David Rousseau Biography
David Rousseau, BEng (Electronics)
Projects Director
David is a specialist in Systems Practice and an advocate of the value of
systems approaches in the study of transformative experiences. He has over 20
years senior management experience in the aerospace and semiconductor
industries, and over 20 years board-level involvement with charitable
organisations.
He has a long-standing research interest in exceptional human experiences,
and their relevance to the big questions. He has participated in psychical
research experiments and field investigations, and has served in
administrative and advisory capacities to charitable research-oriented
societies and trust funds.
He is Chairman of the Research Activities Committee of the Society for
Psychical Research, a Trustee of the SPR Research Fund, and he serves on the
advisory committee of the Gwen Tate Fund for Research into Survival of
Consciousness. He is a peer-reviewer for the Journal of Scientific
Exploration and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.
In 2000 he co-founded C-FAR, and led the project that in 2003 launched the
online Library of Exploratory Science (www.lexscien.org), which hosts
peer-reviewed publications relating to controversies in science and the
humanities. In 2005 he launched the Kuhnexus CaseBase Project, a
collaborative project to establish a database of the best cases of
paradigm-challenging phenomena. Since 2007 he has also been conducting
research aimed at developing the framework for a pluralistic naturalism by
using systems theory to analyse religious, spiritual, mystical and psychical
experiences.
Publications in Process
| (in press) | Understanding Spiritual Awareness in Terms of Anomalous Information Access
(forthcoming in The Open Information Science Journal - Special Issue: Information and Spirituality) |
| (submitted) | A Systems-Theoretical Analysis of Near-Death Experiences |
| (completed) | On Differentiating Mental Substances |
| (in prep) | A Classification System for Ontological Substance Claims |
| (in prep) | Naturalistic Structural Dualism (NSD) |
| (in prep) | A Naturalistic model of Mind-Body Dualism grounded in a Systems-Theoretical analysis of Near-Death Experiences (In-process PhD Thesis, University of Wales, Lampeter). |
Publications
Presentations
| 2009 | The Mind-Body System: Integration as a Factor in Psychic Ability and Spiritual Experience. