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Founded in 1882, the SPR aims to advance the understanding of events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. Tweets are not endorsements.
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It's our 140th birthday today! The Society for Psychical Research was formally constituted on 20 February 1882. (Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research, 1968, p. 138). Cakes welcome.
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Scientists study consciousness after death with surprising results:
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The Welsh poltergeist which had news crews camped outside a city street fifty years ago - The property on Rhondda Street in Mount Pleasant was said to be haunted:
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We've reached 11,000 followers! Many thanks to all, however long you've been following.
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It's our birthday! The SPR is 135 today. Born 20 February 1882, still going strong.
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Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself
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It's our birthday! The SPR is 139 today - born 20 February 1882. Here's the late Donald West's article in the
@psiencyclopedia
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As A Scientist, I Didn’t Believe In Psychic Powers. Then I Experienced Something That Changed My Life:
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New Psychological Research Says Paranormal Experiences Are The Norm, Not The Exception:
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Could We Have Psychic Abilities If Our Brains Didn’t Inhibit Them?
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Inside the ‘Gateway Process,’ the CIA’s Quest to Decode Consciousness and Unlock Time Travel:
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Album of approx. 92 spirit photographs taken by William 'Billy' Hope at York, 1930 and 1932, with annotations and some photographs loose inside, now online:
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Having a ghost can add £48,000 to the value of your house:
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Coming soon, to complement his Guidance Notes for Investigators of Spontaneous Cases - USING EQUIPMENT: Guidance Notes for Investigators of Apparitions, Hauntings, Poltergeigsts and Similar Phenomena, by Steve Parsons, 169 pp.
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He was a respected scientist and 'born sceptic'… so just how did a Cambridge-educated son of a General become Britain's grandest ghostbuster? - Guy Lyon Playfair:
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Why Did So Many Victorians Try to Speak with the Dead? Many explanations have been offered for Spiritualism, but the movement was more than a fad:
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The Enfield Poltergeist Tapes: One of the most disturbing cases in history. What really happened?, by Melvyn J. Willin - Dr Willin is the SPR's archives officer and has made a detailed study of the Enfield recordings:
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The SPR's trumpet:
Curious object Tuesday ⤵️
A spirit trumpet is used in a ‘trumpet séance’. It rises from a table and floats around the room emitting ‘spirit voices’ and, if occasion demands, exuding ectoplasm! 🎺
Learn more on
@CamDigLib
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The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’:
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The Watertown Ghosts Photo Fully Revealed After Nearly A Century:
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The BBC4 Victorian Sensations series concludes on 5 June with a programme on 'Seeing and believing', which features the SPR's archive:
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Sleep paralysis: a terrifying encounter with our own mind- Neuroscience explains terrifying ordeals, from out-of-body experiences to alien abductions:
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A glitch in the neuromatrix: the science of phantom presence:
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The Possibility of Precognition | Psychology Today:
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It's the SPR's 137th birthday today! On this day in 1882 the Society was constituted.
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About 200 cases of people who reported seeing an apparition of someone who had died, but whose death was unknown to the person seeing the apparition:
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IT’S BECOMING CLEARER THAT THE MIND IS NOT THE BRAIN:
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'I travelled in time while out shopping – the street totally changed & I was nearly run over… it didn’t just happen to me':
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Guardian - 'Maybe death isn't the end': can a TV series prove the existence of an afterlife?
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@amybruni
In Life with the Afterlife you mention that you would like to see Harry Price's Borley 'Blue Book' but haven't been able to find it. If that is still the case, you may be interest to know I put a scan on the Internet Archive website:
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We are celebrating the SPR's 140th anniverary & also looking to the future at a Zoom study day, Saturday 7 May, 10am-5pm. We'll be hearing about
#apparitions
#mediumship
#physics
#archives
and much more! Details & booking here, pse RT:
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Class and Superstition in Britain - Believing in ghosts wasn’t a class marker until the 1820s, when suddenly the educated classes tried to convince the masses that these apparitions were delusions:
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We've reached 10,000 followers, so thank you all - it's a pleasant milestone to reach. Here's to the next 10,000!
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Liverpool’s Time Slips and Mysterious Events on Bold Street:
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Long distance telepathy and Remote Viewing - J.B. Rhine Letters 1923 -1939:
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Dr. Dean Radin to Speak on Extrasensory Research and Overlap with Quantum Theory:
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We've reached 9,000 followers, which is wonderful. Thank you all very much for your interest. I'll just take the opportunity to mention the SPR's website: . Now, on to 10,000!
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Final session of a very successful SPR conference - Ann Winsper, Chris Roe and Ed May discussing 'Where Are We Heading: A “discordant farrago” or a “paradigm shift”?'
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The index book for Phantasms of the Living, in the SPR archive at Cambridge University Library, one of its many treasures:
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The Psychomanteum: How an Ancient Tool for Contacting the Dead is Making Breakthroughs in Paranormal Investigation:
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Many Americans report interacting with dead relatives in dreams or other ways:
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The Enfield Poltergeist Tapes: One of the most disturbing cases in history. What really happened, by Melvyn J. Willin, reviewed by Nemo C. Mörck:
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'Remarkable black and white photographs reveal the mysterious world of Victorian séances as grieving families gathered together during winter's darkest days in the hope of receiving a message from their dead loved ones':
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'Mediums, magicians and the all-too-fallible mind - The 19th-century race to debunk spiritualism yielded insights that still preoccupy today’s psychologists' - features the SPR:
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JOTT. When Things Disappear... and Come Back or Relocate – and Why It Really Happens, by Mary Rose Barrington, reviewed by Robert Charman:
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The Secret of Dr. Grinberg: Documentary Explores Mysterious Disappearance of Telepathy Researcher (Review) - via
@dailygrail
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The CIA Explored Using Psychic Vision for Intelligence Gathering | SOFREP:
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Brain Stimulation Unlocks Our Telepathy and Clairvoyance Powers:
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'Dream Telepathy: Studies Prove That Humans Can Communicate With Each Other While Dreaming':
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'The real-life ghost story so gripping even sceptics are drawn in' (Hitchings' Battersea poltergeist):
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'The accomplished actor explained that as a child his house was filled with paranormal magazines such as the British Society for Psychical Research and American Society for Psychical Research. Aykroyd said, “I just grew up with it.'
