Psi Multimedia Resources Thread

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, the Parapsychological Association has uploaded videos of several more past presidential addresses:

David Luke, 2010


Alejandro Parra, 2013


Chris Roe, 2017

Chris Roe, 2017

The text of Chris Roe's address is available here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication...skepticism

[Edit: That's just as well, since the video abruptly fades out about a page and a half before the end of the published text!]

The text of Chris Roe's address is available here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication...skepticism

[Edit: That's just as well, since the video abruptly fades out about a page and a half before the end of the published text!]

I would recommend this to anyone who's interested in the proponent versus sceptic debate. Roe's theme is a comparison of Charles Honorton's criticisms of sceptical arguments made in 1993, with the sceptical arguments deployed 17 years later in Krippner's and Friedman's Debating Psychic Experience. Roe suggests that scepticism showed little progress in that period, and perhaps even regressed.

Unfortunately a lot of the recent work he refers to is available only for a price. I can't help thinking that it's hard enough getting people to consider the scientific evidence for psi, without hiding it behind paywalls. Shouldn't parapsychology be embracing the academic trend to make papers freely available online?

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a presentation entitled "Psi in Everyday Life: Evidence and Debates" by Rupert Sheldrake given on 27 November at the University of Northampton (followed by three quarters of an hour of questions):
https://northampton.mediaspace.kaltura.c...1_c0dhwjru

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, Dean Radin says "This year I gave 98 invited presentations, contributed talks, and radio, TV, podcast, video and documentary interviews."
https://www.realmagicbook.com/events-2017 [this is the right URL despite appearances]

Was it really only 98?

[Ninshub]

Is there a place you can get the 2018 Dean Radin Real Magic World Tour t-shirt?

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the Society for Scientific Exploration is posting past conference presentations on its YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSSEChannel/videos

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the Society for Scientific Exploration is posting past conference presentations on its YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSSEChannel/videos

Here's one by Garret Moddel from 2018, about "Psibotics" - robots driven by intention mediated through psi:

Here's one by Garret Moddel from 2018, about "Psibotics" - robots driven by intention mediated through psi:

It's a bit disturbing that one of Moddel's examples of a "Psychic Machine" is the ADE 651 bomb detector formerly manufactured by the British company ATSC, founded by James McCormick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

As Moddel recounts in the talk, McCormick was jailed for fraud in 2013 because the device was found to be a fake.

Moddel says that he tested it in 2006 and found (informally) that it worked quite well. But he pointed out that it didn't work electromagnetically, and when he tested it formally it failed the test. Apparently Moddel still considers that it worked by psychical means. But as far as I can see, McCormick always claimed that it worked by conventional means.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the Society for Scientific Exploration is posting past conference presentations on its YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSSEChannel/videos

Here's another, entitled Does “Anomalous Healing” Need the Healer?, by William F. Bengston, the president of the SSE: