FYI -

The 3rd Exploring the Extraordinary conference will take place in York on the 23rd-25th September. Exploring the Extraordinary is an interdisciplinary network for those actively engaged/interested in research into the 'extraordinary' - for example, topics often regarded as paranormal, supernatural, religious, transcendent, ecstatic, exceptional, mystical, anomalous, magical, spiritual.

The conference will include:

Keynote lectures

Professor Charles Emmons - 'In praise of experience as data'

Dr Serena Roney-Dougal - 'Tibetan psychic traditions'

Boundaries, personal experience and the mystical

Vampires in culture

Space, place and supernatural resonance

The paranormal on both sides of the Atlantic

Parapsychological approaches to paranormal belief and experience

Hospitals, dying and extraordinary experiences

Trance mediumship: A Portrait

Personal Electronics

GHost Project

Also - sessions on art, photography and spirit; research reports; and two art exhibitions ('Nature, twilight and the night' and 'Dimensions of spirit')

The conference costs £70 (£55 for concessions) or £30 (£20 concessions) per day. For further information about Exploring the Extraordinary, and to see the conference schedule, please visit http://etenetwork.weebly.com

Registration forms, and further information, is avaliable from [log in to unmask]. We'd really appreciate it if you forward this on to any colleagues or friends who might be interested, and we hope to see you there.

Best wishes

Dr Hannah Gilbert & Dr Madeleine Castro