Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Research Fellow, Parapsychology Foundation
One more year has gone by, and this one, I think, really fast. May I wish all of you a (belated) Merry Christmas (or, if you do not celebrate Christmas, a good end of 2017)?
Many good things, and some sad ones, have touched my life during this year. The latter includes the devastation of my country, Puerto Rico, by a hurricane. May the “Isla del Encanto” recover with the passage of time.
Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/caribb/pr.htm
Among the good things I can mention my daily life, and my parapsychology work. This past year I received from the Parapsychological Association the 2017 Outstanding Career Award. I was not able to receive the award in person at the last convention of the Association held in Athens, Greece, but I sent a short acceptance speech that was read in absentia by Etzel Cardeña. Among other things, I said: “I guess some of you may think that, because the career award is conferred to senior members of the PA, I am on my way to the retirement home. Do not fear. I still have all my hair and it is not white yet. I keep myself busy writing various articles . . . . I also plan to continue with new work, especially now that I have been inspired even more by this PA award.”
As you know my blogs have continued over this past year classified under the following topics: Conferences and Other Events, Digital Resources, Education, Organizations and Groups, People in Parapsychology, Phenomena, Recent Publications, Voices from the Past, and Writing History. I particularly enjoy posting about recently published articles because this shows the dynamic work that characterizes modern parapsychology. Examples include:
Metanalysis of Dream ESP Studies
Review of Trends in Publications about “Consciousness Beyond the Brain”
Author Interview: XII. Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience, by David Luke
David Luke
Recent Articles About Near-Death Experiences: II.
Experimental Parapsychology in the Psi Encyclopedia
I have also prepared various bibliographies hoping to use the blog for educational purposes. I do not expect any of you to read these in detail, but I hope you will remember they are in the blog if you need them or that you may tell students and others who may benefit from them that they are available. What can I say, the honor is to help, or to compile?
The Past Literature of Parapsychology: A Reading Guide: I.
The Past Literature of Parapsychology: A Reading Guide: II.
Parapsychology and Psychology Bibliography: I. Overviews
Parapsychology and Psychology Bibliography: II. History
Parapsychology and Psychology Bibliography: III. Clinical Issues
I am also happy to have continued my series of interviews with individuals working in parapsychology, as seen in People in Parapsychology: XXXIV. Sonali Bhatt Marwaha, and People in Parapsychology: XXXIII. Everton de Oliveira Maraldi, People in Parapsychology: XXXII: Michael Nahm, and Interview with Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation.
Sonali Bhatt Marwaha
Lisette Coly
Some of my blogs have been about online events sponsored by the Parapsychology Foundation that I have helped to organize. These are:
Parapsychology Foundation Book Expo 2017
New Online PF Conference: New Faces in Parapsychology
As most of you know, separate from my blog I publish papers about various aspects of parapsychology, mainly historical ones. I published some in 2017 that appeared in journals, and in the Society for Psychical Research’s Psi Encyclopedia. I mentioned most of these in the blog (e.g., click here, here, and here).
Some of CSA’s Articles Published in 2017
(second author, with E. de Oliveira Maraldi). Classic Text No. 113: Final Chapter, From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia, by Théodore Flournoy (1900). History of Psychiatry, 2017, Oct 1:957154X17734782. doi: 10.1177/0957154X17734782.
(first author, with M. Biondi). Classic Text No. 110: Cesare Lombroso on Mediumship and Pathology. History of Psychiatry, 2017, 28, 225-241.
- Cesare Lombroso
Telepathy, Mediumship and Psychology: Psychical Research at the International Congresses of Psychology, 1889–1905. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2017, 31, 255-292.
I will continue working along the same, and perhaps some new lines, in 2018. I hope you stay with me and recommend the blog to others who may want to subscribe. My best wishes for the coming year.
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