SSE Meeting June 9 - 11, 2011
SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION
30th Annual Meeting, Boulder, Colorado
9-11 June 2011
www.scientificexploration.org
Program Committee: Bill Bengston, Chair, Dick Blasband, Courtney Brown, Adam Curry, Brenda Dunne, Robert Jahn, Dominique Surel. Local Arrangements: Dominique Surel
WEDNESDAY EVENING, June 8 - Millennium Hotel Gardens, Boulder, Colorado
6:00 pm - Opening Reception and Registration. Poster set-up
THURSDAY MORNING, June 9 - Ballroom
Theme I: IMPLICATIONS OF NON-LOCALITY
9:00 Welcome and Introductions
9:10 Pamela Rae Heath, Diverse Perspectives: What Distant Healing, Remote Viewing, and the Afterlife Suggest about Non-Locality
9:50 Jane Katra, After Death Communication Involving the Ongoing Work of Two Bonded Parapsychologist Healers
10:10 Walter Semkiw, Advances in Reincarnation Research: A Tribute to Ian Stevenson
10:30 Gary Schwartz, Photonic Measurement of Apparent Presence of Spirit using a Computer Automated System
10:50 BREAK
11:10 Larry Dossey, Precognition As Preventive Medicine
11:50 Julie Beischel, Michael Biuso, Mark Boccuzzi, Adam Rock, Anomalous Information Reception by Research Mediums under Quintiple-Blind Conditions: Can the Mind Exist without the Body?
12:10 Chuck Lear, The Bell Inequality and Non-Local Causality (sponsored by Dean Radin)
12:30 LUNCH BREAK - Young Investigators' Meeting
THURSDAY AFTERNOON - Ballroom
Theme II: THE SCIENCE OF THE SUBJECTIVE
2:00 Robert Jahn & Brenda Dunne, Towards a Science of the Subjective
2:40 Mark Boccuzzi, Three Methods for Examining Experimenter Effects in Investigations of Psychokinesis (sponsored by Julie Beischel)
3:00 Maria Syldona, Science of Subjectivity – Key to understanding the nature of Reality
3:20 BREAK
3:40 Dean Radin, Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments
4:20 York Dobyns, Using Parapsychology to Test Fundamental Physics
4:40 J. Kenneth Arnette, Subjectivity is Constitutive: Consciousness is to Energy as Energy is to Matter
5:00 Bernard Haisch, Is There a Consciousness Underlying the Universe?
5:20 Dan Ward, Planetary Geometry
5:40 BUSINESS MEETING
FRIDAY MORNING, June 10th - Ballroom
Theme III: CONSCIOUSNESS AND LIVING SYSTEMS
9:00 Announcements
9:10 Larissa Cheran, Beyond Quantum: Consciousness in Action
9:50 Richard Shoup, How Consciousness is Like Las Vegas - and Where the Real Focus Should Be
10:10 Igor Dolgov, Self Organized Design: The Mechanism Behind Mindless, Yet Intelligent Natural Selection
10:30 BREAK
10:50 Bill Bengston, Healing with Intent: Some Reflections on Cancer Experiments on Laboratory Mice
11:10 Samuel Sandweiss, A Case Presentation about the Nature of Consciousness
11:30 Carl Medwedeff, Chemical Biology in Radionics and Healing (sponsored by Erik Schultes)
FIELD TRIP – RED ROCKS PARK
12:30 - Bus departs at 12:30 sharp
Pre-ordered lunch to be picked-up in lobby before boarding the bus
4:00 Bus leaves Red Rocks to return to Hotel (arrive around 5pm)
5pm – 7:30 Free time for dinner
FRIDAY EVENING - Ballroom
CONSCIOUSNESS, Part II
7:30 Rollin McCraty, Coherence: Bridging Personal, Social and Global Systems Health
8:10 Roger Nelson, Similarities of Global and Individual Consciousness
8:30 Garret Moddel, Zixu, Zhu, Adam Curry, Machine Consciousness: Experimental Evidence
8:50 Glen Rein, Bio-Information and Non-Local Distant Interactions between Biological Systems
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 11th - Ballroom
Theme IV: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF ANOMALIES RESEARCH
9:00 Announcements
9:10 John McMichael, Resonant Molecular Signaling: From Theory to Practice
9:50 Joie Jones, Yury Kronn, Experiments on the Effects of Subtle Energy on the Electro-Magnetic Field: Is Subtle Energy the 5th Force of the Universe?
