This document provides an introduction to the scientific study of psychic phenomena, known as parapsychology. It outlines the topics that will be covered in an upcoming online course on parapsychology, including ghosts/poltergeists, out of body experiences, reincarnation, and more. The document discusses what parapsychology studies, including extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. It also provides a brief history of parapsychology research and some of the key researchers and laboratories involved in experimental and case study research.
Top 3 Things About The Paranormal (That Give Us Insights On How To LIVE)Aileen Santos
From Author A.S.Santos:
As I'm writing book 3 of my paranormal romance series under the SPRG (Student Paranormal Research Group), my research into "what goes on beyond death" has given me several insights into how we can live more fulfilling lives.
Here are the top 3 insights. :-)
Top 3 Things About The Paranormal (That Give Us Insights On How To LIVE)Aileen Santos
From Author A.S.Santos:
As I'm writing book 3 of my paranormal romance series under the SPRG (Student Paranormal Research Group), my research into "what goes on beyond death" has given me several insights into how we can live more fulfilling lives.
Here are the top 3 insights. :-)
One dies and ... is everything over? ... or we have a spirit that transcends death. This is the topic that we will develop next: Consciousness, Transcendence and Immortality - HOW THE EXPERIENCES NEAR DEATH PROVE THAT CONSCIOUSNESS EXISTS BEYOND THE PHYSICAL BODY
Neuro Quantology is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research and review articles on the interface between quantum physics and neuroscience. The journal focuses on the exploration of the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness, cognition, perception, and behavior from a quantum perspective. Neuro Quantology is published monthly.
From Chekhov to Pavlov, From Vygotsky to Luria: A Brilliant Foundation, A Pr...Université de Montréal
Invited Keynote Address:
"From Chekhov to Pavlov, From Vygotsky to Luria:
A Brilliant Foundation, A Promising Future – Russian Adventures in the Humanities, Medical Psychology and Psychiatry"
All-Russia Inter-university Scientific Conference
"Mental Health: Modern Trends & Prospects"
Moscow, Russian Federation
16 December 2021
Learning Objectives
1. To review the contributions of four pioneering Russian theorists and practitioners in the humanities, behavioural psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry
2. To examine their legacies in the light of current issues in psychiatry and the medical humanities
3. To highlight the promises and challenges of a career in the branch of medicine called psychiatry at the crossroads of social sciences, the humanities, and neuroscience
The natural friendship between science and spiritualitySuzanne Yada
Presentation given by David Brett Richardson of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley's Personal Theology series, December 4, 2011. Uploaded here with his permission.
From "Introduction to the Scientific Study of Psychic Phenomena" on http://www.wiziq.com. Three more live classes this month, four more in January, eight recordings available from April and July. Join us!
In a lecture, delivered in Vienna in 1894 and dedicated "to the academic youth of Austria-Hungary", Franz Brentano outlined four phases of advance and decline which he saw as providing the key to the understanding of the history of Western philosophy. In the first cycle, in antiquity, the initial advancing phase culminated in the work of Aristotle, and was followed by three phases of decline, terminating in the irrational mysticism of the Neo-Pythagoreans. These four phases then repeated themselves: in the Middle Ages, beginning with Aquinas and ending with the "learned ignorance" of Nicholas of Cusa; and then in the modern period, beginning with Bacon and reaching its low point in the work of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In the contemporary era we are currently witnessing the end of the fourth cycle in the work of (for example) Derrida, Rorty; but also the beginnings of a new, fifth cycle, which is described in the talk. (Presented at the conference Consequences of Realism, Rome, May 4-6, 2014.)
Parapsychology Foundation's Fall 2016 Book ExpoThe AZIRE
One of our main clients, the Parapsychology Foundation, is hosting a live conference on Saturday November 2nd 2016 from noon Eastern through about 5:30pm Eastern, and all live sessions will be recorded. Here's the link for free enrollment to attend the live sessions or obtain access to the recordings and materials: http://pflyceum.wiziq.com/course/171232-parapsychology-foundation-book-expo-fall-2016 Join Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation, ourselve from The AZIRE Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado and Dr. Nancy L. Zingrone, and especially the authors: Dr. Julia Mossbridge, Titus Rivas and Rudolf H. Smith, and Dr. Renaud Evrard! If you enroll you'll be able to see the recordings and download the materials at your earliest convenience! (Create a free learners account on WizIQ and join us!)
