03 May 2025 – ‘Altered States of Consciousness and Psychic Experiences’

Join us for this month’s engaging topic of:

Altered States of Consciousness and Psychic Experiences

Speaker Professor Chris Roe
Vice President of the Society for Psychical Research

We have the privilege of welcoming Professor Chris Roe, Vice President and past President of the Society for Psychical Research, who will be coming to talk on ‘Altered States of Consciousness and Psychic Experiences.’

This is a rare opportunity to attend a talk in an intimate setting by a speaker who is more used to speaking at large conferences.

Spontaneous psychic experiences are surprisingly common among the general public, but tend to occur only when conditions are conducive. In particular, people often report having been in a mild altered state of consciousness, such as drifting off to sleep, daydreaming or meditating, when their experience began.

Parapsychology seeks to understand these experiences by reproducing them in the laboratory, where there is greater control over the factors that might explain away apparently psychic effects in terms or ordinary psychology.

In this talk, Professor Roe will describe the experiments that have been conducted, present their surprising results, and speculate on what this means for our understanding of psychic phenomena.

3rd May 2025, 2pm to 4.45pm

Theosophical Society, (Leicester Lodge), Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Clarendon Park, Leicester, LE2 1WP