Next Meeting - Prof. Chris Roe
on Saturday 29th March 2025
promptly at 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Followed by Refreshments in the Café
at Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Road
London NW1 6XT
Conference Room
Next to The Marylebone Theatre and a 3-min walk from the Sherlock Holmes Museum
(see below for directions)
There is a growing interest in complementary and alternative approaches to fostering health and wellbeing. These often draw on holistic, psycho-socio-spiritual models of health. Evidence from clinical trials suggests that some of these healing approaches can be effective, and there is growing interest in biofield understandings of wellness. However, this work does not yet reflect the central role of healing in Spiritualism; indeed, it tends to give a distorted view of what Spiritualism entails. Much of the work conducted to date is qualitative and observational, and there have been only a small number of formal experiments.
The project described in this presentation is intended to address this omission, and involves a randomised controlled trial that tests for noncontact healing effects. Healers have been recruited who have completed the rigorous training offered by the Healing Trust. Participants are in general good health and are required to continue with traditional medical treatments where appropriate. Participants have been recruited in collaboration with the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, Edinburgh. Two iterations are complete (N = 63) and a third will be completed in February 2025. In this presentation I will reflect on the approaches taken by parapsychology to the scientific study of ‘paranormal’ claims, and speculate on how best to account for the observed findings in terms of an expanded worldview.
Chris Roe holds a Chair in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation and is a Vice-President of the Society for Psychical Research. Chris served as the Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher (2015-2021), Chair of the British Psychological Society Transpersonal Psychology Section (2015-2018), President of the Parapsychological Association (2015-2017), and as President of the SPR (2018-2021). He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Parapsychology and is on the editorial board for the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. His research interests are around understanding the nature of anomalous experiences and includes research on the phenomenology of paranormal experience, particularly as it affects wellbeing, as well as experimental approaches to test claims for extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, particularly where they involve psychological factors.
Recent research has been concerned with the relationship between altered states of consciousness and psychic experience, and phenomena associated with survival of bodily death, including near-death experiences, terminal lucidity episodes, after-death communications, and mediumship. He has published over 140 journal papers and book chapters and given over 250 talks and conference presentations. He received the Parapsychological Association’s Outstanding Contribution Award in 2014, and Outstanding Mentor Award in 2022, and the 2020 University of Northampton Diamond Research Award for Excellence in Doctoral Supervision. In 2024 he won the Linda G. O'Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize for a co-authored essay that evaluated theories of nonlocal consciousness.
You can read more about Chris Roe here About Chris Roe
All guests are welcome.
Doors open 1.45pm for start at 2pm.
Admission fee £10 for all attendees to help cover room hire.
Informal chat and networking in the Café at Rudolph Steiner House after the talk.
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This should be a most interesting talk, and it will be great to meet up again!
Travel details and map to Rudolph Steiner House (next to Marylebone Theatre)
Nearest Underground stations: Baker Street and Marylebone
Best buses to catch: 18, 27, 30, 74, 113, 139, 189, 205, 453
Nearest Railway station: Marylebone Station
Parking: There is an NCP facility in London Park Road. Parking can be booked on their website.
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Prof. Chris Roe
Noncontact Spiritual Healing: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Previous Meetings
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35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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You can find out more about Angie at www.cancertherapies.org.uk
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Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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Miracles and Medicine
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First Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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Dr Pete Carter is a medical doctor who has integrated healing into his medical practice. He also founded Eastgate Healing Centre which provides spiritual healing and has received thousands of visitors since it opened in 2012; there are many remarkable stories and the centre has been accepted by local GPs as a complementary service.
Contact: 03300 889 336
You can find out more at this website: www.healingrooms.org.uk
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Top Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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Spiritual energy Association.
Facebook: Charlie Kennedy - Spiritual Clearance, Teaching and Research.
Historian: The Healing Trust (formerly NFSH)
Contact: 020 8671 4756
Email: [email protected]
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Top Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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Top Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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First Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
and Online on Zoom
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First Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
and Online on Zoom
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First Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
and Online on Zoom
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at Rudolph Steiner House
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Videos of the conference are now available on YouTube using the following links:
Martin Thomas and Dr. Tim Ridge
Annie Hallett of Therapeutic Touch
Sandy Edwards
Online on Zoom
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Online on Zoom
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First Floor Conference Room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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at The Eurythmy room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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at The Eurythmy room
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT
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At Connaught Hall, 36- 45 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9EX
Dr Ian Rubenstein, Enfield GP, gave a talk on
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For more information about Dr Rubinstein, please click here.
