Psi Text Resources Thread

Again courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a Psychology Today blog post by Lucas Richert, entitled "Parapsychology in Perspective" and subtitled "Get the real story behind the "other side" this Halloween."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...erspective

The article gives a survey of parapsychology from Rhine onwards, but suddenly stops with the foundation of CSICOP. It turns out to be an extract from a recent book by Richert, and presumably the book takes the story up to the present day. That left me feeling a bit cheated, and unsure what the author's final "perspective" on parapsychology was going to be.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's an interesting article on William James, William McDougall and Harvard's links to parapsychology generally, in the university newspaper The Crimson, with comments from Steven A. Pinker, Dean Radin, Brenda Dunne, Samuel Moulton and Gary Schwartz:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/...iam-james/

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Fiona Bowie has provided a 12-page review of the recent SPR Study Date on the theme of "Making Space for Psi":
"Psychical research will only become academically respectable once some space has been made for it within the various branches of science, in particular, physics, biology, psychology and neuroscience. Currently this is not the case, so in this study day representatives from each of these branches will consider how this situtation can be improved and what sort of scientific paradigm shift is required to accommodate psi."
https://www.academia.edu/41064582/Making_Space_for_Psi

The representatives of the four branches were David Luke (neuroscience), Chris Roe (psychology), Rupert Sheldrake (biology) and Bernard Carr (physics), and there were also presentations by Jan Pilotti (perception, memory and psi) and Jean-Pierre Jourdan (near-death experiences).

Bryan Williams has a blog post on the Psychical Research Foundation website, discussing two examples published by Lousia Rhine in which mothers seemed to sense the imminent homecomings of their children, despite having no notice of them. In fact - allegedly - one of the women always knew when her children were coming home unexpectedly:
https://www.psychicalresearchfoundation....Homecoming

Courtesy of the Anomalist, Michael Prescott has a new blog post entitled "Medley of malodorous musings":
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/micha...sings.html

It includes mention of a recent book about psi, "Our Secret Powers", by Terje Simonsen:
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Secret-Powers...895604334/
It has been enthusiastically reviewed (by Dean Radin and Stanley Krippner among others), though it sounds as though it's pitched as an overview of the field aimed at the general reader, rather than an in-depth study.

Simonsen's book is one of the recipients of the Parapsychological Association Book Award for this year:
"... a very readable, informative, and entertaining introduction to parapsychology - aimed at general audiences, yet valuable for scholars too. The book creatively combines historical, anthropological, biological, and physical perspectives on psi in a remarkable way, offering a balanced approach to research on parapsychological phenomena without favouring pseudo-sceptical or pro-paranormal views."
https://www.parapsych.org/articles/51/49...er__a.aspx

The other Parapsychological Association Book Award for this year goes to "Legitimacy of Unbelief: The Collected Papers of Piet Hein Hoebens," edited by Gerd H. Hövelmann and Hans Michels:
"a masterpiece of editorial care and circumspection. It is recommended for both people just entering the field and those who are interested in the historical and sociological aspects of controversies of recent European psi research. Given the impoverished state of 'skepticism' of today, Dutch journalist Piet Hein Hoebens' writings remain a prime example of erudition, intellectual flexibility, open-minded criticism."
https://www.parapsych.org/articles/51/49...inner.aspx

Chris French has a new website, including links to online texts of his publications:
http://profchrisfrench.com/

And on the Skeptical Inquirer website, Wendy M. Grossman has a short article praising French as "An Improper Researcher":
https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/...esearcher/

Courtesy of the Anomalist - the Mystery Wire website has a recording of Dean Radin being interviewed by George Knapp in 1997 at Las Vegas, which has apparently never been aired. Among other things, Radin touches on the non-renewal of his contract at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas:
https://www.mysterywire.com/paranormal/s...s-but-how/

(NB Because the website believes "Our European visitors are important to us" access from the EU is blocked so European visitors will need to use a proxy server. I am now using hide.me.)

The SPR website has a review by Nemo C. Mörck of Psychic Literacy and the Coming Psychic Renaissance, a manuscript by Ingo Swann among his papers at the University of West Georgia, which was published for the first time by Swann-Ryder Productions in October 2018:
"Psychic Literacy is a personal book in which Swann generously shares recollections, observations, frustrations, and thoughts about psychic phenomena. Particularly noteworthy are the long sections about precognition and more surprisingly astrology (Swann was an astrologer).
...
The book is a hodgepodge, but it is easy to dip in and out. ..."
https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/psychi...ingo-swann