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| Tom Ruffles's Most Liked Post | ||
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| RE: American Society for Psychical Research | 2019-07-15, 07:48 AM | 5 |
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| American Society for Psychical Research |
Extended Consciousness Phenomena
Parapsychological Research into Psi Phenomena (ESP, PK, Remote Viewing, etc.)
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| I look after the SPR's Facebook and Twitter accounts, and posted the link to the article. The ASPR has certainly continues to exist, and I'm told that occasionally individuals have managed to use the library, though it is a lengthy and difficult process gaining permission, granted in the manner of a personal favour. But in other respects the Society is dormant, apart from paying the large salary as mentioned above. My reason for writing 'worrying' was three-fold: first, saying they did not need as much space as before is an explicit acknowledgement they do not intend to carry out the functions they had in the past; secondly, there is the real danger of asset stripping; and thirdly, there is a risk to the library and archives, which could be dispersed on the grounds there is no space for them - technically the ASPR could function from a small office to maintain the pretence on paper that it exists, while the rest of its assets are gradually milked. What I find particularly shocking about the business is that it has been going on for a long time and not been a secret - as well as the Hansen article, Guy Lyon Playfair wrote a forum piece for Fortean Times - but there has been an astonishing lack of interest, let alone action. It's probably too late to do anything now short of an expensive legal challenge, but perhaps a more concerted action to expose what has been going on in the APSR could have prevented this point being reached. I think we can now consider the ASPR dead, but we should be concerned about its archives, the dispersal of which would be a tragic loss to the subject. PS I'm pleased that the SPR's Facebook page is performing a useful function in generating debate! | ||
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