Do you guys want interviews?

I get that. I'd hope we'd find qualified folks on both sides which would seem to mitigate that risk?

I think a debate format might be very interesting. I agree it would be better to have shades of grey rather than black versus white. Sceptics who are willing to engage with the evidence rather than dismissing it, and proponents who can see the other point of view rather than ridiculing it.

But what if the other point of view really is ridiculous?

Can you give us an example?  I'm fond of the debate format concept.

Monty Keen's widow. I'm not going to judge someone who's lost a loved one, but the woman is, objectively, out of step with reality.

I'm definitely up for working with someone on a podcast. I don't want to be the voice of it which is why I haven't done it already but I have PR and web dev skills to bring to the table if anyone wants to give it a go.

I think we can rotate hosts? I don't see this as a whole new podcast but rather a fun way to engage the larger body of consciousness research and spiritual/magickal practice. For example I'd be willing to interview Kripal as I've talked to him over email and read enough of his work as it relates to our interests here.

Same for Raymond Tallis, possibly Marcus Arvan and Chris Fuchs. Bernardo if we want him on again, or Don Salmon who wrote Yoga Psychology.

Beyond that though, especially when we get into questions of data and quality controls of experiments, I'm just too far from STEM now and so it's out of my league and would be a disservice. Similarly I'm not enough of a historian to talk to Gordon White about Star. Ships or Hancock about his work.

Raymond Tallis is the only researcher who never replied to my repeated attempts to establish a contact... All other beside him were eager to respond. So, good luck reaching him - probably he will be intersted in you more than in me?

Heh, maybe not, we haven't talked in some time and our email convos were rather brief.

But admittedly my initial questions to him concerned some philosophical stuff connected to mind/brain, and I've never asked him about God, the paranormal, etc.

He might suddenly put me on ignore but I'm willing to take the heat. :-)

Peter Wadhams may be someone worth going after for an interview. He's primarily known as a sea ice researcher, but he's also an SPR member, and is interesting for being a believer/proponent of psi and survival while also being a harsh critic of projects like the Scole report.