I don’t seem to be able to make this come up as a response to the comment about whether a person with unusual experiences can also study them as a scientist, so I’ll add it as a new post here…
“Are you suggesting that even someone with anomalous perceptions can contribute to a scientific study of [...]
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I’m engaged in some discussion with other parapsychologists about a spiritual outlook vs a materialistic one, and related topics. Here is an example of what I’m thinking about – without having come to a nice conclusion. If you find it stimulating, maybe you can tell me where I should end up!
Identity, Self, Karma, Buddhism, Survival [...]
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This year I am honored to be serving as President of ISSSEEM, the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. As part of promoting ISSSEEM’s upcoming June conference (see www.issseem.org) and stimulating intelligent reflection about consciousness, subtle energies, parapsychology, and science and spirituality in general, I am, with ISSSEEM’s aid, launching [...]
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Sometimes I feel that the Universe is toying with me, rattling my cage, waking me up a little. Something happens that is delightfully ambiguous. I can easy feel justified in dismissing it as meaningless coincidence, or I can feel like a Higher Power is reminding me of something. Sometimes I feel both [...]
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Every once in a while I hear from someone who has apparently precognitive dreams, what they dream about happens later in ordinary reality, and it’s not something that could be rationally predicted. Dreaming that some public figure will be exposed as involved in a scandal involving sex or money, for example, is way too [...]
Several of you have pointed out that a person doesn’t have to have “spiritual” reasons for being nice to others, and that’s true.
[I'm putting quotes around “spiritual” to remind us it's a tricky word, we'll have to try to make clearer one of these days]
So let me stir the pot a little as [...]
This is a possible introduction to my next book, which has the tentative working title Explorations on the Spiritual Side… I’m going to experiment with posting sections as I’m inspired to write them and see what it does….
I am a modern man person trying to cope with life. There is a vast maw of [...]
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I spent the last few days at the annual convention of the Parapsychological Association, held at the University of Washington in Seattle this year. Next year will be Paris. Busy, busy, busy! The PA is the scientific professional association of the (too few) scientifically trained researchers in this field, and papers are [...]
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I just finished writing someone about their hope of getting their book published. Since I do this often, I might as well make the essence of my advice available here.I’m always somewhat saddened when people write me to ask about how to get their book published, because the reality is that it doesn’t [...]
I just found out that a parapsychologist colleague of mine, Gertrude Schmeidler, died last month (1912-2009). I say colleague rather than friend, for while we were friendly there was a great age range difference so we never got to know each other well.
Gertrude made one of the most important discoveries ever in parapsychology, one with [...]
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