Practical Parapsychology

About Practical Parapsychology

Your Hosts are : DR BRIAN LAYTHE, Ph.D. and DR.CINDY LITTLE, Ph.D. PRACTICAL PARAPSYCHOLOGY Features & Highlights: - Layperson discussions of research in parapsychology hear what the latest scientific studies reveal about all things paranormal, as well as learn “how to” principles for using social science in your own excursions into hauntings and high strangeness. - Plain language debates and discussions on the latest theories, methods and findings, student resources, researcher interviews, and personal accounts regarding “all things high-strangeness.” - Deep analysis of “paranormal topics in the news” — ghosts, UFOs, entities, bioenergy, cryptids, psychic abilities, and the world of conspiracies. We canvass the mass media for the latest stories and studies and help you separate “fact from fiction.” - Collaborative segments with audience participation with at-home or in-field paranormal research projects and then discusses the findings and implications with professional parapsychologists. - Coming attractions that give “sneak peeks” of forthcoming research publications in the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

Publisher

REL-MAR McConnell Media Company - www.rel-mar.com

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Sept 2022

Latest episode

18 Nov 2022

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Nov 2022

   Practical Parapsychology with Dr. Brian Laythe, PhD, Dr. Cindy Little, PhD and Dr. James Houran, PhD- Season 1, Episode 7

   Episode 7: Transliminality: This week Cindy and Jim discuss the complicated details of transliminality; a trait that strongly predicts haunting experiences.

2. 

   12 Nov 2022

   Practical Parapsychology with Dr. Brian Laythe, PhD and Dr. Cindy Little, PhD - Season 1, Episode 6

   Episode 6: Paranormal Belief and Hauntings: This week Cindy and Brian discuss how paranormal belief is measured, its association with mental illness and cognitive deficits, the role of bias and belief in science, and how we should separate evidence and data from our interpretations of it.

3. 

   28 Oct 2022

   Practical Parapsychology with Dr. Brian Laythe, PhD and Dr. James Houran, PhD - Season 1, Episode 5

   Episode 5: Things You Wanted To Know About Possession, But Were Afraid to Ask. This week Jim and Brian have a discussion about possession across cultures, the degrees of severity that appear with possession, psychology diagnoses that parallel possession, and a healthy dose of warnings about non-professionals digging into possession cases.

4. 

   21 Oct 2022

   Practical Parapsychology with Dr. Brian Laythe, PhD and Dr. Cindy Little, PhD - Season 1, Episode 4

   Episode 4: Investigations and Case Documentation. In this episode, Brian and Cindy discuss tips and tricks for collecting information before you investigate a purportedly haunted location.

5. 

   15 Oct 2022

   Practical Parapsychology with Dr. Brian Laythe, PhD and Dr. Cindy Little, PhD - Season 1, Episode 3

   Measuring Haunting Phenomena II: Haunting and Imaginary Friend Accounts. In this episode, Jim Houran joins us again as we further discuss the SSE and use written haunting accounts to demonstrate how to code haunting narratives. In the second half, we talk about our imaginary friend research and demonstrate through more written accounts how the SSE can be used to clarify the core phenomena behind imaginary friends.

6. 

   3 Oct 2022

   Practical Parapsychology with Dr. Brian Laythe, PhD and Dr. Cindy Little, PhD - Season 1, Episode 2

   Measuring Haunting Phenomena I: Objective and Subjective Phenomena. In this episode we discuss a scientific scale for measuring haunting phenomena: The Survey of Strange Events. Brian and Cindy discuss Objective phenomea (i.e. objects moving) versus Subjective phenomena (i.e. sensed presences, cuts and scratches...e.t.c) and how they relate to each other as well as validating them with evidence.

7. 

   26 Sept 2022

   Practical Parapsychology with Dr. Brian Laythe, PhD and Dr. Cindy Little, PhD - Season 1, Episode 1

   Parapsychology, Frank Drake, and the Drake S Equation: In our inaugural episode Brian and Cindy are joined by Dr. Jim Houran and discuss the passing of Frank Drake, his subtle influence on fringe science, and the Drake S equation: a formula to examine how much conventional explanations can account for the paranormal.

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