The Powerpoint with descriptions of the books, the authors biographies, and the links to purchase the books on Amazon.com and Amazon.fr is available for download here!
PROJECT #3RETAIL LOCATIONSInstructions1. In an Word d.docxbriancrawford30935
PROJECT #3
RETAIL LOCATIONS
Instructions:
1. In an Word document, use the list provided at the end of these instructions to describe the following for each retail establishment listed:
a. Type of retail location
b. Factors affecting location (consumer shopping situations)
c. What considerations might the retailer had to have considered when thinking about their location
d. Parking considerations?
e. Who is close to this particular retailer? How will that affect the business?
f. What is their trade area? Tapestry Segment (focus segment)?
2. List of retailers:
a. Belks
b. JCPenney
c. Trendy Pieces
d. Lowes
e. Kohl’s
f. Dollar General
The Return of the Repressed
Psychology's Problematic Relations With Psychoanalysis, 1909-1960
Gail A. Hornstein Mount Holyoke College
When psychoanalysis first arrived in the United States,
most psychologists ignored it. By the 1920s, however, psy-
choanalysis had so captured the public imagination that
it threatened to eclipse experimental psychology entirely.
This article analyzes the complex nature of this threat
and the myriad ways that psychologists responded to it.
Because psychoanalysis entailed precisely the sort of rad-
ical subjectivity that psychologists had renounced as un-
scientific, core assumptions about the meaning of science
were at stake. Psychologists' initial response was to retreat
into positivism, thereby further limiting psychology's rel-
evance and scope. By the 1950s, a new strategy had
emerged: Psychoanalytic concepts would be put to exper-
imental test, and those that qualified as "scientific" would
be retained. This reinstated psychologists as arbiters of
the mental world and restored "objective" criteria as the
basis for making claims. A later tactic—co-opting psy-
choanalytic concepts into mainstream psychology—had
the ironic effect of helping make psychology a more flexible
and broad-based discipline.
Freud and Jung were having dinner in Bremen. It was
the evening before they set sail for the Clark conference,
the occasion of Freud's only visit to America. Jung started
talking about certain mummies in the lead cellars of the
city. Freud became visibly disturbed. "Why are you so
concerned with these corpses?" he asked several times.
Jung went on talking. Suddenly, without warning, Freud
fell to the floor in a faint. When he recovered, he accused
Jung of harboring death wishes against him. But it was
not Jung who wanted Freud dead. Had Freud only known
what American psychologists were about to do to psy-
choanalysis, he might never have gotten up off the floor.
There is no easy way to talk about psychology's re-
lations with psychoanalysis.1 It is a story dense with dis-
illusionment and the shapeless anger of rejection. Each
side behaved badly, and then compounded its insensitivity
with disdain. Their fates bound together like Romulus
and Remus, psychology and psychoanalysis struggled to
find their separate spheres, only to end up pitted against
one another at every turn. To.
One dies and ... is everything over? ... or we have a spirit that transcends death. This is the topic that we will develop next: Consciousness, Transcendence and Immortality - HOW THE EXPERIENCES NEAR DEATH PROVE THAT CONSCIOUSNESS EXISTS BEYOND THE PHYSICAL BODY
Neuro Quantology is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research and review articles on the interface between quantum physics and neuroscience. The journal focuses on the exploration of the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness, cognition, perception, and behavior from a quantum perspective. Neuro Quantology is published monthly.
From Chekhov to Pavlov, From Vygotsky to Luria: A Brilliant Foundation, A Pr...Université de Montréal
Invited Keynote Address:
"From Chekhov to Pavlov, From Vygotsky to Luria:
A Brilliant Foundation, A Promising Future – Russian Adventures in the Humanities, Medical Psychology and Psychiatry"
All-Russia Inter-university Scientific Conference
"Mental Health: Modern Trends & Prospects"
Moscow, Russian Federation
16 December 2021
Learning Objectives
1. To review the contributions of four pioneering Russian theorists and practitioners in the humanities, behavioural psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry
2. To examine their legacies in the light of current issues in psychiatry and the medical humanities
3. To highlight the promises and challenges of a career in the branch of medicine called psychiatry at the crossroads of social sciences, the humanities, and neuroscience
The natural friendship between science and spiritualitySuzanne Yada
Presentation given by David Brett Richardson of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley's Personal Theology series, December 4, 2011. Uploaded here with his permission.
