Psience News - 12-18 January 2020

This is a listing 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.

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Extended consciousness phenomena

Books and book reviews

A review of "Psychic Literacy and the Coming Psychic Renaissance," a previously unpublished manuscript by Ingo Swann (2018), has appeared on the Society for Psychical Research website (Discuss)

Published papers and preprints

A preprint entitled "Anomalous information reception by mediums: A meta-analysis of the scientific evidence" has appeared at ResearchGate (Discuss)

Psi Encyclopedia

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

Interviews

A transcript of a previously unaired interview with Dean Radin from 1997 has appeared at Mystery Wire (Discuss)

An interview of Barry Taff by Jeffrey Mishlove about "Poltergeist Agents" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)

An interview of Carlos S. Alvarado by Jeffrey Mishlove entitled "Ernesto Bozzano and Spirit Survival with Carlos Alvarado" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)

An interview with Neil Rushton about faeries has appeared in the Anthony Peake Consciousness Hour series (Discuss)

Articles and blog posts

Hayley Stevens investigates an alleged ghost photograph taken at Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh (Discuss)

Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences, by Andreas Sommer, a German-born historian of science and magic, was published to Aeon on the 6th of January, 2020, just before this page's news period started (Discuss)

Michael Prescott has published an excerpt from the draft of his forthcoming book on the afterlife (Discuss)

Videos

Videos of the Founders Lecture and presentations from the fourth session of the Society for Scientific Exploration's 2019 Convention have been uploaded to the Society's YouTube channel (Discuss)

A video of a short presention by Moritz C. Dechamps entitled "Micro-Psychokinetic Observer Effects on Addiction-Related Stimuli" at the 2019 Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association has been uploaded to the Association's YouTube channel (Discuss)

A video of a presentation by Michael Nahm, entitled "Terminal Lucidity: An Overview, Contextualization and Outlook", given at ParaMOOC2019, has been uploaded to the Parasychology Foundation's YouTube channel (Discuss)

Upcoming events

The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburgh, will hold a one-day meeting on 22 February entitled "Psi Saturday" (Discuss)

Nancy Zingrone's and Carlos Alvarado's free online course, "Parapsychology Research & Education: Psychology and Parapsychology" (ParaMOOC2020), 18 January-29 February 2020 (Discuss)

Most active discussion threads on Psience Quest

Parapsychological Research into Psi Phenomena

Seeing blindfolded

Eric Wargo on retrocausation

Philosophy of mind; consciousness science

Debates and dialogues

On Nature of Science & Speculative Metaphysics, the latest (sixth) letter, by Massimo Pigliucci, in the dialogue between himself and Philip Goff - On The Problem of Consciousness, Panpsychism & more - has been uploaded to Letter (Discuss)

Interviews

Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe?, an interview of Philip Goff by Gareth Cook about panpsychism, has been published in Scientific American (Discuss)

An interview of Philip A. Goff by Jeffrey Mishlove entitled "Solving the Problems of Consciousness" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)

Articles and blog posts

A review of Philip Goff's book Galileo's Error titled "Panpsychism Involves Simplistic Shrinkage" by Mark Mahin has been published to the Future and Cosmos blog (Discuss)

An article by Bernardo Kastrup Will We Ever Understand Consciousness? Why compromises like panpsychism aren't the way forward has appeared on the website of The Institute of Art and Ideas (Discuss)

An article by Bernardo Kastrup The Mysterious Disappearance of Consciousness was published on the website of The Institute of Art and Ideas three days before this page's news period began (Discuss)

An article by Katie Grieze entitled "How Neuroscience Helps Kids Heal From Trauma" has appeared on the Butler University website (Discuss)

Videos

Deriving Idealism from basic facts of reality, a fan-made video based on Bernardo Kastrup's paper An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem, has been uploaded to YouTube (Discuss)

Alternative views on science

Articles

An article entitled "These 'xenobots' are living machines designed by an evolutionary algorithm" has appeared at MIT Technology Review (Discuss)

Videos

A video of a panel discussion entitled "The Laws of the Universe: Are the laws of nature just human constructs?" from 2018 is available on the website of The Institute of Art and Ideas (Discuss)

Spirituality

Books and book reviews

A review of "Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth" by Mark Williams (2016) has appeared at Magonia Review (Discuss)

Articles

An article entitled "Massive Lightning Strike May Have Inspired This Scottish Stone Circle" has appeared on the Smithsonian Magazine website (Discuss)