The colloquia take place on Tuesdays from 15:15 to 16:45 in the Bender Forum at IGPP and are broadcast simultaneously via the Zoom conference platform.
Colloquium
The presentations at our scientific colloquium relate to topics from the interdisciplinary IGPP research program.
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| 12.12.2023 | Prof. Dr. Johannes Dillinger Oxford, Brookes University, School of History / University of Mainz | Ghosts in the study of history |
| 05.12.2023 | Dr. phil. habil. Gerhard Wiechmann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg | From the German flying disk to the NAZI UFO. Metamorphoses of a media phantom 1950-2020. |
| 28.11.2023 | Cyril Costines [1,2] & Dr. Timo Torsten Schmidt [3] [1] Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg [2] IGPP Freiburg [3] Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin | Phenomenomics: Induction of altered experience as a tool of consciousness research |
| 21.11.2023 | Prof. Dr. Yolanda Alonso Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de Almería, Spain | The “representing sensations” in family constellations |
| 14.11.2023 | Dr. Karla K. Evans Department of Psychology, University of York | What is Perceiving the Gist Good for? |
| 24.10.2023 | Dr. Edgar Wunder Social Science Institute of the EKD, Hanover | Myths and empirical findings on the expansion and shrinking processes of “esoteric” and “alternative-religious” orientations in Germany over the last 25 years |
| 10.10.2023 | Dr. phil. Barbara Schmidt Jena University Hospital, Institute for Psychosocial Medicine, Psychotherapy and Psychooncology | Hypnosis – an extraordinary experience or a commonplace variation of our consciousness? A report from hypnosis research |
| 05.09.2023 | Ulrich Magin Hennef | Birth of the Loch Ness monster 90 years ago – ‘Nessie at 90’ |
| 18.07.2023 | Dr. Andreas Anton & Dr. Michael Nahm IGPP Freiburg | Shared Deviance: On interfaces between UFO research and parapsychology |
| 04.07.2023 | Prof. Dr. Niko Kohls Coburg University of Applied Sciences | Resilience and borderline experiences – mountaineering or cobbler’s balls |
| 27.06.2023 | Dr. med. Klaus Blaser Centre for applied Boundary Studies, Basel, Switzerland | Ego boundary awareness, mental perspective taking and therapy |
| 20.06.2023 | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. phil. habil. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | On the cultural psychology of the religious-transcendent experience |
| 13.06.2023 | Prof. Fotini Pallikari PhD, University of Athens | The Greek Society for Psychical Research. Angelos Tanagras and his telekinetic medium Cleio |
| 16.05.2023 | Prof. Dr. Thomas Rabeyron University of Lorraine (Nancy), Interpsy Lab | Toward a theory of psi (only online via Zoom!) |
| 09.05.2023 | Prof. Dr. Markus Maier & Dr. Moritz Dechamps LMU Munich, Department of Psychology, General Psychology II | Proposal for an extension of Descartian dualism: Empirical findings on subjective, objective and sober subjective realities |
| 02.05.2023 | Prof. Dr. Heinrich Päs Faculty of Physics, TU Dortmund University | From All to One and from One to All – Why an ancient idea is the future of physics |
| 18.04.2023 | Dr. Rui Miguel Costa William James Center for Research, Ispa-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal | Visual snow, attentional absorption, and altered states of consciousness |
| 04.04.2023 | Prof. em. Dr. Birgit Menzel Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK), Germersheim | New Age culture in late and post-Soviet Russia |
| 21.03.2023 | Dr. Bertram Schmidt Berlin | Limits of scientific knowledge of the paranormal from the perspective of philosophy (Kant, Heidegger) |
| 14.03.2023 | Dr. Andrea Jungaberle, Dr. Henrik Jungaberle MIND Foundation, Berlin & OVID Health Systems, Berlin | Silent revolution? Psychedelic substances and states of consciousness in the treatment of mental disorders. And beyond |
| 17.01.2023 | Dr. Ina Schmied-Knittel IGPP Freiburg | “This strange, rich, tragic life.” The biologist, parapsychologist and IGPP founder Fanny Moser (1872-1953) |
| 20.12.2022 | PD Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier IGPP Freiburg | Can I believe what I see? A look at the mind-matter problem from the perspective of perception research |
| 06.12.2022 | Prof. Dr. Avi Loeb Professor of Science, Harvard University | The Galileo Project: In Search for Technological Interstellar Objects |
| 29.11.2022 | Prof. Dr. Adam Zeman Cognitive & Behavioural Neurology, University of Exeter Medical School | Aphantasia |
| 22.11.2022 | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hakan Kayal Chair of Computer Science VIII – Information Technology for Aerospace, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | Status and perspectives of UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) research at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
| 15.11.2022 | Prof. Dr. Michael Bohlander Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy at Durham Law School, UK | “Take me to your lawyer.” Legal aspects of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations |
| 08.11.2022 | Dr. phil. Franziska Schaudeck Württemberg State Library Stuttgart | The alchemical manuscript collection of the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in Überlingen |
| 25.10.2022 | Prof. Yves Rossetti Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon Inserm U1028 – CNRS UMR5292 | Learning from illusions about the reality of others’ perspective (lecture in English) |
| 18.10.2022 | Pastor Dr. Gabriele Lademann-Priemer Hamburg | Death and immortality, belief in ancestors, belief in spirits and reincarnation? |
| 27.09.2022 | Dipl.-Phys. Dr. Dr. Walter v. Lucadou Wiss. Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Parapsychologie e. V. (WGFP), Freiburg | Fifty years of searching for the Holy Grail — A theory-driven experimental program and its results |
| 26.07.2022 | Prof. Dr. Hartmut Grote Gravity Exploration Institute, University of Cardiff, UK | Dark matter |
| 12.07.2022 | Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner Chair of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) | Important thinkers in China and Europe on divination and free will |
| 31.05.2022 | Dr. Fynn-Mathis Trautwein Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Freiburg University Medical Center | Meditation-induced self-boundary dissolution: Results from a neurophenomenological investigation |
| 17.05.2022 | Dr. Eric Dullin Anomalous Psychophysics and Cognitive Dissonance Laboratory (LAPDC) | Methodology and Results in Macro-PK Experimental Research |
| 03.05.2022 | Dr. Gerhard Mayer IGPP Freiburg | Parapsychology as a field of research: Opening up the field – broadening the horizon |
| 05.04.2022 | Prof. Dr. Markus Maier LMU Munich, Department of Psychology, General Psychology II | Sobjectivity – How objective is reality and is everything really just coincidence? |
| 29.03.2022 | Dr. Michael Nahm IGPP Freiburg | Young children’s spontaneous memories of previous lives: State of research, interpretations and perspectives |
| 15.03.2022 | Dr. Rupert Sheldrake London | Scopaesthesia and its implications |
| 08.02.2022 | Prof. NUNM Dr. Manfred Kubny National University of Natural Medicine College of Classical Chinese Medicine | Traditional Chinese prognostic systems — an introduction |
| 11.01.2022 | Theresa Müller, M.A. University of Hamburg | Magical manuscripts. Letters of protection and letters from heaven in the context of the First World War |
| 14.12.2021 | Prof. Dr. Johannes Dillinger Oxford Brookes University, School of History, Philosophy and Culture | Ghost beliefs in the German southwest, 16th to 18th century. New archival sources and initial research findings |
| 23.11.2021 | Dr. Kathryn Hall Director of Basic and Translational Research, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Boston, USA | Placebos from Imagination to Molecules: Lost in Translation (lecture in English) |
| 09.11.2021 | Prof. Dr. Peter Brugger Rehazentrum Valens, Switzerland | Chance, Randomness, and “Meaningful Coincidences” |
| 02.11.2021 | Prof. Dr. Fotini Pallikari University of Athens, Physics Department, Condensed Matter Physics | Understanding Psychokinesis |
| 12.10.2021 | Prof. Dr. Oliver Krüger University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland | The Singularity and Superintelligence in Posthumanism |
| 28.09.2021 | Dr. Andreas Anton IGPP | COVID-19 and the “conspiracy theory virus” |
| 20.07.2021 | Herb Mertz Psyleron Inc. | A First-Person Account of Mind/Matter Interaction |
| 06.07.2021 | Prof. Dr. Hartmut Grote Gravity Exploration Institute, University of Cardiff, UK | Micro-PK experiments: Methods and observations |
| 22.06.2021 | Dr. Federico Alvarez Igarzábal IGPP | The State of Flow and The Passage of Time in Video Games |
| 8.06.2021 | PD Dr. Marc Wittmann IGPP | Bem revisited: Results of a German-language retroactive priming task |
| 1.06.2021 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald Walach IGPP & Witten-Herdecke University | Spirituality and parapsychology – bedfellows of the future? |
| 18.05.2021 | Dr. Dr. Heiner Schwenke Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin | The lives of others. Reincarnation as a misinterpretation of past life experiences |
| 04.05.2021 | Karen Konkoly Northwestern University, Illinois, USA | Conversing with dreamers in REM sleep: New strategies for dream science |
| 13.04.2021 | Dr. Ulrich Ott IGPP | Meditation: spiritual experiences and risks |
| 09.03.2021 | Dr. Dr. Walter v. Lucadou Parapsychological Advice Center of the WGFP, Freiburg | Homeopathy, macroscopic entanglement and the model of pseudo-machines |
| 16.02.2021 | Dr. Gerhard Mayer IGPP | Astrology and science – a precarious relationship. Historical review of German-speaking astrology in the 20th century and current developments |
| 26.01.2021 | Dr. Michael Nahm IGPP | The missing link. What psi teaches us about biology and evolution |
| 15.12.2020 | Dr. Felix Scholkmann University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich | Neurophotonics: The role of light in investigating and under-standing brain function |
| 20.10.2020 | PD Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier IGPP | Temporal Aspects of Perception: Information from the Future or Traces from the Past? |
| 18.02.2020 | Dr. Michael Seelig Department of History, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | ‘Telepathy’ as an epistemic object. Creation, legitimization and interpretation of a ‘paranormal phenomenon’ in the Weimar Republic |
| 11.02.2020 | Prof. Dr. Markus Maier (and collaborators) General Psychology II (Emotion and Motivation), LMU Munich | Presentation of a parapsychological research program at the University of Munich |
| 28.01.2020 | Prof. Dr. Jens Schlieter Institute for Religious Studies, University of Bern | The Brain as a Filter of Consciousness: On the History and Systematics of a Theory |
| 21.01.2020 | Dr. Marina Jaciuk European Ethnology / Folklore at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt | The “other side of reality”. The “journalism of the unknown” in Spain as a heterodox interpretation of the world(s)? |
| 17.12.2019 | Dr. med. Elisabeth Petrow Berlin | Mystical experiences and illness |
| 10.12.2019 | David Khunchukashvili, M. A. LMU Munich | Astrology and Apocalypse – on astrological prophecies of the Flood between the Holy Roman Empire and Muscovite Rus |
| 26.11.2019 | Dr. Andreas Anton IGPP Freiburg | “UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact.” (Dis)information campaigns on the UFO phenomenon |
