Psience News - 26 January-1 February 2020
This is a listing, in progress, of news items about parapsychology, psi, the paranormal and related subjects, posted to the Psience Quest Forums. It's hoped that news about parapsychology is adequately covered here, but news about other topics will represent only a selection.
For news during other periods, see the Psience News Index.
Extended consciousness phenomena
Published papers and preprints
- The Society for Psychical Research's Paranormal Review 91, on the theme of "The Roots of Reality," will appear shortly (Discuss)
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Brent Swancer, entitled "The Bizarre and Mysterious Life of the Powerful Psychic Daniel Home," has appeared at Mysterious Universe (Discuss)
Upcoming events
From this and previous pages of Psience News.
- John Fraser will give a lecture entitled "Are Poltergeists Rare? Or are all cases 'Intermediate' with a strange mix of phenomena?" on 13 February 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)
- The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburgh, will hold a one-day meeting on 22 February 2020 entitled "Psi Saturday" (Discuss)
- (NEW) Birkbeck, London is holding an event called "A Day on Consciousness" on 23 February 2020, with presentations by Iain McGilchrist (by video link), Anil Seth and Rupert Sheldrake (Discuss)
- Nancy Zingrone's and Carlos Alvarado's free online course, "Parapsychology Research & Education: Psychology and Parapsychology" (ParaMOOC2020), 18 January-29 February 2020 (Discuss)
- 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 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)
- Simon Duan will give a lecture entitled "Parallel Universe: Space for Psi" on 2 April 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)
- The 13th Symposium in a series organised by the Bial Foundation on the theme "Behind and Beyond the Brain", entitled "The mystery of time," will be held on 1-4 April 2020 at Porto, Portugal (Discuss)
- The Parapsychological Association and the Society for Scientific Exploration are jointly organising a four-day Convention entitled "2020 Vision" on 16-19 June 2020 at Durham, North Carolina (Discuss)