From "Introduction to the Scientific Study of Psychic Phenomena" on http://www.wiziq.com. Three more live classes this month, four more in January, eight recordings available from April and July. Join us!
In a lecture, delivered in Vienna in 1894 and dedicated "to the academic youth of Austria-Hungary", Franz Brentano outlined four phases of advance and decline which he saw as providing the key to the understanding of the history of Western philosophy. In the first cycle, in antiquity, the initial advancing phase culminated in the work of Aristotle, and was followed by three phases of decline, terminating in the irrational mysticism of the Neo-Pythagoreans. These four phases then repeated themselves: in the Middle Ages, beginning with Aquinas and ending with the "learned ignorance" of Nicholas of Cusa; and then in the modern period, beginning with Bacon and reaching its low point in the work of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. In the contemporary era we are currently witnessing the end of the fourth cycle in the work of (for example) Derrida, Rorty; but also the beginnings of a new, fifth cycle, which is described in the talk. (Presented at the conference Consequences of Realism, Rome, May 4-6, 2014.)
Parapsychology Foundation's Fall 2016 Book ExpoThe AZIRE
One of our main clients, the Parapsychology Foundation, is hosting a live conference on Saturday November 2nd 2016 from noon Eastern through about 5:30pm Eastern, and all live sessions will be recorded. Here's the link for free enrollment to attend the live sessions or obtain access to the recordings and materials: http://pflyceum.wiziq.com/course/171232-parapsychology-foundation-book-expo-fall-2016 Join Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation, ourselve from The AZIRE Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado and Dr. Nancy L. Zingrone, and especially the authors: Dr. Julia Mossbridge, Titus Rivas and Rudolf H. Smith, and Dr. Renaud Evrard! If you enroll you'll be able to see the recordings and download the materials at your earliest convenience! (Create a free learners account on WizIQ and join us!)
The Powerpoint with descriptions of the books, the authors biographies, and the links to purchase the books on Amazon.com and Amazon.fr is available for download here!
PROJECT #3RETAIL LOCATIONSInstructions1. In an Word d.docxbriancrawford30935
PROJECT #3
RETAIL LOCATIONS
Instructions:
1. In an Word document, use the list provided at the end of these instructions to describe the following for each retail establishment listed:
a. Type of retail location
b. Factors affecting location (consumer shopping situations)
c. What considerations might the retailer had to have considered when thinking about their location
d. Parking considerations?
e. Who is close to this particular retailer? How will that affect the business?
f. What is their trade area? Tapestry Segment (focus segment)?
2. List of retailers:
a. Belks
b. JCPenney
c. Trendy Pieces
d. Lowes
e. Kohl’s
f. Dollar General
The Return of the Repressed
Psychology's Problematic Relations With Psychoanalysis, 1909-1960
Gail A. Hornstein Mount Holyoke College
When psychoanalysis first arrived in the United States,
most psychologists ignored it. By the 1920s, however, psy-
choanalysis had so captured the public imagination that
it threatened to eclipse experimental psychology entirely.
This article analyzes the complex nature of this threat
and the myriad ways that psychologists responded to it.
Because psychoanalysis entailed precisely the sort of rad-
ical subjectivity that psychologists had renounced as un-
scientific, core assumptions about the meaning of science
were at stake. Psychologists' initial response was to retreat
into positivism, thereby further limiting psychology's rel-
evance and scope. By the 1950s, a new strategy had
emerged: Psychoanalytic concepts would be put to exper-
imental test, and those that qualified as "scientific" would
be retained. This reinstated psychologists as arbiters of
the mental world and restored "objective" criteria as the
basis for making claims. A later tactic—co-opting psy-
choanalytic concepts into mainstream psychology—had
the ironic effect of helping make psychology a more flexible
and broad-based discipline.
Freud and Jung were having dinner in Bremen. It was
the evening before they set sail for the Clark conference,
the occasion of Freud's only visit to America. Jung started
talking about certain mummies in the lead cellars of the
city. Freud became visibly disturbed. "Why are you so
concerned with these corpses?" he asked several times.