| 15.10.2019 | Annette Zwickel, M. Sc. IGPP Freiburg | Extraordinary experience and experience of meaning. Exploration of psychodynamic correlates. |
| 08.10.2019 | Prof. em. Dr. Thomas Hauschild University of Halle-Wittenberg | Ghosts and spirits: Historical contexts and neurobiological universalism |
| 03.09.2019 | Prof. Dr. Günther Oestmann TU Berlin, Institute for Philosophy, History of Literature, Science and Technology | Resonances of the “Harmonice mundi” and Johannes Kepler’s rediscovery in Romanticism |
| 23.07.2019 | Ana Flores, PhD University Medical Center Freiburg & IGPP Freiburg | Exploring a matrix model where mind and matter interact through correlations |
| 16.07.2019 | Dipl.-Phys. Dr. phil. Wilfried Kugel Berlin | Hanussen and the ‘Third Reich’ |
| 05.06.2019 | Dr. Sarah Demmrich, Dipl.-Psych. Institute of Sociology, Chair of Sociology of Religion, University of Münster | A religious-psychological perspective on obsession: The study by Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1921) and its relevance today |
| 22.05.2019 | Iris Blum Zurich | Powerfully secret. Insights into the Psychosophical Society 1945-2009 |
| 08.05.2019 | Prof. Dr. Günther Oestmann TU Berlin, Institute for Philosophy, History of Literature, Science and Technology | Historical horoscopes as a source for the history of science |
| 10.04.2019 | Dr. Andreas Anton & Prof. Dr. Michael Schetsche IGPP Freiburg | exosociology: Of humans and aliens |
| 03.04.2019 | Peter Bancel, PhD Institut Métapsychique International, Paris | Parapsychology Needs a Theoretical Program |
| 13.03.2019 | Dr. rer. nat. Timo Torsten Schmidt Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging Unit (NNU), Freie Universität Berlin | Experimentally altered states of consciousness: Neuronal correlates and relation to psychopathologies |
| 06.03.2019 | Dr. Julian Petkov Mannheim Academy for Social Professions | Self-harm as an experience of God? On abnormal bodily life in a religious context |
| 27.02.2019 | Prof. Dr. Birgit Menzel University of Mainz Dr. Anna Tessmann Heidelberg M.A. Romina Heim Germersheim | New Religious Cultures in Late and Post Soviet Russia – New religious cultures in late and post-Soviet Russia (lecture in German) |
| 13.02.2019 | Karla K. Evans, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, The University of York, UK | Perceiving Gist in Medical Image Perception and Why one Should Care |
| 30.01.2019 | Dr. Katrin Preller Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich & Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine | The neuropharmacology of social cognition and self-awareness – Imaging studies in LSD- and psilocybin-induced altered states of consciousness |
| 09.01.2019 | Dipl.-Psych. Michael Tremmel Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University Giessen | Diversity of meditation experience: first results |
| 12.12.2018 | Dr. Michael Nahm IGPP Freiburg | Full materializations and ectoplasm guaranteed: Current “physical media”, their interconnectedness and adherents |
| 05.12.2018 | Dipl.-Phys. Dr. phil. Wilfried Kugel Berlin | My parapsychological research projects in Berlin 1971 to 2000 – A summary |
| 21.11.2018 | Dr. Gerhard Mayer IGPP Freiburg | The faces of Bélmez – the investigation of a supposedly strong RSPK case |
| 14.11.2018 | Prof. Dr. William Sax & Prof. Dr. Annette Hornbacher Institute of Social Anthropology at Heidelberg University | Possession and the Modern Soul |
| 07.11.2018 | Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach IGPP Freiburg | Close to reality? exceptional experiences and our approach to reality in controversial contemporary epistemologies. |
| 17.10.2018 | Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson, Emeritus Professor of Psychology University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland | Deathbed visions and other end-of-life experiences |
| 12.09.2018 | Julia Mossbridge, MA, PhD, Fellow, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Associated Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies | Precognition and Occam’s Razor: Can we keep both? |
| 18.07.2018 | Thorsten Mann Schönau | “Under the spell of royal science” – The astrologer Elsbeth Ebertin (1880-1944) |
| 04.07.2018 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology, Differential Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | Operative Psychology of the State Security of the GDR |
| 27.06.2018 | Dr. Andreas Anton IGPP Freiburg | The paranormal in socialism. Dealing with heterodox knowledge, experiences and practices in the GDR |
| 06.06.2018 | Prof. Dr. Christine Maillard Université de Strasbourg, Faculté des Langues et des Cultures Étrangères, Département d’études allemandes | “The Red Book” by C. G. Jung in the context of intellectual history |
| 16.05.2018 | Ursula Brasch, Certified Analytical Psychologist C. G. Jung Institute Zurich | The I Ching as an oracle practice within the framework of C. G. Jung’s analytical psychology — basics and application |
| 02.05.2018 | Prof. Dr. med. Franz X. Vollenweider Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Center for Psychiatric Research, Heffter Research Center at the “Burghölzli” of the University of Zurich | With and without self: What we can learn from psychedelic substances |
| 25.04.2018 | Mandy Ranneberg Curator at the Moser Family Museum Charlottenfels, Heinrich and Henri Moser Foundation, Neuhausen am Rheinfall (Switzerland) | Dr. Fanny Moser (1872-1953) – Research into the family history |
| 18.04.2018 | Bernd Pröschold, M. A. Cologne | The Hessdalen phenomenon. An atmospheric anomaly in Norway |
| 11.04.2018 | Prof. Dr. Karsten Wendland z. Currently Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) | The essence of technology. Approaches to machine consciousness |
| 21.03.2018 | Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach IGPP Freiburg | Errors and aberrations of the revised questionnaire for the assessment of the phenomenology of extraordinary experiences (PAGE-R) in its application in psychosis research. |
| 07.03.2018 | Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto Max Weber College for Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt | The Leipzig Magica Collection and the Problem of Ritual Failure |
| 28.02.2018 | Prof. Dr. Volker Franz Department of Computer Science, Experimental Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen | Unconscious lie detection: A methodological critique |
| 24.01.2018 | Dr. jur. Verena J. Dorn-Haag Faculty of Law, Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law etc., University of Augsburg | The “unreal” in legal reality. How criminal law deals with the (apparently) incomprehensible |
| 06.12.2017 | Emanuela Liaci, M. Cogn. Neurosc. & Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Kornmeier IGPP and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Freiburg | Can I believe what I see? – On the interplay of perception and meta-perception |
| 18.10.2017 | Dr. Hartmut Grote Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and University of Hannover | Gravitational waves — History of a century-long discovery |
| 04.10.2017 | Dr. Mark Elliott School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway | How Might the Golden Section Confer Aesthetic Appeal? The ‘Experimental’ Behind Experimental Aesthetics |
| 06.09.2017 | Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Rolf Verleger Department of Neurology [until May 2017] and Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck | On the reduction of psyche to brain physiology: considerations based on two EEG potential components – readiness potential and P3 |
| 09.08.2017 | Prof. Tania Simona Re, M.A. Anthropological Department, University of Genoa, Italy | Analysis of the material and immaterial elements in healing places |
| 26.07.2017 | Dr. Andreas Losch Faculty of Theology of the University of Bern | The significance of the possible discovery of extraterrestrial life for theology |
| 12.07.2017 | Dr. Mark Benecke & Ines Fischer | Vampyres as an identity group: current data and observations |
| 05.07.2017 | apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | C. G. Jung and religion |
| 21.06.2017 | PD Dr. phil. Stefan Schmidt, Dipl.-Psych. Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg | Placebo – healing through the creation of meaning |
| 10.05.2017 | Dr. Nicole Bauer Institute for Religious Studies at Heidelberg University | Kabbalah and religious identity: a religious studies analysis of the German-language Kabbalah Center |
| 03.05.2017 | PD Dr. Ursula Voss Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Institute of Psychology | Lucid dreams and consciousness |
| 05.04.2017 | Hauke Heidenreich, M.A. Faculty of Theology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | Kant as a spirit seer? – The interpretations of Kant’s moral philosophy in occultism at the end of the 19th century |
| 08.02.2017 | Dr. Gerhard Mayer & Max Fuhrmann, B.A. IGPP | Sleep paralysis. Phenomenology – Interpretations – Coping |
| 18.01.2017 | Dr. Dr. Walter von Lucadou Parapsychological Counselling Centre of the WGFP, Freiburg i.Br. | Putting a wet sponge on the teacher’s seat – causality and entanglement in parapsychology and other human sciences |
| 07.12.2016 | Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs Chair of Biological and Differential Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg i.Br. | Brain, hormones and trust: Translational perspectives for a psychobiological therapy |
| 30.11.2016 | Christopher Laursen, PhD Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (History), University of British Columbia (Vancouver) | Reimagining the Poltergeist in Twentieth-Century America and Britain |
| 23.11.2016 | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. phil. habil. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | On the history of the congresses of the German Psychological Society during the Nazi era |
| 26.10.2016 | Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach IGPP | Validation of the PAGE-R as an instrument for recording extraordinary experiences. Results of a comparative study with four samples |
| 06.07.2016 | Dr. Ulrich Ott BION Giessen | Induction of gamma activity in the EEG: experimental mysticism? |
| 15.06.2016 | Dr. Felix Hasler Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Neuromythology. A critical look at explanatory models of brain research |
| 01.06.2016 | Volker Lechler Stuttgart | On the history of the ‘occult lodge’ Fraternitas Saturni based on archive finds |
| 11.05.2016 | Drs. Wim Kramer, MBA, MBA Het Johan Borgman Fonds, Bunnik (NL)) | ‘Capturing the Past’ – Preserving the History of Parapsychology and Spiritualism in The Netherlands for Future Generations |
| 20.04.2016 | Dr. Peter Mario Kreuter Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Regensburg | “The Reverend Mr. Augustini Calmet Abbot of Senon, Ord. S. Bened. Scholarly Negotiation of the so-called vampires and returning deceased in Hungary, Moravia etc.” |
| 06.04.2016 | Dr. Renaud Evrard, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Lorraine, Center for Information, Research, and Counseling on Exceptional Experiences | History of Parapsychology in France: The Mind and its Legend |
| 16.03.2016 | Dr. Gerhard Mayer IGPP | Ayahuasca, shamanic trance and Santo Daime |
| 17.02.2016 | Prof. Dr. med. Ludger Tebartz van Elst Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg | The beginning and end of schizophrenia: a neuropsychiatric perspective |
| 27.01.2016 | Univ.-Doz. Dr. Eckart Ruschmann Bregenz | Human images as a background for the interpretation of near-death experiences |
| 16.12.2015 | Prof. Dr. Joseph Imorde Chair of Art History, Department of Art and Music, University of Siegen | Take off – Levitations and their images |
| 25.11.2015 | Prof.’in Dr. Gunda Wößner Baden-Württemberg Police University (HfPolBW) | Possibilities and limits of psychology in the context of police work |
| 04.11.2015 | Dr. Demyan Belyaev currently at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Geography at the University of Freiburg | Today’s “esotericism” as an object of research in international comparison: a social science project |
| 21.10.2015 | Andreas Fischer IGPP | “Anna & Bernhard Blume – La photographie transcendentale”: An exhibition project at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (July – September 2015) |
| 30.09.2015 | Eberhard Bauer IGPP | “…a strange little man who could almost have stepped out of Grimm’s fairytale world”: the “thought photographer” Ted Serios (1918-2006); together with documentary film “Detour de Force” (2015) by Rebecca Baron (approx. 30 min.) |
| 26.08.2015 | Uwe Schellinger, M.A. IGPP | “Encounters with the uncanny: From the science of the occult apparitions” – a TV documentary from 1965 |
| 10.06.2015 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | German-speaking psychologists 1933-1945 |
| 20.05.2015 | PD Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Kornmeier IGPP & University Hospital | Perception and the construction of reality – basic principles and an electrophysiological approach |
| 22.04.2015 | PD Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Kornmeier IGPP & University Hospital | EEG correlates of altered states of consciousness through meditation |
| 04.03.2015 | PD Dr. Marc Wittmann, IGPP | Time & extraordinary states of consciousness: new findings on mindfulness and meditation |
| 11.02.2015 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz Schott Institute of Medical History at the University of Bonn | Magic of nature â Historical variations on a motif of the art of healing |
| 28.01.2015 | J.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmidt University Medical Center Freiburg, Section for Complementary Medical Evaluation Research | Experimental parapsychology – an introduction [book presentation] |
| 19.11.2014 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernd Wedemeyerll-Kolwe Niedersächsisches Institut für Sportgeschichte e.V., Hanover | The significance and reception of early German occult research – Prof. Dr. Helmut Möller (1926-2013) and the consequences |
| 22.10.2014 | Prof. Dr. Markus Huff General Psychology, University of Tübingen | How people perceive and remember dynamic events |
| 30.07.2014 | Dr. Dr. Walter v. Lucadou Parapsychological Counselling Center of the WGFP, Freiburg | When sheep refuse to be sheared – a replication study |
| 23.07.2014 | Uwe Schellinger, IGPP Günther Klugermann and students from the Department of History at the University of Freiburg | Freiburg – locus occultus? A city tour of unusual facets of Freiburg’s social and scientific history (1880-1945) |
| 16.07.2014 | Dr. Michael Nahm Freiburg | The development and phenomena of the Felix Circle in Hanau (internal colloquium) |
| 09.07.2014 | Prof. Dr. Hartmann Römer Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg | Emergence and evolution |
| 02.07.2014 | Dr. Wilfried Kugel Berlin | The Hanussen myth |
| 07.05.2014 | Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmidt Section Complementary Medicine Evaluation Research, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Freiburg University Medical Center | Meditation and introspection: A neurophenomenological approach to the Libet experiment |
| 16.04.2014 | Dr. rer.nat. Dr. phil. Heiner Schwenke Head of Teichmüller Edition, Faculty of Theology Basel | Transcendental encounters: Phenomenology and metacriticism |
| 09.04.2014 | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller Chair of Medieval and Modern Art History, Institute of Art and Musicology, TU Dresden | The vampire as enemy of the people. On the political iconography of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s “Nosferatu” |
| 05.03.2014 | Madeleine Therstappen University of Freiburg | The journal “Sphinx” (1886-1896) between psychical research, spiritualism and theosophy |
| 26.02.2014 | Drs. Wim H. Kramer Director Stichting Het Johan Borgman Fonds, Bunnik, NL | Gerard Croiset Unveiled: Discussing the Most Famous Dutch Psychic |
| 12.02.2014 | Mirko Uhlig, M.A. Institute for Film, Theater and Empirical Cultural Studies. Department of Cultural Anthropology / Folklore, University of Mainz | Guardians of ancient knowledge? Contemporary shamanism in the Eifel region |
| 29.01.2014 | Prof. Dr. Hartmann Römer Institute of Physics of the University of Freiburg | Emergence and evolution (lecture will be postponed to a later date) |
| 22.01.2014 | Dr. Hartmut Grote Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and University of Hannover | An 80-hour experiment on coincidences between human intention and a physical random number generator and some insignificant outside views |
| 18.12.2013 | Andreas Anton, M.A. & Dr. Michael Schetsche IGPP Freiburg | On the (im)possibility of scientific UFO research |
| 04.12.2013 | Dr. phil. des. Stephanie Gripentrog Department of Religious Studies at the University of Basel | Discourses of abnormality. “Religion” and “psychology” in the European history of religion in the 19th and early 20th centuries |
| 30.10.2013 | Dr. Serge Kernbach, Director, Cybertronic Research Research Center of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science | Unconventional research topics in Russia – an overview |
| 16.10.2013 | Dr. Anna Lux Department of History at the University of Freiburg | ‘Vom spielenden Gelingen’ – The parapsychologist Hans Bender and the media public |
| 17.07.2013 | Andreas Anton, M.A. & PD Dr. Michael Schetsche IGPP Freiburg | On the (im)possibility of scientific UFO research |
| 12.06.2013 | Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier University Eye Clinic Freiburg, Section Functional Vision Research & IGPP Freiburg | Attention, conscious and unconscious perception |
| 08.05.2013 | Anne-Christin Lux, M.A. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Myth of the Morloks. The work of a dynasty of healers in the northern Black Forest |
| 17.04.2013 | Dr. Carsten Allefeld Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin | Mental states as macro-states: Project and problems |
| 13.02.2013 | Prof. Dr. Christine Mohr Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne | Cognitive impairments in the psychosis spectrum – and what about drugs? |
| 16.01.2013 | Prof. Dr. Christian Rösler C.G. Jung Institute Zurich & Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg | Synchronicity in the context of psychotherapy – a research concept |
| 05.12.2012 | Dr. Christine Lehmann Stuttgart | Totensteige – A thriller with psi: reading and discussion |
| 07.11.2012 | Prof. (em.) Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson University of Iceland, Dept. of Psychology | My four masters (My four masters): Hans Bender, Joseph Banks Rhine, Ian Stevenson and Karlis Osis |
| 31.10.2012 | Dr. Júlia Gyimesi Assist. Prof., Dept. of Psychology, Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences | Spiritualism and Psychoanalytically Oriented Parapsychology in Hungary |
| 25.07.2012 | Dr. Matthias Gamer University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf | The influence of emotions on memory: behavioral findings and psychophysiological data |
| 18.07.2012 | PD Dr. Barbara Lay Clinic for Social Psychiatry and General Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich | Doubtful states of mind, illness, disorder or normal behavior? |
| 11.07.2012 | Prof. Dr. Florian Mildenberger European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder | The Mannheim ‘Zentrale zur Bekämpfung der Unlauterkeit im Heilgewerbe’ (ZBUH) and the IGPP (1950s to 1980s) |
| 04.07.2012 | Prof. Dr. Markus Maier General Psychology II, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich | Quantum mechanical processes in the brain: evidence of retrocausal effects in unconscious information processing |
| 20.06.2012 | Dr. Rossana Actis-Grosso Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy | The Representation of Time Course Events in Visual Arts and the Development of the Concept of Time in Children |
| 13.06.2012 | Dr. Werner Ehm IGPP , Dept. TDA | Crooked straight lines – Geometric modeling of a visual illusion |
| 06.06.2012 | Dr. Jiri Wackermann IGPP , Dept. EAP | “Soft lines, fragile spaces…” – On the geometry and psychophysics of the visual space |
| 23.05.2012 | Sarah Khan Berlin | “Ghosts of Berlin” (novel reading) |
| 16.05.2012 | Prof. Dr. Hoyt Edge Dept. of Philosophy & Religion, Rollins College, Winter Park FL, USA | Cross Cultural Research in Bali |
| 09.05.2012 | Dr. Ehler Voss Media Studies Seminar, University of Siegen | Media healing in Germany |
| 02.05.2012 | Prof. Dr. Veit Rosenberger Chair of Ancient History, University of Erfurt | Greek Oracles |
| 25.04.2012 | Dr. Otto Weiß formerly “Istituto storico Redentorista” Rome | Instructions from the beyond? |
| 15.02.2012 | Reinhard Breymayer, M. A. University of Tübingen | Between Princess Antonia von Württemberg and Kleist’s Käthchen von Heilbronn. News on the magnetic and tense field of the prelate Friedrich Christoph Oetinger |
| 08.02.2012 | Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier & Rike Woerner IGPP & University Eye Clinic Freiburg | EEG correlates of the degree of ambiguity of a visual stimulus |
| 01.02.2012 | Dr. Matthias Gamer University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf | The influence of emotions on memory: behavioral findings and psychophysiological data |
| 25.01.2012 | Andreas Anton, M. A. IGPP | Unreal realities. On the sociology of knowledge of conspiracy theories |
| 18.01.2012 | Prof. Dr. Peter J. Bräunlein Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Göttingen | Of self-crucifiers and flagellants: Catholicism and shamanism in the Philippines |
| 11.01.2012 | Prof. Dr. Natascha Adamowsky Institute for Media Culture Studies, University of Freiburg | Mrs. Piper’s ghost machine – thoughts on the uncanny of media power around 1900 |
| 14.12.2011 | Dr. Johannes Wagemann Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Cultural Reflection | The structural-phenomenological concept of a correlation between brain and consciousness |
| 08.12.2011 | Dipl.-Psych. Tim Schönwetter IGPP | Psychophysiological anomalies? Insights into the orientation response in studies with unconventional research questions |
| 07.12.2011 | Dr. Alexander C. T. Geppert Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin | On the history of knowledge and impact of the UFO idea |
| 30.11.2011 | Dr. Lukas Vogel Bern | Horrible company. The haunted house in Stans and the life of Melchior Joller |
| 23.11.2011 | Andreas Sommer, M. A. Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, University College London | New insights into the role of parapsychological research in the emergence of academic psychology, 1879-1910 |
| 16.11.2011 | Dipl.-Psych. Tim Schönwetter IGPP | Psychophysiological anomalies? Insights into the orientation response in studies with unconventional research questions |
| 09.11.2011 | Dr. Carsten Allefeld Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin | Coordination of EEG between speakers and listeners |
| 02.11.2011 | Dr. Gerhard Mayer IGPP | The ghost hunters are coming: Phenomenology of Ghost Hunting Groups |
| 20.10.2011 | Drs. Wim H. Kramer Director of ‘Het Johan Borgman Fonds’ (HJBF) Foundation, The Netherlands | Johan Borgman (1889-1976), the Remarkable Life of a Dutch Poet, Painter and Psychic Healer |
