Psience News - 2-8 February 2020

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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

Books and book reviews

Published papers and preprints

Psi Encyclopedia

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

Interviews

Articles and blog posts

Videos

Obituaries

  • Professor Donald J. West, criminologist and parapsychologist, a former research officer and past president of the Society for Psychical Research, died on 31 January 2020 aged 95. An obituary notice has appeared on the website of the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University (Discuss)

Upcoming events

From this and previous pages of Psience News.

  • 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)
  • 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)

Philosophy of mind; consciousness science

Articles and blog posts

Debates and dialogues