Psience News - 19-25 January 2020

This is a listing, in progress, of news items about parapsychology, psi, the paranormal and related subjects, posted to the Psience Quest Forums. We hope that news about parapsychology is adequately covered here, but news about other topics will represent only a selection.

Extended consciousness phenomena

Books and book reviews

• A review of "Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions" by Jeffrey J. Kripal (2017), has appeared at Magonia Review (Discuss)

• A review of "Britain’s Paranormal Forests: Encounters in the Woods" by Peter A. McCue (2019), has appeared on the Society for Psychical Research's website (Discuss)

• A review of Carlos S. Alvarado's book "Charles Richet: A Nobel Prize Winning Scientist’s Exploration of Psychic Phenomena" (2019) by Nemo C. Mörck has appeared on the Society for Psychical Research's website (Discuss)

Psi Encyclopedia

New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia

• Bryan Williams (Discuss)
• Serena Roney-Dougal (Discuss)
• Christine Simmonds-Moore (Discuss)
• Diane Hennacy Powell (Discuss)

Interviews

• An interview of Barry Taff by Jeffrey Mishlove entitled "Alien/Human Interactions" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)

Articles and blog posts

• Michael Prescott has published a second and a third excerpt from the draft of his forthcoming book on the afterlife (Discuss)

Videos

• A film about a Russian Near-Death Experience in the 1990s (in Russian) has appeared on YouTube (Discuss)

• A video of a presentation by Stephen E. Braude, entitled "Post-Mortem Survival: The Central Issues", given at ParaMOOC2019, has been uploaded to the Parasychology Foundation's YouTube channel (Discuss)

• A video of a presentation by Dale E. Graff entitled "Evidence for Consciousness Extending Outside of Space-Time" at the Society for Scientific Exploration's 2019 Convention has been uploaded to the Society's YouTube channel (Discuss)

Upcoming events

• Matthew Colborn will give a lecture entitled "Sticky Bundles, Leaky Buckets and Rabbit Holes: Understanding the Survival Experience" (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture) on 5 March at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)

• Simon Duan will give a lecture entitled "Parallel Universe: Space for Psi" on 2 April at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)

Philosophy of mind; consciousness science

Interviews

• An interview of Matt Segall by Tim Freke entitled "What is Life? #16" has appeared on YouTube (Discuss)

Articles and blog posts

• An article by Zaria Gorvett entitled "The medications that change who we are" has appeared on the BBC website (Discuss)

• An article by Jonathan D. Grinstein entitled "Mindfulness meditation mends mild cognitive impairment" was published in November 2019 at Science 101 (Discuss)

• An article by Shelly Fan entitled "Scientists Discovered ‘Mini-Computers’ in Human Neurons—and That’s Great News for AI" has been published at SingularityHub (Discuss)

• An article by Scarlett Howard entitled "Secrets of Math From the Bee Whisperer" has appeared at Quanta Magazine (Discuss)

Spirituality

Interviews

• An interview of Paul J. Leslie by Jeffrey Mishlove entitled "American Hoodoo" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)