Psience News - 15-21 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 new book by Thomas Rabeyron, entitled "Clinique des expériences exceptionnelles" (2020) has been published (Discuss)

Periodicals, published papers, preprints and abstracts

• A paper by Charmaine Sonnex, Chris A. Roe and Elizabeth C. Roxburgh entitled "Testing the Pagan Prescription: Using a Randomized Controlled Trial to Investigate Pagan Spell-Casting as a Form of Noncontact Healing" (2020) has appeared in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (Discuss)

• A new issue of the online magazine EdgeScience (Number 41, March 2020) has appeared on the website of the Society for Scientific Exploration (Discuss)

Psi Encyclopedia

New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia

• Marilyn Schlitz (Discuss)
• Stefan Schmidt (Discuss)
• Michael Nahm (Discuss)
• Jack Hunter (Discuss)

Articles and blog posts

• A series of posts about historical claims of sightings of faeries and similar beings, entitled "Leprecat", is appearing at The Big Study (Discuss)

Interviews

• An interview with Christopher Josiffe entitled "The mystery of Gef the Mongoose" has appeared at the Something Other Sphere podcast (Discuss)

• An interview with Lori Williams by Jeffrey Mishlove entitled "Remote Viewing Time Travel" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)

• An interview with Walter von Lucadou by Jeffrey Mishlove entitled "Parapsychological Counseling" has appeared at New Thinking Allowed (Discuss)

Philosophy of mind; consciousness science

Periodicals, published papers and preprints

• A paper by Kenneth G. Drinkwater, Andrew Denovan and Neil Dagnall entitled "Lucid Dreaming, Nightmares, and Sleep Paralysis: Associations With Reality Testing Deficits and Paranormal Experience/Belief" has appeared in Frontiers in Psychology (Discuss)

• A paper by Nagesh Adluru et al. entitled "BrainAGE and regional volumetric analysis of a Buddhist monk: a longitudinal MRI case study" has appeared in the journal Neurocase. A commentary by Laura Geggel has appeared at LiveScience (Discuss)

Spirituality

Articles and blog posts

• An article by Brian Handwerk entitled "A Mysterious 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths" has appeared at Smithsonian Magazine (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)

• 6 April - 19 June 2020: Online (NEW)

An eleven-week course entitled "Introduction to Parapsychology" organised by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University (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 (POSTPONED)

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

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)