David Metcalfe's "Psi in the News"

Courtesy of K9! on Skeptiko and the SPR Facebook page -

David Metcalfe's Liminal Analytics website has started to provide a "Psi in the News" series, covering upcoming events, research requests, news, interviews, relevant links, papers of note, new entries in the Psi Encyclopaedia, books etc.

Here are links to the listings for last week and this week:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-10-08-18/
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-10-15-18/

Hopefully this will be a regular feature.

Hopefully this will be a regular feature.

Here's this week's instalment of psi news:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-10-23-18/

I asked David if it was possible to get email notifications of his posts, and he has now added a "follow" button so that people can do that.

Here is this week's instalment:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-10-29-18/

This mentions another organisation promoting research into "themes bridging science, spirituality and consciousness", called the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN). Its website is here:
https://explore.scimednet.org/

It has an online journal called "Paradigm Explorer":
https://explore.scimednet.org/index.php/...r-journal/

And it has also created something called the "Galileo Commission", which is launching a report it has produced this Wednesday:
https://www.galileocommission.org/

What with the Campaign for Open Science and the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialistic Sciences, there seems to be no shortage of umbrella organisations in the field.

Here is this week's instalment:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-10-29-18/

This mentions another organisation promoting research into "themes bridging science, spirituality and consciousness", called the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN). Its website is here:
https://explore.scimednet.org/

It has an online journal called "Paradigm Explorer":
https://explore.scimednet.org/index.php/...r-journal/

And it has also created something called the "Galileo Commission", which is launching a report it has produced this Wednesday:
https://www.galileocommission.org/

What with the Campaign for Open Science and the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialistic Sciences, there seems to be no shortage of umbrella organisations in the field.

Before I left the UK I was a member of the Scientific and Medical Network for several years. The organisation was formed, as the name suggests, to connect people working in science and medicine who were open-minded enough to look beyond the constraints of the current materialist paradigm. By the time I joined, members of the general public were welcome but the majority of the organisers and conference speakers were from those professional disciplines. I met Peter Fenwick and his wife several times, once sharing a dinner table with them after a conference - a lovely, interesting and sincere couple. Also met Sheldrake there but wasn't able to get much of a conversation with him as he was much in demand.

Before I left the UK I was a member of the Scientific and Medical Network for several years. The organisation was formed, as the name suggests, to connect people working in science and medicine who were open-minded enough to look beyond the constraints of the current materialist paradigm. By the time I joined, members of the general public were welcome but the majority of the organisers and conference speakers were from those professional disciplines. I met Peter Fenwick and his wife several times, once sharing a dinner table with them after a conference - a lovely, interesting and sincere couple. Also met Sheldrake there but wasn't able to get much of a conversation with him as he was much in demand.

Thanks for that information. I must admit I'd never heard of this Network.

And it has also created something called the "Galileo Commission", which is launching a report it has produced this Wednesday:
https://www.galileocommission.org/

I don't know whether launching it at Halloween is a deliberate attempt to garner publicity, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

I am tempted to go along to the launch, though at £10 for a two-hour academic presentation they're not going out of their way to attract a big audience.

Here's this week's listing:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...s-11-5-18/

Another weekly bulletin:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-11-12-18/

This week's listing:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-11-19-18/

Another bulletin:
https://davidmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2018...-11-26-18/