News (with date when news was posted)

New entries are still being added to the Psi Encyclopedia. Recently, Dr James Matlock contributed an entry about Dreams and Past-Life Memory. Another recently added entry is about the American Society for Psychical Research. Read more
The Guardian has published an article, Psychic future: what next for the ‘precog economy’?, by Amelia Tait about premonitions and remote viewing. Read more
SPR Council member Dr Callum Cooper recently appeared on New Thinking Allowed, to disuss the psychic Alex Tanous. Read more
Dr Steve Taylor has written a blog post about Hypnotic Healing for Psychology Today. Read more
Dr Matthew Tompkins has written an interesting article, The two illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle, for BBC Future. Read more
Robert Radaković's Ph.D. dissertation, Beyond Faith and Reason: The Genesis of Psychical Research and the Search for the Paranormal Domain (1850-1914), recently became freely available online. Read more
Alan Prendergast has written an interesting article, Searching for Bridey Murphy, Pueblo's Paranormal Queen, for Westword. The book The Search for Bridey Murphy by Morey Bernstein was a bestseller in the 1950s and evoked much controversy. Read more
A cryptanalyst Richard Bean has solved a cipher left by Robert Thouless (President of the SPR, 1942-1944). Read more
Applications are invited for two fully-funded PhD Studentships to undertake research in the area of the psychology of mental mediumship. These studentships will commence on October 1, 2019 and the successful candidates will be based at the University of Northampton. Read more
Last year, Prof. Etzel Cardeña published an article, The Experimental Evidence for Parapsychological Phenomena: A Review, in the prestigious journal American Psychologist. This has now evoked commentary from Profs. Arthur Reber and James Alcock. Read more