Over at my blogsite Dead but Dreaming I investigate both folkloric and modern faeries, and their place in various theories of consciousness. I hope some PsienceQuest members might enjoy a visit...
John Anthony West was someone who held my interest, along with other "alternative archaeology" figures, throughout most of the 1990s. I enjoyed the way he spiked the hubris of the orthodoxy of Egyptology and I'm sure he will be missed by all in the field.
Courtesy of the Daily Grail, there's an interesting blog article in the Guardian by Chris French and Michael Marshall (of the Merseyside Skeptics [sic] Society), questioning whether a child suffering from severe cerebral palsy is really able to communicate with the help of a facilitator, or whether
I don't remember exactly where I heard it, but I do know I've heard the accusation of dualistic theories of consciousness such as the filter model and the transmission model being unfalsifiable in nature. It seems pretty strange to me, because it seems pretty easy to prove either of these theories w
The SPR's psi encyclopaedia was intended to be an antidote to the unbalanced sceptical coverage of psi by Wikipedia. But judging by material like this, I feel it's in danger of ending up equally unbalanced in the opposite direction: https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/artic...r-death-co
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