Jung went on talking. Suddenly, without warning, Freud
fell to the floor in a faint. When he recovered, he accused
Jung of harboring death wishes against him. But it was
not Jung who wanted Freud dead. Had Freud only known
what American psychologists were about to do to psy-
choanalysis, he might never have gotten up off the floor.
There is no easy way to talk about psychology's re-
lations with psychoanalysis.1 It is a story dense with dis-
illusionment and the shapeless anger of rejection. Each
side behaved badly, and then compounded its insensitivity
with disdain. Their fates bound together like Romulus
and Remus, psychology and psychoanalysis struggled to
find their separate spheres, only to end up pitted against
one another at every turn. To.
A Brief History of Distance, Online, and Virtual Worlds EducationThe AZIRE
Presentation prepared for the SLMOOC2018 free online course that took place in Second Life. YouTube video of presentation here: https://youtu.be/HOgsmfFX6zw
Virtual World Education Overview for NewcomersThe AZIRE
The powerpoint to support a lecture to learners in VWMOOC18 (Virtual Worlds MOOC 2018) about the history of virtual worlds, their affordances and challenges, and how to learn more about Second Life in particular and virtual world education in general.
The video of this lecture is available on YouTube at this link: https://youtu.be/HOgsmfFX6zw
SLMOOC17 June 20th Building an Enthusiast's LibraryThe AZIRE
A presentation by Dr Nan Zingrone given for the #SLMOOC17 in Second Life for the annual course on education in virtual world. The presentation described lessons learned by an amateur librarian by watching what real librarians, archivists, and museum curators do to present interactive materials on a topic of interest for other residents of virtual and OpenSim worlds.
A Brief History of Distance, Online, and Virtual Worlds EducationThe AZIRE
A talk for the 2017 online course for education in virtual worlds, presented on the 7th of June at the SLMOOC Headquarters in Second Life. Combines history of distance education to provide a context for a discussion of virtual worlds.
SLMOOC2015 An Introduction to Virtual WorldsThe AZIRE
Lecture given by Dr Nancy L. Zingrone for the annual course on virtual world education based in Second Life, focusing on technological and literary developments that helped to pave the way for virtual worlds.
Is There Anybody in There for Forever Family Foundation April 2017The AZIRE
A talk on evidence for survival from hauntings and apparitions research, given for the Forever Family Foundation, April 5th, 2017. By Nancy L. Zingrone, PhD.
Parapsychology Research and Education Free Course 2017The AZIRE
The PowerPoint lists some of the information about ParaMOOC2017, a free open online course on serious academic and scientific research into what seem to be psychic phenomena and on their implications for science in general. Physics, psychology, anthropology, and history are among the disciplinary approaches included. The Slide Show includes info about the course and the names, presentation titles and biographies of the guest lecturers. To enroll in the course (open until August 31st, 2017, although live sessions until February 24th, recordings of live sessions and materials will be available to new students through August): http://the-azire.wiziq.com/course/178247-parapsychology-research-and-education-paramooc2017
PowerPoint prepared for a presentation given at the Evre Installation (LEA27) by Tahiti Rae, October 30th, 3pm SLT. On paranormal experiences that seem to suggest stepping into another time.
Supporting a Course with a Virtual Library: The ParaMOOC SeriesThe AZIRE
A presentation given for the Community Virtual Library in Second Life, by Dr. Nancy L. Zingrone, on her and her husband Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado's work on both The AZIRE Library and Learning Center in Second Life and the Parapsychology Research and Education MOOCs, January to August 2015, and January to August 2016.
Finding Your Teacher: Putting Together a Shared Educational Experience in Par...The AZIRE
Presentation for the June 2016 conference of the Parapsychological Association, arguing for better education in the field for researchers, the importance of professional development, and the usefulness of YouTube and other online resources for accomplishing these goals.
The SLMOOC Series: Anticipating the Needs of Learners in Virtual WorldsThe AZIRE
Presentation for the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable, July 14th, 2016 on the needs of learners who enter virtual worlds such as Second Life, and the management of MOOCs that span several learning management platforms including virtual worlds.
