Psience News - 1-7 March 2020
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This is a listing 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 by Tom Ruffles of "Attachments: Poltergeist of Washington State Part 2" by Keith Linder (2019) has appeared at The Joy of Mere Words (Discuss)
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Dale M. Kushner entitled "Can Dreams Be Prophetic?" has appeared in the Psychology Today blog section (Discuss)
- A blog post by Sam Treasure entitled "The Poltergeist Elephant in the Room: The call for a paranormal renaissance," discussing an SPR lecture by John Fraser about poltergeists, has appeared at Zombies in PJs (Discuss)
- A blog article by Tom Ruffles entitled "Whither the Society for Psychical Research?", responding to [Leo Ruickbie's editorial] in the Society's Paranormal Review number 92, has appeared (Discuss)
- An article by Jason Engwer entitled "The Quality Of The Initial Enfield Investigation", about the Enfield Poltergeist case, has appeared at Triablogue (Discuss)
- A newspaper report by Will Stewart entitled "Pensioner, 83, comes back to life ten hours after she was declared dead and claims her late father 'was calling me to heaven'" has been published by the Daily Mail (Discuss)
Psi Encyclopedia
New entries in the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia
Philosophy of mind; consciousness science
Interviews
- An interview with Michael Egnor by Robert J. Marks entitled "Pioneer Neuroscientists Believed the Mind Is More Than the Brain" has appeared at the Mind Matters website (Discuss)
- An interview with Donald Hoffman by Adrian Nelson entitled "Is there an Infinite Mind?" has appeared in the Waking Cosmos podcast series (Discuss)
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Allen Frances entitled "The lure of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy" has appeared at Aeon (Discuss)
Most active discussion threads on Psience Quest
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)
- 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)