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The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration will be held at the Tuscany Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV on May 20-22, 2004 (Thursday through Saturday). Local arrangements are by John Alexander, and Mark Urban-Lurain chairs the Program Committee.
SSE meetings in Las Vegas are always fun and well attended. There will be an opening reception at the hotel on Wednesday evening, May 19, at 6:00pm. The first session will begin on Thursday morning.
Friday afternoon there will be a trip to the Valley of Fire State Park. The valley derives its name from the red sandstone formations and the stark beauty of the Mojave Desert. Ancient trees and early man are represented throughout the park by areas of petrified wood and 3,000 year-old Indian petroglyphs.
The scientific program (see below) will run through Saturday followed by the Closing Banquet Saturday evening. A special effort is being made to encourage the attendance of students and young investigators.
There is a special, reduced registration fee for students at this meeting. Please encourage students from your area to attend.
Hotel Registration
Rooms at the Tuscany Hotel & Casino cost $79 per night, plus tax, and the rate is extended for two days before the meeting and two
days after the meeting. Mention SSE to get this discount rate. The discount rate is good for reservations made prior to April 23rd. After that date rates will be slightly higher. Keep in mind the hotel may sell out, so please book your rooms early. Update: Saturday night is sold out.
The Tuscany has four restaurants, a pool, and an airport shuttle for a fee. The address is 255 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV. Phone: 877-887-2261.
Restaurants/Shopping/Sites
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The Tuscany Hotel has four restaurants: the Steakhouse at Tuscany, The Piazza Lounge, Palazzo (Italian), and Marilyn's Café.
The Tuscany Hotel is located near Las Vegas' "Restaurant Row" area (2 min. drive East on Flamingo near Flamingo & Paradise) where you can find:
- Cozymel's (Mexican, 355 Hughes Center, 702-732-4833)
- Bahama Breeze (375 Hughes Center, 702-731-3252)
- Buca di Beppo (Italian, 412 East Flamingo Rd., 702-866-2867)
- Del Frisco's Steakhouse (3925 Paradise Rd., 702-796-0063)
- Gordon Biersch Brewery/Restaurant (3987 Paradise Rd., 702-312-5247)
- Hamada of Japan (365 E. Flamingo, 702-733-3005)
- Lawry's The Prime Rib (4043 Howard Hughes Parkway, 702-893-2223)
- McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant (335 Hughes Center, 702-836-9000)
- Morton's Steakhouse (400 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-893-0703)
- P.F. Chang's (4165 Paradise Rd., 702-792-2207)
- Roy's Restaurant (Hawaiian, 620 E. Flamingo Rd., 702-691-2053)
- Sammy's California Woodfire Pizza (3900 Paradise Rd.)
- Shalimar (Indian, 3900 Paradise Rd.)
Internet/Computers/Photocopying: There is a Business Center located at the Tuscany Hotel and a Kinko's located near Flamingo & Paradise behind Bahama Breeze (395 Hughes Center, 702-951-2400).
The Fashion Show Mall is a short cab ride away on Las Vegas Blvd. at Spring Mountain, near the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino.
Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport (LAS) is served by many airlines and bargain fares are frequently available, but book early.
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ASTROLOGY
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Invited Speakers
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Suitbert Ertel
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Disputes With Alleged Skeptics: Lessons From The Gauquelin Drama 1962 - 2004
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Robert Hand
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Astrology And Scientific Study: The Challenge
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Mark Urban-Lurain
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Methodological Issues in Astrological Research
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Contributed Speakers
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Donald Hotson
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Dirac's Equation And A Possible Physical Basis For Some of Astrology
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CRYPTOZOOLOGY
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George Eberhart
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Mysterious Creatures: Creating A Cryptozoological Encyclopedia
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Charles Paxton
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Estimating Giant Aquatic Animal Diversity Using Cumulative Species Description Curves
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Robert Rines
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Recent Discoveries of Possibly New Microbial Life Forms In Loch Ness and of Apparently Animal Remains Linking With The Mid-1970 Dinsdale Era At The Loch
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The Tim Dinsdale Award Lecture will be presented at this meeting to Dr. Robert H. Rines for his significant contributions to the expansion of human understanding through the study of unexplained phenomena.