Given in the Moodle Mooc 7 on WizIQ organized by Dr. Nellie Deustch, an overview of current activity in Second Life as an example of on-going higher education in virtual worlds
The PowerPoint from a presentation for the Forever Family Foundation Conference in Durham, NC, November 8th and 9th, 2014. A look at apparition research and what constitutes spirit communication in these types of investigations.
A short powerpoint on the state of education in the scientific study of psychic phenomena, or scientific parapsychology. Made for a video presentations for the 2014 Parapsychological Association convention.
A presentation prepared for a WizIQ live class on using the internet and free resources to obtain professional development in online and other forms of teaching technology.
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Class 1 of WizIQ Course "Introduction to the Scientific Study of Psychic Phenomena"
1. Introduction to the Scientific Study of
Psychic Phenomena
Nancy L. Zingrone, PhD
www.theazire.org
The AZIRE Learning Center in Second Life
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/153/89/60
www.rhineeducationcenter.org
The Rhine Research Center in Second Life:
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/44/161/84
2. Plan of the course:
O Today: Introduction to the Scientific Study of
Psychic Phenomena
O April 25th
, 3pm Eastern: Ghosts, Poltergeists
and Hauntings Research
O May 2nd
, 3pm Eastern: Studying the Out of
Body and Near-Death Experiences
O May 9th
, 3pm Eastern: Reincarnation
Research in Scientific Parapsychology
5. What each live class will contain:
O An introductory lecture that ranges over the
broad tropic
O Some recommendations for videos and
future reading
O Some recommendations for websites,
Facebook pages, blogs and other resources
to study more
O A running discussion on the Course Feed
page
6. Where I’m coming from:
O Long-time member of the Parapsychological
Association – www.parapsych.org
O Trained at the Foundation for Research on
the Nature of Man, the predecessor to the
Rhine Research Center
O PhD from the psychology department at the
University of Edinburgh under the late great
Professor Bob Morris
O Enthusiastic about science and experience
O Believer in active self-directed learning
8. Parapsychology
Defined as outside accepted boundaries of human functioning
“The scientific study of experiences which, if they are as they seem to
be, are in principle outside the realm of human capabilities as
presently conceived by conventional scientists.” Harvey J. Irwin,
(2004). An Introduction to Parapsychology (4th ed.). Jefferson, NC:
McFarland.
Defined in terms of agency
“A science dealing with mechanical or psychological phenomena due
to forces that seem to be intelligent, or to unknown powers latent in
human intelligence.” Referring to “metapsychics,” Charles Richet
(1923), Thirty Years of Psychical Research. New York: Macmillan.
Defined in terms of nonphysicality
“The branch of inquiry which deals with nonphysical personal
operations or phenomena.” from J. B. Rhine and J. G. Pratt (1957).
Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind. Springfield, IL: Charles C
Thomas.
9. Two main categories of parapsychological phenomena
Extrasensory Perception (ESP)
Telepathy
Clairvoyance
Precognition
Psychokinesis (PK)
On Objects
On Biological Organisms
On Electrical and Mechanical Systems
10. APPARITIONS
OF THE DEAD Recurrent
At moment of
death
Long after death
OF THE LIVING
Crisis
Recurrent
Experimental
11. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
Published in 1936
in Country Life Magazine
and in 1937 in Life Magazine
Taken by
Captain Hubert C. Provand
& Indre Shira
Retrieved from castleofspirits.com
Sightings from
1835 to 1936,
at least …
12. Cheltenham Ghost
Talk available on the
members only section of
www.rhine.org
Powerpoint with details
about this case available
on SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/NanZingron
13. Talk available on the
members only section of
www.rhine.org
Powerpoint with details
about this case available
on SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/NanZing
The Antique Shop Spuk
From Cornell, Investigating the Paranormal
(Parapsychology Foundation, 2002)
14. Parapsychology Foundation’s Founder,
Irish medium and patron of scientific
parapsychology,
Eileen J. Garrett,
in trance, in the 1930s
For more information visit
the websites of the
Parapsychology
Foundation:
www.parapsychology.org
www.psi-mart.com
www.pflyceum.org
www.psychicexplorers.org
15. Articles by Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD
on out-of-body experiences
available from:
http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departments/psychiatry/sections/cspp/dops/staff/carlosbio-pa
17. Cases of the Reincarnation Type
More information available from:
The Division of Perceptual Studies
University of Virginia
http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/clinical/departmen
18. Healing
More info available from:
http://www.explorejournal.com/
&
http://www.dosseydossey
.com/larry/default.html
20. Conceptual Approaches to Parapsychology
Explanatory
Conventional Principles / New Principles
Disciplinary
Views and Emphases Questions about Phenomena
Psychological What is the psychological profile?
