Psi Multimedia Resources Thread

The Daily Grail has a link to another podcast I hadn't seen before, called "Forgotten Darkness":
https://forgottendarkness.podbean.com/

It looks like an interesting mixture of historical paranormal cases and true crime. The latest episode is entitled "The Origin of the Poltergeist."

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the presentations from the "ParaMOOC2019" online course are now appearing on the Parapsychology Foundation's YouTube channel.

So far the following are available:

Opening Session, 6 April:


Carlos S. Alvarado, "Survival of Death and the Development of Parapsychology", 7 April:


Carlos S. Alvarado, "European Interest in Survival after Death: The Case of Ernesto Bozzano", 13 April:
Abstract: Discussions about survival of death in psychical research tend to be focused in developments from the Anglo-American context, such as the ideas and work of Frederic W.H. Myers, Oliver J. Lodge, James H. Hyslop, Richard Hodgson, and others. But there were also contributions coming from other countries, as seen in the work of Alexander Aksakov, Camille Flammarion, Gustave Geley, Emil Mattiesen, and others. In this presentation I focus on the work and ideas of Italian student of psychic phenomena Ernesto Bozzano (1862-1943).


Jan Holden, "Indications of an Afterlife: Near-Death Experiences and the Survival of Physical Death", 14 April:
Abstract: In his 1975 book Life After Life, Raymond Moody coined the term “near-death experience” (NDE). Over the 40+ intervening years, researchers have investigated this phenomenon extensively. In this presentation, Jan reviews key findings of this research, focuses in greater detail on the implications of those research results for the question of whether consciousness survives physical death, presents snippets of interviews with near-death experiences, and responds to questions and comments from the live session attendees.


Phil Morse, "The Amazing, Unimpeachable Mediumship of Leonora Piper", 20 April:
Abstract: Leonora Piper was probably the most studied and scrutinized medium ever. She profoundly impressed people like William James and many other luminaries of her day and, remarkably, no one could ever raise even the slightest doubt about her ability to communicate with those who have passed over. She had an acute ability to mesmerize people with her knowledge and accuracy of information that was sometimes unknown to even the sitters. Her quiet, unassuming manner and impeccable integrity has stood the test of time to this day.

Also courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, Adrian Nelson's Waking Cosmos podcast has a longish interview entitled "The Conscious Universe" with Rupert Sheldrake:

Something completely different, also courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia has had the bright idea of getting John Cleese to do some short interviews with Ed Kelly and Jim Tucker, on the subject of consciousness, survival and reincarnation. These three are just under half an hour in total:

Ed Kelly interviewed by John Cleese @ Science, Skeptics and the Study of Consciousness:


John Cleese & Ed Kelly discuss survival of consciousness beyond death:



John Cleese Interviews Dr. Jim Tucker re: DOPS Research into Children's Past Life Memories:

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Thanks for these Chris!

I would tend to post some of these videos myself in more appropriate sub-forums - reincarnation, NDEs (when it's survival say), mediumship. I'm also not crazy about these multipurpose video or text threads we created at the founding of the forum, 'cause I'm not sure they're the best things to capture attention from current or new members or visitors. I'd rather we just create new threads for such posts and I've now tended to ignore them whenever I have videos to post.

But these are just thoughts of my own, no need to agree and follow my suggestions or even consider them important! Carry on.

Thanks for these Chris!

I would tend to post some of these videos myself in more appropriate sub-forums - reincarnation, NDEs (when it's survival say), mediumship. I'm also not crazy about these multipurpose video or text threads we created at the founding of the forum, 'cause I'm not sure they're the best things to capture attention from current or new members or visitors. I'd rather we just create new threads for such posts and I've now tended to ignore them whenever I have videos to post.

But these are just thoughts of my own, no need to agree and follow my suggestions or even consider them important! Carry on.

I agree some of those aren't really psi, but I find non-psi subject matter often seems to fall between several forums, so sometimes I do just stick it into psi.

Regarding multipurpose threads versus new ones, I can imagine it might be the case that they wouldn't attract as much attention, but the number of views per post actually seems to be quite a bit bigger for the multipurpose threads than for specific ones. Or is that something to do with robot traffic on longer-established threads?

Continuing with the presentations from "ParaMOOC2019":

Masayuki Ohkado. "How Real are Past Life Experiences under Hypnosis", 27 April:
Abstract: This presentation explores the possibility of regarding past-life experiences under hypnosis as possible recalls of real memories by reporting two studies conducted by the presenter. One is a case of a Japanese woman recalled past-life experiences as a village chief in Nepal, in which the subject was able to communicate in a language she did not know. The other is a questionnaire-based study comparing the features and aftereffects of near-death experiences and ‘death’ experiences under hypnosis.

The SSE has posted a playlist of 9 more presentations, on the theme of "Applying Psi":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBQf5N16...Y7W-KRhiEj

Keith Parsons's latest video documentary is entitled "Dowsing - Fact or Fiction?"

By a strange coincidence, he refers to the same story of the recovery of a stolen harp that Eric Wargo used in his recent blog post on dowsing:
http://thenightshirt.com/?p=4436

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a lecture by Chris French entitled "An Introduction to Paranormal Psychology" (posted in 2016). Most of it probably won't be particularly new to people here, and there's no mention of experimental parapsychology, but I would recommend watching the demonstration starting at 37 minutes, which I did find surprising: