Friday 4th August
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| 8.30 | Registration and coffee
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| 9.0 | Welcoming remarks, Dean Radin and Christine Simmonds-Moore
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| Psi and the Brain
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| 9.15 | The slide-show presentiment effect discovered in brain electrical activity -- Thilo Hinterberger, Petra Studer, Marco Jäger, Colette Haverty-Stacke, & Harald Walach
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| 9.45 | Presentiment in the brain -- Dean Radin & Eva Lobach
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| 10.15 | Anomalous Slow Cortical Components in a Slot-machine Task -- Dick Bierman & Jenneke van Ditzhuijzen
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| 10.45 | Coffee Break
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| DMILS & Distant intention
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| 11.15 | "Psychic DMILS": Attempted remote facilitation of performance in an ESP game, and an exploration of gender differences -- Caroline Watt, Christine Fraser, & Alexandra Hopkinson
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| 11.45 | Effects of motivated distant intention on electrodermal activity -- Dean Radin, Jerome Stone, Ellen Levine, Shahram Eskandarnejad, Marilyn Schlitz, Leila Kozak, Dorothy Mandel & Gail Hayssen
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| 12.15 | Remote Staring Detected by Conscious and Psychophysiological Variables Combining and Improving two Successful Paradigms -- Susanne Müller, Stefan Schmidt & Harald Walach
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| 12.45 | Research brief: The Effect of Remote Emotion on Receiver Skin Conductance: A Replication -- Göran Brusewitz
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| 1.00 | Lunch Break
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| Exploring anomalous experiences
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| 2.30 | Anomalous experiences during deep hypnosis -- Etzel Cardeña
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| 3.00 | Research Brief: Do Out-of-body Experients Have Better Visual Imagery Skills Than Non-Experients? -- David Wilde, Craig Murray & Jezz Fox
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| 3.30 | Tea break
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| Memorial Panel for John Beloff: Remembering John Beloff
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| Panel Chair - Adrian Parker
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| 4.00 | John Beloff: Forging the Future of Parapsychology -- Deborah Delanoy
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| 4.15 | What I learned from John Beloff -- Richard Broughton
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| 4.30 | John Beloff: Some personal recollections of my mentor -- Adrian Parker
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| 4.45 | The Randi Dinner -- Stanley Krippner
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| 5.00 | Open discussion
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| 5.30 | End of sessions - day one
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| 5.45 | Boat trip to The City Hall, Stockholm
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| 6.00 | Evening Reception; City Hall, Stockholm
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Saturday 5th August
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| Theories of psi: Psi as an extension of normal psychological processes
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| 9.00 | Relations between ESP and memory in light of the "first sight" model of psi -- Jim Carpenter (presented by John Palmer)
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| 9.30 | Memory, emotion and the receptive psi process -- Richard Broughton
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| 10.00 | General Discussion
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| 10.10 | Coffee break and Poster Session.
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| New methods in psi research
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| 10.45 | Anomalous anticipation of target biases in guessing task -- John Palmer
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| 11.15 | Design and implementation of the telepathic immersive virtual reality system -- Craig Murray, Toby Howard, Jezz Fox, Fabrice Caillette, Christine Simmonds-Moore & David Wilde.
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| 11.45 | Exploring psychomanteum as a psi conducive state -- Alejandro Parra & Jorge Villanueva (presented by Björn Sjödén)
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| 12.15 | Research Brief: Developing experience-sampling methodology to explore psi in "everyday life" -- Nicola Holt
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| 12.30 | Lunch Break
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| Recent Research in ESP I
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| 2.00 | Assessing the roles of the sender and experimenter in dream ESP research -- Chris A. Roe, Simon J. Sherwood, Louise Farrell, Louie Savva, & Ian Baker
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| 2.30 | Experimenter- subject interaction in para experiments -- Robin Wooffitt
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| 3.00 | Research Brief: Group telepathy -- Jan Dalkvist & Joakim Westerlund
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| 3.15 | Research Brief: Twins and ESP -- Adrian Parker
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| 3.30 | Tea break
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| Recent Research in ESP II
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| 4.00 | Research Brief: Androgyny, femininity and masculinity in women: Exploring how gender role and boundary thinness relate to paranormal experiences, beliefs and ESP -- Christine Simmonds-Moore & Steve Moore
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| 4.15 | Research Brief: GESP and pragmatic information -- Ronald Weigel
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| 4.30 | The Communicative Order of Spontaneous Psi: an Overview of Schegloff's "On ESP Puns" -- Robin Wooffitt
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| Memorial Panel for T X Barber: Remembering T. X. Barber
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| Panel chair -- Stanley Krippner
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| 4.45 | Remembering T. X. Barber -- Stanley Krippner
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| 5.05 | T. X. Barber's typology's implications for parapsychology -- Etzel Cardeña
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| 5.25 | General discussion
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| 5.55 | End of sessions - day two
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| 7.15 | PA Awards (presented by Dean Radin, PA president)
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| 7.30 | Presidential Address and Presidential Reception (including music by Sergio Rueda)
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Sunday 6th August
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| RNG, Consciousness and PK research I: Field effects
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| 9.00 | Entrained minds and the behavior of random physical systems -- Dean Radin & F. Holmes Atwater
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| 9.30 | Anomalous structure in GCP data: A focus on New Years Eve -- Roger Nelson
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| 10.00 | Coffee break
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| RNG, consciousness and PK research II: Psychokinesis research
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| 10.30 | Experimenter effects and volitional strategies in the mind-machine interaction replication -- Joop Houtkooper
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| 11.00 | Assessing the role of the sender as a PK agent in ESP studies: The effects of strategy ("willing" versus absorption) and feedback (immediate versus delayed) on psi performance -- Chris Roe & Nicola Holt
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| Invited Address
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| 11.30 | Some thoughts on OBEs, NDEs, and the study of spontaneous psi experiences -- John Palmer
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| 12.30 | Lunch Break
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| Mediumship, Posession and Survival
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| 2.00 | A medical-psychological approach to the possession case behind William Blatty's the Exorcist -- Sergio Rueda
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| 2.30 | The Social Organization of Trouble Management in Psychic Practitioner - Sitter Interaction: Three Discursive Strategies -- Robin Wooffitt
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| 3.00 | Research Brief: Are Psychics Perceived to be more Accurate and Persuasive than Non-Psychics? -- Craig D.Murray & Ciarán O'Keeffe
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| 3.30 | Tea break
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| Panel -- The Importance of Survival research
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| Panel chair -- Peter Mulacz
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| 4.00 | Basic issues of the "survival" question -- Peter Mulacz
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| 4.15 | Anomalous Identity Experiences: Mediumship, Spirit Possession, and Dissociative Identity Disorder -- Etzel Cardeña
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| 4.30 | Apparitions and Cases of the Reincarnation Type -- Erlandur Haraldsson
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| 4.45 | A tentative reinterpretation of memories of a previous life -- Suitbert Ertel
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| 5.00 | The importance of subjective experiences in survival research -- Christine Simmonds-Moore
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| 5.15 | Closing Remarks -- Stanley Krippner
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| Discussion Session - Parapsychology in 21st century
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| 5.30 | Including professors from key institutions and a general floor discussion
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| 6.00 | End of sessions - day three
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| 7.30 | PA Board Meeting
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| 8.00 | Banquet
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| Post Banquet speaker -- Fredrik Praesto "Unbelievable magic tricks and an exploration of the psychology behind them"
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| End of convention
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Monday 7th August
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| Opportunity for tour of the city of Stockholm
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