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July 23, 2018

SPR ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 21-23 September, 2018.

The provisional programme for our Annual Conference has now been published. Click on Read more to see the our Poster, the Provisional Programme, Registration and additional information. Read more

August 18, 2018

Steven Parsons talks about the SPR's new "Guidance Notes for Investigators of Spontaneous Cases: Apparitions, Hauntings, Poltergeists and Similar Phenomena" on Stirring the Cauldron. Read more

August 18, 2018

CONFERENCE. Parapsychology: Exploring the science of the paranormal, 10-12 May, 2019, Warwick University. Poster. Further information here. Read more

Blogs & Articles

July 19, 2018

Book Review The Boy Who Knew Too Much: An Astounding True Story of a Young Boy's Past-Life Memories, by Cathy Byrd

June 22, 2018

Book Review Paranormal Encounters on Britain's Roads: Phantom Figures, UFOs and Missing Time, by Peter A. McCue

Read notices and reviews of recent books and other media about psi research

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Upcoming Events

August 29, 2018

6.30 p.m. SPR DISCUSSION GROUP Reincarnation, overshadowing, or fraud: the Wieczorek case

at 1 Vernon Mews

The April issue of our Journal carries on pp. 81 to 102 an account by Dieter Hassler of a remarkable case ‘suggestive of reincarnation’.

September 21, 2018

42nd SPR International Annual Conference - Psychic Phenomena and Consciousness

at Newcastle Jurys Inn

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN and will close on 14th September. Our invited speakers are consciousness researchers Dr David Luke, Dr Bernardo Kastrup and Dr Rupert Sheldrake.

October 11, 2018

7 p.m. 11th Oct - Gwen Tate Memorial Lecture - Dr Callum Cooper - DEAD RINGERS OR MISTAKEN MECHANISMS?

at 1 Vernon Mews

TELEPHONE ANOMALIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO SURVIVAL

November 10, 2018

STUDY DAY No. 76 - UNDERSTANDING THE UNCANNY

at 1 Vernon Mews

Traditionally psychical research has viewed extrasensory perception as a sixth sense but the divisions between inner and outer are no longer absolute. This study day will bring together a parapsychologist, a psychiatrist, a relational...

December 6, 2018

7 p.m. SPR Lecture - 6th December - Dr Simon Duan - PSI RESEARCH IN CHINA

at 1 Vernon Mews

Although Psi is frequently referenced in Chinese historical records throughout the history, Chinese scientists only began serious investigation into Psi in the early 1980s.

February 7, 2019

7 p.m. 7th February - SPR Lecture - Dr Matthew Colborn - STRANGE BEINGS: A NEW LOOK AT ENTITY EXPERIENCES

at 1 Vernon Mews

For millennia, people have reported encounters with otherworldly beings. In the 1940s, psychical researcher G.N.M. Tyrell proposed a theory of apparitions as ‘idea patterns’ generated by the brain by an unknown agency.