| 19.10.2011 | Prof. (em.) Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson University of Iceland, Department of Psychology | Worldwide Surveys on Belief and Disbelief in Survival and Arguments For and Against an Afterlife |
| 20.07.2011 | Dr. Wolfgang Ambach IGPP Freiburg | Seven years of concealed knowledge |
| 13.07.2011 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald Walach Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences, European University Viadrina | Receptivity and aspiration – the mystical epistemology of Hugo de Balma |
| 06.07.2011 | Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Geißler Institute of Psychology, University of Leizpig | Universal structures in time thresholds of perception: New results from experiments on gamma apparent motion |
| 29.06.2011 | Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach IGPP Freiburg | Categoriality and complementarity in the mental representation of extraordinary experiences (ExE) |
| 22.06.2011 | Dr. Annett Galow Institute for Forensic Psychology, Charité Berlin, & Dr. Sascha Tamm Cognitive Neuropsychology, Freie Universität Berlin | Experience-based and distorted memories in the EEG: An application-oriented study in a forensic-psychological context |
| 08.06.2011 | PD Dr. Stefan Huber Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Chair of Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum | The Religion Monitor. New perspectives for the social science study of religion |
| 01.06.2011 | Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl IGPP Freiburg & BION Gießen | Meditation – neurobiological principles and clinical applications |
| 25.05.2011 | Dr. Ralph Stöwer Institute of Psychology, University of Bonn | Erich Rothacker (1888-1965) and German psychology |
| 18.05.2011 | Dr. Djohar Si Ahmed L’Institut des Champs limites de la Psyché (ICLP), Paris | Counseling Work with the Psychomanteum |
| 11.05.2011 | Dr. John Palatini Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | ‘Spiritual leadership’ – Hans-Hasso von Veltheim’s (1885-1956) ‘esoteric’ search for a new aristrocracy |
| 20.04.2011 | Dr. Martin Grunwald Paul-Flechsig-Institute for Brain Research, University of Leipzig | Haptics – the scientific study of the sense of touch: Psychological borderland or starting point for a biopsychological analysis of human behavior |
| 09.02.2011 | Prof. Dr. Manfred Dierks University of Oldenburg | The Ghost Baron: A narrative study of the life and work of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing |
| 03.02.2011 | Dr. Bernd-Christian Otto Institute for Religious Studies, University of Erfurt | Magicians in the footsteps of Moses: The history of the concept of magic and the miraculous |
| 02.02.2011 | Dr. Jiri Wackermann & Dr. Marc Wittmann IGPP | “Between times” (An interim report from our time research) |
| 26.01.2011 | Dipl.-Phys. Heinrich Neubauer Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg | Temporal summation in the human auditory system |
| 19.01.2011 | Dr. Jennifer Windt | Dreams in the philosophy of consciousness: Are dreams subjective experiences? |
| 22.12.2010 | Prof. Dr. Hans Strasburger Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Munich and University of Göttingen | Blind and seeing alter egos: Blockade of visual perception in a patient with dissociative identity disorder |
| 01.12.2010 | Prof. Dr. Helmut Lück Institute of Psychology, FernUniversität Hagen | Gert Heinz Fischer, student and successor of Erich Jaensch in Marburg. Psychology in the service of Nazi organizations |
| 17.11.2010 | PD Dr. Thomas König Psychiatric University Hospital Bern | Rhythm, beats and networks in the brain |
| 10.11.2010 | Newman Lao, Ph.D. University of Lausanne/Pantheon Sorbonne University | The Paranomal Phenomena in Theodore Flournoy’s Work |
| 03.11.2010 | Julian Strube, M.A. University of Heidelberg | VRIL: The history of a term in the context of Western esotericism |
| 27.10.2010 | Egil Asprem, PhD Research Fellow History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, Department of Art, Religion and Cultural Sciences, University of Amsterdam | The Naturalization of the Supernatural. Parapsychology between the History of Esotericism and the History of Science |
| 21.07.2010 | Dr. Carsten Allefeld BCCN, Berlin | Flicker-induced visual percepts |
| 14.07.2010 | Dipl.-Psych. Cäcilia Schupp & IGPP-Counseling team IGPP | Fulfilled expectations? – Counseling and information at IGPP: Results of a follow-up survey and exemplary case presentations |
| 07.07.2010 | Andreas Fischer IGPP | Photography and hypnosis: Albert von Schrenck-Notzing’s experiments with ‘Lina M.’ and ‘Magdelaine G.’ in a cultural-historical context |
| 30.06.2010 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | Fantasy experience – a neglected concept in psychology |
| 23.06.2010 | Prof. Dr. Christian Rösler C.G. Jung Institute Zurich & Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg | Genes, society or stories? C.G. Jung’s archetype theory in the light of new findings from neuroscience, developmental psychology, human genetics and cultural psychology |
| 16.06.2010 | Dr. Djohar Si Ahmed L’Institut des Champs limites de la Psyché (ICLP), Paris | Working with “Groupes d’Entrainement à la Télépathie” (GET) |
| 09.06.2010 | Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher Professorship for Literary and Cultural Studies, ETH Zurich | The magical and medial function of narrative in Hasidism |
| 19.05.2010 | Dipl.-Psych. Susanne Müller Institute of Psychology at the University of Freiburg | Meditation and neuroscientific research |
| 12.05.2010 | Sebastian Brandt, M.A. & Uwe Schellinger, M.A. IGPP | “The Sherlock Holmes of Bernburg”: The career and reception of the criminal telepath August Drost (1873-1955) |
| 05.05.2010 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz Schott Medical History Institute of the University of Bonn | The magic of nature and the power of the unconscious: The history of science in parapsychology |
| 28.04.2010 | Dr. Peter Krummenacher Collegium Helveticum Zurich | Neuroscientific aspects of placebos |
| 21.04.2010 | Prof. Dr. Albert Kümmel-Schnur Department of Literary Studies at the University of Konstanz | Flat pictures |
| 10.02.2010 | Dr. Gabriele Lademann-Priemer Office for Sects and Worldview Issues Hamburg | Voodoo ceremonies in West Africa – a travelogue |
| 03.02.2010 | Rieke Wörner & Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier IGPP | Multistable perception – priming and adaptation at different processing levels |
| 27.01.2010 | Dr. Vladimir Velminski Institute for Slavic Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin | On the reception of telepathy research in the early Soviet Union |
| 20.01.2010 | Prof. Dr. Albert Kümmel University of Konstanz | Disturbed receptions: Media – Trance – Disorder; lecture canceled, will be made up for |
| 13.01.2010 | Dr. Jiri Wackermann & Kristina Kastner IGPP | On the problem of illusion: What is true in perception? |
| 16.12.2009 | Dr. med. Jörg Reißenweber Faculty of Medicine, Private University Witten/Herdecke | “Electrosensitivity” and “Radiosensitivity” – Experimental and clinical aspects |
| 09.12.2009 | Dr. Thomas Wehr Department of Psychology, University of Trier | Explicit and implicit recording methods for mapping the remote staring effect |
| 02.12.2009 | Dr. Patrice Ladwig Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale | Guilt, trauma and uncanniness: Hungry ghosts in Laotian Buddhism and social anthropological theories of ghosts |
| 25.11.2009 | René Gründer, M.A. IGPP & Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg | Asatru in Germany: Field research-based insights into a neo-pagan alternative religion |
| 18.11.2009 | Dr. Hartmut von Sass Institute for Religious Studies, University of Zurich | Self-understanding and the belief of God: On the status of religious speech |
| 11.11.2009 | RA Dr. Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen Freiburg | Karl May – the spiritualist and spiritualism |
| 28.10.2009 | Dr. Niko Kohls Generation Research Program of the LMU Munich | Transdisciplinary Working Group Spirituality and Illness (TASK) |
| 14.10.2009 | Prof. Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson Department of Psychology, University of Iceland | The Icelandic medium Indridi Indridason: New findings and a comparison with Swedenborg’s vision of the fire in Stockholm |
| 22.07.2009 | Dipl.-Psych. Daria Kaluza Hannover Medical School | Synaesthesia in the spotlight |
| 15.07.2009 | Drs. Wim Kramer Bunnik, Netherlands | The Use of Psychics for Police Investigations: A Short Historical Overview, my Experiences in Practice with Real Cases and Lessons Learned from it |
| 08.07.2009 | Dr. Wolfgang Ambach IGPP Freiburg | Neurophysiology of pseudo-memory in experiments |
| 01.07.2009 | Dipl.-Biol. Jakub Späti Psychiatric University Hospital, Basel | Perception of duration and temporal orientation |
| 24.06.2009 | Dr. Diethard Sawicki Paderborn | Creating life, making rain, hunting UFOs. Wilhelm Reich’s wondrous experiments |
| 17.06.2009 | Dr. Peter Bancel Global Consciousness Project Paris | The Global Consciousness Project: Results, Perspectives and Speculations |
| 10.06.2009 | Prof. Dr. Birgit Menzel Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Mainz | Russia’s ‘New Age’: occult-esoteric search movements, groups and contexts in the late Soviet period (1960s-1980s) |
| 27.05.2009 | Dr. Daniel Erlacher Institute for Sports Science, University of Heidelberg | Experimental findings on lucid dreaming |
| 20.05.2009 | Dr. Martin Engelbrecht Nuremberg | “Knowledge” vs. “belief”? An old dispute and the search for “third ways” |
| 06.05.2009 | Prof. Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson Department of Psychology, University of Iceland | The physical phenomena of the Icelandic medium Indridi Indridason (1883-1912) |
| 29.04.2009 | RA Dr. Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen Freiburg | Karl May – the spiritualist and spiritualism. Canceled, will be made up later |
| 11.02.2009 | Dr. Jiri Wackermann IGPP | The anthropological turn in psychophysics: a missed opportunity? |
| 04.02.2009 | Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier IGPP & University Eye Clinic Freiburg | Instabilities in visual perception |
| 28.01.2009 | Dr. Marco Pasi University of Amsterdam | Aleister Crowley as a painter |
| 21.01.2009 | Dr. Ulrich Kaiser Hamburg | ‘On the Beyond of the Soul’ and ‘On Soul Riddles’ – On the Dispute between Max Dessoir and Rudolf Steiner |
| 14.01.2009 | Prof. Dr. Robert Jütte Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation Stuttgart | Miraculous healings from a medical-historical perspective |
| 07.01.2009 | Dr. Theodor Harmsen Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam | The Gustav Meyrink Collection in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica Amsterdam |
| 17.12.2008 | PD Dr. Michael Schetsche IGPP | Up from the sky… Notes on exo-sociology |
| 10.12.2008 | PD Dr. Helmut Zander Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | “Esotericism” in hegemonic cultural systems: Marian apparitions in the 19th century |
| 03.12.2008 | Dr. Gabriel Richter Center for Psychiatry Emmendingen | Alfred Döblin in the context of psychiatric history |
| 26.11.2008 | Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Götz von Olenhusen Department of History, University of Düsseldorf | Wonderful apparitions – Religion and science in the 19th century |
| 19.11.2008 | PD Dr. Marco Frenschkowski Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Mainz | Parapsychology in the context of British cultural anthropology |
