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2025 Conference Schedule |
Abstracts of Presented Papers
All Times in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7)
Saturday, September 20
7:30 AM - 7:50 AM Morning Social
7:50 AM - 8:00 AM Welcome Session
Welcome: Daching Piao, SSE 2025 Chair
Opening Remarks: Mark Urban-Lurain, SSE Secretary
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Session 1, Daching Piao, Chair (Track 2)
| 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM | Psychic Play: Unlocking Human Potential Through Joy, Challenge, and Competition (Invited talk) |
| 8:45 AM- 9:10 AM |
Can Consciousness Nudge Randomness? |
| 9:10 AM - 9:35 AM | Online Group PK Experiments (2024-2025): Hypothesis Testing and Theory Development James McCLenon, PHD |
| 9:35 AM - 10:00 AM |
Randomness is in the eye of the Beholder |
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM Morning Break
10:40 AM - 12:15 PM Session 2, Damon Abraham, Chair (Track 2)
| 10:40 AM - 11:25 AM | The Future of Divination (Invited talk) Adam Curry |
| 11:25 AM - 11:50 AM | Redefining Sleep Paralysis as Contact: Lived Enquiry and the Threshold Contact Experience Framework Sheila Pryce Brooks, PHD (UK) |
| 11:50 AM - 12:15 PM |
Quantum Like Behavior in a Dowsing Experiment |
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Session 3, Mark Urban-Lurain, Chair (Tracks 2 & 3)
| 2:00 PM - 2:25 PM |
Exploring Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) through Trance Channeling: Two Case Studies |
| 2:25 PM - 2:50 PM | Anomalous ITC Responses and Mediumistic Impressions Correlated with Historical Records in a Residential Paranormal Investigation Elliott Van Dusen (Canada) |
| 2:50 PM - 3: 15 PM |
Holographic Time Intervals: A Frequency-Domain Framework for Quantum Evolution and the Emergence of Time |
3:15 PM - 3:50 PM Afternoon Break
3:50 PM - 5:30 PM Session 4, Mark Urban-Lurain, Chair (Tracks 2 & 4)
| 3:50 PM - 4:15 PM |
How to Build a Conscious Computer |
| 4:15 PM - 4:40 PM |
Beyond the Turing Test: Can LLM AIs be Sentient? |
| 4:40 PM - 5:05 PM | Exploring the Processes Used by Mediums When Investigating Homicide Cases Leanne O'Neill (Australia) |
| 5:05 PM - 5:30 PM |
Frequency, Water and Memory: Answering the Questions of How Healers See Information in the Body |
Sunday, September 21
8:00 AM - 8:20 AM Morning Social
8:20 AM - 10:00 AM Session 5, Margaret Moga, Chair ( Tracks 3 & 4)
| 8:20 AM - 8:45 AM |
Investigating A Claimed ‘KI Energy' Effect in Object Displacement |
| 8:45 AM- 9:10 AM |
Burgarella Quantum Healing Model (BQH)® in Myocardial Regeneration: A Combined Approach of Quantum Medicine and Cardiac MRI for Heart Failure Management |
| 9:10 AM - 9:35 AM | Electromagnetic Frequencies & Water: The Modern "daishō" Against Cancer As A Possibility To Reshape The Landscape Of Medical Research &Therapy Kyriaki Pavlou, PHD (Greece) |
| 9:35 AM - 10:00 AM |
The Use of Imaginary to Predict the Esoteric Nature of Subtle Energy |
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM Morning Break
10:25 AM - 12:00 PM Session 6, Damon Abraham, Chair (Tracks 2 & 5)
| 10:25 AM - 11:10 AM |
Beyond The Reality Tunnel: Data-driven Insights and Experiments in Randonautica (Invited talk) |
| 11:10 AM - 11:35 AM |
Insights and Meaning Fields Hypothesis For Non-local Information Transfer |
| 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM | Beyond Skinwalkers and Indian Burial Grounds: Contemporary Belief in Anomalous Phenomena Among American Indian Ryan Goeckner, PHD |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch Break
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM Session 7, Mark Rodeghier, Chair (Tracks 4 & 1)
| 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM |
Exploring The Mechanisms of Biofield Therapy (Invited talk) |
| 2:00 PM - 2:25 PM |
Validating Bio-well Technology For Medical Research: A Multi-Parameter Optimization Approach |
| 2:25 PM - 2:50 PM | Experts' Remote Viewing Guidelines |
| 2:50 PM - 3:15 PM |
UAP: The Evidence for Sentience |
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Break
3:30 PM = 5:15 PM Session 8, Mark Rodeghier, Chair (Track 1)
| 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM |
Science in The Age of UAP (Invited talk) |
| 4:15 PM - 4:40 PM | UAP Contact Simulation: An AI-Based Game Framework for Interpreting Non-Human Intelligence Mark Boccuzzi |
| 4:40 PM -5:05 PM |
Biofield aspects of megaliths and crop circles |
5:05 PM - 5:15 PM Closing Session
Closing remarks, Daching Piao, SSE 2025 Chair
SSE 2026 In-Person Conference, Damon Abraham, SSE 2026 Chair
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Social Lounge