Dateline: New York City, June 30th, 2008 Contact: Lisette Coly, 212-628-1550 or email: office@parapsychology.org Utrecht II: Charting the Future of Parapsychology Conference to be Held in Holland in October It has been fifty-five years since Parapsychology Foundation sponsored the groundbreaking “First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies” held in Utrecht, the Netherlands in 1953. With the generosity of the Dutch non-profit foundation, Het Johan Borgman Fonds (HJBF), Parapsychology Foundation (PF) and its co-sponsor are proud to announce the forthcoming conference, “Utrecht ll: Charting the Future of Parapsychology.” The conference will take place in two venues of historical significance, including the University of Utrecht’s University Salon, the room in which the original Utrecht l conference was held. The conference sessions will be held from Thursday, October 16th through Saturday evening, October 18th, 2008. The conference is not open to the public. A select list of Observers (audience members) have been invited to participate in the four conference sessions that have been envisioned as well as attend the five invited addresses. All four paper sessions will seek to answer the questions “What Do We Know?” and “Where Are We Going?” while at the same time having distinct focuses: (1) “Measures of Psi,” (2) “Expressions of Psi in Life,” (3) “Clinical and Medical Connections,” and (4) “Theories, Implications and New Directions.” The conference will close with a summation provided by our Moderator, Dr. Chris Roe of the University of Northampton, followed by a brainstorming session on the future of the field. Our five invited speakers and their address titles are: Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado (Parapsychology Foundation) “Discussing Parapsychology at Utrecht: The First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies” Dr. Etzel Cardeña (Lund University) “Toward a Science of Alterations of Consciousness” Dr. Deborah L. Delanoy (University of Northampton) “Parapsychology in the University Setting” Dr. Edwin C. May (Laboratories for Fundamental Research) “Facing the Challenges of Research in Parapsychology” Dr. Brian Josephson (Cambridge University) “A Critical Point for Parapsychology” Our twelve paper presenters and the titles of their talks are: Dr. Jeanne Achterberg (Saybrook Graduate School & Research Center) “Distant Healing” Dr. Martina Belz (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene) “Clinical Parapsychology” Dr. York Dobyns (Princeton University) “Physics with an Open Mind” Dr. Hoyt Edge (Rollins College) “The Mind/Body Problem in Parapsychology” Dr. Thilo Hinterberger (Freiburg University) “Neuronal Markers of Psi” Ms. Eva Lobach (University of Amsterdam) “Presentiment and Precognition” Dr. Fátima R. Machado (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo) “Field Investigations in Hauntings and Poltergeists” Dr. Roger Nelson (Global Consciousness Project) “Can Consciousness Be Real?” Dr. Richard Shoup (Boundary Institute) “Empirical Pictures of Time” Dr. Christine Simmonds-Moore (Liverpool Hope University) “Personality Variables in Spontaneous Psi Research” Dr. Robert Van de Castle (University of Virginia) “ESP and Dreams” Dr. Harald Walach (Universityof Northampton) “Spirituality Research as the Natural Heir to Traditional Parapsychology” In keeping with the spirit and history of Utrecht I, Utrecht II formed a Conference Board consisting of Wim Kramer representing the Het Johan Borgman Fonds of Utrecht and Eileen and Lisette Coly, President and Executive Director of Parapsychology Foundation. A Conference Bureau consisting of Drs. Carlos S. Alvarado and Nancy L. Zingrone was charged with conference detailing and communications. The Conference Board and Bureau, and the Moderator, Dr. Chris Roe, joined with the Advisory Committee to conceptualize the conference. The members of the Advisory Committee are Eberhard Bauer (Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene), Dr. Etzel Cardeña (Lund University), Dr. Hans Gerding (Parapsychologisch Instituut), Gerd Hövelmann (Hövelmann Communications), and Dr. Roger Nelson (The Global Consciousness Project). Confirmed observers hail from a variety of countries, among them Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United States. They range from gifted post-graduate students to individuals who are at the top of the field. Affiliations include universities, independent laboratories, research societies and foundations. Among the planners, presenters and observers, there are medical doctors, psychologists, historians, physicists, and educators. And happily, Dr. William G. Roll (University of West Georgia), Dr. Donald J. West (Cambridge University), and Dr. David Kahn, “veterans” of the first Utrecht conference held in 1953, will also be joining us. Observer seating is very limited and the maximum has already been reached. The Conference Bureau is maintaining a waiting list, however. A conference proceedings will be produced in 2009. If you are interested in being added to the waiting list or in receiving a notification of the publication of the proceedings, please send an email to office@parapsychology.org with “Utrecht II” in the subject line. For information about the historic conference held in Utrecht I, click here. To purchase a proceedings comprised of the abstracts from the 1953 conference, go to the following page in PF’s e-store website, click here. **************************************************** MORE NEWS IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE ON "BREAKING NEWS" on the Foundation's main website. Click here.

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