| 12.11.2008 | Prof. Dr. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology at Martin Luther University Halle | The concept of ‘Homo divinans’ by Theodor-Wilhelm Danzel (1886-1954) – Magical thinking in ethnology and folk psychology |
| 05.11.2008 | Prof. Peter Mulacz Austrian Society for Parapsychology, Vienna | Arthur Koestler and parapsychology |
| 29.10.2008 | Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl & Dr. Ulrich Ott IGPP & BION | Presentation of the research projects at BION |
| 22.10.2008 | Dr. Heidrun Edelmann Cologne | Asta Holler and the IGPP |
| 23.07.2008 | Ali Baioui & Dr. Wolfgang Ambach IGPP Freiburg | Experimental induction of pseudo-memories with visual material |
| 16.07.2008 | Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Götz von Olenhusen Department of History, University of Düsseldorf | Lecture canceled, will be held later |
| 09.07.2008 | Prof. Dr. Peter Dinzelbacher Institute of History, University of Innsbruck | Auditions in the Middle Ages |
| 02.07.2008 | Prof. Dr. J. H. Demling Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Clinic, University Hospital Erlangen | Psychiatric assessment of demonic possession in the course of history |
| 25.06.2008 | Dr. Peter Mario Kreuter Institute of Medical History, University of Bonn | Nightmare, anthrax … or a real phenomenon after all? Attempts to interpret the South-East European folk belief in vampires from the 18th to the 21st century |
| 18.06.2008 | PD Dr. Michael Schredl Sleep Laboratory, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim | News from dream research |
| 11.06.2008 | Dr. Matthias Pöhlmann Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen, Berlin | Journalistic apologetics between confrontation and dialog. From the Apologetic Center to the Protestant Center for Worldview Issues (EZW) |
| 21.05.2008 | Dr. Bernhard Reuter Moritz-Klinik, Bad Klosterlausnitz | The angel in the flesh. Depth psychological remarks on Leonardo da Vinci and the archetype of the trickster |
| 07.05.2008 | Prof. Dr. Sabine Doering-Manteuffel European ethnology/ethnology, University of Augsburg | Dealing with rumor devils in the early modern period |
| 30.04.2008 | Dr. Christian Ruch Chur | Uriella’s ‘Order Fiat Lux’ – History and interior view of a new revelation doctrine |
| 23.04.2008 | Prof. Dr. Christian Scharfetter Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich | On the phenomenology of ecstasy and trance in psychology and psychopathology |
| 16.04.2008 | Prof. Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson Department of Psychology, University of Iceland | Parapsychic spontaneous experiences and popular beliefs in Iceland – results of a new survey |
| 13.02.2008 | Dr. Werner Ehm, Dr. Gerhard Mayer IGPP Freiburg, & Martin Garms | Resonances in partner horoscopes – how do they compare? |
| 06.02.2008 | Prof. Dr. Klaus E. Müller Institute for Historical Ethnology at the J. W. von Goethe University Frankfurt | The concept of vital energy in pre- and parahuman societies |
| 30.01.2008 | Michael Baumann | On the phenomenology and etiology of flow experiences |
| 23.01.2008 | Andreas Fischer, IGPP & Dr. Thomas Knoefel Freiburg | “Occult Voices – Medial Music” – an audio CD project |
| 16.01.2008 | Dr. Wolfgang Hasselbeck Frankfurt/Main | Extraordinary Experiences and the Arts: August Strindberg between psychopathology and parapsychology |
| 09.01.2008 | PD Dr. Torsten Passie Hannover Medical School | Dream, trance and ecstasy – their disappearance in cultural history |
| 19.12.2007 | Gerd Hövelmann, M.A. Marburg | The many faces of a parapsychological pioneer: Max Dessoir (1867-1947) |
| 12.12.2007 | Dr. Niko Kohls Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes, University College Northampton | Mindfulness – a resilience factor against mental and physical complaints in chronic diseases? |
| 05.12.2007 | Dipl.-Psych. Eberhard Bauer & Dr. Frauke Schmitz-Gropengießer IGPP Freiburg | Emil Mattiesen (1875-1939): “Metapsychologist” and composer |
| 28.11.2007 | PD Dr. Uwe Wolfradt Institute of Psychology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | On the psychology of day and night dreams |
| 21.11.2007 | PD Dr. Sebastian Murken & Sussan Namisi University of Trier/FPP | Contemporary angel phenomena and their functions |
| 14.11.2007 | Olga Sysoeva, PhD Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow | Biological Determinants of Time Perception |
| 07.11.2007 | Dr. Gustav Wirtz MediClin-Klinik an der Lindenhöhe, Offenburg | Experiences with the trauma outpatient clinic Offenburg |
| 31.10.2007 | PD Dr. Dr. Helmut Zander Bonn | “Knowledge of higher worlds” in Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophical reactions to the historiographical contextualization of Rudolf Steiner |
| 24.10.2007 | Dr. Stefan Schmidt Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Hygiene, University Medical Center Freiburg | “Meditation, mindfulness and neurophysiology” – research focus at the University Medical Center |
| 18.07.2007 | Dr. Thomas Filk Freiburg | Dynamics of learning processes in small networks |
| 11.07.2007 | Andreas Fischer, IGPP & Dr. Thomas Knoefel Freiburg | “Occult Voices” – a CD project |
| 04.07.2007 | Dr. Wolfgang Ambach IGPP Freiburg | Do people with paranormal experiences perceive differently? A pilot study |
| 27.06.2007 | Ina Schmied-Knittel, M.A. IGPP Freiburg | Satanism and satanic-ritual abuse |
| 20.06.2007 | Dr. Gerhard Mayer IGPP Freiburg | The Magician and his Worlds (working title) |
| 13.06.2007 | Dr. Harald Atmanspacher IGPP Freiburg | Topic to be announced |
| 06.06.2007 | Dr. Yvonne Wübben Institute for German and Dutch Philology, FU Berlin | A ghostly apparition in the 18th century |
| 23.05.2007 | Dr. Michael Hagemeister Department of History at the University of Basel | The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and the myth of the Jewish world conspiracy |
| 16.05.2007 | Attorney Dr. Albrecht Götz von Olenhusen Freiburg | Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorf (1875-1945) – “Border crosser” between occultism and National Socialism |
| 09.05.2007 | Demyan Belyaev & Dr. Edgar Wunder Geographical Institute of the University of Heidelberg | Orientations and practices in the field of esotericism in Russia and Germany |
| 02.05.2007 | Dr. Christian Ruch Zurich | The Mists of Nebadon – The Urantia Book |
| 25.04.2007 | Eberhard Bauer | Filmclub: Peter Weir, The Last Flood (1977) |
| 18.04.2007 | PD Dr. Florian Mildenberger Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Munich | “Spiritual healing” in the early Federal Republic – the life and work of Dr. rer. pol. Kurt Trampler |
| 14.02.2007 | Dipl.-Philos. Andreas Baranowski Leipzig | Between “pathological physics” and psychophysics – Gustav Theodor Fechner and spiritualism |
| 07.02.2007 | Dr. Jiri Wackermann IGPP Freiburg | The measure of duration: Psychophysical studies on the subjective experience of time |
| 31.01.2007 | Dr. Werner Ehm IGPP Freiburg | Riemann’s “other conjecture”: Natural philosophical speculations on mind and matter |
| 24.01.2007 | Andreas Fischer IGPP Freiburg | “A Perfect Exhibition”? |
| 17.01.2007 | Andreas Fischer IGPP Freiburg | “A Perfect Exhibition?” |
| 10.01.2007 | Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Kiefer Institute for German Philology, University of Munich | Enlightenment and occultism – the Cagliostro syndrome |
| 20.12.2006 | Prof. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff Chair of History of Hermetic Philosophy & Related Currents, Univ. of Amsterdam | Magnetic Gnosis: Somnambulism and the Quest for Absolute Knowledge |
| 13.12.2006 | Dr. Doris Feil Munich | Description of acategorical experiences in Hölderlin’s Hyperion |
| 06.12.2006 | Prof. Dr. Claus Priesner Histor. Commission at the Bayer. Academy of Sciences, Munich | Nocturnal flights – On the cultural history and pharmacology of so-called witches’ ointments |
| 29.11.2006 | PD Dr. Martin Grosse Holtforth Institute of Psychology at the University of Freiburg i.Br. | Inconsistency as a pathogenic factor and subject of psychotherapy |
| 22.11.2006 | Uwe Schellinger, M. A. IGPP Freiburg | Albert Hellwig (1880-1951) as an archivist of parapsychology |
| 15.11.2006 | Dipl.-Psych. Moritz Harder Göttingen | The state of Reiki research |
| 08.11.2006 | Dr. Monique Scheer Ludwig Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies, University of Tübingen | On the function and significance of Marian apparition cults in the 20th century |
| 25.10.2006 | Dr. Etzel Cardeña Poul Thorsen Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Lund, Sweden | Hypnosis and psi phenomena: Past links and a program for research in the 21st century |
| 26.07.2006 | Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Betz Physics Section, Ludw.-Maxim.-Univ. Munich, Garching | The state of dowsing research |
| 19.07.2006 | Nadine Metzger, M.A. University of Freiburg | Psychopathology and obsession in late antiquity |
| 12.07.2006 | Dr. Stefan Rotter IGPP | The greatest possible confusion and total chaos: the foundations of a sophisticated thinking machine? |
| 05.07.2006 | Dr. Michael Hagemeister European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) | “Mortals of all countries, unite!” – Russian projects for overcoming death, 1900-1930 |
| 28.06.2006 | Kathrin Fischer Freiburg | Wicca – The Old New Path (catch-up date) |
| 21.06.2006 | Prof. Dr. Nikolai Grube Inst. f. Ancient American Studies and Ethnology at the University of Bonn | Visions and sacrificial rituals among the Maya |
| 16.06.2006 | Prof. Dr. Canan Basar-Eroglu Inst. f. Psychol. and Cognitive Research of the University of Bremen | Brain oscillatory activities in multistable perception |
| 01.06.2006 | Prof. Dr. Frank-Ruthger Hausmann Romance Department of the University of Freiburg | The role of parapsychology in the Third Reich |
| 24.05.2006 | Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vossel Psychological Institute of the University of Mainz | Possibilities and limits of the psychophysiological assessment of statements |
| 17.05.2006 | Dr. Eberhard Zwink Württemberg State Library Stuttgart | Emanuel Swedenborg, naturalist, theosophist, visionary |
| 10.05.2006 | Prof. Dr. Peter Dinzelbacher Inst. f. Economic and Social History of the University of Vienna | Parapsychic phenomena in the Middle Ages |
| 03.05.2006 | Prof. Dr. Manfred Dierks University of Oldenburg | Organic mysticism: The spiritualism chapter in Thomas Mann’s “Magic Mountain” |
| 26.04.2006 | Dr. Harald Atmanspacher IGPP | Emergence of mental states from neuronal dynamics |
| 15.02.2006 | Dr. Werner Ehm IGPP Dr. Jürgen Kornmeier Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Freiburg | Bistable perception and modulation of EEG activity in the gamma band |
| 08.02.2006 | Robert Jech, MD, PhD Neurolog. Clinic 1, Med. Faculty, Charles University, Prague | Neural reprensentation of temporal durations: results of two experimental studies |
| 01.02.2006 | Dr. Martin Engelbrecht Nuremberg | Current issues and problems in SETI research (working title) |
| 25.01.2006 | Kathrin Fischer Freiburg | Wicca – The Old New Path (working title) |
| 18.01.2006 | Dr. Klaus Podoll Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Aachen | Extraordinary (“paranormal”) experiences and migraine aura |
| 11.01.2006 | Dr. Peter Pütz, Dipl.-Phys. Matthias Gäßler & Dr. Jiri Wackermann IGPP | Dyadic communication in the Ganzfeld: Results of an explorative study with a new experimental procedure |
| 21.12.2005 | Dr. Michael Schetsche & Ina Schmied, M.A. IGPP | Satanism as a problem (working title) |
| 14.12.2005 | Melvyn Willin, PhD, PhD Great Leighs, Essex, UK | Music and the Paranormal |
