3rd Symposium

Behind and Beyond the Brain
Exceptional Experiences

April 6 2000
Casa do Médico

09h00 -  Registration

10h00 - Opening Session

10h30 - Opening Conference
Rhythms of the Brain
Fernando Lopes da Silva

11h30 - Coffee Break

12h00 - Lecture
Understanding the Exceptional Experiences
Robert Morris

13h00 - Lunch

1st session
Organizing and describing the phenomena
Chairperson - Richard Broughton
The Odyssey of Exceptional Experience: From Anomalous Phenomena to Personal, Social, Global and Cosmic Transformation
Rhea White

14h30 - From Caveman to the Second Foundation: Making Sense of Exceptional Experiences
Richard Broughton

15h15 - The mental organization of exceptional experience
David Marks

16h00 - Coffee Break

16h30 - Counselling and Therapy for People who claim Exceptional Experiences
Martina Belz-Merk

17h15 - Children who claim to remember a previous life. Is there a psychological explanation?
Erlendur Haraldsson

18h00 - Discussion

19h00 - Bial Posters Session - Bial Foundation's Fellows


April 7 2000
Casa do Médico

2nd session
Social and developmental context
Chairperson - Hoyt Edge

09h00 - Extraordinary Claims in a Cross-cultural Context
Hoyt Edge

09h45 - Social cognition and psychosis: The case of paranoid desilusions
Richard Bentall

10h30 - Coffee Break

11h00 - Accuracy and Replicability of Anomalous After-Death Communication Across Highly Skilled Mediums
Linda Russek

11h45 - Observing fake psychic phenomena
Richard Wiseman

12h30 - Discussion

13h30 - Lunch

3rd session
Peripheral psychophysiological measures
Chairperson - Gary Schwartz

14h30 - Psychophysiological, Energetic and Anomalous Interaction: Applications of Dynamical Energy Systems Theory
Gary Schwartz

15h15 - Hormonal and neurophysiological changes during induced experiences under altered state of consciousness
Luís Sobrinho

16h00 - Coffee Break

16h30 - Hypnosis: the password to the Mind-Body highway
John Gruzelier

17h15 - Anomalous Psychophysiological Responses to Remote Cognition
Deborah Delanoy

18h00 - Discussion

19h00 - Bial Posters Session - Bial Foundation's Fellows

20h30 - Caves Taylor's visit

21h00 - Dinner at Caves Taylor's


8 de Abril April 8 2000
Casa do Médico

4th session
Central psychophysiological measures
Chairperson - Dietrich Lehmann

09h00 - Brain electric microstates, the atoms of thought and emotion
Dietrich Lehmann

09h45 - Sleep Journeys
Teresa Paiva

10h30 - Coffee Break

11h00 - ESP and the Brain: Current Status
Edwin May

11h45 - Evaluation of Neuro-Psychophysiological parameters of cerebral activity
António Martins da Silva

12h30 - Discussion

13h30 - Lunch

15h00 - Comprehensive Round Table
Peter Fenwick, Richard Broughton, Hoyt Edge, Gary Schwartz and Dietrich Lehmann

16h30 - Coffee Break

17h00 - Closing Session