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And SPR Council member Alan Murdie on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre:
March issue now on sale! Crowley's magickal muse; Chicago Mothman; the woman who foresaw Dunblane; Charley Says; anal exorcisms; mystery antennae; animal dreams; Halifax hum; Japan's killing stone; Black Shuck Fest; Vampire King Charles and much more!
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New APA Book: Death as an Altered State of Consciousness | Psychology Today:
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YOU'RE TELEPATHIC And Don't Even Know It — SCIENTIFIC PROOF of Clairvoyance | Dr. Dean Radin:
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SPR members should be receiving a packet containing a copy of the magazine, and a 400-page issue of Proceedings devoted to 'Reminiscences of Seances with the Medium Franek Kluski', by Norbert Okolowicz, translated by Zofia Weaver and with introductions by Zofia and Michael Nahm.
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Victorian scientists thought they'd found an explanation for ghosts – but the public didn't want to hear it - features the SPR:
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I am very sorry to report that SPR vice-president Mary Rose Barrington passed away in the early hours of this morning. Last month saw her mark 94 years.
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'Gothic Psychology, The Ecological Unconscious and the Re-Enchantment of Nature', by Dr Jack Hunter - features FWH Myers:
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DMT drug study investigates the ‘entities’ people meet while tripping:
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Why All Scientists Should Take Psi Seriously | Jessica Utts:
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Spiritualism, Superstition and the Supernatural during the First World War:
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Does Consciousness Exist Outside of the Brain?
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Near-Death Experiences: Dr. Jeffrey Long's Research Suggests Evidence of Soul, Afterlife:
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The International Association for Near-Death Studies has made the entire run of their Journal freely available online (with the most recent 3 years embargoed):
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A members-only webinar on 'ghost tech' will take place on 9 June, limited to 100 participants. Dr David Vernon will be in conversation with
@ParaScience
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The real story of alleged demonic murder dramatized in "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It" is another untrustworthy Ed and Lorraine Warren paranormal investigation (menitions the SPR and Guy Lyon Playfair):
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The Enfield Poltergeist: Why the unexplained mystery that shocked 1970s Britain continues to disturb: via
@BBC_Culture
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Terrifying true case of 13-year-old Polish girl who ‘controlled a destructive poltergeist’ retold in new English translation:
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Dean Radin - Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?
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Lucid Dreaming: Consciousness, After-Death Communications, & Past-Life Memories with Robert Waggoner:
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I've heard from someone who is planning to conduct practical OBE research and would like to discuss the matter with anyone who has a serious interest in the subject, in whatever capacity. If interested, DM me.
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On 1 September the Bigelow Institute will unveil “Challenge 2023,” which is a targeted grants program that is aimed at funding research proposals on survival of human consciousness with a particular focus on contact and communication with the afterlife.
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These scientists are convinced that the future can influence the past:
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The Strange Story of the Kersey Village Time Slip:
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The International Remote Viewing Association & Monroe Institute collaborative conference, Psi Fest 2023, 11-13 August - 'A Gathering of Consciousness Explorers'. This will be a hybrid conference held in person in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA & online:
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An article about SPR Council member Dr Zofia Weaver (in Polish). In recognition of her contributions to the popularisation of Polish parapsychology she has been awarded the Marek Rymuszko Honorary Award for 2023:
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Today marks the 75th anniversary of Harry Price's death. Below is a photo of Harry's grave taken by Emilia Ukkonen a couple of days ago, reproduced with her kind permission.
A short article in the SPR's Psi Encyclopedia:
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An inside look at the near-death experience (BBC):
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What dying REALLY feels like, according to survivors of near-death experiences:
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We've hit 6,000 Twitter followers, which is a nice round figure. Thank you all.
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Paranormal experiences, among other extraordinary feelings, provide tools for cross-cultural study:
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8 Victorian Scientists Who Investigated Ghosts:
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Announcing a new SPR YouTube channel! The first video is public but subsequent videos will be members-only -
SPR Annual Conference 2018 - Panel Discussion WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
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A Philosopher’s View of Near-Death Research:
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Parapsychology's battle for the Internet:
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2005 BBC EVP Radio Documentary:
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Parapsychology: Exploring the science of the paranormal, Open University Psychological Society, University of Warwick, 10-12 May. There is a strong SPR presence among the speakers.
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Today is the SPR's 141st birthday, it having been constituted on 20 February 1882. To celebrate, here is Donald West's overview of the Society in the Psi Encyclopedia:
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Astral Projection The Next Generation – Samantha Treasure (Parapsychology Australia Online 2023):
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The Real Ghostbusters of Columbia - More than a century ago, students and faculty sat around a trembling table. Was it real spiritual contact, or just séance fiction
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A polarising poltergeist sowed division in 18th-century England (Epworth):
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