Thursday, August 3, 2023 |
18:00 - 20:00 | Gathering Reception | The Dubliner, Rådhusgata 28, 0151 Oslo |
Friday, August 4, 2023 |
9:00 | Welcome and Opening Announcements | Jacob W. Glazier & Jon Mannsåker |
9:15 | Paper Session 1: Death, Grief, & Mental Health | Steve Taylor: Measuring “Enlightenment”: The Development of an Inventory of Secular/Spiritual Wakefulness |
9:30 | Session Chair: Chris Roe | Adrian Parker & Annekatrin Puhle: Prolonged Recalled Experiences of Death: “Being Alive When You are Cold and Dead” |
9:45 | | Wolfgang Fach: Research with the Questionnaire on the Phenomenology of Exceptional Experiences (ExE): From PAgE-R to PExE-II |
10:15 | | Annette Zwickel: Are Phenomena that Constitute Exceptional Experiences (ExE) Subclinical Symptoms of a Psychosis Continuum? |
10:45 | Coffee Break | - |
11:15 | Paper Session 2: Sensory Deprivation, Priming, & Forced-Choice Tests | Abby L. Pooley, Caroline Watt, Aja L. Murray, & Umberto Noé: Specification Curve Multiverse Meta-Analysis of the Psi Ganzfeld |
11:30 | Session Chair: Caroline Watt | Mareike Wilson, Marc Wittmann, & Jürgen Kornmeier: Testing for Behavioral and EEG Correlates of Forward and Backward Priming |
11:45 | | Peter A. Bancel: Detecting Psi-Missing in Forced-Choice Data |
12:30 | Lunch at Artilleriloftet | - |
14:00 | Paper Session 3: Mediumship, Interconnection, & Survival | Mateus Martinez, Donna Thomas, Wellington Zangari, & Chris Roe: Unusual Experiences of the Survival Type in Brazilian and British Children: Research in Progress |
14:15 | Session Chair: Helané Wahbeh | Siri K. Zemel & Helané Wahbeh: Ethical Readiness and Professionalization Among Mediums and Channelers in the United States |
14:45 | | Lenore E. Matthew: Unexpected Mediumship Awakenings After the Loss of a Loved One: Experiences |
15:15 | Coffee Break | - |
16:00 | Invited Speaker Session Chair: Jacob W. Glazier | Christine Simmonds-Moore: Traversing Boundaries and Accessing the Invisible |
18:00 | Dinner Break | - |
19:30 | Presidential Address | Jacob W. Glazier: Introducing the PA President Helané Wahbeh: PA Awards Presentation & 2023 PA Presidential Address |
Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
9:00 | Paper Session 4: Belief & Individual Differences | Glenn Hitchman, Adam Rock, & Chris A. Roe: Individual Difference Factors Affecting ESP Performance following Ganzfeld Stimulation: A Meta-Analysis |
9:30 | Session Chair: Peter Bancel | Elizabeth C. Roxburgh, David Vernon, Malcolm B. Schofield, & Tammy Dempster: An Online Survey Investigating Sensory Processing Sensitivity, Transliminality, and Boundary-Thinness as Predictors of Anomalous Experience, Belief and Ability |
10:00 | | David Vernon, Elizabeth C. Roxburgh, & Malcolm B. Schofield: Exploring the Relationship between Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) and Dream Precognition |
10:15 | Coffee Break | - |
10:30 | Paper Session 5: Measuring Extra Sensory Perception | Helané Wahbeh, Cedric Cannard, Dean Radin, & Arnaud Delorme: Who’s Calling? Evaluating the Accuracy of Guessing Who is on the Phone |
11:00 | Session Chair: Elizabeth C. Roxburgh | Christine Simmonds-Moore: A Pilot Self-Study Exploring the Influence of Fractals on Clairvoyance |
12:30 | Lunch at Artilleriloftet | - |
14:30 | Paper Session 6: Narratives, Language & Critical Approaches | Jacob W. Glazier & David S. B. Mitchell: Paranormal Folklore in Western Georgia: A Critical Narrative Investigation |
14:45 | Session Chair: Ramsés D'León | Taylor N. Robinson: Psychiatry and the Colonization of Spiritual Possession |
15:00 | | Felicity A. Woodhouse, Jenny L. Hallam, & Malcolm B. Schofield: Uncanny: A Discursive Psychological Analysis of Scientific Presentation in Paranormal Media |
15:30 | Group Photo | |
16:00 | Coffee Break | - |
16:45 | Paper Session 7: Belief & Individual Differences, Part 2 | Chris A. Roe: A Representative Sample Survey of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences |
17:15 | Session Chair: Christine Simmonds-Moore | Kelly A. Curtis: Effects of Exposure to Death and Dying on Belief Systems |
17:30 | | Michael J. Daw, Chris Roe, & Callum E. Cooper: Vegetarians and Meat Eaters: Testing Relative Performance in a Precognitive Ganzfeld Remote Viewing Task |
18:00 | Break | - |
19:30 | Banquet at Artilleriloftet | - |
20:30 | J. B. Rhine Address | Helané Wahbeh: Introducing the J. B. Rhine Speaker Terje Toftenes: The Day Before the Paradigm-Shift |
Sunday, August 6, 2023 |
9:00 | Paper Session 8: Technology & Innovative Approaches | Peter A. Bancel: Psi@Home: A Platform for Collaborative Psi Research |
9:30 | Session Chair: Gerhard Mayer | Claire Murphy-Morgan & Lesley-Ann Smith: Assessing Public Perspectives of Parapsychology through Facebook: A Discourse Analysis utilizing Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement |
9:45 | | Tabatha A. Smith: Information for Student Members of the Parapsychological Association |
10:00 | | Eric Dullin, David Jamet, & Steeven Frosio Roncalli: Macro-PK Experiments: Level of Control - Repeatability - Distance Effects - Confinement Effect |
10:30 | Coffee Break | - |
11:00 | Paper Session 9: Magic, Spirituality, & Connection | Gerhard Mayer: Magic and Its Evaluation – Reports and Views of Practitioners |
11:30 | Session Chair: David Vernon | Christine Simmonds-Moore, David Mitchell, Georgia Crowe, Daisy Rowser-Grier, & Tabatha Smith: Testing for Individual Differences in Anomalous Interactions with Objects (Psychometry) |
11:45 | | Glenn Hitchman, Chris A. Roe, & Deborah Patton: Revisiting Sheldrake’s Theory of Morphic Resonance |
12:15 | Closing Acknowledgements & Announcements | Jacob W. Glazier & Jon Mannsåker |
12:45 | Lunch at Artilleriloftet | - |
14:00 | PA Annual General Meeting | - |