From: SMiles Lewis <smiles@elfis.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:20:18 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:10:03 -0400
Subject: SSE Conference & Radio:Free:Elfis Webcast


Greetings from Austin Texas,

I'm going to the 20th annual Society for Scientific Exploration
conference tomorrow and will be giving a full report live next
Monday night (9pm CST) via my weekly webcast at the below urls:

http://www.radio.elfis.net/

http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=elfisnet1

Among the many fine speakers at this year's SSE conf are UFO
researchers Jacques Vallee, Peter Sturrock, Richard Haines,
Roger Wood as well as such parapsychological scientists as Dean
Radin, Stanley Krippner, Hal Puthoff, York Dobyns, Roger Nelson,
and Elizabeth Targ. Also, crop circle investigator William
Levengood will be there. And many more, see below.

Hope to see a few of you there.  :-)


SMiles Lewis

MUFON SSD for Travis/Williamson counties, Texas
http://www.AustinMufon.com
Host of the 38th National UFO Conference
http://www.nufoc.net

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For further details about the conference...

http://www.scientificexploration.org/meetings/20th.html

20th Annual SSE Meeting
June 7­9, 2001
La Jolla Radisson Conference Center
(near U.C. San Diego)
La Jolla/San Diego, CA

Open to the Public

PROGRAM:
Names of Invited Speakers are in UPPERCASE

SESSION CHAIR: Robert Wood

HENRY BAUER, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Science
Studies, Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute & State University When is a Surprise An Anomaly? Is
An Anomaly Always a Surprise?

HAL PUTHOFF, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies,
Austin, Texas Einstein's Legacy: Will it Endure?

ROBERT JAHN, Emeritus Dean, School of Engineering, Princeton
University The Challenge of Consciousness

PETER STURROCK, Center for Space Science & Astrophysics,
Stanford University Bayesian Thinking

Thomas Etter, Boundary Institute, Los Altos, California The
Quantum Core and Markov Processes‹Tools for 21st Century
Science

Richard Shoup, President, Boundary Institute, Los Altos,
California Anomalies and Constraints‹Clairvoyance,
Precognition, and PK Without Rewriting Physics?

BRENDA DUNNE, PEAR Lab, Princeton University; SSE
Education Officer Introduction to the Young Investigators
Program

Ron Gill (Young Investigator), Department of Material
Engineering, Technion‹Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Israel Conceptual Foundation For An Alternative Technology

Pharis Williams (sponsored by Hal Puthoff), Energetic Materials
Research & Testing Center, New Mexico Tech, New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology The Implications of Mechanical Entropy

SESSION CHAIR: Charles Tolbert

RICHARD HAINES, NARCAP, Los Altos, California UFO
Aircraft Cases

JACQUES VALLEE, San Francisco, California UFOs: Recent
Activity in France

ROBERT WOOD, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation (retired),
Newport Beach, California UFO Document Authentication

WILLIAM LEVENGOOD, Pinelandia Biophysical Laboratory,
Grasslake, Michigan Recent Laboratory Findings Regarding
Crop Formations

Bernard Haisch, Director, California Institute for Physics &
Astrophysics, Palo Alto, California Alfonso Rueda, California
State University, Long Beach, California A Quantum Vacuum Basis
for Gravitation

Bryan J. Williams (Young Investigators Program), Department of
Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New
Mexico Toward A General Systems Theory of PSI Phenomena

Young Investigators Program Meeting

SESSION CHAIR: Richard Blasband

Jim DeMeo, Director, Orgone Biophysical Laboratory,
Greensprings, Oregon Wilhelm Reich¹s Atmospheric Research:
Empirical Confirmations

York Dobyns, PEAR Laboratory, Princeton University, New
Jersey Experimental Results From the Trapholt Installation

Dean Radin, Boundary Institute, Los Altos, California Design
and Preliminary Results of Three On-Line PSI Experiments

Roger Nelson, PEAR Laboratory, Princeton University, New
Jersey Dean Radin, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma,
California Strong Evidence for Weak Mind-Matter
Interactions: 40 Years of Experiments

ELIZABETH TARG, Director of Research, Complementary Medicine
Research Institute, California Pacific Medical Center, San
Francisco,California Prayer and Distant Healing

JOIE P. JONES, Professor of Radiology, University of California,
Irvine D.P. O'Hara and K. Elrod, University of California,
Irvine Quantitative Evaluation of Pranic Healing Using Radiation
and Cells in Culture


PANEL SESSION CHAIR: Gregory Benford

CREATIVITY PANEL‹Moderator: Gregory Benford

GREGORY BENFORD, Professor of Physics, University of
California Irvine
GEOFFREY BURBIDGE, Department of Physics, University of
California, San Diego, California
NOLAN BUSHNELL, CEO, uWink, Santa Monica, California
WALTER DE BROUWER, Chairman and CEO, Starlab, Brussels,
Belgium
FEDERICO FAGGIN, Chairman, Synaptics, Santa Clara,
California

SESSION CHAIR: Roger Nelson

Mikio Yamamoto, Head, Bio-Emission Laboratory, National
Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba-shi, Japan Are There
Any Anomalous Effect Other Than Suggestion in Qigong?

Hideyuki Kokubo, Editor, Journal of International Society of
Life Information Science; Director, Japanese Society for
Parapsychology; Chiba-shi, Japan Electrodermal Activity (EDA)
Changes in Remote Actions On Humans

Kimiko Kawano, Center for Informatics Sciences, Nippon
Medical School, Japan Characteristics of EEG Under Anomalous
Conditions

Mami Kido, Professor, Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan
Measurements of Remote Qi-Gong Effects

WAYNE JONAS, U.S. Uniformed Services Health Services,
Bethesda, Maryland Overview of Spiritual Healing Research

BEVERLY RUBIK, President, Institute for Frontier Science,
Oakland, California; Professor, Union Institute, San Francisco
Measurable Changes in Digital Kirlian Photographs Produced
by Alternative Medical Interventions

WILLIAM BENGSTON, St. Joseph¹s College, Long Island,
New York Curing Cancer in Mice

Richard Blasband, Research Director, Center for Functional
Research, Tiburon, California Some Effects of the Orgone
Energy Accumulator on Cancer in Mice

Caroline Mun (Young Investigators Program), School of
Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey In Search of the
Science in Radionics

12:00pm Vladimir Gontar, Director, International Group for
Scientific & Technological Chaos Studies, Institute for Applied
Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Computers
As Living Systems

Stanley Krippner, Professor, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco,
California A Contemporary Stigmatic in Brazil

Ion Lisii, National Association of Complementary Therapy,
Republic of Moldavia Stress and Adaptation Processes: Aspects
of Reflexotherapy with Psychic Catalysts

Manish Vekaria (Young Investigator), California Institute for
Human Science, Encinitas, California Spectral Characterization of
Biophoton Emissions With Intentionality

HANG SOK SO, University of California, Irvine, California
JOIE JONES, D. D. Kidney, and T. Kato, University of California,
Irvine, California Evaluation of Acupuncture Using fMRI Studies
and Ultrasonic Imaging

MICHAEL KOHANE, Ditron LLC, and Durrance Corporation,
Minnesota William Tiller, Stanford University, Stanford,
California Subtle Energy Detection Via Enzymes and Fruit Flies

Peter von Buengner, m-tec AG, Munich, Germany Health-
Related Applications of Random Event Generators

David Swift, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii,
Honolulu, Hawaii Social Origins and Paradigm Change‹
Who Wrote Shakespeare¹s Plays?