| 07.12.2005 | Dipl.-Phys. T. Faul & Dipl.-Phys. M. Braeunig University Medical Center Freiburg | T.REG – A random state generator for psychokinesis experiments |
| 30.11.2005 | Dipl.-Psych. Chr. Schäfer IGPP & Institute of Psychology at the University of Freiburg | Borderline experiences – crisis – transformation of reality |
| 23.11.2005 | Gísli Magnússon, M.A. RWTH Aachen University | Rilke and the occult |
| 16.11.2005 | Dr. Wolfgang Ambach IGPP | Psychophysiology of lying and lie detection |
| 09.11.2005 | Dr. Doris Feil LMU Munich | Hölderlin’s approach to overcoming categorical knowledge |
| 02.11.2005 | Prof. Dr. Renaud van Quekelberghe Department of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau | Relig. Mysticism and ecstasy: Th. de Lisieux – 1873-1897, saint and church doctor – and “Madeleine” – 1853-1918, patron of Fr. Janet |
| 26.10.2005 | Prof. Dr. Claus Priesner Histor. Commission at the Bayer. Akad. d. Wissensch. | Alchemy in the Age of Enlightenment: The Society of the Gold and Rose Cross and the Secrets of the Adepts |
| 13.07.2005 | Dr. William Roll State University of West Georgia, USA | The Tina Resch Case of RSPK |
| 06.07.2005 | Dr. Wolfgang Ambach IGPP | Spatially separated – mentally connected? A replication study with paired brain wave measurements |
| 29.06.2005 | Dr. Harald Atmanspacher IGPP | Relationships between psychological and physical time |
| 22.06.2005 | Prof. Dr. Markus Diesmann Biology III and Bernstein Center, Univ. Freiburg | Parameters of Spike Synchronization in Feed-Forward Subnetworks |
| 15.06.2005 | René Gründer IGPP & Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg | Return of the old gods? The social construction of neo-pagan belief systems |
| 08.06.2005 | Matthias Heiduk, M.A. Historical Seminar of the University of Freiburg | Open Secrets – Hermetic Texts and their Medieval Readers |
| 01.06.2005 | Frank Furtwängler Constance | Paratexts of parapsychology. On thematic and structural phenomena of the paranormal in the popular media |
| 25.05.2005 | Prof. Dr. Siegfried Sporer Department of Psychology at the University of Giessen | Fantasy and reality |
| 11.05.2005 | Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald Walach Freiburg University Medical Center, Inst. f. Environmental Medicine | “Remote healing” today – the results of the EUHEAL study |
| 04.05.2005 | Dr. Fotini Pallikari Faculty of Physics, University of Athens | Towards a New Understanding of Micro-PK Effects |
| 27.04.2005 | Dr. Huub Engels Radboud University Nijmegen | New findings on Hélène Smith, “the seeress of Geneva”, in particular on her glossolalia |
| 20.04.2005 | Prof. Dr. Steven Braude Philosophy Dep. Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County | Survival of Death: The State of the Debate |
| 13.04.2005 | Prof. Dr. Frank-Rutger Hausmann Romance Department of the University of Freiburg | Professor Hans Bender and the “Imperial University of Strasbourg” |
| 23.02.2005 | Ian Baker | Topic to be announced |
| 16.02.2005 | Dr. Julia Mannherz School of Slavonic and East European Studies (Univ. Coll., Lond.) | The Occult and the Natural Sciences at the End of the Tsarist Empire |
| 09.02.2005 | Dr. Torsten Passie Hannover Medical School | Parapsychic experiences during drug-induced states |
| 02.02.2005 | Dr. Mark Elliott and Cordula Becker Psycholog. Institute of the University of Munich | Variations in the visual hallucinatory response to flickering polychromatic light |
| 25.01.2005 | Prof. Dr. Stuart Hameroff University of Arizona at Tucson | Biology and Quantum Mechanics: The Case for a Connection (special date) |
| 19.01.2005 | Uwe Schellinger, MA IGPP | The “uncanny arts” of Bert Reese (1841-1926): Self-staging and perception of a Jewish “miracle man” of modernism |
| 12.01.2005 | Dr. Carsten Mehring Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg | Interfaces between brain and machine: decoding neuronal population activity in monkeys and humans |
| 15.12.2004 | Dr. John Palmer Neurological Clinic, University Hospital Zurich | Implicit Sequence Learning & Anomalous Anticipation of Target Biases in a Computer Guessing Task |
| 08.12.2004 | IGPP-Consulting team | Current status of the IGPP consultation |
| 01.12.2004 | Prof. Dr. Andreas B. Kilcher German Seminar of the University of Tübingen | Meditation and Kabbalah |
| 24.11.2004 | PD Dr. Uwe Wolfradt Inst. f. Psychology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | Déjà vu experiences in the context of personality research |
| 17.11.2004 | Dr. Albert Kümmel Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz | Magnetic needles – the economic cycle of an experiment from Mesmer to Harnack |
| 10.11.2004 | Dr. Ulrich Ott Inst. f. Psychobiology and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Giessen | Openness for extraordinary experiences: Neurobiology of Absorptive Capacity |
| 03.11.2004 | Prof. Dr. Arno Engelmann Psycholog. Inst. d. University of Sâo Paulo | From the Terrible Loneliness to the Wonderful Agreement of Human Beings |
| 27.10.2004 | Timo Kuff, MA University of Lüneburg | Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) – artist and magician |
| 20.10.2004 | Wim Kramer Utrecht | Paranormal Phenomena & Clinical Practice, a Psychologist View |
| 28.07.2004 | Dr. Wilfried Kugel Berlin | The history of the fourth dimension |
| 21.07.2004 | Ronald Weigl University of Klagenfurt | “How to become a parapsychologist” Experiences with the Summer Study Program at the Rhine Research Center |
| 14.07.2004 | Dr. Stefan Schmidt Institute for Environmental Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg | The replication problem in parapsychology – a conceptual analysis |
| 07.07.2004 | Dr. Torsten Passie Hannover Medical School | Extraordinary experiences of consciousness during psychotic states |
| 30.06.2004 | Dr. Bernhard M. Reuter Moritz-Klinik, Bad Klosterlausnitz | Reaction time studies and event-related potentials in “malingerers” and patients with conversion disorders |
| 23.06.2004 | Prof. Dr. Suitbert Ertel Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen | “Impossible” anomalies: The Mars effect and the “skeptics” |
| 16.06.2004 | Prof. Dr. Thomas Filk Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg | The Necker-Zeno model |
| 09.06.2004 | Dr. Dunja Mohr University of Erlangen | Transdifference: Basics and examples |
| 26.05.2004 | Andreas Trottmann Loch Ness Newsclipping Service, Vallamand, Switzerland | Loch Ness sightings – the history of a controversy |
| 19.05.2004 | Dr. Ulrich Timm & Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller Freiburg | Bidirectional PK, experimenter effect or RNG artifacts? – New analyses of the Freiburg MMI experiment of 1998 |
| 12.05.2004 | Dr. Joop Houtkooper Institute for Psychobiology and Behavioral Medicine, University of Giessen | Properties and Methodology of Paranormal Phenomena in the Light of Observational Theory |
| 05.05.2004 | Dr. Wilfried Kugel Berlin | The history of the fourth dimension |
| 28.04.2004 | Dr. John Palmer Rhine Research Center, Durham, NC | Synchronicity and Psi |
| 21.04.2004 | Jan Pilgenroeder, M.A., Attendorn | Experiences with remote viewing – an insider’s perspective |
| 25.02.2004 | Prof. Dr. Werner Strik Psychiatric University Hospital Bern | Modern neurophysiology and the “brain mythology” of Carl Wernicke |
| 11.02.2004 | Dr. Stefan Moebius Institute of Sociology at the University of Fribourg | Acéphale. A secret society of French intellectuals |
| 04.02.2004 | Dr. Wolfgang Ambach IGPP | Experimental studies of people with extraordinary experiences |
| 28.01.2004 | Dr. Johannes Dillinger Department of Modern History, University of Trier | Belief in the spirits of the dead, depicted according to judicial records (southwest Germany, 16th to 18th century) |
| 21.01.2004 | José Raúl Naranjo Muradás & Dr. Jiri Wackermann IGPP | Correlations between EEG activities of separated human subjects: Results of the follow-up study |
| 14.01.2004 | Prof. Dr. Inge Strauch University of Zurich | Dreams in the transition from childhood to adolescence |
| 17.12.2003 | Dr. Gerhard Heim Pierre Janet Society e.V., Berlin | Pierre Janet and behavioral therapy |
| 10.12.2003 | Dr. Dr. Walter v. Lucadou Parapsychological Counseling Center Freiburg | Hexing |
| 03.12.2003 | Elena Müller University of Dresden | “His own world” – The processing of extraordinary experiences in the work of the Russian poet Daniil Andreev (1906-1958) |
Parapsychological Counseling Center Freiburg: A completely different story – The analysis of an unusual case collection
Dipl.-Soz. Päd. Frauke Zahradnik
Parapsychological Counseling Center Freiburg
(November 2003)
Experience in the Esoteric School using the example of Theosophy
PD Dr. Dr. Helmut Zander
Bonn
(November 2003)
Mental health and extraordinary experiences
Dipl.-Psych. Niko Kohls
Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Hygiene, University Medical Center Freiburg
(November 2003)
Psi and the archetype of the trickster
Dr. Lutz Müller
C. G. Jung Institute Stuttgart
(November 2003)
Telepathic effects with impaired visual perception
PD Dr. S. Hau
Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt/Main
(October 2003)
The Marian apparitions of Marpingen
Dr. Gerd Schallenberg
Brilon-Alme
(October 2003)
The Physics of Firewalking
Dr. John Campbell
Physics Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
(October 2003)
Diary of the unconscious: Adventures in the realm of dreams
Prof. Dr. Detlev von Uslar
University of Zurich
(July 2003)
Typical plan structures for people with Exceptional Experiences
Petra Tölle
Institute of Psychology, University of Freiburg
(July 2003)
One year of Empirical Cultural and Social Research (EKS) – a first work report
Dr. Michael Schetsche and colleagues
IGPP , Freiburg
(July 2003)
The Physical, Neurological and Psychological Significance of Oscillating Brain Electrical Potentials
Prof. Dr. David L. Robinson
Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait, Sufat, Kuwait
(December 2004)
Intuition and precognition (EEG study with stock market simulation)
Dr. Wolfgang Ambach
IGPP , Freiburg
(June 2003)
Spirituality and religiosity in psychological practice (interim conclusion of the research project)
Dipl.-Psych. Liane Hofmann
IGPP , Freiburg
(June 2003)
Parapsychological experimentation. It is not necessary to make so many mistakes
Prof. Dr. Suitbert Ertel
University of Göttingen
(June 2003)
Mapping complex brain functions using invasive and non-invasive electrophysiological methods
Dr. Christoph M. Michel
University of Geneva
(May 2003)
The First Psychic and its Victorian Debunkers
Dr. Peter Lamont
Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University of Edinburgh
(May 2003)
Small coincidences
Prof. Dr. Klaus E. Müller
University of Frankfurt/Main
(May 2003)
Qi – The Chinese concept of life force from the perspective of a phenomenology of the body
Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach
IGPP Freiburg
(May 2003)
Paranormal phenomena among saints? On the problems of witness testimony in canonization proceedings
Dr. Maria Wittmer-Butsch
University of Zurich
(April 2003)
Temporal-spatial dynamics of EEG microstates of cognitive brain processes
Dr. Christoph M. Michel
University of Geneva
(February 2003)
Perceptual change in ambiguous images – EEG measurements on the time course of neuronal mechanisms
Jürgen Kornmeier
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 2003)
Quantum theory and consciousness
Dr. Harald Atmanspacher
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2003)
Photography and the paranormal – an exhibition project
Andreas Fischer
IGPP Freiburg
(January 2003)
Carl du Prel from an image science perspective
Tomas Kaiser, M.A.
