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May 2023: Archives of the Impossible
In May, I’ll be giving a 25-minute flash talk at Rice University’s Archives of the Impossible conference in Houston. The Archives of the Impossible is a relatively new set of archives featuring the papers of writers, researchers, and others who have lived and investigated “impossible” phenomena. It began with the papers of UFO researcher Jacques…
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Deep Weird
Deep Weird: The Varieties of High Strangeness Experience is a new essay collection edited by Welsh anthropologist and parapsychologist Jack Hunter. It just came out last week and features a chapter I wrote on deeply weird synchronicities, along with a lot of other fascinating and diverse material. If you ever get the feeling that we…
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My talk from Dec. 3 Inquiry Event in NYC
The video from my talk at December’s An Inquiry into Anomalous Experiences conference in New York City is now available. This is a fairly short talk–only 35 minutes–but it’s packed with big ideas about the new paradigm we need to make sense not just of extraordinary experiences but also of quantum mechanics, consciousness, and ethics.…
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A few recent publications
I’ve gotten behind on posting about my recent publications. So here’s a quick guide to the items I’ve published this summer, in parapsychology and in philosophy, in English and in French. An audio version of my 2016 scholarly philosophy book The Feeling of Value, narrated by me (except for the foreword by Thomas Nagel, which…
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Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists
Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists is the title of a new book being released this weekend, and I have to say, it does an admirable job of arguing its thesis! Written by Jens Amberts, who trained in philosophy at Linköping University in Sweden, it takes four well-established and uncontroversial premises about near-death experiences and argues…
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The Beyond Death Audiobook
My first audiobook is now available! With the assistance of Mike Clelland, an excellent narration coach and audio editor (in addition to being an accomplished author), I was able to narrate Beyond Death myself and produce an audiobook that I am very proud of. You can listen to a 5-minute sample for free on Audible…
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Are Paranormal Beliefs a Result of Lazy Thinking?
The following article originally appeared on my Psychology Today blog Mysteries of Consciousness on February 15, 2022. In their 2021 New York Times bestseller Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein remark that “belief in ghosts, astrology, and extrasensory perception” is associated with lower Cognitive Reflection Test scores, implying that belief in…
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“Beyond Death” interview with The Mystical Underground
Yesterday, Trish and Rob MacGregor had me back on their podcast The Mystical Underground to talk about my new book, Beyond Death: The Best Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness. We talked a lot about apparitions: not just apparitions of the deceased, but also apparitions of living out-of-body experiencers and apparitions of people having…
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New Thinking Allowed Interview
While in Las Vegas last month for the awards ceremony for the Bigelow prize, I got the chance to be interviewed by the first-place prize winner, Jeffrey Mishlove, for his YouTube channel New Thinking Allowed. If you don’t know about his channel yet, you’re in for a treat. He has many distinguished guests–many of them…