Psience News - 23-29 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.

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Upcoming events are also listed in the Calendar section.

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Upcoming events

From this and previous pages of Psience News. For further details, see the Calendar section.

  • 15 January - 31 March 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)
  • 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)
  • 24 February 2020: London
Christopher Josiffe will give a talk entitled "Gef! The strange tale of an extra-special talking mongoose" at Kensington Central Library (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)
  • 13 - 18 April 2020: Tucson, Arizona
The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona is organising a six-day meeting entitled "The Science of Consciousness 2020" (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)
  • 25 April 2020: London
The Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society is organising a symposium entitled "End-of-Life: Inner experience and unusual awareness in the dying" at the Society's headquarters (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
Paul Gaunt will give a lecture entitled "Helen Duncan: Genuine or fraudulent?" (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture) at the Society for Psychical Research (Discuss)