Saturday 25th April 2026 Workshop -

In this Saturday workshop, we are joined by speakers noted in their fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and popular authorship. ‘To Sleep Per Chance to Psi’ brings together discussion on the history of research into dreams and extra-sensory ability, cultural differences, collected cases and developing research. You will learn more about the various ways in which sleep has been studied and what exactly these altered states of consciousness present, in terms of our psychic potentials.

ALL TIMES ARE BST

This will be a physical meeting, also available as a Zoom event (same prices), and both SPR members & non-members are most welcome.  Members are urged to publicise this event in their own locality and through social media.  Please pay online through the SPR website. You may also telephone the SPR office to pay with a credit/debit card - +44 (0)20 7937 8984. Advance booking is the only way to join this meeting. This meeting will be followed at 5:15 p.m. by the SPR AGM 2026.

IMPORTANT: For Zoom attendees: once you have paid for your booking via the website or office, you will receive an email confirmation of payment from the SPR secretary. This will contain a Zoom link to complete your registration. Only when you complete the registration, will you then receive another email containing a link to join the meeting at the advertised time.

FEES: (Concessions for Over 60/Students/on Benefits). Fees are the same for physical attendance and via Zoom.

WHOLE DAY:

Members Full price £32.00, Members Concession £25.00, Non-Members £38.00,

MORNING SESSION ONLY:

Members Full price £17.00, Members Concession £13.00, Non-Members £20.50,

AFTERNOON SESSION ONLY:

Members Full price £17.00, Members Concession £13.00, Non-Members £20.50,

Prof. Cal Cooper

Callum E. Cooper is co-director of parapsychology education at the California Institute for Human Science (USA), where he holds a professorship for parapsychology and public understanding of human science. He is based at the University of Northampton (UK) as an associate professor of psychology. He received PhDs from the University of Northampton and Manchester Metropolitan University. Some of his professional positions include Council Member of the Society and Chair of the Survival Research Committee, a Professional Member of the Parapsychological Association, and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has produced over 100 papers, articles, chapters, and authored/edited 5 books.

Prof. Chris Roe

Chris Roe holds a Chair in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation and is a Vice-President of the Society for Psychical Research. His research interests are around understanding the nature of anomalous experiences and includes research on the phenomenology of paranormal experience, particularly as it affects wellbeing, as well as experimental approaches to test claims for extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, particularly where they involve psychological factors. Recent research has been concerned with the relationship between altered states of consciousness and psychic experience, and phenomena associated with survival of bodily death, including near-death experiences, terminal lucidity episodes, after-death communications, and mediumship. He has published over 140 journal papers and book chapters and given over 250 talks and conference presentations.

Dr Jack Hunter

Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tutor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a tutor for the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, where he teaches on the ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ module, he also teaches at the California Institute for Human Science.

Anthony Peake

Anthony Peake studied sociology and history at joint-honours level at the University of Warwick where he specialised in the sociology of religion and the sociology of language. He then studied at post-graduate level at the London School of Economics and the University of Westminster. He is the author of 13 books which have, as their general theme, the scientific study of altered states of consciousness, specifically with regard to Near-Death Experiences and Out-of-Body Experiences.

David Luke

David Luke is Professor of Exceptional Experience at the University of Greenwich where he leads the new Psychedelic and Exceptional Experience Lab. He is also a current Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher (via Trinity College, Cambridge) researching altered states and psi. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, and thirteen books,  When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, studying lucid dream precognition, or exploring apparent weather control with Mexican shamans he manages a small ancient woodland and lives life on the edge, of Sussex.

Sheila Pryce Brooks

Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks is a researcher specialising in sleep paralysis and liminal states of consciousness. Her work examines the phenomenology of sleep paralysis experiences, with particular attention to their structure, content, and interpretation. She has explored how these experiences can include anomalous perceptual features, including elements relevant to ESP and survival-related encounters. Her research combines lived experience with qualitative analysis to investigate the complexity of sleep-boundary states. She is particularly interested in how these experiences may contribute to questions surrounding survival-related evidence. Her current work focuses on examining the relationship between sleep paralysis and anomalous experience within psychical research.