Join us on Saturday, February 27, 2021 (12:30-6:30pm EST) in an online symposium chaired by PA Board Director Helané Wahbeh at Airmeet.com. The PA community will explore various topics relating to mediumship and channeling research, including current projects in accuracy testing, writing analysis, semi-naturalistic methods, children’s mediumship, and answering scientific questions with channeling. 

About the Event

Mediumship and channeling have been recorded throughout human written history. The past 100 years has provided us with a wide variety of research and findings. Mediumship and channeling are more common than most might realize and, in general, imparts a positive benefit to those who practice them. Multiple studies have demonstrated the accuracy of mediumship to gain information that would otherwise not be available by conventional means. Further studies have evaluated the physiological effects during the mediumship and channeling state with mixed results. While the source of such information is still debated and will likely, the medium’s subjective understanding of the source of information can be explored. So too can the practical applications and benefits of mediumistic experiences for the practitioner and receiver.

Join us for this symposium to explore current mediumship and channeling research projects. Topics will include veracity studies, mediumistic writing analysis, semi-naturalistic methods in mediumship research, mediumship in children, and group channeling to answer scientific questions. There will be question and answer periods for each presentation and a panel discussion about the next steps in mediumship and channeling research.

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Speakers

Answering Scientific Questions with Group Channeling
Helané Wahbeh
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Director of Research
Petaluma, CA, USA

Helané Wahbeh is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and research trained with a Master of Clinical Research and two postdoctoral research fellowships. Her current research interests include healing stress and trauma, examining mind-body medicine’s mechanisms, and rigorously studying extended human capacities.

Mediumship accuracy: a quantitative and qualitative study with a triple-blind protocol
Patrizio Tressoldi
Science of Consciousness Research Group - Padova University, PhD Principal Investigator of the Science of Consciousness Research Group
Padova, Italy

Patrizio Tressoldi is an Italian psychologist and consciousness researcher leading the Science of Consciousness Research Group at the Studium Patavinum of University of Padova, Italy. He has a long term interest in psi phenomena and began experimentation in the early 2000s, exploring the presentiment response and making notable progress in developing new methodologies. More recently, he has designed novel experiments to investigate psychokinetic influences. He has also reviewed the presentiment and implicit precognition literature.

A controlled semi-naturalistic method to investigate anomalous information reception in mediumship
Alexander Moreira-Almeida
Research Center in Spirituality and Health (NUPES), School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), M.D., PhD. Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Brazil

Chair of the Sections on Spirituality of the Latin American (APAL) and the Brazilian (ABP) Psychiatric Associations. Former chair of the Section on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (2014-17 and 2017-2020). He obtained a medical degree at UFJF and was trained in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he also obtained his PhD in Health Sciences. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow in religion and health at Duke University. 

The contribution of literary studies of mediumistic writings as evidence to survival of consciousness
Heberth Paulo de Souza
Research Center in Spirituality and Health (NUPES), School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Doctor
Brazil

Graduated in Languages (Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei), Specialist in Portuguese Language (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais), Master in Portuguese Language (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais), Doctor in Linguistic Studies (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and Post-doctor in Spirituality and Health (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

Accuracy and neural correlates of blinded mediumship compared to controls on image classification task
Arnaud Delorme
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Research Scientist
Petaluma, CA, USA

Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, a member faculty at the University of California, San Diego, and a research scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He developed the free EEGLAB software for advanced analysis of EEG signals in collaboration with Scott Makeig, which is now among the most used in EEG research worldwide. He was awarded a Brettencourt-Schueller young investigator award and a 10-year anniversary ANT young investigator award for his contributions to EEG research.

Can children experience mediumship? Exploring research possibilities on mediumship in childhood
Mateus Donia Martinez
InterPsi - Laboratory of Psychosocial Studies: belief, subjectivity, culture and health (University of Sao Paulo); Gealter - Study group on religious experiences and altered states of consciousness (Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo),
Sao Paulo Brazil.

PhD candidate (Social Psychology Graduate Programa - University of Sao Paulo) Bachelor in Psychology (Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo), MSc in Social Psychology (University of Sao Paulo- USP) and PhD candidate in Social Psychology (USP). Since childhood Mateus felt intrigued by mediumship, observing, and experiencing it sometimes. In psychology, he discovered a rich resource for studying parapsychological experiences. Currently, he has been dedicated to the research of altered states of consciousness, dissociation and mediumship, especially in childhood.

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