HEALING/MIND BODY
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Larry Dossey
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The Retroactive Prayer Study: Anomalous Information Transfer and Medicine
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Bill Bengston
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Some Methodological Implications of "Resonance Theory" For Control Groups In Healing Research
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Richard A. Blasband
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Anisotropy In Psychic Healing
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KC Blair
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Communications, Consciousness & Healing From A Marketing Researcher's Perspective
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James E. Beichler
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The Biofield: Life As A Hyper-Dimensional Quantity
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Bruce Greyson
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Do Prevailing Societal Conceptions Influence Reports of Near-Death Experiences? A Comparison of Accounts Reported Before And After 1975
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Arthur Hastings
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Psychomanteum Research On Healing, Creativity, And Imagery
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Stanley Krippner &
Ashwin Budden
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The Story of Fratel Cosimo, A Visionary In Southern Italy
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Francesca McCartney
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An Empirical Study of The Transmission of Healing Energy Via E-Mail
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Savely Savva
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Hypothesis of The Biofield
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OBJECTIVITY IN SCIENCE
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Bob Jahn &
Brenda Dunne
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Sensors, Filters, and The Source of Reality
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James McClenon
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Objectivity and Science: Anomalous Experience and Human Evolution
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Roger Hart
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Objectivity and Subjectivity In A Scientist's Personal Experiences of Telekinesis and Precognition
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H. David Froning
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Plato's Idealism Revisited
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Garret Moddel
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Nature's Selection Principles In Subtle Interactions
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Richard Shoup
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Some Critical Concepts At The Foundations of Science and Mathematics
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UFOS & AERIAL PHENOMENA
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John Alexander
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Step Back Approach to Phenomenology
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Andrei Ol'khovatov
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Meteor-Like Geophysical Phenomena
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Bruce Cornet
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Evidence For An Underground Magnetic Focusing System
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Damon Elkins
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Suggested Path of Planet X
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Colm Kelleher
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NIDS Investigations into the Enigmatic Large Triangular Craft Phenomenon
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Dick Spalding
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Needed: A Rethinking of Atmospheric Electricity
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Jacques F. Vallee &
Eric W. Davis
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Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and The Physics Of High Strangeness: A 6-Level Model For Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena
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Bob Wood
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Spelling Errors: A Tool For Authenticating Questioned UFO Documents
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OTHER TOPICS
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Y. Dobyns &
H. Atmanspacher
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Coupled Map Lattices, Spontaneous Chaos, And Reproducibility
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Tom Dykstra
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The Electromagnetic Hypothesis of Olfaction In Insects: A Study of The Mechanisms and An Answer To The Enantiomer Debate
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Thomas Goodey
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The Unexplained Allais and Jeverdan Eclipse Effects, and Current Developments
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Vincent Morin
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Experimental Verification of Allais-Esclangon Periodic Light Deviations
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Héctor A. Múnera
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Two Neglected Effects In The Dynamics of A Physical Pendulum
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Héctor A. Múnera, Daniel Hernández D., J. Edgar Alfonso, Germán Arenas
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Preliminary Results Obtained With A Stationary Michelson-Morley Interferometer Operated In A Continuous Manner Near The Equator
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Roger Nelson
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Factors Affecting The GCP/EGG Network: What Matters, What Doesn't; What Questions Can Be Asked?
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Dean Radin
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Anomalous Information Transfer: From Laboratory Anomaly To Fledgling Communications Application
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William Roll
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Poltergeist Patterns: A Comparison of The Tina Resch Incidents With Previous Cases
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Claude Swanson
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The Synchronized Universe: Possible Approach To The "New Physics" of The Paranormal
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Bryan J. Williams
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Global Consciousness Project: Exploring Block Correlations of Random Data With Human Events
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