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Founded in 1882, the SPR aims to advance the understanding of events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. Posts are not endorsements.

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What if the Brain Doesn’t Create Consciousness? Irreducible Mind & Beyond Physicalism | Edward Kelly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YV...
What if the Brain Doesn’t Create Consciousness? Irreducible Mind & Beyond Physicalism | Edward Kelly
YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution
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January 3, 2026 at 8:16 PM
The continuity of consciousness - Cardiologist Pim van Lommel on his interest in Near Death Experience, the research, and what it might mean for Psychologists and our understanding of consciousness: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
The continuity of consciousness | BPS
Cardiologist Pim van Lommel on his interest in Near Death Experience, the research, and what it might mean for Psychologists and our understanding of consciousness.
www.bps.org.uk
January 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
The next SPR talk - Monday 19th January 2026 ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (GMT): have a nice disclosure! - In conversation with Julia Mossbridge: www.spr.ac.uk/civicrm/even...
Monday 19th January 2026 ZOOM SPR WEB EVENT at 8pm (GMT): have a nice disclosure! - In conversation with Julia Mossbridge | spr.ac.uk
www.spr.ac.uk
January 2, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The principal review gives five stars to Ben Machell's Chasing the Dark, about the SPR's Tony Cornell:
Get 2026 off to a properly weird start with our January issue! The occult origins of television; Martin's Devils; Viennese esoteric art; Fortean Pynchon; the Washington Stain; partying ghosts; Japanese bear wars; rampaging robots; werewolf arrested; baby vs snake; Antarctic mystery signals and more
January 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The January issue of Psychic News Magazine has an article on the Snettisham ghost which mentions the SPR.
See what's inside the January 2026 issue of Psychic News.

Subscribe at www.psychicnews.uk
January 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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See what's inside the January 2026 issue of Psychic News.

Subscribe at www.psychicnews.uk
January 1, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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CAN OBJECTS BE MOVED WITH THE POWER OF THE MIND??

Writer on the paranormal, Ben Machell, joins us in this week's BRAND NEW #Uncanny episode, to discuss whether psychokinesis might be involved in witness James' strange experiences😱

Listen to Case 10 on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!
December 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
From “On The Banks Of The River Styx”(terminal lucidity): www.patheos.com/blogs/danpet...
From "On The Banks Of The River Styx"
I had a long and very busy day today, and am only getting back to my computer rather late at night.  So I think that I'll share some passages that
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January 1, 2026 at 8:41 AM
When the Mind Returns - the puzzle of terminal lucidity: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cons...
When the Mind Returns
Some people with advanced dementia show sudden, brief returns of clarity near the end of life—speaking, remembering, reconnecting. What is terminal lucidity?
www.psychologytoday.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What Is Consciousness Really? Subjectivity, Self Observation, and Our Future | Matt Colborn, EP 431: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUR1...
What Is Consciousness Really? Subjectivity, Self Observation, and Our Future | Matt Colborn, EP 431
YouTube video by Connecting with Coincidence
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December 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Where Was It Before the Dream? Time Loops and Interpretation, by Eric Wargo, reviewed on the SPR website by Richard Reichbart: www.spr.ac.uk/WhereWasIt
Where Was It Before the Dream? Time Loops and Interpretation, by Eric Wargo | spr.ac.uk
www.spr.ac.uk
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Written exactly 112 years ago today and appearing in the UK Times newspaper 3 days later, one of the first mentions of the Stone Tape idea in print.

#phantomsfriday #ghost #haunt #boxingday
December 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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New analysis of 1965 study confirms brains interact at a distance
frontiernet.org/2024/10/new-...
December 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
'Bozzano's Pioneering Study of Out-of-Body Experiences' (that isn't just an encyclopedia article on Bozzano, it's Carlos Alvarado's SPR Psi Encyclopedia article on Bozzano): futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2025/12/bozz...
Bozzano's Pioneering Study of Out-of-Body Experiences
Cosmology,philosophy of biology,philosophy of mind, paranormal,futurology,anthropic,mind-body,neuroscience,intelligent design,memory,parapsychology
futureandcosmos.blogspot.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Can Consciousness Access the Future? Precognition, Time & the Transcendental Mind | Julia Mossbridge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPO5...
Can Consciousness Access the Future? Precognition, Time & the Transcendental Mind | Julia Mossbridge
YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution
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December 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Public Perspectives of Parapsychology on Facebook Utilising Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Visions of Hell in Near Death Experiences: A Companion Article to the Narrative Story, “In The Ring”: tfmrj.scholasticahq.com/article/154470
Visions of Hell in Near Death Experiences: A Companion Article to the Narrative Story, “In The Ring” | Published in Texas Family Medicine Research Journal
By Larry Kravitz. This article examines Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) as a companion to the narrative "In The Ring."
tfmrj.scholasticahq.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A Tale of Two Introverted Afterlife Researchers: beringinmind.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
A Tale of Two Introverted Afterlife Researchers
One Dead, the Other Alive
beringinmind.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency, by Brad Ricca, reviewed on the SPR website by Michael Solomon: www.spr.ac.uk/LincolnsGhost
Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency, by Brad Ricca | spr.ac.uk
www.spr.ac.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ashley Knibb has reviewed Ghosts of the North East, by Rob Kirkup, for the SPR's website: www.spr.ac.uk/GhostsoftheN...
Ghosts of the North East, by Rob Kirkup | spr.ac.uk
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December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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There is a bit of an elephant in the room with regard to my research into Dodleston and I want to address it. 🧵

Most of the stuff you'll see on the messages involves The Vertical Plane Research Group, which is a private group on Facebook. I was one of the first members of the group and had a...
December 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I'm thrilled to announce that in 2026, I'll be conducting an online lecture series for The Last Tuesday Society, looking at historical séance, mediumship and Spiritualism.
The links to all 6 talks should be available here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/dr-kate-c...
Dr Kate Cherrell - Lecture Series 2026
Series of 6 lectures
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Through a Glass, Darkly - Mind without limits (Michael Prescott): michaelprescott2024.substack.com/p/through-a-...
Through a Glass, Darkly
Mind without limits
michaelprescott2024.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM