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Psi in the News

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iPads can help NDE research, $2.3 million in grants on post-mortem survival research, precognitive dreams, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Music, Meditation, and the Skull as a Sound Chamber

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This music brings Hermetic and Buddhist insights into a contemporary setting where they interact in a relevant way with our media-saturated culture, transforming ambient urban noise into a complex meditation. (more)

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Is Spiritualism a form of shamanism, critics of non-local consciousness, veterans of Project Star Gate come together, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Psi in the News

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Telepathic super soldiers, is Sylvia Browne damaging to the field, ecology and non-locality, Chris Anderson and Deepak Chopra, and more in this week's update.  (more)

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-2.jpgEcology and non-locality, Deepak Chopra vs. TED's Chris Andersen, and how consciousness can transform grief and suffering in this week's update.  (more)

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Technology aided telepathy, publishing surge for books on near death experiences, and the Philip Experiment in this week's update. (more)

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-2.jpgSpiritualist mediumship in Brooklyn, the vivid memories of NDEs, and the therapeutic value of afterlife encounters. (more)

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A brief history of dreaming, Electronic Voice Phenomena are everywhere, and Bare Normality asks what exactly is this Psi thing we're talking about, in this week's update.  (more)

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WFMU interviews EVP experimenter Michael Esposito, UK TV regulator blasts show's medium, 2,200 ancient occult monographs from are now free PDFs, and more in this week's update. (more)

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Gene Semel investigates Sony's Psi experiments, Osirian Dawn on telepathic romance, and Rupert Sheldrake causes TED talk controversy in this week's update.  (more)

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Dr. Sam Parnia discusses life and death, Graham Nicholls on 130 years of psi research, and Ryan Hurd offers a healthy dose of succubi in this week's update. (more)

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James Randi lauds Social Darwinism, Chris Jensen Romer says bye to skepticism, Rupert Sheldrake inspires mixed martial artists, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Cry Before Your Lord - Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke on Ancestral Spirits & Communion with the Dead


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Killing Joke has seen three decades of critical engagement with contemporary culture, bringing ancient traditions forward and embracing a reality unbounded by arbitrary laws. With this interview, I wanted to understand how the death of bassist Paul Raven and extending friendship beyond temporal limitations affected Coleman's life.
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psieyere.jpegXerox inventor was inspired by a seance, horror movie based on Ganzfield experiments coming soon, baby chicks in psi experiments, and more in this week's update.  (more)

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Russell Targ talks Remote Viewing and ESP, Radford University students build a psychomanteum to contact the dead, social media's effect on psychical research, and more in this week's update.  (more)

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psieyere.jpegDr. Julie Beischel's recently released e-book, Guillermo Del Toro discusses his paranormal experiences, the science of unhaunted places, and more in this week's update.  (more)

Love Magic & Holy Death: A Conversation with Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut

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With Her many devotees among society's dispossessed, Santa Muerte, Saint or Holy Death, has drawn the ire of orthodoxies both religious and legal. Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut's new book is one of the first academic studies in English of this complex and controversial figure. He was kind enough to provide some insight into this fast growing devotional tradition. (more)

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Two new e-ebooks on current investigations of the anamolous, Edge Realms contributor Conner Habib on Dr Eben Alexander's NDE, and more in this week's up date.  (more)

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psieyere.jpegPhotos of reported ectoplasmic phenomena, a look at 70s psi research, new results from the Global Consciousness Project, and more in this week's update.  (more)

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The tantalizing possibilities of technological telepathy, Tibetan psychic traditions, the mysteries of mediumship, and the universe as a giant brain, in this new edition. (more)

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Psychic services as an employer benefit, a lesson in logic, how pseudo-science saved scientific progress, Dr. Eben Alexander appears on Oprah, and more in this psi round-up. (more)

Psi in the News

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Neuroscientists test Brazilian mediums, a Buddhist monk shows “unheard of” brain activity during meditation, interviews from the 2012 Parapsychological Association Conference, and more on Eben Alexander’s NDE in this week's round-up.  (more)

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Ghost hunting, psychic challenges, the intricacies of OOBE, and reflections on the iconography of sleep paralysis in this week's round up. (more)

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eyepsire.jpegEthnography of the afterlife, skeptics issue UK psychics a scientific challenge, presentiment, premonitions and a heaping helping of NDE, in this edition of Psi-in-the-News. (more)

Opening the Conversation About NDE: Dr. Eben Alexander & the Question of Consciousness

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There is a slow shift in our view of the nature of consciousness. It's occurring in incremental stages, its main bulk still writhing below the surface of frothing rhetoric and opinionated debate, but a Newsweek cover story on a Near Death Experience marks an important change in the public discussion. (more)

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A neurosurgeon claims that heaven is real, Ke$ha says she slept with a ghost, Discovery Online's "Is ESP for real?" test, and a free remote viewing course in this week's round up. (more)

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The debate continues over Daryl Bem’s experimental psi results, the Global Consciousness Project looks at Burning Man, and a Galician festival for ‘those who saw death,’ in this edition of Psi in the News.  (more)

The Forbidden Book: An Interview with Guido Mina di Sospiro

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The mind is capable of a certain deliberate act of will that results in a higher state of consciousness. The Forbidden Book is among the latest in a long list of literary works in which the Hermetic tradition, this mental work, is enciphered. (more)

In an Open-Minded Way: Jack Hunter on an Ethnography of Anomalous Phenomena

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Since the late 60′s parapsychology has sought objective verification for the phenomenon in the laboratory rather than cultivating the experience as a participant in the field. Jack Hunter is working with a group of researchers that are changing this trend. (more)

Let These Waters Pour Back to the Ocean: Rethinking the Psi Debate

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A system is a construct, not an innate organism, and it seems that psi phenomena can act as agents of change and growth within a system when it gets too close to stasis. Mysterious events are cracks in the wall that let the light shine through. One must realize, though, that the light can be blinding. (more)

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