Psi in the News

The debate continues over Daryl Bem’s experimental psi results, the Global Consciousness Project looks at Burning Man, an NDE experiencer gets revelations about iatrogenic medicine, and a Galician festival for ‘those who saw death,’ in this edition of the Psi News Round-up

• Three Cases of Near Death Experience. Is it physiology, physics, or philosophy? (Annals of Neuroscience) http://annalsofneurosciences.org/journal/index.php/annal/article/viewArt...
• Jeff Galak engages in a direct discussion of the implication of his findings, and failure to replicate Bem’s results. (Skeptiko)
  http://forum.mind-energy.net/skeptiko-podcast/4150-another-failure-repli...
• U.S. Military is funding research on that “Spidey Sense.” (TechnOccult)
  http://technoccult.net/archives/2012/09/20/u-s-military-funding-research...
• One of the first worldwide remote viewing experiments will be conducted on October 7th, 2012, with Stephan A. Schwartz. (EsoGuru)
  http://en.esoguru.com/stephan-a-schwartz-remote-viewing-experience
• Enjoy an interview with Thomas Robisheaux, Fred W. Schaffer professor of history at Duke University and keynote speaker at the recent Parapsychological Association conference, as he discusses the history of psychical science and its connection to his specialty: early modern witch hunts. (Duke Chronicle) 
  http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/q-thomas-robisheaux 
• Since 1999, the Global Consciousness Project, formerly associated with the now defunct Princeton Engineering Anomaly Research Lab, has been monitoring Burning Man. Check out the results for the 2012 Burn. (GCP) 
  http://teilhard.global-mind.org/burning.man.120901.html
• Dean Radin, Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Tom Campbell, consulting physicist with NASA, discuss the implications of consciousness studies, psi, and developing experimental protocol for A.I. (Institute of Noetic Science)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKbVthuFbQ 
• Stephen E. Braude, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Former Chair of the Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, made a recent visit to the Felix Experimental Group in Germany, one of the most recent manifestations of physical mediumship
  http://felixcircle.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-braude-investigation-of-mediumistic.html 
• Next time you’re in Galicia, enjoy La Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme, a festival that celebrates those with Near Death Experiences. (Oddity Central)
  http://www.odditycentral.com/travel/unique-spanish-festival-celebrates-near-death-experiences.html
• What one NDE experiencer has to say about iatrogenic medication. (Neuroscience & Sci)
  http://neuroscienceandpsi.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/what-one-nde-has-to-say-about.html
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo28KdDmT4M&feature=player_embedded
• The Monroe Institute will be holding a Hemi-sync technology seminar at the Lincoln Park Library. (Examiner)
  http://www.examiner.com/article/the-monroe-institute-will-hold-a-hemi-sync-technology-seminar 
• Big Study brings us an article from a 1924 issue of Atlantic Monthy on an induced Out of Body Experience. (The Biggest Study) http://thebiggeststudy.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-early-induced-out-of-body-experience.html
• What does Remote Viewing have to do with creative writing? (Doc Hensley)
  http://www.dochensley.com/2012/08/17/consider-remote-viewing/ 
• Something you’ve probably never thought to ask: Are Silva intuition system & remote viewing halal or haram? (Ummah)
  http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?339483-Silva-intuition-system-and-remote-viewing
• Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach was recently interviewed on Strange Frequencies Radio. (Strange Frequencies Radio) 
  http://strangefrequenciesradio.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/episode-202-parapsychology-with-loyd-auerbach/
• Reflections on the research conducted at the Princeton Engineering Anomaly Research Lab. (Black Market Media) 
  http://www.blackmarketmedia.info/parapsychology-or-p-e-a-r-aspsychology/
• Make your interest in the field official. Revision and restatement of the Bylaws of the Parapsychological Association make it easier to apply for membership.  (Parapsychological Association)
  http://www.parapsych.org/articles/0/147/pa_bylaws_and_membership_category.aspx
• Have you visited the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist & Occult Periodicals online archives? (Atlantic University) 
  http://carlossalvarado.edublogs.org/2012/09/19/digital-libraries-with-holdings-of-the-old-literature-viii/
• Physics of Nonduality Quantum Potentials and Higher Realms. (Institute of Noetic Science)  
  http://noetic.org/discussions/open/353/
• An enlightening trip to the Esalen Institute to meet up with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake. 
  http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?app=blog&module=display&section=blog&blogid=2493&showentry=26163 
• Live Science gives a short list of Teleportation, ESP & Time Travel: 10 Tales of Superpowers. (Live Science)
  http://www.livescience.com/23045-teleportation-esp-time-travel-superpowe...
• Jeffrey J. Kripal's Mutants and Mystics talks about super heroes and the paranormal.  (Mariano Tomatis) 
  http://www.marianotomatis.it/blog/?post=20120918
• The paper that started all the Bem replication failure reports.
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2001721
• Can we see into the future, or is the paranormal just normal? (Psychology Today)
  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201209/the-secre...
• The impact of Bem's infamous psi research. (The Ness)
  http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-power-of-replication-be...
• New Scientist reports on the most recent attempt to replicate Daryl Bem’s psi experiments from Jeff Galak, Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh, and his team of researchers (New Scientist)
  http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/09/esp-evidence...
• Why debunking ESP can be interesting. (Discover Magazine)
  http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/08/29/why-debunking-esp-can-...
• A controversial ESP study fails yet again. (Discovery)
  http://news.discovery.com/human/controversial-esp-study-fails-yet-again-...