The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) is a leading professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. Subjects often cross mainstream boundaries, such as consciousness, ufos, and alternative medicine, yet often have profound implications for human knowledge and technology.
We publish a peer-reviewed journal, host annual meetings, and engage in public outreach. While our Full members are professional or experienced scientists and scholars, Associate and Student memberships are available to everyone. Consequently, we have a diverse and active membership, who promote critical thinking and rigorous—yet open-minded—scientific exploration.
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The JSE is the quarterly, peer-reviewed journal of the SSE. Since 1987, the JSE has published original research on consciousness, quantum and biophysics, unexplained aerial phenomena, alternative medicine, new energy, sociology, psychology, and much more. The journal also contains book reviews, letters to the editor, and peer correspondence.
We have made available an archive of over 400 original research articles from the JSE, from its first print until two years from the present. There are also over 500 book reviews from the JSE available online.
In 2010 we launched an online JSE system. The online JSE allows current members and journal subscribers to access searchable archives of the past two years of the JSE, including the most current issue.
The online JSE also allows anyone (member or not) to create an account and submit manuscripts to the JSE editors, for possible publication in the JSE. This system greatly simplifies the process of manuscript submission and peer-review.
» Online JSE Login / Manuscript Submission
» Research Articles (1987 - 2008)
» Book Reviews (1987 - 2008)
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Each year in the United States (and every two years in Europe), SSE members and invited speakers attend a 3-day meeting. Members and invited speakers give 30 - 60 minute talks about their own, cutting-edge research and experimental findings.
Popular topics include consciousness, gravitation, UFOs and aerial phenomena, healing and medical studies, and sociology. In addition to professional scientists and scholars, many non-scientists, public enthusiasts, and students attend. While the research is treated rigorously, meetings are typically casual, social, and a lot of fun.
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Introducing EdgeScience - the new magazine from the SSE. Edgescience Magazine exposes the general public the groundbreaking research and discoveries made by SSE members.
Why EdgeScience? Because scientific knowledge is still full of unknowns. What remains to be discovered—what we don't know—very likely dwarfs what we do know. And what we think we know may not be entirely correct or fully understood. Anomalies, which researchers tend to sweep under the rug, should be actively pursued as clues to potential breakthroughs and new directions in science.
EdgeScience is available Free as a PDF download. Hardcopies can be purchased for $4.95 plus shipping, and advertising opportunities are available.
» Read EdgeScience
SSE Talks are video presentations given at SSE meetings. Speakers typically discuss their own original research, and cover a broad range of subjects. SSE Talks can give you an idea of what attending an SSE meeting is like.
The speaker's abstract is available on each SSE Talk page, as well as a brief bio in most cases. DVDs of the meetings presentations are typically available before the SSE Talks come online.
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The Explorer is the newsletter of the SSE. It typically features letters from the president and council, meeting recaps, and member news. It often summarizes conducted by members. The Explorer is edited by Dr. Dominique Surel, and published 3 to 4 times per year. Advertising space is available.
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The primary goal of the international Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) is to provide a professional forum for presentations, criticism, and debate concerning topics which are for various reasons ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science. A secondary goal is to promote improved understanding of those factors that unnecessarily limit the scope of scientific inquiry, such as sociological constraints, restrictive world views, hidden theoretical assumptions, and the temptation to convert prevailing theory into prevailing dogma.
Topics under investigation cover a wide spectrum. At one end are apparent anomalies in well established disciplines. At the other, we find paradoxical phenomena that belong to no established discipline and therefore may offer the greatest potential for scientific advance and the expansion of human knowledge.
The Society encourages such investigations for several reasons that may appeal to different communities:
- To the research scientist, we commend the intellectual challenge of explaining away an apparent anomaly or seizing the new knowledge presented by a real one.
- To the student scientist, we point out that science does not begin with textbooks: it begins with the unknown and ends with textbooks.
