Reverse Causation

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An AAAS Symposium held June 20-22, 2006 at the University of San Diego focused on the phenomenon of retrocausation, also called Reverse Causation, in which decisions made in the future have an effect upon the past, contrary to our conventional expectation regarding the always forward pointing arrow of time.  This lens will point to web sites and blogs related to that conference, and to other explorations of reverse causation, such as Jungian Synchronicity and the random number generator experiments being conducted by the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton.

The Reverse Causation Symposium at San Diego 

held June 20-22, 2006

Links relating to the conference itself, including press coverage.
Cause and Defect
Scott Lafee of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote an excellent overview of the Reverse Causation conference taking place in his city. Don't be scared off by the "Sign on San Diego" banner and reader survey at the top. This is NOT one of those newspapers where you have to sign up just to read an article. Just scroll down a bit and the full article is there.

Time and Causality Books on Amazon 

A number of these books were written or edited by participants in the June 2006 San Diego symposium. Their symposium paper titles are mentioned after each book description.

Between Chance and Choice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Determinism

Edited by Harald Atmanspacher of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, whose contribution to the San Diego symposium was a paper titled "From the dynamics of coupled maps to the psychological arrow of time."

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Parapsychology: The Controversial Science

This cogent but not overly technical 1992 introduction to parapsychological research was written by Richard Broughton of the University of Northampton, whose San Diego symposium paper was titled "Encounters with the frontiers of time. Questions raised by anomalous human experience."

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Psi Wars: Getting to Grips with the Paranormal

Richard Shoup of the Boundary Institute and Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences are among researchers whose work is debated and critiqued in this balanced, insightful discussion of controversies in the field of parapsychological research.

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Take Control of Your Life: How to Control Fate, Luck, Chaos, Karma, and Life's Other Unruly Forces

A layperson's introduction to parapsychological phenomena from a personal, rather than a research-oriented viewpoint. Its author, Richard Shoup of the Boundary Institute, gave a talk at the San Diego symposium, titled "Physics without causality -- Evidence and theory."

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Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality

This recently published discussion of current parapsychological research and theory is centered on practical real-world implications of the quantum entanglement phenomenon which Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance." Its author, Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, gave a San Diego symposium talk, "Psychophysiological and perceptual tests of possible retrocausal effects in humans."

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