The 41st International Annual Conference of the Society for Psychical Research will be hosted by DE VERE HORSLEY ESTATE on the 1st-3rd September 2017.
The presentation of papers will begin on Friday evening and continue (with appropriate breaks) until 5 pm on Sunday. A drinks reception will be held before dinner on Friday evening and there will be a private dinner on Saturday evening. Wine is included with dinner on Saturday night.
Free parking. WiFi available throughout the building. All bedrooms have ensuite bathroom facilities, TV, tea/coffee-making facilities.
Swimming pool and gym facilities open for use by all delegates.
Only Single or Double rooms are available (only single rooms for 24hr bookings); there are no Twin rooms. If you wish to add extra nights (B&B only) before or after the conference, please contact the SPR Office to enquire.
From 14.00 Accommodation check-in at Management Centre Main Reception
17.00 – 18.00 Registration at SPR desk (Horsley Court Reception)
18.00 Meeting room Access (Ockham Suite)
18.20 – 18.30 Programme Chair, Adrian Parker OPENING REMARKS
Spontaneous Psychic Experiences Chair: Adrian Parker
18.30 – 19.00 Chris Roe & Rebecca Linnett
Confirmatory Content Analysis of Spontaneous Cases of Psi drawn from the Alister Hardy Database
19.00 – 19.30 Dylan Jones Paranormal Reality TV and the Portrayal of Scientific Practice
19.30 – 20.00 Drinks Reception (Horsley Court Bar)
20.00 – 21.15 DINNER (Steam, Bake & Grill Restaurant)
21.15 – 21.30 Leo Ruickbie Paranormal Review Photography Competition
After Dinner Talk (lecture room)
21.30 – 22.00 Adrian Parker & Annekatrin Puhle Making Thoughtforms Work: Magic Rabbits and Polar Bears
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SATURDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER
07.30 – 11.00 BREAKFAST (Steam, Bake & Grill Restaurant)
Paranormal Beliefs Chair: Bernard Carr
9.00 – 9.30 Martha Maxine Meilleur Trance Mediumship in Tibetan Buddhism and Spiritualism
9.30 – 10.00 Honey Darwood & Ciarán O’Keeffe A Self-Report Study Investigating Religiosity and Spirituality as Possible Aspects of Human Personality
Altered States Chair: Chris Roe
10.00 – 10.30 David Saunders Lucid Dreaming: Dreams of High Significance
10.30 – 11.00 TEA/COFFEE
11.00 – 11.30 Adrian Parker Current Research on Lucid Dreaming and Shared Lucidity States
11.30 – 12.00 Callum Cooper & David Saunders Sensory Isolation in Flotation Tanks as a Method for Promoting Psi-Conducive Imagery
12.00 – 12.30 Ciarán O’Keeffe Deliver us from Evil or Deliver us from our Brain? A Re-examination of the Case for Demonic Possession
12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 14.30 Adalexis Rios-Orlandi The Study of Trance Communication: A Linguistic Analysis of Trance Messages
Near Death Experiences and Light Experiences Chair: Jon Mannsåker
14.30 – 15.00 Annekatrin Puhle Light Changes: A Study of 800 Experiences of Transforming Light
15.00 – 15.30 Callum Cooper, Chris Roe & Graham Mitchell A Content Analysis of Fifty Cases of Anomalous Experiences Reported During Bereavement and the Process of Recovery
15.30 – 16.00 TEA/COFFEE
Apparitional Experiences Chair: Ross Friday
16.00 – 16.30 Kate Adams Seeing the Unseen: Children’s Voices, Encounters and Meaning Making
16.30 – 17.00 Marcelo Eremián Comparative Study on Phenomenological Aspects in Recurrent and Shared Apparitional Experiences
Invited Speaker
17.00 -18.00 Allan Kellehear Near Death Experiences, Visions of the Bereaved and Death-Bed Visions and the Politics of Knowledge
19.00 – 20.30 PRIVATE DINNER (Steam, Bake & Grill Restaurant)
After-dinner Speaker (in Restaurant)
20.30 – 21.30 Peter Fenwick A Neuropsychiatrist Sees the Light
SUNDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER
07.30 – 11.00 BREAKFAST (Steam, Bake & Grill Restaurant)
CHECKOUT OF ROOMS BY 10 A.M. PLEASE – LUGGAGE MAY BE LEFT WITH RECEPTION
Mediumship Chair: Callum Cooper
9.00 – 9.30 Rachel Evenden, David Saunders & Chris Roe A Test of Mediumship to the Showcase Facilities at the AFC Research Laboratory
9.30 – 10.00 Wim Kramer The Third Way or How Professor Valckenier Suringar Escaped His Catch 22
10.00 – 10.30 Selma Hofstra Gerald Croiset – UK Cases
10.30 – 11.00 TEA/COFFEE
11.00 – 11.30 Sean Richards Voices and Faces from the Greetings Project: A Three Year Investigation into Instrumental Trans-Communication
Healing and Fasting Chair: Annekatrin Puhle
11.30 – 12.00 Jon Mannsåker Healing Research – How Much Do We Know?
12.00 – 12.30 Marcus Mast Claims of Anomalous Fasting: A Review of Investigated Cases and a Method for Producing Extraordinary Evidence
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 – 14.00 Remote presentation: Bharobi Chatterjee & Sarah Haq Remembering Auschwitz: Surviving the Holocaust
Psychokinesis Chair: Leo Ruickbie
14.00 – 14.30 Eric Dullin & David Jamet Telekinesis or Aerodynamic/Thermal Effects?
14.30 – 15.00 Ana Flores, Caroline Watt & Ian Tierney Replication and Extension of a New Paradigm for Psychokinesis: Mind-Matter Interaction through Non-Local Entangled Correlations?
Unconscious Processes Chair: Caroline Watt
15.00 – 15.30 David Vernon Testing to See Whether Participants with High Levels of Belief in Psi Can Precall Highly Emotive Images
15.30 – 16.00 AFTERNOON TEA
16.00 – 16.30 Ross Friday & David Luke Now See Hear! Detecting Being Watched or Listened to Via Extrasensory Means
More on Spontaneous Experiences Chair: Adrian Parker
16.30 – 17.00 Adrian Ryan Psi Open Data in Parapsychology – Introducing “Psi Open-Data”
17.00 Programme Chair, Adrian Parker CLOSING REMARKS
Visit SPRAC for further details or to book tickets
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