IMPORTANT:
Registration to attend the conference in person at the hotel will close on 31st October.
Registration to attend via Zoom will close on 8th November.
Woodland Grange is an award-winning residential conference venue and hotel, set in 16 acres of beautiful gardens in the heart of the Midlands. Whilst offering a quiet, retreat-style setting, the venue is located at the heart of the motorway network, with the M40, M42, M6 and M69 all within a 20-minute drive.
The venue can turn from a professional business environment during the day, to a more informal setting at night. With a range of outside areas, an on-site restaurant, bar, games room and gym, it’s the ultimate venue to balance both work and relaxation.
Woodland Grange is near to Royal Leamington Spa. Also nearby are Warwick, Coventry and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Getting there:
BY CAR – the venue is easily accessible from the M1, M69 and M40, with ample free on-site parking. Use postcode CV32 6RN for Sat Nav.
BY TRAIN – Leamington Spa and Warwick are the closest to the venue, with Coventry Train Station approximately a 15-minute car ride away.
BY AIR – Birmingham Airport is approximately 15 miles away from Woodland Grange. It has direct flights from other UK airports and international airports around the world.
PROGRAMME
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Friday 10th November |
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19.30 - 21.00 |
Welcome DINNER |
SPR President, Adrian Parker on behalf of the SPR Conference Programme Committee |
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Saturday 11th November |
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Historical |
Chaired by Callum E Cooper |
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9.00 - 9.30 |
The King of Mediums: Franek Kluski, his Mediumship and the Survival Question |
Michael Nahm |
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9.30 - 10.00 |
Apparition and UFO/UAP: Hypothesis for their Common Underlying Mechanism |
Simon Duan |
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10.00 -10.30 |
´Who speaks from the dust?’: Mediums in the Life and Work of Kathleen Raine |
Eric McElroy |
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10.30 - 11.00 |
BREAK |
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11:00 - 11.30 |
Can Thomas Aquinas’ Views on Apparitions of the Dead Leave Any Room for Psychical Research? |
Michael Potts |
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NDEs and ADEs |
Chaired by Ann Winsper |
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11.30 -12.00 |
An Update on Prolonged NDEs: “Being Alive When You are Cold and Dead” |
Annekatrin Puhle & Adrian Parker |
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12.00 - 12.30 |
Investigating After-Death Communication: An Analysis of Crisis Cases and a New German Sample |
Sophie Morrison, Evelyn Elsaesser, Chris A. Roe, Callum E. Cooper & David Lorimer |
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12.30 - 13.30 |
LUNCH |
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13:30 - 14.00 |
Invited Speaker: Changes of Thermodynamic Entropy at a Physical Site Enhances the Quality of Psi for that Site |
Edwin C. May, Laury Hawley & Sonali Bhatt Marwaha |
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Experimental and Theoretical | Chaired by Chris A. Roe |
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14.00 - 14.30 |
Parapsychology and Cyberpsychology |
Claire Murphy-Morgan & Callum E. Cooper |
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14.30 - 15.00 |
Researching the Researchers: An Exploration into the Experiences and Beliefs of Investigators of Paranormal Phenomena |
Urszula Wolski |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
BREAK |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Childhood Trauma and Paranormality: A Critical Review and Meta-analysis |
Malcolm B. Schofield, Ian S. Baker, Paul Staples & David Sheffield |
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16.00 - 16.00 |
“They’re not gonna want airy-fairy stories”: Childhood Anomalous Experiences and the Implications for Therapists |
Natalia Lavin & Rachel Evenden |
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16.30 - 17.00 |
Testing the theory of “first sight” using a retroactive priming task: Individual difference factors |
Chris A. Roe, Deborah Patton, Matthew Hopkins & David Vernon |
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17.00 - 18.00 |
Panel Discussion Ghosts and Poltergeists - Separate Entities or Potentially Elements of the Same Anomalous Power |
Chaired by John Fraser. With Alan Murdie, Bernard Carr & Annekatrin Puhle |
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19.30 - 21.00 |
DINNER |
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21.00 |
Invited Address. The Day Before the Paradigm Shift |
Terje Toftenes, New Paradigm Films, Oslo |
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Sunday 12th November |
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Investigations of Spontaneous Cases |
Chaired by Graham Kidd |
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9.00 - 9.30 |
Contamination of Investigations: Case Purity and Investigator Objectivity versus Clients’ and Investigators' Search for Answers |
Ciaran Farrel |
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9.30 - 10.00 |
Spontaneous Case Committee Report case 354: ADC? EMF, EVP (Ovilus) and Video |
Aaron Lomas |
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10.00 - 10.30 |
Disappearing Vehicles and Reappearing People (or Go Home, Time, You’re Drunk!) |
Ann R Winsper |
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10.30 - 11.00 |
BREAK |
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11:00 - 11.30 |
The Importance of Training for SPR Members Engaged in Spontaneous Case Investigation |
Steve Parsons |
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11.30 - 12.00 |
The Phenomenology of Anomalous Experiences Reported During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Update |
Aaron Lomas, Chris A. Roe, Callum E. Cooper, David T. Saunders |
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12.00 - 12.30 |
Paranormal Perception in Sleep Paralysis Experiences: An Exploratory Analysis |
Sheila Pryce Brooks |
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12.30 - 13.30 |
LUNCH |
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| Mediumship | Chaired by Bernard Car | |
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13:30 - 14.00 |
Mediumship and Well-being |
Valerie Harkness |
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14.00 - 14.30 |
The Experience of Developing as a Spiritualist Medium: Preliminary Results of a Qualitative Study |
Fil Kinnersley, Chris A. Roe, Glenn Hitchman, Louise Spiers |
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14.30 - 15.00 |
Pathways to Mediumship: Clients’ Experience of Mediumship in Contemporary Britain |
Chris A. Roe, Callum E. Cooper, Glenn Hitchman & Ewen Maclean |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
BREAK |
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Experimental |
Chair: Chris Roe |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
A Perfect Solution? Sensory Isolation in Floatation Tanks as a Method of Promoting Psi Phenomena |
Kirsty L. Allan, Callum E. Cooper, Glenn Hitchman & Chris A. Roe |
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16.00 - 16.30 |
Retroactive Priming of a Compound Remote Associates Task (CRAT) Using Pre-selected Participants |
Malcolm B. Schofield & David Vernon |
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16.30 - 17.00 |
Two Field Studies of ‘the Sense of Being Stared at’ |
Eleanor Chambers, Benjamin Unick-Wagg, Callum E. Cooper & Matthew Colborn |
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17.00 - 18.00 |
Panel Discussion: Where Are We Heading: A “discordant farrago” or a “paradigm shift”? |
Chaired by Adrian Parker, with Edwin May, Chris Roe & Ann Winsper |
Old Milverton Lane
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 6RN
United Kingdom
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| STUDENT DISCOUNT - £5.00 PER DAY of ZOOM | -£5.00 |