Psience News - 8-14 March 2020
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.
For news during other periods, see the Psience News Index.
Extended consciousness phenomena
Books and book reviews
- A review by John Rimmer of "Cursed Britain, A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times" by Thomas Waters (2019) has appeared at Magonia Review (Discuss)
- A book by S. D. Tucker entitled "Blithe Spirits: An Imaginative History of the Poltergeist" (2020) has been published (Discuss)
Interviews
- A Question and Answer session with Julie Beischel entitled "A Research Scientist on What Happens to the Brains of Mediums When They Talk to the Other Side" has appeared at Goop (Discuss)
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Deborah Nash entitled "At The London Ghost Club Which Meets Up In Old Pubs" has appeared on the Londonist website (Discuss)
- A post by Andreas Sommer entitled "What is the Historical Study of Science and Magic Good for?" has appeared at Forbidden Histories (Discuss)
- A post by Andreas Sommer entitled "Women at the Margins: Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (1845-1936)" has appeared at Forbidden Histories (Discuss)
- An article by Benjamin Radford entitled "Sylvia Browne's Non-Psychic, Non-Coronavirus Prediction" has appeared at the Center for Inquiry (Discuss)
Psi Encyclopedia
New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia
Obituaries
- An obituary of Donald West has appeared at the Guardian (Discuss)
Philosophy of mind; consciousness science
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Steve Paulson entitled "Why Philip Pullman Is Obsessed with Panpsychism" has appeared at Nautilus (Discuss)
- An article by Virginia Morell entitled "New Zealand birds show humanlike ability to make predictions" has appeared at Science (Discuss)
- An article by Grace Browne entitled "346 people's brains reveal an integral relationship that may explain human conscious" has appeared at Inverse (Discuss)
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)
- 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)
- 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 (CANCELLED)
- 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)
- 28 October - 2 November 2020: Rice University, Houston, Texas (NEW)
- A conference entitled "Opening The Archives Of The Impossible", to mark the launch of a research facility including the archives of Jacques Vallee, Whitley Strieber, Ed May, Richard Haines and Larry Bryant (Discuss)