Psience News - 9-15 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. We hope 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

Psi Encyclopedia

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

Articles and blog posts

  • An article by Philip Corlett about the COPE (Influence/Control Over Perceptual Experiences) research project, entitled "Varieties Of Voice Hearing", has appeared on the website of Spirit of Change magazine (Discuss)

Videos

Upcoming events

From this and previous pages of Psience News.

  • 18 January - 29 February 2020: Online
Nancy Zingrone's and Carlos Alvarado's free course, "Parapsychology Research & Education: Psychology and Parapsychology" (ParaMOOC2020) (Discuss)
  • 3 February - 23 March 2020: Online
An eight-week course entitled "Field Investigations: Apparitions, Hauntings, & Poltergeists," by Loyd Auerbach for the Rhine Education Center (Discuss)
  • 13 February 2020: London
John Fraser will give a lecture entitled "Are Poltergeists Rare? Or are all cases 'Intermediate' with a strange mix of phenomena?" at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)
  • 22 February 2020: Edinburgh
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre will hold a one-day meeting entitled "Psi Saturday" (Discuss)
  • 23 February 2020: London
Birkbeck, London, is holding an event called "A Day on Consciousness" with presentations by Iain McGilchrist (by video link), Anil Seth and Rupert Sheldrake (Discuss)
  • 3 - 24 March 2020: Online
A four-week course entitled "How to Choose a Psychic," by Loyd Auerbach for the Rhine Education Center (Discuss)
  • 4 - 25 March 2020: Online
A four-week course entitled "Presentiment: Exploring the Nature and Theories of Time," by John G. Kruth for the Rhine Education Center (Discuss)
  • 5 March 2020: London
Matthew Colborn will give a lecture entitled "Sticky Bundles, Leaky Buckets and Rabbit Holes: Understanding the Survival Experience" (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture) at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)
  • 1 - 4 April 2020: Porto, Portugal
The 13th Symposium in a series organised by the Bial Foundation on the theme "Behind and Beyond the Brain", entitled "The mystery of time," (Discuss)
  • 2 April 2020: London
Simon Duan will give a lecture entitled "Parallel Universe: Space for Psi" at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)
  • 25 April 2020: London
The Society for Psychical Research will hold a study day on the theme of "Psi and post-materialist science: the search for a new paradigm" (Discuss)
  • 16 - 19 June 2020: Durham, North Carolina
The Parapsychological Association and the Society for Scientific Exploration are jointly organising a four-day Convention entitled "2020 Vision" (Discuss)
  • 2 July 2020: London (NEW)
Paul Gaunt will give a lecture entitled "Helen Duncan: Genuine or fraudulent?" (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture) at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)

Philosophy of mind; consciousness science

Debates and dialogues

Articles and blog posts

Alternative Views on Science

Articles and blog posts

Spirituality

Interviews

  • An interview of James Tunney by Jeffrey Mishlove about "Mysticism" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)