Physical Is there a physical mechanism?
Anthropological What are the cultural variables?
Medical Related to what conditions?
21. The Critical Mentality
Opinions depend on:
O Conditions of observation
O Methodology
O Frame of reference
O Sources of information
Conventional Explanations:
Movies (Poltergeist)
O TV (X Files)
O Books
Coincidence
O Suggestion
O Memory mistakes
O Hallucinations
O Subconscious
elaboration
O Fraud
22. Great resources for the critical but open point of view:
The Parapsychological Association website
www.parapsychology.org
The website of the Society for Psychical Research
www.spr.ac.uk
23. Helmut Schmidt & the “Keep It Going” Machine
FRNM (Institute for Parapsychology), 1960s-1970s
Mind-Science Foundation, 1980s
26. “The Descent
From the Cross”
Max Beckmann,
1917, Oil on Canvas
Target for a
Successful
Dream Telepathy
Session
27. Early Random Number Generator
Psychokinesis Experiment at the
Princeton Engineering Anomalies
Laboratory (PEAR), Princeton University
Circa 1985
(1976-2007)
Brenda Dunne
Robert Jahn
www.icrl.org
Roger Nelson
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
28. Remote Viewing / Remote Perception
Stanford Research Institute
(SRI)
Russ Targ and Hal Puthoff
1970s to late 1980s
31. Koestler Professor of Parapsychology,
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh,
Dr. Robert Lyle Morris (1942-2004)
32. Centre for the Study of Anomalous Processes
in Psychology, Department of Psychology,
University of Northampton, Faculty
O Deborah Delanoy:
Meta-analysis,
Psychomanteum
research
o Richard Broughton:
o Testing models of anomalous
skin conductance, Ganzfeld
O Chris Roe:
ESP and PK, belief
in the paranormal
O Simon Sherwood:
Apparitional experiences
of black dogs, hypnogogic
imagery and OBEs
33. Center for Research on Consciousness
and Anomalous Psychology,
Department of Psychology,
Lund University
O Etzel Cardeña:
Hypnotizability and
scoring in ESP tasks,
electrocortical activity
of deep hypnosis
experiences
34. Other universities with units “seeded” or
benefited by the Morris Miracle:
O University of Hertfordshire
O University of Greenwich
O Goldsmith’s College, University of
London
O University of Virginia
O University of São Paulo
O Federal University of Juiz de Fora
35. TABLE 1
Topics of Research Papers at Recent Parapsychological Association Conventions
2000-2003 (N=63)
Topic N %
Experiments
ESP 38 60.3
PK/DMILS[a] 9 14.3
Spontaneous Cases
Variety of psychic
experiences[b]
9 14.3
Hauntings 2 3.2
NDEs 1 1.6
Recollections of previous
lives
1 1.6
Apparitions 1 1.6
Poltergeists 1 1.6
Mediumship 1 1.6
[a] Some of these may be classified as ESP.
[b] These are questionnaire studies considering a variety of experiences (e.g., waking and dream ESP, OBEs).
36. English Language Journals to read:
O Journal of Parapsychology
O Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
O Journal of Scientific Exploration
O European Journal of Parapsychology
O Australian Journal of Parapsychology
O Journal of Near-Death Studies
O International Journal of Parapsychology
O Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
O Explore
37. Associations/Societies to Join:
O Parapsychological Association
O Society for Scientific Exploration
O Society for Psychical Research
O International Association of Near Death Studies
Websites to Frequent:
• www.pflyceum.org
• www.parapsychology.org
• www.parapsych.org
• www.iands.org
• www.spr.ac.uk
• www.scientificexploration.org
38. The Take Away Message
O Parapsychology is:
O On the margins of mainstream science
O Controversial for complex reasons
O An interdisciplinary problem area with:
O A wide variety of phenomena
O A wide variety of approaches
O Deep questions on a grand scale
O Deep questions at the level of the individual
O Worth every day spent in it
39. Thanks for your Attention!
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