Psience News - 26 January-1 February 2020
This is a listing 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.
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Extended consciousness phenomena
Books and book reviews
- A review of "Redemption of the Damned, A Centennial Re-Evaluation of Charles Fort's 'Book of The Damned'" by Martin Shough with Wim Van Utrecht (2019) has appeared at Magonia Review (Discuss)
- A review by Nemo C. Mörck of "Penetration: Special Edition: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy" (2019) a new edition of a book by Ingo Swann with additional material, has appeared on the Society for Psychical Research website (Discuss)
- A new book by Emily Pierini, entitled "Jaguars of the Dawn: Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer" (2020), about mediumship in a Brazilian Spiritualist Christian order, has been published (Discuss)
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)
- An article by Peter Bancel, entitled "A Reassessment of Some Micro-PK Results," based on his presentation to the 2019 Parapsychological Association Convention, has been published at ResearchGate (Discuss)
Psi Encyclopedia
New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia
Interviews
- An interview of Sharon Hatfield entitled "The Spirit Room of Jonathan Koon" has appeared at the Shattered Reality Podcast (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)
- Michael Prescott has published a fourth excerpt from the draft of his forthcoming book on the afterlife (Discuss)
- An article by Georgina Byrne, entitled "Spiritualism: Some element as yet unexplained," about a report produced by a Church of England committee in 1939, has appeared on the website of the Church Times (Discuss)
Videos
- A video of a short presention by Callum E. Cooper entitled "The Phenomenology and Impact of Perceived Spontaneous After-Death Communications" at the 2019 Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association has been uploaded to the Association's YouTube channel (Discuss)
- A video of a short presention by Christine Simmonds-Moore entitled "A Grounded Theory of Ghost Experiences" at the 2019 Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association has been uploaded to the Association's YouTube channel (Discuss)
- A video of a presentation by Stephan A. Schwartz entitled "Nonlocal Consciousness & the Anthropology of Religions and Spiritual Practices" at the Society for Scientific Exploration's 2019 Convention has been uploaded to the Society's YouTube channel (Discuss)
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)
- (NEW) 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)
- (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)
- (NEW) 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)
- (NEW) 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)
Most active discussion threads on Psience Quest
Philosophy of mind; consciousness science
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Bernardo Kastrup entitled "A materialism of qualities?" has appeared on his website (Discuss)
- An article by Adrian Bardon entitled "Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview" has appeared at The Conversation (Discuss)
Interviews
- An interview with Brian Swimme entitled "Cosmology and the Evolution of Consciousness" has appeared at the Waking Cosmos Podcast (Discuss)
Most active discussion threads on Psience Quest
Alternative views on science
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Grigori Guitchounts entitled "An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience" has appeared at Nautilus (Discuss)