10:10 Marsha Adams, Do Atmospheric Aberrations Precede Seismic Activity?
10:30 Dale Graff, Precognition and Synchronicity: Implications for Safety and Survival
10:50 BREAK
11:10 Francesca McCartney, Energy Medicine University: Education at the Frontier of Science
11:50 Dominique Surel, Transformational Effects of Remote Viewing
12:10 Alexis Champion, Remote Viewing Software: The Key to Profitability
12:30 LUNCH BREAK
SATURDAY AFTERNOON – Century Room 1st Floor
Theme IV: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS (CONTINUED)
2:00 Courtney Brown, The Creation of the Asteroid Belt: Using Remote-Viewing Data to Investigate the Exploding Planet Hypothesis
2:20 John MacLean, Premonitions and other Psi in Reliability Engineering
2:40 John Alexander, Signal to Noise: A Fundamental Problem for Phenomenology
Theme V: THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION
3:00 Jonathan Schooler, The Decline Effect: Exploring Why Effects Sizes often Decline Following Repeated Replications
3:40 Henry Bauer, From Dawn to Decadence: The Evolution of Modern Science
4:00 BREAK
4:20 Ron Westrum, Closed Minds and Battered Kids: How Science Resists Knowledge of Anomalies
4:40 Claude Swanson, Dark Matter, Torsion and ESP Reception
5:00 Alexander Trofimov, Kozyrev’s “Remote Viewing” of the Universe
5:20 Walter Cruttenden, The Cosmic Influence: A Framework for Epochal Changes in Consciousness
CLOSING BANQUET
6:15 - Cocktails
7:00 – Dinner
8:00 - Panel Discussion on Future Directions for the SSE – panelists to be announced.
Comments
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/23/ben-goldacre-bad-science?CMP=twt_fd
I used to like Ben Goldacre and the Guardian, but now I realise the Goldacre is an incredibly smug and self righteous, plus when you have Wiseman and French they will deliberately design experiments to fail. The Guardian also is incredibly biased towards the materialist atheist view point so there is no chance of a fair review of experiments from Dr Sheldrake which was shot down in flames a couple of years ago although he wrote a rather decent rubbutle. It is a shame because unless Dawkins, French, Wiseman, Atkins et al all die suddenly and the Guardian and BBC go out of business (not that I want that because I like the BBC and a few Guardian writers or that I want people to die) there is no way that the British public will take the PSI/NDE etc research seriously.
on a completely different note, it's great to see more info from Julie Bieschel. Will there be audio files on the IONS website?
What on earth is Courtney Brown doing at this SSE meeting? He does not give RV credibility, only the opposite. How can John Alexander and D Graff stand to be in the same room as him? Sorry but this is a blunder on the SSE organisers' part. Courtney Brown is representative of the very worst of New-Age wooziness. Sheesh.
http://barenormality.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/feeling-the-future/
I'm not sure who the poster is, but there seems to be a new player in town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tdiu5kwjKs
Any evidence for 'extraordinary'claims is by its very nature extraordinary. I don't see why skeptics have such a problem with this.
And here's the thing: if an experiment fails, then surely the authors of the experiment weren't doing it right. Obviously.*
*Actually, no; but just because some skeptic can't get results doesn't mean there is nothing there.
Looks like a simple repetition of nonsense and ignorance. In any case, an anonymous blog is the refuge of cowards.
They call out Dr. Bem for supposedly using statistics to come up with the hypotheses after the fact, then call those effects confirmed.
Wagenmakers and company use statistics after the fact, setting the bar higher after already knowing the level of significance in the data, and say, "Presto, we just confirmed the null hypothesis."
That's just about as good as Moulton claiming that the brains of subjects using ESP look exactly the same as the brains of subjects exposed to normal stimuli, despite not having any ESP effect in his study to compare. Brilliant.