Psience News - 5-11 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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Upcoming events are also listed in the Calendar section.
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Extended consciousness phenomena
Periodicals, published papers and preprints
- Chapter three of Telepathy in Contemporary, Conceptual and Performance Art by Jacquelene Drinkall entitled "Susan Hiller: psychical researcher and weirdness investigator" has been published to academia.edu (Discuss)
Books and book reviews
- A review ‘Weirdness and Complexity’ by Alan Murdie of Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience (2019) edited by Jack Hunter, foreword by Paul Devereux, has been published to the EUROPARANORMAL blog (Discuss)
- A post "Mysteries of Healing Now Available" on the Visionary scientists lead a revolution in consciousness blog accounces that Mysteries of Healing: Dialogues with Doctors and Scientists by Gayle Kimball, Ph.D., Waterside Press, is now available (Discuss)
Articles and blog posts
- A post entitled "The beginnings of psychical research" has appeared on the Western Mysteries blog of Robin Douglas (Discuss)
- A post entitled "Catching Up with the Old Psychical Research Literature — II" has appeared on Carlos S. Alvarado's Parapsychology blog (Discuss)
- A post entitled Da trovare e da leggere (which seems to translate as "To find and read") has been published to Massimo Biondi's Psi Report blog (Discuss)
- A post entitled A Note On The Alleged ‘Confession’ Of A ‘Hoax’ in the Enfield Poltergeist has been published on the EUROPARANORMAL blog (Discuss)
- Big Study has moved on from the more historical claims of its Leprecat series on sightings of faeries and similar beings to more recent ones in the post entitled "TURNING THE PAGE ON THE CENTURY" (Discuss)
Interviews
- New interviews by Jeffrey Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed:
- With Darryl Robert Schoon: "The Purpose of Suffering with Darryl Robert Schoon" (Discuss)
- Jeffrey Mishlove also has published a video InPresence 0165: Update on The Future of New Thinking Allowed and a Call for Volunteers (Discuss)
Shows, documentaries, and movies
- A post "The Afterlife Investigations: the Scole Experiments – Free Documentary" by Bernie O’Connor has appeared on the Videos of the Damned blog, reviewing the movie of the title (Discuss)
Upcoming events
From this and previous pages of Psience News. For further details, see the Calendar section.
- 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)
- 5 April 2020: Online
- An online event entitled "Noetic Global Gathering: Spiritual Entrainment for Healing" led by Reverend Paulette Pipe and organised by IONS (Discuss)
- 25 April 2020: Online
- 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
- 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)