Varieties of Collective Consciousness ... from Noosphere to smart mobs, Philipp Lenssen examines the differences in group thought, each with its own Wikipedia definition. Rupert Sheldrake gives his perspective in this talk from Tucson, The Evolution of Telepathy ...
Mind
Control by Mobile
... research from Swinburne, Australia and Loughborough, UK, suggests that mobile
use can boost alpha waves and trigger insomnia in sleep deprived individuals
... of particular interest is Dr Crofts observation (#9) here
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Web-Based
System to mathematically analyze Precognition ... Keith Comito's
Anima Project is soliciting net users to contribute to a study of Precognition.
To participate go here.
For background here is the groups Facebook profile
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Dogs
that know- U.S.A. ... Alex Tsakaris of Skeptico has been reproducing
Rupert Sheldrake's dog experiments in this video.
See the mighty Randi wriggle as he tries to renege on an agreement to appear
naked at Piccadilly Circus if Sheldrakes claims are confirmed in this email
exchange ...
Previously...
Brain scanner predicts your future moves ... researchers at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin have pinpointed a signal that divulged the decision about seven seconds before people ever realised their choice. This has ramifications for mind reading and our notions of free will. Link to New Scientist, link to Nature Neuroscience abstract
Rupert Sheldrake stabbed ... on the 2nd of April in Santa Fe, Rupert was attacked by an attendee to a lecture he was giving at the International Science and Consciousness Conference, Here is his account of the incident and here is the story in the local press. Rupert has been an inspiration to the museum and several of its activities . Our best wishes for a speedy recovery go out to him ...
Poltergeists and Quantum Mechanics ... two researchers--Pierro Brovetto, and his colleague Vera Maxia--hypothesize that female neuronal changes at puberty can cause quantum mechanical disturbances Link to New Scientist and NeuroQuantology journal ...
Libraries and the occult ... a dissertation by Cecile Dubuis concerning collections of hidden knowledge, often unsearchable in the context of traditional library classification system, and how the net has brought them to a wider audience ...
The Singularity ... will we receive psychic upgrades, upload to pure "computronium" or be rendered obsolete by A.I.? The event that many predict will be the next Y2K/Harmonic Convergence/ Apocalypse comes under the critical scrutiny of Rudy Rucker and a clutch of contributers to boingboing.net ...
Spielberg's paranormal social network ... Steven Spielberg is developing
a web 2.0 network for people who have had experience of the unknown. For those
who can't wait and don't mind a bit of DIY there is the social network Ning
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Geomancy
almanac from the 16th century ... images of volvelles (rotating
paper wheel charts) used for calculating the lunar phase from bibliodyssey
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The Legend of the Rat King ... on display at the museum Mauritianum in Altenburg, Germany, are the mummified remains of a "Rat King" formed by a clump of rats with their tails entwined ... rumoured to be a hive symbiotic entity ...
Remote Viewing for all ... Dr. Chris Roe at Northampton University has conducted research that suggests that up to 85 per cent of people may possess some form of clairvoyance - the ability to "remote view"...
Anticipated growth in zero carbon Tourism ... Unype, an exiting mashup of Google Earth, Skype, and social networking (Facebook, Orkut, Ning etc) enables users to have a Second Life in the "real" world
History of trepanation ... from neolithic neurosurgery to the modern day
The Lab Route to Out-of-Body Experiences ... more research on how the brain generates its sense of self ...
Hitachi Develops Mind Reading System ... utilising infrared to measure blood flow in the frontal lobes. More on Optical topography from UCL here ...
Richard Dawkins comes to call (and a call for volunteers)... Rupert Sheldrake's encounter with the meme meister plus a fifty quid incentive to help attract participants who are willing to contribute a small amount of their time.
Deep-brain stimulation ... not the scary e.c.t. of the 50's but a new technique of brain disorder therapy having positive results with Parkinson's. Reports from Time and New Scientist
Ghost detector for your mobile ... who ya gonna call ...
"Dogs That Know" Debate ... Richard Wiseman's critique of Sheldrake's experiment comes under scrutiny...
