Hotel Rooms & Amenities

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. The discount rate is good for reservations made prior to April 23rd. The hotel may sell out, so please book your rooms early. 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.

Alternative Accommodations

Restaurants/Shopping/Sites

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:

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.

 

Topics & Speakers

ASTROLOGY

Invited Speakers
Suitbert Ertel Disputes With Alleged Skeptics: Lessons From The Gauquelin Drama 1962 - 2004
Robert Hand Astrology And Scientific Study: The Challenge
Mark Urban-Lurain Methodological Issues in Astrological Research
Contributed Speakers
Donald Hotson Dirac's Equation And A Possible Physical Basis For Some of Astrology

CRYPTOZOOLOGY

Invited Speakers
George Eberhart Mysterious Creatures: Creating A Cryptozoological Encyclopedia
Charles Paxton Estimating Giant Aquatic Animal Diversity Using Cumulative Species Description Curves
Robert Rines 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

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

Invited Speakers
Larry Dossey The Retroactive Prayer Study: Anomalous Information Transfer and Medicine
Contributed Speakers
Bill Bengston Some Methodological Implications of "Resonance Theory" For Control Groups In Healing Research
Richard A. Blasband Anisotropy In Psychic Healing
KC Blair Communications, Consciousness & Healing From A Marketing Researcher's Perspective
James E. Beichler The Biofield: Life As A Hyper-Dimensional Quantity
Bruce Greyson Do Prevailing Societal Conceptions Influence Reports of Near-Death Experiences? A Comparison of Accounts Reported Before And After 1975
Arthur Hastings Psychomanteum Research On Healing, Creativity, And Imagery
Stanley Krippner &
Ashwin Budden 		The Story of Fratel Cosimo, A Visionary In Southern Italy
Francesca McCartney An Empirical Study of The Transmission of Healing Energy Via E-Mail
Savely Savva Hypothesis of The Biofield

OBJECTIVITY IN SCIENCE

Invited Speakers
Bob Jahn &
Brenda Dunne 		Sensors, Filters, and The Source of Reality
James McClenon Objectivity and Science: Anomalous Experience and Human Evolution
Contributed Speakers
Roger Hart Objectivity and Subjectivity In A Scientist's Personal Experiences of Telekinesis and Precognition
H. David Froning Plato's Idealism Revisited
Garret Moddel Nature's Selection Principles In Subtle Interactions
Richard Shoup Some Critical Concepts At The Foundations of Science and Mathematics

UFOS & AERIAL PHENOMENA

Invited Speakers
John Alexander Step Back Approach to Phenomenology
Andrei Ol'khovatov Meteor-Like Geophysical Phenomena
Contributed Speakers
Bruce Cornet Evidence For An Underground Magnetic Focusing System
Damon Elkins Suggested Path of Planet X
Colm Kelleher NIDS Investigations into the Enigmatic Large Triangular Craft Phenomenon
Dick Spalding Needed: A Rethinking of Atmospheric Electricity
Jacques F. Vallee &
Eric W. Davis 		Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and The Physics Of High Strangeness: A 6-Level Model For Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena
Bob Wood Spelling Errors: A Tool For Authenticating Questioned UFO Documents

OTHER TOPICS

Contributed Speakers
Y. Dobyns &
H. Atmanspacher 		Coupled Map Lattices, Spontaneous Chaos, And Reproducibility
Tom Dykstra The Electromagnetic Hypothesis of Olfaction In Insects: A Study of The Mechanisms and An Answer To The Enantiomer Debate
Thomas Goodey The Unexplained Allais and Jeverdan Eclipse Effects, and Current Developments
Vincent Morin Experimental Verification of Allais-Esclangon Periodic Light Deviations
Héctor A. Múnera Two Neglected Effects In The Dynamics of A Physical Pendulum
Héctor A. Múnera, Daniel Hernández D., J. Edgar Alfonso, Germán Arenas Preliminary Results Obtained With A Stationary Michelson-Morley Interferometer Operated In A Continuous Manner Near The Equator
Roger Nelson Factors Affecting The GCP/EGG Network: What Matters, What Doesn't; What Questions Can Be Asked?
Dean Radin Anomalous Information Transfer: From Laboratory Anomaly To Fledgling Communications Application
William Roll Poltergeist Patterns: A Comparison of The Tina Resch Incidents With Previous Cases
Claude Swanson The Synchronized Universe: Possible Approach To The "New Physics" of The Paranormal
Bryan J. Williams Global Consciousness Project: Exploring Block Correlations of Random Data With Human Events