Psience News - 29 March-4 April 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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Extended consciousness phenomena
Books and book reviews
Psi Encyclopedia
New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Mitch Horowitz Reclaiming the Damned has appeared on Medium (Discuss)
- Another two entries have appeared in the series about historical claims of sightings of faeries and similar beings at The Big Study:
- An article ‘The research is really only just starting,’ UAlbany prof says of UFOs has appeared in The Altamont Enterprise (Discuss)
- An article A 19th Century Monster That Is Still With Us has appeared on Mysterious Universe, speculating that a Ranton Abbey tulpa is the same as the “Man-Monkey” creature haunting a nearby Shropshire Union Canal bridge (Discuss)
- A post Megaplatanos: The Greek Roswell has appeared on the Ghost Theory blog (Discuss)
- A post Fortean Feature: The 'Big Grey Man' on Ben MacDhui has appeared on the Phantoms and Monsters blog (Discuss)
- The Preserving the Historical Collections of Parapsychology (PHCP) site has a new page for the SPR (Discuss)
- The story of Marjorie Johnson (1911-2011) as told by Simon Young in the newsletter of The Fairy Investigation Society (no. 7, 2018) has been published (with permission) by Neil Rushton on the deadbutdreaming blog under the title ‘Marjorie Johnson, Shaman of Suburbia’ by Simon Young (Discuss)
Videos
- A video presentation by George Meek from 1984 entitled "Hearing the Inaudible and Seeing the Invisible" has been published on YouTube by the Metascience Foundation channel (Discuss)
Interviews
- New interviews by Jeffrey Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed:
- With Lyn Buchanan: "An Open-Ended Conversation with Lyn Buchanan" (Discuss)
- With Jason Reza Jorjani:
- With Thomas Brophy: "Integral Education with Thomas Brophy" (Discuss)
- With Norman Shealy: "Energy Medicine with Norman Shealy"(Discuss)
- With Peter B. Todd: "Holism and Unity as an Imperative for Survival with Peter B. Todd" (Discuss)
- An interview with John Fraser has been published on the Occam's Razor podcast (Discuss)
- An interview with David J. Halperin entitled "How to See a UFO with David J. Halperin" has been published by IndyWeek (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; Calendar Entry)
- 6 April - 19 June 2020: Online
- An eleven-week course entitled "Introduction to Parapsychology" organised by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University (Discuss; Calendar Entry)
- 25 April 2020: Online (NEW)
- A webinar entitled "Psi in the Natural World" presented by Dr. Cal Cooper and organised by the Forever Family Foundation (Discuss; Calendar Entry)
- 10 - 12 July 2020: Chester, Connecticut, USA (NEW)
- The "Love Knows No Death Summer Grief Transformation Retreat 2020" organised by the Forever Family Foundation (Discuss; Calendar Entry)
- 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; Calendar Entry)