Psience News - 23-29 February 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 Alan Murdie of "Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience" (2019) edited by Jack Hunter has appeared on the Europaranormal website (Discuss)

• A book by Ingo Swann entitled "Preserving the Psychic Child" (2020) has been published (Discuss)

Psi Encyclopedia

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

• Gertrude Schmeidler (Discuss)
• Deborah Delanoy (Discuss)
• Alejandro Parra (Discuss)
• Dick Bierman (Discuss)

Articles and blog posts

• An article by Caleb A. Scharf entitled "Quantum SETI: Vast data sets and machine learning could link SETI to quantum computing" has appeared in the blog section of the Scientific American website (Discuss)

Videos

• A short update on the Time-travelling photon experiment has been posted by Julia Mossbridge on her YouTube channel (Discuss)

• The Society for Scientific Exploration has uploaded videos of presentations from its 2019 Convention (Discuss)
  • John Streiff, "The Nature of Deep Reality – Solving Chalmer’s Hard Problem"
  • James L. Oschman, "Structure and Properties of the Quantum Information Field"
  • Daniel P. Sheehan, "It's About Time"
  • Jason Yotopoulos, "Subtle Energy Research: Systems Mapping & Future Roadmap"
  • Julie Beischel, "You’re Not Even in There Now"

Philosophy of mind; consciousness science

Articles and blog posts

• An article by Matthew Cobb entitled "Why your brain is not a computer" has appeared in the Guardian (Discuss)

• Issue 82 of the online magazine Nautilus is on the theme of Pansychism (Discuss)

• An article by Stephen T. Asma entitled Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech has appearead at Aeon (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)

• 23 February 2020: London

Birkbeck, London, is holding an event called "A Day on Consciousness" with presentations by Iain McGilchrist (by video link), Anil Seth and Rupert Sheldrake (Discuss)

• 24 February 2020: London

Christopher Josiffe will give a talk entitled "Gef! The strange tale of an extra-special talking mongoose" at Kensington Central Library (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)

• 5 March 2020: London

Matthew Colborn will give a lecture entitled "Sticky Bundles, Leaky Buckets and Rabbit Holes: Understanding the Survival Experience" (Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture) at the Society for Psychical Research (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

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)