The Sheldrake - McKenna - Abraham Trialogues ... chaos, creativity and imagination are explored through the 90s in this series of genre spanning podcasts ...
Marjoe spills the beans ... in which the lapsed evangelist reveals his tricks of the trade in working the crowd ...
Skeptiko Host
... Alex Tsakiris takes a critical look at the skeptical community and its impact
on controversial science research in this podcast
and offers some posiitve suggestions ...
Gordon Smith ... psychic of repute faces an audience of the unconverted at the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit of Goldsmiths college on Dec 4th ...
Mind-Machine control for Second Life ... avatars movements in Second Life are being directed by electrical activity from the motor cortex. Video ...
Microsoft's "mindreading" patent ... Microsoft has been using EEG data to monitor the effectiveness of user interface experiences. Link ...
Dream Detective ... Chris Robinson interviewed on his ability to go to sleep and help the police with their enquiries, part 1, part 2 ...
Paranormal New Orleans ... call for entries from Investigators, Researchers, Ghost Hunters, and Psychics to be showcased in the Hall of Fame Exhibit at the opening of the city's multi million dollar Paranormal Observatory, Lab and Museum in January 2008 ...
Virtual OBEs ... Researchers at UCL and Lausanne have been using VR to simulate Out of Body Experiences in their subjects ...
As
above so below ... the latest edition of Google Earth now has Sky.
The planets, stars and constellations (with added Hubble loveliness) are visible
from your time and viewpoint. Also, an almost hidden new feature is the new
flight simulator ... controls here ...
The Memory of Water ... several academic papers on this topic that many feel holds the key to an understanding of Homeopathy ...
Can pets sense illness? ... a large body of anecdotal evidence would suggest they can ...
Word association football ... This is what telepathic googling might be like one day. The Human Brain Cloud is a massively multiplayer word game, with a lovely real time visualisation ...
Shocking Developments ... a Ugandan clergyman has been claimed to be passing on the "spirit" through an electric shock machine ...
Phenomenology ... NBC are bringing together Uri Geller and Criss Angel to present Phenomenon, a reality show to discover the next great mentalist ...
N’Kisi Project Rumble... Rupert Sheldrake wrestles with R.T. Carroll over the experimental procedures used to test the parrot N'Kisi's telepathic abilities ...
Psychic
Spies ... a comprehensive background to Operation Stargate (complete
with a JREF rebuttal) ...
The Anomalistic Psychology course ... Chris French is offering course notes, reading lists and handouts through Goldsmiths' 'virtual learning environment' which provides details of the third year option on Anomalistic Psychology. Just log on as "guest"...
Voices from beyond the grave part 2 ... the late Robert Anton Wilson describes the 8 circuit model of consciousness and how we;re always tripping up over our own reality tunnels ...
Alex Tsakiris ... creator of the Skeptiko podcasts and the Open Source Science project gives an interview to mind-energy.net ...
Electrosensitivty ... Ben Goldacre examines provocation studies of people who claim they can tell
when they are exposed to mobile or wifi radiation and casts a sceptical eye
over some of the devices marketed to "shield" us from these alleged
bad vibes ...
Opensourcescience ... are replicating Rupert Sheldrake's experiment " Can dogs anticipate their owners return?". The site also analyses the Sheldrake/Wiseman controversy over the results ...
One man and his implant ... Steve Munday believes aliens placed an implant in his arm
33 years ago. In this video he displays it and discusses it's interaction with
himself and the outside world. Another man and his implant ... plucky, no nonsense,
body artist Stelarc has had a cell cultivated ear grafted on to his forearm ...
Voices from beyond the grave ... make time go backwards through the magical imagination of the late Kurt Vonnegut ...
Results of the second online psi experiment on remote viewing now available
Russell
Targ ... demystifies and illuminates Remote Viewing in this money
saving, 5 minute video
Free
Reading ... by baby mind reader Derek Ogilvie at Goldsmith's University
on the 28th-29th April. Contact ...
The Results ... are in from the first online psi experiment from Mind-energy.net and the second experiment is underway.
