Psience News - 22-28 March 2020
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 of a forthcoming book by John Fraser entitled "Poltergeist!" has appeared on the Spooky Isles website (Discuss)
Periodicals, published papers and preprints
- Preliminary results, a draft preprint and supplementary materials are available from the Transparent Psi Project, a large-scale attempt to replicate Experiment 1 from Daryl Bem's "Feeling the Future" paper (Discuss)
- A new issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration (volume 34, number 1; 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
Articles and blog posts
- A post by Massimo Biondi entitled "La prima ricerca psichica italiana" (in Italian) has appeared on his Psi Report blog (Discuss)
- Reports of two exploratory tests for an effect of the coronavirus pandemic on the Global Consciousness Project have appeared - one by Roger Nelson entitled "GCP network reactions to coronavirus and market news" on the GCP website and another by Bryan J. Williams (Discuss)
- A series of posts about historical claims of sightings of faeries and similar beings is continuing at The Big Study (Discuss)
- Leprecat 1b
- Leprecat 1c
- Walker Between The Worlds??? - a review of "The Secret Commonwealth" by the Rev. Robert Kirk (d. 1692)
- Did Henry Hudson see American Fairies??
- A post by Massimo Biondi entitled "Nei dintorni dell'antropologia. Letture" (in Italian) has appeared on his Psi Report blog (Discuss)
Interviews
- A Question and Answer session entitled "NDE expert Gregory Shushan on belief, paranormal assumptions" has appeared at Punk Rock and UFOs (Discuss)
Philosophy of mind; consciousness science
Articles and blog posts
- An article by Linda Michaels entitled Therapy that sticks has appeared 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)
- 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)
- 6 April - 19 June 2020: Online
- An eleven-week course entitled "Introduction to Parapsychology" organised by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University (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)