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    The Parapsychological Association will be holding its 61st annual convention on August 2-5, 2018 at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California. Leading scientists and other academics from around the world will gather to present the latest parapsychological research into psi and related phenomena, such as extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, psychic healing, altered states of consciousness, mediumship and possible survival of bodily death. Organized by Dean Radin and Everton Maraldi, the event will be open to the public and academics alike.

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    The Parapsychological Association will be holding its 61st annual convention on August 2-5, 2018 at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California. Leading scientists and other academics from around the world will gather to present the latest parapsychological research into psi and related phenomena, such as extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, psychic healing, altered states of consciousness, mediumship and possible survival of bodily death. Organized by Dean Radin and Everton Maraldi, the event will be open to the public and academics alike.

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    61 s t Annua l C onvention of the

    P a ra psyc h ol ogical Association


    August 2-5, 2018
    Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS),
    Petaluma, California
    Arrangements Chair: Dean Radin
    Program Chair: Everton Maraldi

    P R O GR A M
    Th u rsday, August 2th, 20 1 8
    4:00-6:00 pm Check-in and Registration (West Room)
    6:00-7:00 pm Dinner (all meals in the Community Center)
    7:00 pm Orientation (all presentations in the West Room)
    7:30 pm Film: Calling Earth

    Fri day, August 3th, 20 1 8


    8:00-9:00 am Breakfast

    9:00 am Welcome and Opening Announcements

    Paper Session 1: Precognition


    Session chair: Diane Powell
    9:15 am - Caroline Watt, Emily Dawson, Alisdair Tulo, Abby Pooley, & Holly Rice: Testing precognition and
    altered state of consciousness with selected participants in the Ganzfeld: a pre-registered study
    9:30 am - David Vernon: Precognitive priming of compound remote associates: using an implicit creative
    insight task to elicit precognition
    9:45 am - Sharon Su & Stephen Baumgart: Investigating an unconscious physiological precognitive
    response to schematic face stimuli using EEG
    10:00 am - Alejandro Ramsés D’León & Neil Izara: Development of a predictive anticipatory activity
    (PAA) software: a first-step towards a medium-term goal

    10:30 am Coffee Break

    Paper Session 2: Mind-matter interactions


    Session chair: Pamela Heath
    11:00 am - Stephan Schwartz: Water, wine and the sacred: an anthropological view of substances altered
    by intentioned awareness, including objective and aesthetic effects
    11:30 am - Ana Flores, Ian Tierney, & Caroline Watt: Where mind connects with matter: replicating the
    correlation matrix method
    12:00 pm - John Kruth: An exploration of the effects of mood and emotion on a real-world working com-
    puter system and network environment

    12:30 pm Lunch Break

    2:00 pm Poster session


    - Alejandro Parra: Anomalous experiences reported by nurses: second study examining person-
    ality, perceptual and cognitive factors
    - Chetak Nangare: Parapsychology and Buddhism: interviews with vipassana meditation practi-
    tioners across India
    - Rebecca O’Connell: Are people conscious of scopaesthesia? Do the number of starers and the
    introduction of acousthatesia effect hit rates? A pilot investigation

    Paper Session 3: Remote viewing (1)


    Session chair: Edwin May
    2:30 pm - Stanley Krippner, Angel Morgan, David Saunders, & Alan Quan: Remote viewing of concealed
    target pictures under light and dark conditions
    2:45 pm - Igor Grgić, Debra Lynne Katz, & Patrizio Tressoldi: The Associative Remote Viewing Re-Judg-
    ing Project

    Paper Session 4: Individual differences (1)


    Session chair: Alejandro Parra
    3:00 pm - Christine Simmonds-Moore & Chase O’Gwin: Exploring the correlates and nature of subjective
    apparitional experiences
    3:15 pm - Everton de Oliveira Maraldi: Assessing the underlying spirituality: development and initial
    validation of an implicit measure of paranormal and New Age beliefs

    3:45 pm Coffee Break

    Invited Talk
    4:00 pm - Charles Tart: Parapsychology as an Essential Component of an Expanded Science of Mind:
    Promises and Challenges

    5:10 pm Group photo

    6:00 pm Dinner break

    7:10 pm Presidential Address (West Room)


    Introduction, Marylin Schlitz
    Presidential Address, Dean Radin

    Sa turday, August 4th, 20 1 8


    8:00-9:00 am Breakfast

    Paper Session 5: Theoretical issues


    Session chair: Jessica Utts
    9:00 am - Peter Bancel: Parapsychology needs a theoretical program
    9:30 am - George Williams: A couple of radical ideas for advancing on the problem of consciousness
    10:00 am - Everton Maraldi & Stanley Krippner: Cross-cultural research on anomalous experiences: theo-
    retical issues and methodological challenges
    10:30 am Coffee Break

    Paper Session 6: RSPK and séance phenomena


    Session chair: Mario Varvoglis
    11:00 am - Gerhard Mayer: The authority strikes back: considerations about the allegedly fraudulent
    “Chopper” poltergeist case
    11:30 am - James McClenon: Preliminary Analysis of Sorrat experiment Data: testing hypotheses from
    the pk literature

    12:30 pm Lunch Break

    Paper Session 7: Methodological advances in experimental research


    Session chair: Rick Berger
    2:00 pm - Marilyn Schlitz, Daryl Bem, Etzel Cardeña, Jennifer Lyke, Raman Grover, Susan Blackmore,
    Patrizio Tressoldi, Serena Roney-Dougal, Dick Bierman, Jacob Jolij, Eva Lobach, David Mar-
    cusson-Clavertz, Glenn Hartelius, & Arnaud Delorme: Experimenter effect and replication in psi
    research II: A global initiative
    2:30 pm - Arnaud Delorme, Cedric Canard, Helané Wahbeh, & Dean Radin: Ability of alleged mediums to
    assess mortality from facial photographs
    3:00 pm - Peter Bancel: Simulating questionable research practices
    3:30 pm - Dean Radin: Tricking the trickster: detecting hidden structure in data from an 18-year online
    psi experiment

    4:00 pm Coffee Break

    Paper Session 8: Individual differences (2)


    Session chair: Everton Maraldi
    4:30 pm - Christine Simmonds-Moore, Donadrian Rice, & Chase O’Gwin: A qualitative exploration of
    skeptics’ experiences of the exceptional
    5:00 pm - Malcolm Schofield, Ian Baker, Paul Staples, & David Sheffield: Modelling supernatural belief:
    cognition and personality
    5:30 pm - Alejandro Parra: The relation between premonitions in dreams and perceived luckiness, style
    of cognition, and absorption

    6:00-7:00 pm Dinner

    7:10 pm J.B. Rhine Address


    Introduction of speaker by Dean Radin
    - Jacques F. Vallee: The software of consciousness: intriguing lessons and lingering puzzles on
    the far side of StarGate

    Sunda y, August 5th, 20 1 8


    8:00-8:50 am Breakfast

    Paper Session 9: Remote viewing (2)


    Session chair: Russel Targ
    9:00 am - Debra Katz, Nancy Smith, Michelle Bulgatz, & James Lane: Associative remote viewing dream
    project
    9:30 am - Stephan Schwartz: Saddam Hussein remote viewing project: A historical contribution to ap-
    plied remote viewing
    Workshop
    10:00 am Harris Friedman, Dean Radin, Stanley Krippner: Parapsychology and Transpersonal Psychology
    in Dialogue

    11:00 am Closing acknowledgements and announcements

    11:30-12:30 pm PA Business Meeting

    12:30 pm Lunch

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