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REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE TWO HOURS BEFORE THE TALK IS DUE TO START.
ALL SPR WEB EVENTS ARE RECORDED AND A LINK TO THE RECORDING WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY SENT TO THOSE WHO REGISTER TO ATTEND WHEN THE RECORDING IS READY.
From the speaker:
Lucid awareness in the presence of compromising brain conditions has been reported for a long time by physicians and lay persons. Of those phenomena, experiences that have been termed near-death experiences (NDEs) became increasingly known since the 1970s and have lately been recognized as a serious research topic in the medical setting. The interest in several less known but related phenomena has only gained traction among researchers in mainstream settings more recently.
Encompassing attempts to classify these phenomena and depict their interrelations are still lacking. In this chapter, I provide a preliminary typology of lucid awareness in different kinds of circumstances where lucid awareness should not be occurring according to modern models of brain functioning. This typology aims to facilitate communication and streamline future research regarding these phenomena.
The first class of phenomena discussed concerns cognitive feats despite different kinds of anatomical brain damage. The second class concerns cognitive feats despite dysfunctional brain physiology. In this context, I will discuss paradoxical lucidity, pleasurable and distressing NDEs, awareness during anaesthesia, as well as a variety of little-known experiences reported from coma states, such as continued awareness in (and out of) the body and “alternate life” experiences.
ALL SPR WEB EVENTS ARE RECORDED AND A LINK TO THE RECORDING WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY SENT TO THOSE WHO REGISTER TO ATTEND WHEN THE RECORDING IS READY.
From the speaker:
Lucid awareness in the presence of compromising brain conditions has been reported for a long time by physicians and lay persons. Of those phenomena, experiences that have been termed near-death experiences (NDEs) became increasingly known since the 1970s and have lately been recognized as a serious research topic in the medical setting. The interest in several less known but related phenomena has only gained traction among researchers in mainstream settings more recently.
Encompassing attempts to classify these phenomena and depict their interrelations are still lacking. In this chapter, I provide a preliminary typology of lucid awareness in different kinds of circumstances where lucid awareness should not be occurring according to modern models of brain functioning. This typology aims to facilitate communication and streamline future research regarding these phenomena.
The first class of phenomena discussed concerns cognitive feats despite different kinds of anatomical brain damage. The second class concerns cognitive feats despite dysfunctional brain physiology. In this context, I will discuss paradoxical lucidity, pleasurable and distressing NDEs, awareness during anaesthesia, as well as a variety of little-known experiences reported from coma states, such as continued awareness in (and out of) the body and “alternate life” experiences.
Conference to be held at Milton Hill House, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxford, OX13 6AF, United Kingdom
Saturday 18th October to Sunday 19th October 2025. Arrival and welcome dinner on Friday 17th October.
Saturday 18th October to Sunday 19th October 2025. Arrival and welcome dinner on Friday 17th October.
Conference to be held at Milton Hill House, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxford, OX13 6AF, United Kingdom
Saturday 18th October to Sunday 19th October 2025.
Saturday 18th October to Sunday 19th October 2025.
REGISTRATIONS FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE TWO HOURS BEFORE THE TALK IS DUE TO START.
ALL SPR WEB EVENTS ARE RECORDED AND A LINK TO THE RECORDING WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY SENT TO THOSE WHO REGISTER TO ATTEND WHEN THE RECORDING IS READY.
From the speaker:
What can parapsychology and the study of Exceptional Human Experience contribute to a better future? In this talk Matt Colborn gives an overview of the current status of research into psi and mystical states. These are aspects of human experience that have historically been marginalised by mainstream cognitive science. However, the study of psychedelics as well as fresh interest in psi research forces us to reconsider the ultimate significance of transpersonal experience. Such a reconsideration may be urgent in the context of the current global 'polycrisis', perhaps opening the door to alternatives to mechanistic models of the mind, brain and life.
ALL SPR WEB EVENTS ARE RECORDED AND A LINK TO THE RECORDING WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY SENT TO THOSE WHO REGISTER TO ATTEND WHEN THE RECORDING IS READY.
From the speaker:
What can parapsychology and the study of Exceptional Human Experience contribute to a better future? In this talk Matt Colborn gives an overview of the current status of research into psi and mystical states. These are aspects of human experience that have historically been marginalised by mainstream cognitive science. However, the study of psychedelics as well as fresh interest in psi research forces us to reconsider the ultimate significance of transpersonal experience. Such a reconsideration may be urgent in the context of the current global 'polycrisis', perhaps opening the door to alternatives to mechanistic models of the mind, brain and life.