutes, where May says that within his first month at SRI he discovered that a magnetometer that was being used wasn't properly shielded. Mishlove replies, assuming this refers to a well known experiment in which Ingo Swann was supposed to have influenced a shielded magnetometer, but May says that was a different magnetometer at Stanford; the one that wasn't adequately shielded was at SRI.

K9! questions whether this was really true and asks what may have been behind May's claim:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/ex...ost-126548

But the details of time and place do seem consistent with May's account. According to Wikipedia, the experiment with Swann took place at the Varian Physics Building on the Stanford University campus in June 1972. Apparently May didn't start working at SRI (in Menlo Park) until 1975 (part time) or 1976 (full time).

(Edit: Expanded with link to K9!'s Skeptiko post.)

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, the Parapsychological Association has uploaded a video of the address to its 59th Annual Convention in 2016 by Chris Roe - then the president of the PA and now the president of the SPR. It's more about the process of parapsychological research than about psi itself.