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66th Annual Convention - Group Picture

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Click here for the full-size picture The 66th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association has come and gone from Mérida, México. Much thanks to our Local Host Unidad Parapsicológica de Investigación, Difusión ... More
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2017 Outstanding Career Award: Carlos S. Alvarado

Last Updated: Monday, August 21, 2017
Congratulations to Carlos S. Alvarado , who has been selected to receive the PA's 2017 Outstanding Career Award. This award goes to a PA professional or associate member to recognize sustained research or service contributions that have advanced the ... More

2017 Schmeidler Outstanding Student Award Winner - David Marcusson-Clavertz

The winner of this year's Schmeidler Outstanding Student Award is PA Student Member David Marcusson-Clavertz. This annual award goes to a student who excels academically and makes early contributions to the field through conference presentations, ... More

2017 PA Book Award Winner - Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
One could view Marjorie Woollacott's Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind  through two very different perspectives: it’s at once both scholarly and very enjoyable. The reader finds herself going back and forth between ... More

2017 PA Book Award Winner: Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author. Her new book, Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife , is an important vehicle for the parapsychological community in reaching out to the general public. She ... More

2017 PA Book Award Winner: Enquête sur 150 Ans de Parapsychologie en France

Enquête sur 150 Ans de Parapsychologie en France is a history of various aspects of French psychical research by Renaud Evrard. Evrard has much to say about many individuals, institutions, investigations, and issues, not to mention time periods, ... More

Provisional Program: PA 60th Anniversary Celebration

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2019
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Mindfield 9.1

Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2020
This issue of Mindfield is dedicated to the life and work of Gerd Hövelmann , and it includes two tributes from people who knew him well: Gerhard Mayer, and Roger Nelson . It also includes the abstracts in English for 2016 of the journal in ... More

Mindfield Editor Position Open

The Parapsychological Association (PA) is seeking a chief editor for its thrice-annual Mindfield Bulletin – the principal PA publication connecting its membership with developments in the field of parapsychology. This is an unpaid, volunteer staff ... More

Inviting Proposals for the 2018 PA Convention

The Board of Directors of the Parapsychological Association is considering meeting sites for the PA's 2018 annual convention, and inviting proposals from PA members in North America who would be interested in hosting. If you have attended PA ... More

A Tribute to Gerd H. Hövelmann

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Members of the PA Board were shocked and saddened by the news that Gerd Hoevelmann has died following a long illness. Gerd was a fast friend of parapsychology, contributing very many scholarly articles over a long career that were supportive of the field ... More

Researchers at EvanLab Explore OBEs through Hypnosis

Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2019
Is it possible to induce an Out-of-Body-Experience (OBE) using hypnotic suggestion? What might be the electroencephalogram (EEG ) correlates of this experience compared with the EEG correlates of a deep hypnosis? A Parapsychological Association Research ... More

2016 PARE Awardees

This year’s PARE funds will support individual who are investigating near death experiences and out-of-body experiences. More

Mindfield 8.3

Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2020
This issue of Mindfield starts with a thorough discussion by PA President Chris Roe of potential psychological and parapsychological experimenter effects. Renaud Evrard chronicles the joint 59th PA and 35th SSE convention, besides providing his PA ... More

The PA Encourages Members to Organize Locally

The Digital Revolution has transformed how scientists and scholars exchange ideas, but it has not reduced the value of convening in person. New members often join the PA in the hopes of finding additional opportunities for research, study and networking, ... More

2016 Election Results

The results of the 2016 PA Election are in. Much thanks to everyone who ran for election, and congratulations to our elected PA Vice President, Board Directors, and Student Representative (names in bold below).  Vice Presidential Election: Wim ... More
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