Psi journals

honestly, get Celia Green's book... Apparitions... it's really worthwhile... it's the last proper study of apparitions in the UK, where they put ads in newspapers asking for phenomena IIRC, although she also incorporates data from past SPR cases.

Seems like the book is not distributed in the USA, or a stupid price second hand. It’s only (approx) 13 dollars in the U.K. let me know if you want a copy, quite happy to arrange shipping to a USA address.

Here are the contents of the latest number of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research - volume 83, number 2 (April 2019):
https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/spr.ac.uk/fi...0COVER.pdf

Here are the contents of the latest number of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research - volume 83, number 2 (April 2019):
https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/spr.ac.uk/fi...0COVER.pdf

This includes an obituary of Carl Sargent by Trevor Harley, which obviously deals with the accusations of fraud made against Sargent by Susan Blackmore.

Harley was a student of Sargent, but writes that he is pretty sceptical about the existence of psi. He says that clearly errors were made in Sargent's Ganzfeld experiments - he emphasises the practical difficulties involved in randomisation in the pre-computer era - but apparently doesn't see how the errors could account for the observed effect size. He doesn't think it's reasonable to accuse Sargent of fraud. (Indeed, I think Blackmore was much more circumspect initially, and made explicit accusations only much later.)

Here are the contents of the latest number of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research - volume 83, number 2 (April 2019):
https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/spr.ac.uk/fi...0COVER.pdf

As that's been put into the PDF file sideways, here's a version that's easier to read:


There's an interesting article by Juan Gimeno about the Argentine David Efron, a "forgotten pioneer" of psychical research. Gimeno writes that Efron would have headed the first university parapsychology lab in the world, in Buenos Aires. Its creation as part of one of the divisions of a new Institute of Psychology was approved in 1931, but it never materialised, as a military coup had taken place the previous year, and parapsychology didn't find favour with the conservative authorities. Efron moved into more conventional fields instead.

Here is the cover of the latest issue of Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, with a list of articles.

I started a thread previously on the article by Marwaha and May.

There is also a new issue of EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing (Volume 15, Issue 3, May-June 2019), which can be downloaded here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/ex...15/issue/3

Here is the latest issue of the Society for Scientific Exploration's magazine EdgeScience (Number 38, June 2019), which can be freely downloaded:
https://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/38


Contents:

THE OBSERVATORY
Three Minds of Science
By Andrew Lohrey

FEATURE
Seeing the Unseen: The Peak Experience and Interactions with an Alternate Reality
By Robert Davis

REFERENCE POINT
A Parapsychological Naturalist: A book review by Stephen Braude of JOTT: When Things Disappear... and Come Back or Relocate and Why lt Really Happens by Mary Rose Barrington

BACKSCATTER
The Vienna Circle and the Paranormal
By T. Peter Park

Apparently a new number of the Journal of Parapsychology has appeared, or is about to. I got an email telling me I could read it if I joined, though I can't find any details elsewhere online. This should be volume 83, number 1, I think. Here is the list of contents from the email:

ARTICLES

Parapsychological Association Presidential Address, 2018
Dean Radin

The Selfield: Optimizing Precognition Research
Mario Varvoglis, Peter A. Bancel, Jean-Paul Bailly, Jocelyn Boban, and Djohar si Ahmed

Quantifying the Phenomenology of Ghostly Episodes: Part I - Need for a Standard Operationalization
James Houran, Brian Laythe, Ciaran O’Keeffe, Neil Dagnall, Kenneth Drinkwater, and Rense Lange

Shadow Walking: Will a Ghost Walk Tour Affect Belief in Ghosts?
William Langston and Tyler Hubbard

Julian Ochorowicz and His Contribution to Psychical Research
Zofia Weaver

Failure to Replicate an Electrical PK Experiment
Radim Badosek

BOOK REVIEWS

Hankering for the Past. A Review of The Elements of Parapsychology By K. Ramakrishna Rao
Chris A. Roe

Abracadabra psi? A Review of Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe By Dean Radin
Etzel Cardeña

Taking a Conservative Approach to the Paranormal. A Review of Parapsychology: A Beginner’s Guide By Caroline Watt
Lance Storm

Historians of Science Explore Psychical Research. A Review of Los Límites de la Ciencia: Espiritismo, Hipnotismo y el Estudio de los Fenómenos Paranormales [The Limits of Science: Spiritism, Hypnotism, and the Study of Paranormal Phenomena] By Annette Mülberger (Ed.)
Carlos S. Alvarado

A Fine Book on Reincarnation Studies. A Review of I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children’s Experiences of Reincarnation By Erlendur Haraldsson and James G. Matlock
Antonia Mills

Not in a psi journal, but courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - an article on the "metapsychical" research of Pierre Janet (1859-1947) has been selected as the best published in the journal History of Psychology last year:
As the committee to select the best History of Psychology article for Vol. 21, 2018, it is our pleasure to announce the unanimous selection of Evrard, R., Pratte, E. A., &  Cardeña, E. (2018). [i]Pierre Janet and the enchanted boundary of psychical research, 21(2), 100–125. We believe this article deserves the honor due to its originality and relevance, with its fresh perspective adding depth to the Janet literature. There is scarcely any work on this facet of Janet's work, despite its importance for understanding the development of his psychology. Most who are familiar with Janet’s mature theories are likely unaware of his earlier work with metapsychics, or indeed how pervasively the “enchanted boundary” interfaced with French psychology of that period. The literature review substantiating the discussion is comprehensive and cites many important primary sources. Finally, this article was simply engaging and enjoyable to read. The story of Janet’s work with Léonie and remote hypnosis, and where he went after that, is fascinating and in this article, well-told. [/i]
https://psychologie-heterodoxe.blogspot....ry-of.html

A new issue of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (volume 83, number 3; July 2019) is now available online to members. Here's the contents page:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/spr.ac.uk/fi...0COVER.pdf

It includes the following papers, together with book reviews and correspondence:
Reactance in a Picture-Identification Task Using a Fuzzy-Set Encoded Target Pool
Lance Storm
Transliminal ‘Dis-ease’ Model of Poltergeist Agents
Annalisa Ventola, James Houran, Brian Laythe, Lance Storm, Alejandro Parra, John Dixon and John G. Kruth

There's also a new issue of the SPR's magazine, Paranormal Review (number 89, Summer 2019 - an issue has been skipped). Here is the contents page:
https://www.spr.ac.uk/sites/spr.ac.uk/fi...NTENTS.pdf