UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: PROGRAM FOR CONFERENCE ON VARIETIES OF PSYCHIC RESEARCH

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11 UNIVERSITY EXTENSION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Varieties
of Psychic
Research
Friday evening through
Sunday afternoon, February 23-25
Berkeley
The explanation of psychic phenomena
largely eludes us. What actually happens
is bard to say; still harder, but perhaps
most important, is to discover the
meaning of these phenomena.
Sometimes this study is called
parapsychology, but it is more than a
branch of psychology. The problem is
hydra-headed, and the tools used by
researchers in this field are manifold:
the hardware of physics, the net of
statistics. the methodologies of the
sciences, the insights of psychology and
psychiatry, and the observations of
individuals.
In this program we will deal with psychic
experience from various perspectives, but
always with a view toward penetrating
beneath the tales that are told and the
strange phenomena that flash before us.
Distinguishbd scientists and scholars
from a number of fields will try to
elucidate the subtle but not wholly elusive
purport of these sporadic manifestations.
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Program Chairman and Faculty Advisor:
JEFFREY SMITH
Friday, February 23
7-10 p.m.
Parapsychology and the Future
The Inner and Outer World
JEFFREY SMITH'
Parapsychology and the Future of Society
WILLIS HARMAN
Saturday, February 24
9 a.m.-noon
Frying Cups and Flying Saucaty
Poltergeists and Their Psychology
ARTHUR HASTINGS
Unidentified Flying Phenomena: A
Subject for Investigation
JACQUES VALLEE
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Psychology, Psychiatry, and
Parapsychology
Psychiatric Insights into Psychic
Phenomena
JULE EISENBUD
ESP in Dreams and Altered States of
Consciousness
STANLEY KRIPPNER
Sunday, February 25
9 a.m.-noon
Psychokinesis and Precognition
Psychoenergetic Creation of Physical
ulcers
HAROLD PUTHOFF
Models for Precognition
RUSSELL TARG
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Awareness
My Role as a Psychic
ANNE ARMS f RUNG
Awareness in Depth
EDGAR D. MITCHELL
Conference Faculty
ANNE ARMSTRONG, psychic personal
counselor, Sacramento
JULE EISENBUD, M.D.. Associate
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.
University of Colorado Medical School,
Denver; psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
in private practice; author of The World
of Ted Series and Psi and Psychoanalysis.
WILLIS HARMAN, Ph.D.. Director.
Center for the Study of Social Policy,
Stanford Research Institute, and
Professor of Engincering-Economic
Systems. Stanford University. Dr. Harman
is conducting a study on societal
implications of changing images of man
and the role of parapsychology in
effecting these changes.
ARTHUR HASTINGS, Ph.D., manage-
ment consultant in communication. Dr.
Hastings has taught at Stanford University
and California State University, San
Jose; is a Director of the Parapsychology
Research Group, Inc.; and has spent
many years investigating psychic
phenomena.
STANLEY KRIPPNER. Ph.D., Visiting
Professor of Psychology, California State
College, Sonoma; Director, Maimonides
Dream Laboratory. Brooklyn, New York.
Dr. Krippner recently returned from
the Soviet Union, where he met with a
group of Russian parapsychologists.
EDGAR D. M1 ICHELL, Sc.D., former
astronaut; President, Edgar D. Mitchell'
and Associates Inc., Houston. Texas. a
firm engaged in research on many aspects
of human potential. His ESP experiments
on the Apollo 14 moon flight are
among the most widely reported studies
of human awareness.
HAROLD PUTHOFF, Ph.D., is a Senior
Research Engineer in the Electronics and
Bioengineering Laboratory, Stanford
Research Institute, working in the area
of laser research. He is also on the
editorial board of the Journal for the
Study of Consciousness and is actively
investigating psychoenergetic
phenomena.
JEFFREY SMITH, Ph.D., Emeritus
Professor of Humanities and
Philosophy, Stanford University; Director,
Parapsychology Research Group, Inc.;
and Vice-President, Psychic'Research,
Inc. (Program Chairman)
RUSSELL TARO, Senior Research
Physicist. Electronics and Bioengineering
Laboratory, Stanford Research Institute,
and President, Parapsychology Research
Group, Inc., a corporation devoted
to education and research in psychical
phenomena.
JACQUES VALLEE, Ph.D., astro-
physicist, computer scientist, author of
several books on unidentified flying
objects and numerous articles on
information processing published in
British, French, and U.S. scientific
journals. Dr. Vallee is a consultant with
the Institute for Plasma Research at
Stanford University.
Schedule: February 23-25. 1973, Friday
evening through Sunday afternoon
Registration: Friday, February 23,
6:30 p.m.
Location: 155 Dwinelle Hall. Berkeley
campus
Fee: $30. This conference has been
planned to give participants an inter-
disciplinary and multifaceted educational
experience. Consequently, registration
for individual lectures cannot he accepted.
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