u/Pieraos

Includes Alex Stefan (see his videos in this subreddit) and Dalia Burgoin.

"In four apartments inside a residential building in Charlottesville, Virginia, research is underway that may be unparalleled in its significance for human existence—and equally unmatched in the criticism and ridicule it provokes."

"2026 Ingo Swann Research Fellow Courtney Block shares her research into the lives and contributions of women whose work helped shape the study of human consciousness and exceptional experiences. Drawing on materials from the University of West Georgia Ingram Library Special Collections, including the Ingo Swann Collection, Block brings these overlooked stories and remarkable legacies to light."

"Claims of veridical perception often accompany out-of-body experiences (OBEs), but systematic evaluation under controlled conditions remains difficult. We examined whether descriptions produced after attempted OBEs corresponded to concealed visual targets beyond chance using computational semantic similarity."

Mindsight instruction for kids. Utah USA.

"The reason my head is turned sideways is because my windows typically open at the edges of my visual field. This is pretty common. With practice and training you can get the windows larger which requires less of these gymnastics!"

"Many human traits are influenced by our genetics. We commonly think of inherited traits as things like eye color, height, or the risk of developing certain diseases. But when it comes to psi phenomena, could inherited biology also contribute to why some people report psychic experiences more often than others?"

"Can the most private thing we experience - our own awareness - become a subject of rigorous science?

"In this discussion, inventor and consciousness researcher Adam M. Curry traces a personal journey from teenage inventions and the Princeton PEAR lab to the creation of Entangled, a mobile app that turns smartphones into quantum random number generators and invites thousands of users to participate in the world’s largest mind-matter interaction experiment."

"The Centre for Liminal Studies has received funding for its first research project – a double-blind study exploring Monroe Sound Science, altered states and mediumship."

"The Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine seeks a highly motivated Research Scientist to coordinate and conduct research on autism, communication, and consciousness. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary research team investigating extraordinary communication in nonspeaking autistic individuals using behavioral, phenomenological, and eye-tracking methodologies."

We usually think seeing is simple: light hits your eyes, your eyes send a picture to your brain, and you consciously see what's in front of you. Because of this, when someone suffers severe damage to their primary visual cortex on both sides of their brain, they are completely blind. They live in total darkness.

Or so we thought. Neuroscientists studied a famous cortically blind patient, known as Patient TN, and ran an experiment that completely blew open how we understand vision.

They set up a long hallway cluttered with random obstacles—chairs, boxes, and trash cans. They placed TN at one end without his cane or guide dog and asked him to walk to the other end.

What happened next was incredible. TN walked down the corridor and smoothly wove around every single box, leaned away from wall projections, and squeezed past chairs without touching a single item.

When he reached the end, the researchers asked him how he did it. TN was genuinely confused by the question. He insisted he didn't see anything at all, had no idea there were obstacles, and thought he had just walked in a straight line.

This phenomenon is called Blindsight, and it happens because your eyes actually route visual information along two completely different pathways in the brain. The main "conscious" highway was destroyed in TN's brain, but an ancient, secondary "subcortical" pathway was still completely intact. This deeper system processed the spatial layout in the background and steered his body automatically, completely bypassing his conscious mind.

It turns out your brain can process the world around you and pilot your physical body without ever giving your conscious self access to the footage.

"To win the $100,000 USD MindSwan Prize, an eligible contestant must correctly identify four consecutive 3-digit target numbers, randomly generated, during an official, supervised prize attempt.

"All four numbers must be identified within 20 minutes while the contestant wears an extended mask that blocks all light."

Eligibility requirements, testing procedures, and all other prize conditions will be provided in the Official Contest Rules published September 1, 2026, and pre-application does not guarantee eligibility or participation.

Would like to hear from anyone who has had YAG treatment for PCO and experienced adverse results, and what may have been done to address it.

"Dying people often report seeing visions or apparitions. But skeptics often try to sweep under the rug such experiences, by dismissing them as 'delirium.'"

"A disembodiment feeling — often called an out-of-body experience, and the term I'll use interchangeably here — is the sense that one's center of awareness has left the physical body. It isn't rare; it occurs in roughly 10-25 percent of the population. Yet when it happens, especially on an ongoing basis, many people quietly wonder if something has gone wrong with their mind."

"For three decades, this conference has gathered the world's boldest thinkers to confront the hardest questions about the nature of mind, experience, and reality." Detailed Program