Hamburg
(January 2003)
Paranormal phenomena with saints
Dr. Maria Wittmer-Butsch and Dr. Constanze Hofmann-Rendtel
University of Zurich
(January 2003)
History of the reception of Fechner’s psychophysics in psychology and philosophy
Prof. Dr. Michael Heidelberger
University of Tübingen
(December 2002)
Further studies on acausal correlations in inanimate systems
Prof. Dr. Johannes Hagel & Dr. Jirí Wackermann
IPP Cologne, Geneva & IGPP, Freiburg
(December 2002)
The ritual of killing animals using the example of horse rippers
Dr. Alexandra Stupperich
University of Göttingen
(December 2002)
Radiant magic. Texts from the 1920s between occultism and science fiction
PD Dr. Sabine Haupt
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
(November 2002)
Rationalism and irrationalism in television – the example of the ‘X-Files’
PD Dr. Matthias Hurst
University of Tübingen
(November 2002)
ArtREG: Unconscious psychokinesis through emotional images? A psychokinetic double image experiment
Dipl.-Psych. Ulf Gausmann
University of Greifswald
(November 2002)
The problem of miracles in modern theology
PD Dr. Werner Thiede
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
(November 2002)
Dissociative borderline experiences and near-death experiences. Are there similarities or transitions?
Prof. Dr. Peter Fiedler
University of Heidelberg
(October 2002)
Does the moon influence us? – On the state of research into alleged or actual influences of the moon on humans
Edgar Wunder, M.A.
Gesellschaft für Anomalistik e.V., Sandhausen
(October 2002)
On the phenomenology and hermeneutics of the paranormal
Prof. Dr. Detlev von Uslar
University of Zurich
(October 2002)
Satanism – traumatizing effects for victims
Dipl.-Psych. Georg Pieper
Psychotherapeutic Practice Friebertshausen
(July 2002)
Selected results of the Freiburg questionnaire study on extraordinary experiences
Dipl.-Psych. Niko Kohls & PD Dr. Dr. Harald Walach
University Medical Center Freiburg
(July 2002)
On the relationship between experimental parapsychology and psychophysics
Dr. Jirí Wackermann
IGPP , Freiburg
(July 2002)
The ghostly order
Prof. Dr. Klaus E. Müller
University of Frankfurt
(June 2002)
EEG mapping: Systematics of the methods and selected findings from psychiatry
Dr. Thomas Koenig
Psychiatric University Hospital Bern
(June 2002)
On the Mind-Matter Interface
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Antoniou
International Solvay Institutes, Brussels
(June 2002)
Death by imagination
Dr. Gary Bruno Schmid
Integrated Psychiatry Winterthur
(June 2002)
Where does the subject of psychology come from?
Prof. Dr. Horst Gundlach
University of Passau
(May 2002)
Investigations into telepathy using a startle reflex paradigm
Dipl.-Psych. Cornelia Herbert & Dr. Werner Plihal
IGPP , Freiburg
(May 2002)
EEG indicators of emotional processing in people with extraordinary experiences
Johannes Kuhn & Dr. Werner Plihal
IGPP , Freiburg
(May 2002)
Beyond coincidence – amazing coincidences as a causal experience
Dipl.-Chem. Raffaella Defloriin, M.A.
IGPP , Freiburg
(April 2002)
“Glimpses into the future”. Results of a cultural studies study of visions of the future
Bernt Schnettler, M.A.
University of Konstanz
(April 2002)
Further investigations into the Ganzfeld
Dr. Jirí Wackermann
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 2002)
Introduction to sophiology
Dr. Michael Frensch
Novalis Verlag, Schaffhausen
(February 2002)
Fascination, filou and object of research: the life of clairvoyant Ludwig Kahn (1873-?)
Uwe Schellinger, M.A.
IGPP Freiburg
(January 2002)
Acategoriality and extraordinary states of consciousness
Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2002)
Acategoricality and instability
Dr. Harald Atmanspacher
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2002)
Neo-shamanism – a field study
Dr. Gerhard Mayer
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2002)
Psychological and psychophysiological aspects of quantitative precognition experiments
Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 2001)
The contribution of clinical neurophysiological methods to the study of extraordinary experiences
Dipl.-Psych. Cornelia Herbert
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 2001)
Electrophysiological underpinnings of semantic priming and visuomotor tracking
Dr. Holger Hill
IGPP , Freiburg
(May 2002)
The practical work of Paragnost
Dr. Sybo Schouten
University of Utrecht
(November 2001)
Perception of Time – Some General Aspects and Individual Differences
Dr. Alvin Danielsen
University of Bergen, Norway
(November 2001)
The apparitions of Bernadette Soubirous (Lourdes)
Dr. Dr. Patrick Dondelinger
University of Lucerne
(November 2001)
Problems in transferring conventional experimental and statistical methods to the parapsychological-anomalistic field
Dr. Ulrich Timm
Freiburg
(May 2002)
Satanism – between sensation and counseling reality. From therapeutic work with those affected
Dipl.-Psych. Tom Gilbrich
Sekten-Info Essen e.V.
(October 2001)
exceptional experiencesPhenomenology and cognitive models
Dr. Martina Belz-Merk, University of Freiburg, and Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach, IGPP
Freiburg
(October 2001)
Atlantis – A myth between speculation and fact
Jörg Dendl, M.A.
Berlin
(October 2001)
Experiments on precognition
Dr. Werner Plihal and colleagues
IGPP , Feiburg
(July 2001)
Mind, Causality, and Time
Prof. Dr. Ivan M. Havel
Centre for Theoretical Studies, Prague
(July 2001)
Brain electrical correlates of time perception
Dr. Jirí Wackermann & Dipl.-Psych. Michael Miener
IGPP , Freiburg
(July 2001)
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the interview study on extraordinary experiences
Dipl.-Chem. Raffaella Deflorin, M.A. & Ina Schmied, M.A.
IGPP , Freiburg
(June 2001)
“In between” as “in between”. “In between” as a project: performance and lecture
Markus Vögele
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
(June 2001)
Ego concepts with Metzinger and Jung
Dr. Axel Holm
Bonndorf
(June 2001)
Writing about boundaries – press coverage of parapsychological topics using the example of Bild and Spiegel
Dr. Gerhard Mayer
IGPP , Freiburg
(May 2001)
Methods of weighted summation of partial results – demonstrated on a reanalysis of 5 MMI experiments
Dr. Ulrich Timm
Freiburg
(May 2001)
Erich Rothacker and the layer model of personality
Ralph Stöwer, M.A.
University of Bonn
(May 2001)
Experimentally testable predictions of the Pragmatic Information Model
Dr. Dr. Walter von Lucadou
WGFP, Freiburg
(May 2001)
Brain electrical activity in altered states of consciousness (hypnosis, precognition, meditation)
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Lehmann
University of Zurich
(May 2001)
Parapsychology in the Weimar Republic
Dr. Barbara Wolf-Braun
University of Bonn
(April 2001)
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the interview study on extraordinary experiences
Dipl.-Chem. Raffaella Deflorin, M.A., Harriet Falkenhagen & Ina Schmied, M.A.
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 2001)
Spirituality and religiosity in psychotherapeutic practice
Dipl.-Psych. Liane Hofmann
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 2001)
The role of the sender in DMILS communication
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2001)
Counseling for people with extraordinary experiences: Results of the evaluation
Dr. Martina Belz-Merk, Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach & Stefan Kühn
University of Freiburg/IGPP, Freiburg
(January 2001)
Photography and anomalistics
Andreas Fischer
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2001)
Psychological and electrophysiological principles of the perception of short time intervals
Dipl.-Psych. Michael Miener
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2001)
Probabilistic models of Psi: Further considerations on effect and correlation measures
Dr. Jirí Wackermann
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 2000)
Glossolalia (‘speaking in tongues’) from a linguistic perspective
Prof. Dr. Henner Barthel
University of Koblenz-Landau
(December 2000)
What is trance?
Dr. Gebhard Sammer
University of Giessen
(December 2000)
Functional analysis of the DMILS effect: 1. results
Dipl.-Psych. Rainer Schneider
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 2000)
Connectedness and DMILS
Dipl.-Psych. Stefan Schmidt
University Medical Center Freiburg/IGPP, Freiburg
(November 2000)
Modeling and analysis of MMI data – a top-down approach
Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 2000)
‘Surrealism and parapsychology’: results of the archive research in Paris
Manfred Hilke, M.A.
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 2000)
Living on. Notes on the estate of Else Liefmann (1881-1970)
Uwe Schellinger, M.A., & Christian Dietsche
IGPP Freiburg
(October 2000)
Work program of the ‘Experimental Research’ department
Dr. Werner Plihal
IGPP , Freiburg
(October 2000)
Youth-centered Satanism – the example of structural change in the old and new federal states
Prof. Dr. Klaus Neumann-Braun
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt
(July 2000)
EDA – Results of two measurement studies
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder, Dipl.-Psych. Rainer Schneider, Dipl.-Psych. Stefan Schmidt
IGPP , Freiburg
(July 2000)
Surrealism and parapsychology – Results
Manfred Hilke, M.A.
Freiburg
(June 2000)
“Marian apparitions” in Marpingen in 1876 and 1999
Dr. Dr. Patrick Dondelinger
Luxembourg
(June 2000)
Music & more: The “music medium” Rosemary Brown
Prof. Dr. Isolde Vetter
Karlsruhe University of Music
(May 2000)
Prophetic visions of the new millennium
Dr. Hubert Knoblauch & Dr. Bernt Schnettler
University of Constance
(May 2000)
Discussion and reinterpretation of W. Kugel’s experiments on the prediction of gambling outcomes
Dr. Ulrich Timm
Freiburg
(May 2000)
The dream: experimental art – the art of experimentation
Dr. Jirí Wackermann & Manfred Hilke, M.A.
