International Parapsychology Course Returns

Apparitions, poltergeists, and hauntings are the focus of a free parapsychology lecture series offered this month. Throughout March, paranormal experts from around the world are at your disposal. Attendance won't make you a parapsychologist, but this free opportunity to learn from professionals in the field is priceless.

The program is entitled the ParaMOOC. MOOC is educator-speak, which stands for "Massive Open Online Course," and is also just fun to say. The course's live video-chat lectures are the real deal, so they are very academic, but ghost hunters will still find the content fascinating. Participants watch presentations, ask questions, and discuss paranormal topics with experts and other attendees via live Zoom sessions.

2023 ParaMOOC Speakers

Presenters include Christopher Laursen, possibly the only academic in the world with a PhD in poltergeists; and well-known parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach; as well as lesser-known researchers from Brazil, the U.K., Australia, and Japan. The emphasis on international inclusion was a goal of the late organizer of the ParaMOOC, parapsychologist Carlos Alvarado, who founded the annual course with his wife, parapsychologist Nancy Zingrone. Zingrone, and current organizer Bryan Williams, Research Director of the Psychical Research Foundation decided to relaunch the ParaMOOC this March to carry on Alvarado's work during his birthday month.

According to Williams, ParaMOOC's drive to share international findings is a necessary effort because there are "researchers and scholars around the world who have done relevant and important work, but which may not have received much attention because their work may have been presented or published in languages other than English." The ParaMOOC tradition to make international research along with parapsychology in general more accessible continues.

     

Enroll by sending an email to parapsychologyonline@gmail.com with "Register" in the subject line.

PARAMOOC 2023 SCHEDULE

Feb 8 -- Opening Session, Noon Central

March 1 -- Fatima Machado, Poltergeists in Brazil: Case Studies, Theoretical Approaches, and Their Implications , 1 pm Central

March 3 -- Gerhard Mayer, Reflections on Single Case Studies Using the Example of Two Case Investigations , 11   am Central

March 7 -- Gerald Solfvin, A Science of Spontaneous Cases of the RSPK Type: The AECKO Approach , 8 am Central

March 8 -- Hideyuki Kokubo, Methodology of a Case Study on a Poltergeist Incident , 5 pm Central

March 11 -- Beth Darlington, PAEs – Possible Alternative Explanations When Investigating Paranormal Phenomena , 6 am Central

March 14 -- Robb Tilley, Apparitions and Ghost Experiences: An Introduction , 6 pm Central

March 15 -- Timothy Harte, MESA: Multi-Energy Sensor Array , 3 pm Central

March 17 -- Loyd Auerbach, Apparitions: Consciousness Beyond Death? , 4:30 pm Central

March 18 -- ParaMOOC Open Discussion Forum, with Bryan Williams and Nan Zingrone, Noon Central

March 19 -- Allison Jornlin, The Hidden Ghost Hunter: Remembering Catherine Crowe , 2 pm Central

March 20 -- Pamela Heath, How Mind-Matter Interaction May Play a Role in Creating Place Memory , 3 pm Central

March 21 -- Bryan Williams, Making a Case for Considering Place Memory , 3 pm Central

March 22 -- Christopher Laursen and Susan Demeter, Making Sense of Ourselves in Studies of Ghostly Phenomena , 11 am Central

March 24 -- Beth Hedva, Doing Something About It: Clinical Parapsychology , Noon Central

March 25 -- Rosemarie Pilkington, Gilbert Roller and the Bindelof Case , 1 pm Central

March 28 -- Ann Winsper, Creating the Dead: How Do Auditory Perception, Paranormal Belief and Individual Differences Affect the Interpretation of Alleged Electronic Voice Phenomena? , 9 am Central

March 30 -- Bryan Williams, Seeking Spectral Insight , 3 pm Central

April 1 -- Closing Session and Final Discussion Forum with Bryan Williams, and Nan Zingrone, 3 pm Central

Archives of past ParaMOOC sessions can be found in the Parapsychology Foundation's ParaMOOC playlist. Past lecturers include Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Dr. Dean Radin, mediumship researcher Dr. Julie Beischel of the Windbridge Research Center, remote-viewing expert Dr. Ed May, and Dr. Cal Cooper of the University of Northampton.

You can find all the sessions at https://www.youtube.com/@ParapsychologyOnline.

The annual course returns this year, after a long absence following the 2021 passing of researcher Carlos Alvarado. ParaMOOC lives on in the memory and spirit of his life's work.