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Summary: My recent book, Untying the Gordian Knot (UGK; Lexington Books 2020), proposes a new framework for rethinking the fundamental nature of reality; one that takes into account our best current understanding of quantum physics and everyday reality (most often described via classical physics, which is an approximation of quantum physics). Building on past scholarship [...]

Summary: Ed Kelly will briefly sketch the 20+-year project that has so far resulted in Irreducible Mind (2007), Beyond Physicalism (2015), and Consciousness Unbound (2021). Collectively, these books have contributed to the ongoing erosion of support for physicalism – the still-predominant worldview among mainstream biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists and social scientists (as well as humanistic scholars [...]

Summary: We would like a theory of psi to tell us what psi is for in its everyday functioning, basically sketch out how it works (with guidance for how to learn more about this), and provide some roadmap for the eventual integration of knowledge about psi with established mainstream knowledge about how organisms, including human [...]

Summary: Theories about the relationship between mind and matter have a long-lasting tradition in the philosophy of mind and have also been widely discussed within the field of parapsychology since its beginning as an academic discipline. Dualistic approaches that treat mind and matter as different substances or the materialist view of mind being an epiphenomenon [...]

Summary: Over the last two decades, the phenomenon of time has come under increased scrutiny by the physics community. While the fundamental equations of physics are time-symmetric — that is, elementary processes can be described equally well using time-forward or time-reversed mathematics — reality and consciousness unfold in a decidedly unidirectional, time-forward manner, indicating a [...]

Summary: I will consider the role of theory in organizing observations and directing further research. I will argue that no single theory will be adequate since psi needs to be understood at multiple levels of explanation, including at the level of accounting for the lived experience of ordinary people. I will illustrate the desirable properties [...]

Summary: The bi-hemispheric model of the brain shifts the focus away from supernatural entities entirely and centers the discussion of paranormal occurrences on the human. While this position has been regarded with suspicion by many religious authorities in Abrahamic traditions – as it negates that such happenings are evidence of God, demons, or any corresponding [...]