Psience News - 2-8 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

Interviews

• An interview entitled "Leslie Kean goes beyond the Pentagon, UFOs to study the afterlife" has appeared on the website Punk Rock and UFOs (Discuss)

Videos

The Society for Scientific Exploration has uploaded videos of presentations from the 5th and 6th sessions of its 2019 Convention (Discuss)

• Nancy du Tertre, "TSP- The Next Generation of Remote Viewing"
• Eric Wargo, "The Freudian Unconscious as Misrecognized Precognition"
• Jennifer Lyke, "Psi Experiences & Entity Encounters in Self-Transcendent Experiences"
• Nanci Trivellato, "Examining Non-Ordinary Phenomena Experienced During Childhood"
• Gabriel Felley, "Visualizing” Morphic Fields with the Yi Jing and Synchronicity"

Upcoming events

From this and previous pages of Psience News.

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

• An eight-week online course entitled "Field Investigations: Apparitions, Hauntings, & Poltergeists," by Loyd Auerbach for the Rhine Education Center, will be given between 3 February and 23 March 2020 (Discuss)

• 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)

• 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)

• A four-week online course entitled "How to Choose a Psychic," by Loyd Auerbach for the Rhine Education Center, will be given between 3 March and 24 March 2020 (Discuss)

• A four-week online course entitled "Presentiment: Exploring the Nature and Theories of Time," by John G. Kruth for the Rhine Education Center, will be given between 4 March and 25 March 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)

• 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)

• Simon Duan will give a lecture entitled "Parallel Universe: Space for Psi" on 2 April 2020 at the Society for Psychical Research (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)