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$100,000 USD MindSwan Prize - Can you see without your eyes?

MindSwan $100,000 Prize Can you see without your eyes? A skill-based contest administered by CUSAC and sponsored by PRRIC. Official Contest Rules published September 1, 2026 — pre-register now.

SPR Vernon Mews library closed on Wednesday, 12th August:

Library closed on Wednesday, 12th August 2026 | spr.ac.uk Due to a forecast of 32 degrees C, on Wednesday this week, we will not open the SPR library as advertised. This is for the safety of our staff and visitors.We have noticed that when the temperature is very high, nobody visits us anyway, so we hope this will not cause too much inconvenience.An outsid...

Could She Read His Mind? (Telepathic Drawings) - Upton and Mary Craig Sinclair:

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Aliens and the Near-Death Experience, by P. M. H. Atwater, reviewed on the SPR website by Nemo C. Mörck:

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Fresh Look at Improving ITC Sessions
A theorist has published a website and book proposing an engineering approach to ITC:

https://ethericstudies.substack.com/p/fresh-look-at-improving-itc-sessions?fbclid=IwY2xjawTkUlZwZG9mA2V4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMUgyN2c2MXRJam4zMVV6aDlzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81MTQ3NzE1NjkyMjgwNjEAAR7gfFsdsAQKJaxDjW4kbWjj7NMZimpkokp--x3cuNyckimWxVjcs-TptzZKkQ_aem_t6-oAe86VNSWXNNf1k38fQ

Fresh Look at Improving ITC Sessions A theorist has published a website and book proposing an engineering approach to ITC

Shannon Taggart - Camera Miracula: An Uncomfortable History, a live programme exploring photography’s long, strange relationship with the invisible—from UFOs and ectoplasm to projected thoughts, Marian visions, and psychokinesis. Co-organized with Annebella Pollen as part of my Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, the program begins with my artist talk on Wednesday, 2 September at 6:30 pm.

Camera Miracula: An Uncomfortable History September 2–3, 2026 · University of Brighton, UK

When Dreams, Mysterious Voices or Apparitions Save or Help People:

https://futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2026/08/when-dreams-mysterious-voices-or.html

Conjuring up Philip:

In 1972, a group of Canadian Parapsychologists conducted a pretty cool experiment. Their aim was to ‘create’ a ghost to prove that the human mind could conjure a spirit through expectation, imagination, and visualisation. Maybe a lot of what we experience in terms of paranormal phenomena is really just our very own Philip experiment …. We are just unaware that we are the participants!

Read about the Philip Experiment: https://llifs.com.au/blog/the-philip-experiment/