Submitting Proposals for Presentations
People wishing to give presentations at the Annual Conference are invited to submit abstracts of their proposals to the ASCSI Program Committee for consideration. The deadline for submission of abstracts is November 1st prior to the upcoming conference.
The Academy's Program Committee seeks presentations that are academically significant, serious, coherent and creative, and that combine aspects of paranormal studies and spirituality. Proposals may, for example, address field or laboratory research, clinical topics, or other topics dealing with methodological, historical, experiential, or theoretical issues.
Details of the upcoming Annual Conference are published here as they become available. Program details of recent preceding Annual Conferences illustrate the kind of presentations that have been given in the past.
GUIDELINES
As you may have gathered, and in the light of our Mission Statement, our primary interest is in promoting discussion of and evidence for manifestations of reality that go beyond our ordinary physical experience, and - in particular - the survival of consciousness following death.
Topics
The following list - in alphabetical order - of qualifying topics is representative, but not necessarily complete:
- After-Death Communications
- Altered, Mystical, and Transformative States of Consciousness
- Applicability of Quantum Physics to the paranormal
- Consciousness Research
- Cross Correspondences in purported channelled information, and other posthumous tests etc.
- Deathbed Visions
- Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), a sub category of ITC
- Ghosts and Ghost Investigation
- Hauntings and Apparitions
- Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC)
- Lucid Dreaming
- Meditation
- Mediumship - mental and physical
- Mind Separate from the Brain
- Mystics and Mystical Experiences
- Near-Death Experiences
- Non-Locality of Consciousness
- Out-of-Body Experiences
- Paranormal Cognition (Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition, Retrocognition, etc.)
- Paraphysics
- Parapsychology
- Poltergeists
- Possession
- Prayer
- Prophecy
- Psychical and Survival Research
- Psychical energies and Distant Healing
- Psycho-manteum Use
- Psychokinesis
- Reincarnation
- Remote Viewing
- Spirituality, prayer and religion
- The Role of Paranormal Events (e.g. Miracles) in Established Religions
- Ufology
Guidelines for the Submission of Proposals for Presentation
To submit a proposal for consideration by the ASPSI Program Committee, please send :
- an abstract (up to 500 words) for the proposed presentation
- the anticipated bibliography of primary sources, and
- biographical information
to the Program Committee Chairman, Boyce Batey, at [email protected] or snail mail to the address shown below. Please contact Boyce if you have questions or need more information about submitting proposals and/or the annual conference. He can also be reached by phone and email as shown below.
