Parapsychology Dialogues - Day One: Experience, Culture, and Real‑World Contexts

**The Parapsychology Dialogues** is the premier annual convention in parapsychology held in a different city of the world every year. And this year, it's in Sydney - first time ever in Australia! **This landmark event** has a Welcome Reception (Thurs evening) followed by 3 days (Fri-Sun) of presentations, research briefs, panel discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities with 30+ academics, scientists, clinicians, and educators from all over the world. Plus there is a Gala Banquet event on the Saturday evening. **This is a paid conference**, and it is split into separate events in Meetup because you may choose to go to one or two days or the whole conference. The details of speakers and topics will be shown on each event post. More info and tickets are available here: [Conference Tickets](https://parapsychological.org/etn/parapsychology-dialogues-2026/) **A bunch of us from Melbourne are already going**, and if you RSVP on this series of Meetup events, we'll be in contact to add you to the Whatsapp group, so we can mutually coordinate and support the trip. ===================================================== **DAY ONE - Experience, Culture, and Real‑World Contexts** **Friday, 14 August - 8.30am to 7.00pm** * Light Breakfast, Refreshments and networking. * Welcoming Remarks - Program Chair Lance Storm and Joyce Bok. * End-of-Life Experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Content Analysis - Laura O’Sullivan * The 4am Dreaming Women Phenomenon - Jennifer Lisa Vest * Refreshments and networking. * Beyond Phenomena: An Indian Philosophical Model for Understanding Psi Experiences - Shweta Goyal * The Curious History of the Flammarion Engraving - Laurence Browne * Climb Every Mountain - David Ellis * Building Parapsychology Community for a Grassroots Revolution in Consciousness: A Case Study from Melbourne - Russ Townsend * Lunches provided * Investigating the Use of Mediums to Support Homicide Investigations - Leanne O’Neill * Beyond the Hard Problem: Consciousness as Emergent Experience in AI‑Human Syntergic Systems - Ramsés D’León * Temporal Lobe Lability and Anomalous Cognition - Jacob Sevastidis * Lucid Dreaming, Out‑of‑Body Experience, and Active Imagination: A Thematic Analysis - Man Yee Wong * Air CO₂ Sequestration Using Consciousness‑Based Interventions - Annalisa Ventola * Afternoon Tea * Workshop 1: Planet Minute: Designing Intention‑Based Tasks for Climate Action - Annalisa Ventola * PA Presidential Address - Are Parapsychologists Practicing Pseudoscience? - Gerhard Mayer * AIPR Presidential Address - The Phenomenology of Haunts - Tony Jinks * Presidential Reception