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November 17, 2018

Reminder: Call for Papers for the 2019 Society for Scientific Exploration conference (5-8 June). Deadline: 15 December, 2018. Read more

December 8, 2018

The Parapsychological Association has uploaded the Presidential Address to 59th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, delivered by Prof. Christopher Roe (current President of the SPR) in 2016. Read more

November 30, 2018

Announcing a new SPR YouTube channel. The first video is public but subsequent videos will be members-only. Read more

Blogs & Articles

December 3, 2018

Book Review Paranormal London, by Gilly Pickup

December 3, 2018

Book Review Leben mit den Toten: Geisterglauben und die Entstehung des Spiritismus in Deutschland 1770-1900, by Diethard Sawicki

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

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Upcoming Events

February 7, 2019

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

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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.

April 27, 2019

SPR STUDY DAY 77 - GUY LYON PLAYFAIR - A TRIBUTE

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The life and work of Guy Lyon Playfair. FULL DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED

May 23, 2019

7 p.m. 23rd May -SPR Lecture - SANDY EDWARDS - Healing in a Hospital; Scientific Evidence that Spiritual Healing Improves Health

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Despite no sign of a natural healing ability, Sandy Edwards trained to be a spiritual healer with a non-religious UK charity (the Healing Trust). Ten years later, she instigated probably the largest clinical trial of healing in the world.