Beyond The Third Eye - 1 Day Psychic Development Seminar - Sunday March 2nd 2008

Sunday March 2nd 2008

Beyond The Third Eye - 1 Day Seminar (10:45 to 17:30)
with Graham E. Nicholls at Treadwell's, 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7PB.

The seminar begins by looking at personal, often life-changing experiences and what these experiences tell us about the nature of psychic functioning. It then looks at beliefs throughout history, through to the research being done by scientists in the field of parapsychology as well as other areas of science. It will then look at theories of how 'psi' works from Morphic fields to Quantum Entanglement. The next section will move into practical areas and show how the information that was covered earlier can be applied to enhance psychical abilities. The day is broken up into sections each with questions and interactive elements.

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Open Source Science

Today Alex Tsakiris, the host of parapsychological podcast Skeptiko launched the website of Open Source Science, the creators of the new site say:

The website offers a variety of tools for managing scientific experiments and provides a place for visitors to discuss and participate in the research process. Besides promoting scientific collaboration, OpenSourceScience offers financial grants to researchers working within the areas featured on the website.

The site is built on wiki technology, and according to Alex Tsakiris, the open source model is well suited for this task: “The open source model has proven to be a powerful enabling technology because it promotes collaboration. When you look at some of the controversial areas of research, like whether our consciousness is separate from our brain, there has been very little collaboration between researchers and those with opposing views. Everyone seems to agree that collaboration is necessary, but until now, it just hasn’t happened.”

OpenSourceScience is suited for scientifically-minded skeptics as well as those interested in controversial subjects such as parapsychology and human consciousness. The site’s first experiment examines whether dogs can anticipate their owners coming home in a way that is currently unexplained by science. The first two researchers of this phenomena, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Richard Wiseman, have offered their support in this collaborative re-examination of their experiments, and are looking forward to the results.

You can visit the site and get involved at www.opensourcescience.net

Skeptiko

I would like to take this opportunity to recommend the excellent podcast 'Skeptiko' presented by Alex Tsakiris and dealing with areas of science such as psi research. The real importance of this particular podcast is that it is beginning to bridge the gap between the sceptical community and the proponents of psi. This podcast represents balanced intelligent and informed engagement with both sides of the issue, which in my view can only be a good thing. The interviews have included proponents of psi such as Dean Radin, Rupert Sheldrake and Charles Tart and sceptics such as Susan Blackmore, D. J. Grothe and Michael Shermer.

To listen to the latest episode go to the website at Skeptiko: Science at the tipping point or subcribe via iTunes.