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Parapsychology Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) 2019

Parapsychology Massively Open Online Course 2019 (ParaMOOC2019) is underway, FREE, and enrollment is still OPEN.

The Parapsychology Massively Open Online Course 2019 (ParaMOOC2019) is in progress and open for enrollment through May 31.  The ParaMOOC2019 course is FREE and is sponsored by the Parapsychology Foundation and features presentations from prominent academic parapsychologists.  

Live class sessions and discussion forums have been scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays at noon Eastern.  The ParaMOOC2019 course is hosted on the teaching platform WizIQ.  Recorded presentations will be available in WizIQ and on the Parapsychology Foundation YouTube channel.

The theme for ParaMOOC2019 is "Survival of Death and Parapsychology." The course will cover the range of modern survival research topics to include: near-death experiences (NDE); past-life experiences (reincarnation); end-of-life experiences; mental mediumship; after-death communication (ADC); and apparitional experiences.  

Speakers are affiliated with universities and research institutes across the world such as: State University of New York; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; University of North Texas; University of Northhampton (UK); Chubu University (Japan); Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil); and Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health (Germany).

Registration information is available from the Parapsychology Foundation.  Enrollment and registration is on the WizIQ platform.

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Apparitions (1953) by G. N. M. Tyrrell

Classic study on apparitional experiences. Tyrell proposes a theory of apparitions as telepathic idea patterns from the persons they represent.  He outlines four varieties of apparitional experiences: living agent, crisis, post-mortem and ghosts and explains their phenomenology.  

You can preview the contents of the book from the Kindle edition. 

REFERENCE:  

Tyrrell, G.N.M. (1953). Apparitions (rev. ed.). London: Butler & Tanner.  Sponsored.

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"Peak in Darien" Apparitional Experiences 

"Peak in Darien" refer to a class of Near Death Experiences (NDE) where a percipient has encountered deceased persons who were not  known at the time to be dead.  "Peak in Darien" experiences some would argue provide the most compelling evidence for the survival of consciousness and such experiences are hard to dismiss as dreams or hallucinations.  

The term “Peak in Darien” cases, comes from a book published in 1882 by that name by Frances Power Cobbe on the visions of dying. The term was also taken from a poem by John Keats (On First Looking in Chapman's Homer) as a metaphor for a surprising vision or revelation.  

The academic paper, Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: “Peak in Darien” Experiences, by Dr. Bruce Greyson, Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia, provides in-depth survey of these kinds of apparitional experiences and describes three varieties of these cases:

“There are three varieties of “Peak in Darien” experiences that may vary in their evidential value. The first variety comprises cases in which the deceased person seen had died some time before the vision, although that death was unknown to the experiencer, as far as could be ascertained. The second includes cases in which the deceased person seen had died at the time of, or immediately before, the vision, thus not allowing any possibility for the experiencer to have learned of the death. Finally, the third type consists of cases in which the deceased person seen was someone whom the experiencer had never known.”

The SSE Talks presentation  on Science and Postmortem Survival by Dr Greyson also addresses Peak in Darien experiences

REFERENCE:

Greyson, B. (2010). Seeing dead people not known to have died:“Peak in Darien” experiences. Anthropology and Humanism, 35(2), 159-171.

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Illustration by David Henry Friston for Carmilla, in The Dark Blue (February 1872), electrotype after wood engraving. Source: Wikimedia