IGPP Freiburg
(May 2000)
Belief in ghosts and spiritualism in Germany (18th/19th century) – historical and anthropological perspectives
Dr. Diethard Sawicki
Bielefeld
(April 2000)
Results of the EDA measurement study
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder, Dipl.-Psych. Rainer Schneider & Dipl.-Psych. Stefan Schmidt
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 2000)
The image of altered states of consciousness
Dr. Jirí Wackermann, Dipl.-Psych. Simone Büchi, Dipl.-Psych. Peter Pütz, Prof. Dr. Inge Strauch, Prof. Dr. Dietrich Lehmann & Dipl.-Psych. Nicole Rechsteiner
University of Zurich/IGPP, Freiburg
(February 2000)
Parapsychology in the print media “Bild” and “Spiegel”
Dipl.-Psych. Gerhard Mayer
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2000)
Paranormal phenomena in the lives of the saints
Dr. Maria Wittmer-Butsch & Dr. Constanze Rendtel
Zurich
(January 2000)
Phenomenology of UFO abduction cases
Dipl.-Psych. Bettina Wetzel
IGPP , Freiburg
(January 2000)
Survey of psychotherapists on the topic of “spirituality/religiosity”
Dipl.-Psych. Liane Hofmann
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 1999)
Structure of the IGPP archive
Uwe Schellinger, M.A.
IGPP Freiburg
(December 1999)
“Imagination” in modern medicine
Prof. Dr. Heinz Schott
Institute of Medical History, University of Bonn
(December 1999)
On the psycho(physio)logic of MMI experiments
Dipl.-Psych. Holger Bösch
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 1999)
EEG measurements for the perception of bistable stimuli
Dipl.-Biol. Jürgen Kornmeier
Freiburg
(November 1999)
The importance of non-specific therapeutic effects
Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald Walach
University Medical Center Freiburg
(November 1999)
Coding variables for an MMI meta-analysis
Dr. Fiona Steinkamp, Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller & Dipl.-Psych. Holger Bösch
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 1999)
Remote healing for diabetes
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 1999)
Spontaneous experiences – quantitative and qualitative perspective
Dipl.-Chem. Raffaella Deflorin, M.A. & Ina Schmied, M.A.
IGPP Freiburg
(October 1999)
Methods and results from brain research and experimental psychology with regard to their significance for parapsychology
Dr. Bernhard M. Reuter
Konstanz
(October 1999)
EDA measurement
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder, Dipl.-Psych. Rainer Schneider & Dipl.-Psych. Stefan Schmidt
IGPP , Freiburg
(July 1999)
Overview of the first results of the Sleep Onset/Ganzfeld study
Dr. Jirí Wackermann, Dipl.-Psych. Simone Büchi & Dipl.-Psych. Nicole Rechsteiner
IGPP , Freiburg
(July 1999)
The reception of occult depictions in films – results of the study
Dipl.-Psych. Gerhard Mayer
IGPP Freiburg
(June 1999)
The “Institut Métapsychique International (I.M.I.)” in Paris – Past and Present
Dr. Mario Varvoglis
IMI, Paris, France
(June 1999)
Factors influencing suggestibility
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Georghiu
University of Giessen
(June 1999)
Specific sources of error in experimental design and statistical analysis in the parasciences
Dr. Ulrich Timm
Freiburg
(June 1999)
Methodological problems of a multivariate PK experiment
Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller & Dipl.-Psych. Holger Bösch
IGPP , Freiburg
(June 1999)
Parapsychology and cultural studies
Dr. Hubert Knoblauch
University of Konstanz
(May 1999)
Brain Complexity and States of Consciousness: Dimensional complexity analysis of EEG in Ganzfeld and Meditation
Dr. Mario Kittenis
Newcastle, England
(May 1999)
Brain electrical microstates, building blocks of consciousness
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Lehmann
University of Zurich
(May 1999)
An American Water Poltergeist
Dr. A. Nichols
City College, Gainsville, Florida
(February 1999)
Energetic and Neuropsychological Aspects of RSPK
Dr. William G. Roll
State University of West Georgia
(February 1999)
Remote healing for type II diabetes
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder
IGPP
(February 1999)
Providers and recipients on the psychomarket
Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach
IGPP
(January 1999)
Comparison of the belief in occultism between Freiburg and Zurich – a methodical analysis
Dr. Halekoh
Zurich
(January 1999)
Schopenhauer and the foundation of parapsychological research
Andrea Kropf, M.A.
Hamburg
(January 1999)
Results of the 1st DMILS experiment on IGPP
Dr. Deborah Delanoy, Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder & Dipl.-Psych. Rainer Schneider
IGPP
(December 1998)
Probabilistic scaling of polytomous items on magical irrational thinking
Dipl.-Psych. G. Meder
(December 1998)
Analysis of spontaneous experiences
Dipl.-Chem. Raffaella Deflorin, M.A. & Ina Schmied, M.A.
IGPP
(December 1998)
“poltergeist phenomena” as an advisory problem – a case study
Dr. Martina Belz-Merk, Dipl.-Psych. Eberhard Bauer & Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach
IGPP
(November 1998)
Topographic analysis of electrical brain fields: Principles, fundamentals and prospects
Dr. Jiri Wackermann
IGPP
(November 1998)
Telepathy and subliminal perception
Dr. Wolfgang Leuschner
Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt a.M.
(November 1998)
Documentation system for exceptional experiences
Dipl.-Psych. Liane Hofmann & Dipl.-Psych. Annette Wiedemer
IGPP
(November 1998)
Past and Planned Ganzfeld Research at Gothenburg
Dr. Adrian Parker
University of Gothenburg
(October 1998)
Methodological problems in recording and analyzing experiences of proximity to death
Dr. Hubert Knoblauch
University of Konstanz
(July 1998)
Time series analysis of experiments on psychophysical interactions
Dr. Harald Atmanspacher
IGPP
(July 1998)
Psychophysiology laboratory research project
Dr. Jiri Wackermann
IGPP
(July 1998)
An ASW experiment on the Internet
Cand. phil. Anja Göritz
University of Leipzig
(May 1998)
The relationship between surrealism and parapsychology using the example of “Écriture automatique”
Manfred Hilke
IGPP
(May 1998)
Mystical experiences – a questionnaire study
Cand. phil. Niko Kohls
Freiburg
(May 1998)
Psychological variables in the micro-PK experiment
Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller & Dipl.-Psych. Holger Bösch
IGPP
(May 1998)
Psychocultural aspects of mediality using the example of Eileen Garrett
Dipl.-Psych. Eberhard Bauer
IGPP
(April 1998)
Reincarnation cases
Dr. Jürgen Keil
University of Tasmania
(October 1997)
Synchronicity Effects in Micro-PK
Dr. Fotini Pallikari
University of Athens
(October 1997)
Parapsychology in the Arab world
Dr. Hussein
(October 1997)
Near-death experiences
Dr. Hubert Knoblauch
University of Konstanz
(October 1997)
Time and age in (small and large) quantum systems*
Dr. Harald Atmanspacher
IGPP
(May 1997)
Spiritual healing – interaction aspects
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 1996)
The Decline Effect, fact or fiction?
Dipl.-Psych. Holger Bösch
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 1996)
Subliminal and telepathic influence
lic. phil. Martin Meier
University of Zurich
(January 1996)
Telepathic, subliminal perception and amblyopia
Dr. med. Wolfgang Leuschner
Frankfurt
(January 1996)
Dowsing experiments – results of an investigation
Dipl.-Psych. Stefan Schmidt
Freiburg
(January 1996)
Placebo effects in long-term studies
Dr. Harald Walach
Freiburg
(January 1996)
Freiburg, “locus occultus”?
Dipl.-Psych. Wolfgang Fach
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 1995)
Spiritual crises – content analysis of interviews
- Heise
Zurich
(December 1995)
Spiritual crises and Kundalini experience
Dipl.-Psych. Liane Hofmann
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 1995)
Germanization of a volitional questionnaire
Deborah Delanoy, PhD
Edinburgh
(November 1995)
Interview study “Occultism in adults”, Part I
Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 1995)
The PEAR Research Program at Princeton University
Roger Nelson, PhD
PEAR, Princeton University, USA
(November 1995)
Focal points of parapsychological research in the USA 1995
Dipl.-Psych. Eberhard Bauer
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 1995)
Consultations at the Institute for Border Regions
Dipl.-Psych. Annette Wiedemer
IGPP , Freiburg
(October 1995)
Direct Mental Interaction with Living Systems (DMILS)
Prof. Dr. Robert Morris & Dr. Deborah Delanoy
Department of Psychology, Univ. Edinburgh
(July 1995)
Religious development
Dipl.-Psych. Hartmut Beile
IGPP , Freiburg
(July 1995)
Personality and PSI
Prof. Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson
University of Iceland, Reykjavik
(July 1995)
Models of psychophysical interactions
Dr. Harald Atmanspacher (MPI Garching) & Dr. Dr. Walter von Lucadou (WGFP Freiburg)
Garching & Freiburg
(June 1995)
Magic and Paracelsus
Prof. Dr. Heinz Schott
Medizinhistorisches Institut, Univ. Bonn
(June 1995)
Classical homeopathic therapy for chronic headache – results of an empirical study
Dr. Dr. Harald Walach
IGPP , Freiburg
(June 1995)
Meta-Analysis Demolition Effect
Dr. Joop Houtkooper
IGPP , Freiburg
(June 1995)
Spiritual healing in England – results of an exploratory field trip
Prof. Dr. Johannes Mischo
IGPP , Freiburg
(May 1995)
On the theory of spiritual healing
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder
IGPP , Freiburg
(May 1995)
Computer-aided content analysis
Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller
IGPP , Freiburg
(May 1995)
Belief in the occult, an indicator of those at risk of mental illness? – Results of an interview study
Dipl.-Psych. Emil Boller & Dipl.-Psych. Ursula Ofuatey-Kodjoe
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 1995)
On the personality structure of believers and non-believers – results of an Icelandic sample
Prof. Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson
University of Iceland, Reykjavik
(February 1995)
Questionnaire survey of spiritual healers, part 1: Descriptive evaluation
Dipl.-Psych. Markus Binder
IGPP , Freiburg
(February 1995)
Healing seekers – an Icelandic representative survey
Prof. Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson
University of Iceland, Reykjavik
(February 1995)
Parapsychology and border areas of psychology on television: Contents of exemplary selected programs (diploma thesis)
Wolfgang Fach & Annette Wiedemer
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 1994)
Spiritual crises (diploma thesis)
Liane Hofmann
IGPP , Freiburg
(December 1994)
Hit patterns in connection with perceptual defenses: Do they exist?
Dr. Joop Houtkooper
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 1994)
“Mental Healing” – question of a diploma thesis
Holger Bösch
IGPP , Freiburg
(November 1994)
Parapsychology in focus. Impressions from this year’s PA conference
Dipl.-Psych. Eberhard Bauer
IGPP , Freiburg
(October 1994)
