The Reverse Causation Symposium at San Diego
held June 20-22, 2006
- 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
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."
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."
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.
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."
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."