Folklore and Geomancy ... two large catalogues of fascination from the Hope of Albion site by Jeremy Harte, compiled from enthusiasts journals and zines of the last forty years. It would be fabulous to combine these references with Google Earth
More
Text Telepathy ... Rupert Sheldrake has completed the first stage
of his phone telepathy research and in conjunction with the Perrott-Warrick
Project on unexplained human abilities seeks to expand the study. Would be Research
Helpers can register here..
The
Bright Darkness of Dr. Susan Blackmore ... or Zen and the Art of Meme Maintenance. Lapsed parapsychologist and skeptical
explorer of consciousness Susan Blackmore leaps joyfully into the void in this
fascinating interview. If intrigued check out Waking
from the Meme Dream ... spoiler alert ... "I think there are
no paranormal phenomena, although I can’t be sure of that. Yet, we have
extraordinary experiences.”
Search
Engine of the Wyrd ... IBM, Yahoo and the Anomalies
Network have collaborated to produce UFOCrawler,
a search engine focusing on the paranormal, anomalies and other fortean phemomena
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What
if Telepathy Really Happens? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake's lecture from
last November at the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths College
now available on video and audio
Coordinate Remote Viewing Manual ... from 1985 Project Stargate's guide to RV theory and mechanics based on the
methodology of Ingo
Swann, a founding father of the field ...
Stargate
on a shoestring ... the US and the Russians spent millions and
decades on it. The Ministry of Defence spent £18,000 and two wet weekends in a breathtakingly half
hearted attempt to get to grips with this remote viewing malarky. Astonishingly
not without results.
The authorities all deny any significant insights from this research, however,
had there been any spectacular breakthroughs would they have let us in on it?
Or would they skim off the hot talent and keep everything extremely quiet. This
remarkable tale continues to unfold ...
Mind-energy net are conducting their first online psi experiment. A mixture of remote viewing and or dowsing. TARGET!...
The Perils of Psi Research ... an interview with Dr. Dean Radin. Contains interesting details of a Presentiment experiment (the apparent psycho-physiological effect of a future emotional ‘cause’) similar to one conducted by James Spottiswoode during the museums opening week.
University puts psychic archive on Internet ... over 700 images taken between 1918 and 1935 by psychical researcher Dr Thomas Glendenning Hamilton have been made available by the University of Manitoba here ...
Minority Report style brain scans raise call for ethical debate over whether intent to commit a crime is the same as committing the crime.
Mind control concerns reflected in growth of "Targeted Individuals"...
a story from the Washington Post charts the dramatic rise of people believing
they are being beamed "voice to skull" transmissions. Two blogs have emerged
here and here speculating why ...
Alchemy in Las Vegas ... Learn how to set up an alchemical laboratory in your own home! The International Alchemy Conference opens Oct 5 - 7th Las Vegas.
A Sixth Sense for a Wired World ... adventurous body modders have discovered they can detect variations in electrical fields by implanting a magnet in their fingertips. I wonder if dowsers have tried this?
How controversial science is debated ... Is science news dominated by a few loud voices? An interview with Rupert Sheldrake on his encounters with skeptical vigilantes and "scientific" fundementalists.
Magnetic Distraction ... do fluctuations in the geomagnetic field inhibit anomalous cognition? James Spottiswoode has produced three papers investigating (one, two, three). The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena have applied this research to their own field here ...
Sceptical Rebranding ... James Randi is revamping the $1M psychic prize ... CSICOPS becomes CSI ... meanwhile someone is watching the watchmen ... someone else has turned it on its head CSICON. R.I.P. Robert Anton Wilson
Declassified US military research into Animal ESP ... In 1953 The Army hired Dr. J B Rhine and his Parapsychology Laboratory to research the possibility of using dogs and other animals to detect buried landmines. The research also examined the possibility of ESP in cats and pigeons.
Ethereal felicitations to the Sheffield Fire and Police Museum
Neurofeedback for the 21st century ... Professor John Gruzelier has been researching the effect brainwave entrainment can have enhancing musicians creativity and inhibiting attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in sufferers. Meanwhile at the Science Museum in London the search for Britain's Most Relaxed Mind continues as people go head to head with Mindball ...
Telepathic Polly ... The tale of a parrot with a 700 word vocabulary and more ...
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