- To the nonscientist, we acknowledge that deep public interest in some of these topics calls for unprejudiced evaluation based on objective research.
- To the policy-maker, we point out that today's anomaly may become tomorrow's technology.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (BY ELECTION)
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President Professor William Bengston Department of Sociology St. Joseph's College New York, New York Secretary Mark Urban-Lurain, Ph.D College of Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan Education Officer Brenda J. Dunne ICRL Princeton, New Jersey |
Vice President Professor Robert G. Jahn School of Engineering & Applied Science Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Treasurer York Dobyns, Ph.D Department of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey President Emeritus Professor Garret Moddel Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Colorado Boulder, Coloradoa |
COUNCIL (BY ELECTION)
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Marsha Adams, Ph.D Sedona, Arizona Julie Beischel, Ph.D Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential Tucson, Arizona Richard A. Blasband, M. D. Sausalito, California Professor Courtney Brown Department of Political Science Emory University Atlanda, Georgia |
Bernard Haisch, Ph.D Calphysics Institute Redwood Shores, California Roger Nelson, Ph.D Global Consciousness Project Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Dominique Surel, Ph.D Evergreen, Colorado Chantal Toporow, Ph.D Northrup Grumman Redondo Beach, California |
OFFICERS
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President Emeriti Professor Peter A. Sturrock Applied Physics Department Stanford University Palo Alto, California Professor Charlie Tolbert Department of Astronomy University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virgina JSE Editor Emeritus Professor Henry Bauer Dean Emeritus, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia Associate Members’ Representative L. David Leiter Willow Grove, Pennsylvania |
Secretary Emeritus Professor Larry Frederick Department of Astronomy University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia JSE Book Reviews Editor P. David Moncrief Memphis, Tennessee European Members' Representative Erling P. Strand Østfold College Halden, Norway |
OTHER OFFICERS (BY APPOINTMENT)
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Webmaster & SSE Developer Adam M. Curry Psyleron, Inc. Princeton, New Jersey |
Online Discussion Group Admin Mike Wilson Royal Oak, Michigan |
GENERAL INQUIRIES: MEMBER DUES, RENEWALS, MEETING FEES, DONATIONS
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Mark Urban-Lurain, Ph.D Secretary, SSE Michigan State University 111 N. Kedzie Lab East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Tel: 517-432-2152 ext. 119 Fax: 517-432-1356 Email: urban@msu.edu |
Kathleen E. Erickson JSE Managing Editor 151 Petaluma Blvd. So., #301 Petaluma, CA 94952 USA Tel: 415-435-1604 Fax: 707-559-5030 Email: EricksonEditorial@gmail.com |
JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION
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Kathleen E. Erickson JSE Managing Editor 151 Petaluma Blvd. So., #301 Petaluma, CA 94952 USA Tel: 415-435-1604 Fax: 707-559-5030 Email: EricksonEditorial@gmail.com P. D. Moncrief JSE Book Review Editor Memphis, Tennessee Email: pdmoncrief@yahoo.com |
Stephen E. Braude, Ph.D JSE Editor-In-Chief Emeritus Professor of Philosophy University of Maryland Baltimore County 8022 S. Rainbow Blvd., Suite 236 Las Vegas, NV 89139 Email: braude@umbc.edu |
STUDENTS AND YOUNG INVESTIGATORS PROGRAM
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Brenda J. Dunne Education Officer, SSE International Consciousness Research Laboratories 468 N. Harrison Street Princeton, NJ 08540 USA Email: bjd@icrl.org |
(The Young Investigators Program is an outreach initiative to help interested high school and university students pursue academic careers in SSE-related subjects.) |
WEBSITE & ONLINE PRESENCE
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ADAM M. CURRY Webmaster & SSE Developer Psyleron, Inc. 211 N. Harrison Street Princeton, NJ 08540 USA Email: adam.curry{a}psyleron.com |
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