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Appointment of Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher

From: Prof. Bernard J. Carr's Blog

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Prof. Bernard J. Carr on Saturday, July 20, 2024

The Managers of the Perrott-Warrick fund, administered by Trinity College, Cambridge, invite applications for the position of Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher to investigate full-time in the UK mental or physical phenomena which seem to suggest (i) the existence of supernormal powers of cognition or action in human beings in their present life, or (ii) the ... Read More

Issue of the Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition published

From: Etzel's Blog

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Etzel on Monday, April 3, 2023

The latest number of JAEX has just been published, including an invited theoretical paper on precognition and presentiment, a meta-analysis of factors predicting telepathy ganzfeld success, persuasiveness of potential research on belief in surivival, anomalous experiences of performing artists, two papers and a review on links between physics and psi, and a review of ... Read More

Looking for volunteers to help correct wikipedia

From: Etzel's Blog

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Etzel on Friday, February 3, 2023

The librarian and psi author Courtney Block (coblock@ius.edu) will coordinate attempts to correct wikipedia psi entries, one at a time. If you know of volunteers who would be willing to help with this, please have them contact her. Please note that this is not a note to discuss the advantages (or not) of engaging with Wikipedia, but a call for volunteers to help her. ... Read More

Up to $1 Million in Funding for Research into the Survival of Human Consciousness After Death

From: Leo Ruickbie's Blog

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Leo Ruickbie on Thursday, October 27, 2022

The 2023 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies Grants Program: “The Challenge” After a massive international response judged by a panel of outstanding experts, the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) essay contest (“The Contest”) established that there is evidence beyond reasonable doubt for the survival of consciousness ... Read More

Parapsychology in the United Kingdom

From: New Thinking Allowed

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Jeffrey Mishlove on Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Chris Roe is currently the president of the Society for Psychical Research, founded in the United Kingdom in 1882. He is professor of psychology at the University of Northhampton where he supervises doctoral students working on parapsychological dissertations. He is also a former president of the Parapsychological Association. Here he describes the work of Robert Morris, ... Read More

ESP and Synchronicity

From: New Thinking Allowed

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Jeffrey Mishlove on Thursday, October 21, 2021

Jeffrey Mishlove discusses a difference of opinion between J. B. Rhine and C. G. Jung regarding whether paranormal phenomena obey causal principles. Jung described synchronicity as an "acausal connecting principle". Rhine did not agree. Jeffrey then discusses the role of conscious intentionality within parapsychology, suggesting that – because we do have a ... Read More

Associative Remote Viewing

From: New Thinking Allowed

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Jeffrey Mishlove on Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Debra Lynn Katz, PhD, is author of You Are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading and Healing, Extraordinary Psychic: Proven Techniques to Master Your Natural Psychic Abilies, and Freeing the Genie Within: Manifesting Abundance, Creativity, and Success in Your Life. She is coauthor, with Jon Knowles, of Associative Remote Viewing: The Art and Science of Predicting ... Read More

Her Life in Two Worlds: Gladys Osborne Leonard

From: New Thinking Allowed

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Jeffrey Mishlove on Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Jeffrey Mishlove has a delightful conversation with himself regarding one of the most talented spirit mediums of the twentieth century. Gladys Osborne Leonard's career as a medium spanned a half-century. Throughout that time she was studied extensively by researchers. She consistently demonstrated both integrity and talent, offering enormous evidence for ... Read More

New book - Parapsychology and Religion

From: Everton de Oliveira Maraldi's Blog

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Everton de Oliveira Maraldi on Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Dear colleagues, I am very happy to be able to announce the publication of my new book, Parapsychology and Religion by Brill Publishing . The book is part of the series Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Psychology edited by Prof. Ralph Hood. Below you will find the abstract; and attached is also the table of contents, the book's summary, and the ... Read More

Call for Papers

From: Etzel's Blog

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Etzel on Tuesday, June 1, 2021

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE NEW JOURNAL OF ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCE AND COGNITION The Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition (JAEX) provides a forum for the rigorous, multidisciplinary study of anomalous experience and cognition. Anomalous experience is a term that includes unusual but not necessarily pathological experiences, such as mystical experiences, out-of-body ... Read More

Call for Papers

From: Etzel's Blog

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Etzel on Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Call for Chapters: Is There Life After Death? Vol. 2

From: Leo Ruickbie's Blog

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Leo Ruickbie on Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Call for Chapters Is There Life After Death? Vol. 2: Case Studies Edited by Dr Leo Ruickbie and Robert McLuhan for the Society for Psychical Research Rationale It is one of the fundamental questions that everyone will ask themselves, but in an age of global pandemics, with the increasing challenge to once universal religious certainties and the growing partisan ... Read More

Researching Energy Medicine

From: New Thinking Allowed

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Jeffrey Mishlove on Friday, January 1, 2021

Dean Radin discusses a series of five research papers, published in conjunction with a group of colleagues, investigating "energy medicine" – a term he acknowledges is a misnomer, as it is neither energy nor medicine. 190 individuals with carpal tunnel pain were each treated by an energy healer during a half-hour, laboratory session. ... Read More

Ecology, Nature and Parapsychology: An Online Symposium

From: Parapsychological Association's Blog

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Parapsychological Association on Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Humanity’s greatest challenge is the current ecological crisis. How may parapsychology contribute to the expected changes of behavior? PA Members will explore this question on November 21, 2020 (9am - 3pm EST) in an online symposium chaired by PA President Renaud Evrard. This event is the first of a series of quarterly symposia on various parapsychological topics. ... Read More

Consciousness as the brain's energy field

From: Dr David Vernon's Blog

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Dr David Vernon on Thursday, October 29, 2020

Interesting proposal form Prof. McFadden at the University of Surrey here in the UK that consciousness is based on the electromagnetic fields produced by neural interactions. Have a look here: https://neurosciencenews.com/electromagnetic-consciousness-17191/ Read More

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