This particular research focuses on the orientations of practitioners and clients who are involved to varying degrees in integrative medicine (including spiritual/energy healing, meditation, massage, chiropractic, acupuncture, and yoga). Based primarily on 53 ethnographic interviews in the United Kingdom and the United States (2016-2018), this presentation deals with how such practices are framed as scientific, [...]

“Stress Relief” (SR) showed a reversal of stress-decreased locomotor activity in all stress models – distance walked increased almost twice, central zone crossings and time spent in it were 2–4 times greater than in the control group, and fast movement episodes and maximal speed increased by 50–200%. In addition, complete normalization of stress-induced elevation of [...]

Bio: Igor Nazarov, Ph.D. graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1977 with honors, getting MS degree in Nuclear Physics. Three years later defended his Ph.D. dissertation in chemical physics at the same institution. He continued to work at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology as the Assistant Dean of the Faculty [...]

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Bio: Peter Andrew Sturrock (b 1924) has had a long scientific career, and has published articles on electron physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, solar physics, astrophysics, mathematics, statistics, scientific inference, parapsychology and UFO research. He was one of the founders of SSE and served as President from 1982 until 2000. He has received awards from [...]

Bio: Dr. Larry Dossey is an internal medicine physician, former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, and former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. He is executive editor of the peer-previewed journal Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. He is [...]

What will that shift look like? What are the implications for our life, our business and our world? What role could and should the SSE play in that context?

Bio: Harald Walach has Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and in History and Theory of Science. His research focuses on topics around consciousness and health and developing and testing a model for generalized nonlocality.

Bio: Paul H. Smith, Ph.D. (Major, US Army, ret), is an alumnus of seven years with the Department of Defense’s Star Gate remote viewing (RV) program. A Desert Storm veteran, he retired from the Army in 1996 and is an author, a frequent conference speaker and interview guest. President of Remote Viewing Instructional Services (a [...]

The framework discussed here is necessarily an incomplete outline. In some cases, this is an acknowledgment that incomplete knowledge leads to some freedom being retained in the structure. For example, at the deepest level of explanation, this framework takes consciousness to be a fundamental component of reality, rather than an emergent or derived property of [...]

In the materialist view of the world, physics begets chemistry, which begets biology, from which emerges mind and consciousness.

Bio: Kenny Arnette is a rogue consciousness researcher with a dualistic bent. His academic background includes Ph.D.’s in physical chemistry and counseling psychology. He is also licensed as a Professional Counselor in Colorado. He is currently an MA student in Philosophy. He has published three articles and a book chapter on his “Theory of Essence,” [...]