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Our Tuesday Talks Autumn Season premiers with a spirited conversation. Professor Lance Butler (future Chair of the ACD Centre) and Charlie Maclean (Master of the Quaich) discuss whisky and paranormal experiences over a dram… or three.

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We have been brought up to believe that minds are located inside heads.  But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is much too limited.  People can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated.  Animals can be affected by human looks, and vice versa.  People’s intentions can also be detected telepathically by animals from miles away.  Recent tests have also shown that some people can tell who is calling them before they pick up the phone.  Our minds seem to extend out beyond our brains both through attention and intention.

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Never before has the opportunity for individuals and society to benefit from mind-body-spirit disciplines been so great. This year has conjured ‘a perfect storm’ highlighting the demand for complementary and alternative medicine, natural health therapies, spiritual healing and growth, and personal development. The mind-body-spirit movement is gaining strength, and whether you are a seeker, a healer or just curious, each of us has a role to play.

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The classical scholar Peter Kingsley has argued in a series of books that the origins of Western philosophy are to be found in direct experiences of mysticism and gnosis rather than in Socratic dialogue and reasoning, which was a later development. We have lost our roots and centre represented by the Self, and our identity is primarily shaped by outer factors corresponding to the third person and quantitative perspective of modern science.

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Parapsychology, as with all sciences, is forever observing and questioning its theories, methods, and data through the sceptical lens. However, how the media may portray research into ‘psi’ is another matter of serious concern, especially for today’s generation and how we learn. This talk will examine psi data, how this is communicated and how as humans we see this ‘evidence’ fitting within our worldviews.

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Professor Chris Roe will pick out some highlights of the contemporary parapsychology research effort and draw some conclusions concerning what it might tell us about human capabilities. Professor Roe is President of the Society for Psychical Research and the International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation.

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There is a strong reductionist element in popular science and some brands of philosophy which presents itself as speaking for science and the thinking person.  It doesn’t.  As a mode of approach to the world it is severely limited, enabling us to exploit the world while putting us in a poor position to understand what it is we are in the process of destroying.  This take on the world is in fact the product of being blind to what the more intelligent and insightful part of our mind and brain is able to tell us.

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The Gothic, often known as the ‘literature of terror’, and magic have had a long association. Professor David Punter talks about a few twentieth and twenty-first-century Gothic novels, by writers like Aleister Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft, Denis Wheatley, Shirley Jackson, Iain Banks, M. John Harrison, Susanna Clarke and F.G. Cottam.

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According to our standard view of things, consciousness exists only in the brains of highly evolved organisms, and hence consciousness exists only in a tiny part of the universe and only in very recent history (cosmically speaking). According to panpsychism, in contrast, consciousness pervades the universe and is a fundamental feature of it.

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The ‘Spirit world’ generally refers to a place after our life on this world is over. Katie and John would ask you to consider an alternative perspective. Today our planet is in deep trouble: the human world is divided against itself and disconnected from the Earth. From any perspective, this is an unsustainable situation.

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The 18th century enlightenment, the one involving the Rise of Science and the Age of Reason, has given us a very great deal. The world has been utterly transformed by rational thinking, by science and technology. But it has come at a cost.

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Phenomena Magazine Editor, Brian Allan discusses the relationship between magic and religion. Did magic legitamise religion or vice versa? Was Jesus the Son of God or a master magician?

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Physical mediumship has been a life-long area of interest for Nick Kyle. From when he attended Noah’s Ark Society seances and the Scole Experiments of the 1990s, Nick spent a decade trying to replicate the physical phenomena that he witnessed, before he found repeated success in seances and even well-lit restaurants in Glasgow.

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