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 [...]
Continue reading about Sometimes – Near-Death Studies Meeting, San Diego, 2009
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 [...]
At the unique graduate school I teach at, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, a number of the Core Faculty are clinicians and counselors, and we have a PhD level program in clinical psychology as part of transpersonal psychology. Recently I wrote them:
Here’s an interesting question from someone responding to my blog, a young [...]
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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Most of you already know it, but for any who don’t, I have another useful service that I don’t repeat on this blog, namely occasional email messages on my studentnotices list. This got started when people asked to be put on my mailing list for info on when I was giving lectures or workshops, [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Pioneering Parapsychologist Gertrude Schmeidler Has Died
Before going off the grid for a few days on the camping trip I’m on – Valley of Fire state park in Nevada, a fabulous place! – I want to add that precogition does not need to be interpreted as we have no free will. Dossey’s book gives many cases where the precognition/premonition of a [...]
Larry Dossey book Power of Premonitions
Although a substantial part of my career as a psychologist has been devoted to parapsychological matters for more than 50 years, one part of the field has always been especially troublesome to me, the idea that people sometimes get information about the future, premonitions, precognitions, when there is no reasonable [...]