Psience News - 12-18 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
Extended Consciousness Phenomena
Papers
- 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
- Patrizio Tressoldi (Discuss)
- Peter Bancel (Discuss)
- Markus Maier (Discuss)
- Renaud Evrard (Discuss)
- Annalisa Ventola (Discuss)
Interviews
- A transcript of a previously unaired interview with Dean Radin from 1997 has appeared at Mystery Wire (Discuss)
Blogs
- Hayley Stevens investigates an alleged ghost photograph taken at Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh (Discuss)
Articles
- Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences, by Andreas Sommer, a German-born historian of science and magic, has been published to Aeon on the 6th of January, 2020, just before this page's news period started (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)
Upcoming Events
- The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburgh, will hold a one-day meeting on 22 February entitled "Psi Saturday" (Discuss)
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)
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
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)