Psience News - 22-28 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.
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Extended consciousness phenomena
Books and book reviews
- A review of a forthcoming book by John Fraser entitled "Poltergeist!" has appeared on the Spooky Isles website (Discuss)
Periodicals, published papers and preprints
- Preliminary results, a draft preprint and supplementary materials are available from the Transparent Psi Project, a large-scale attempt to replicate Experiment 1 from Daryl Bem's "Feeling the Future" paper (Discuss)
Articles and blog posts
- A post by Massimo Biondi entitled "La prima ricerca psichica italiana" (in Italian) has appeared on his Psi Report blog (Discuss)
- Reports of two exploratory tests for an effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the Global Consciousness Project have appeared - one by Roger Nelson entitled "GCP network reactions to coronavirus and market news" on the GCP website and another by Bryan J. Williams (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)
- 6 April - 19 June 2020: Online
- An eleven-week course entitled "Introduction to Parapsychology" organised by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University (Discuss)
- 28 October - 2 November 2020: Rice University, Houston, Texas
- 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)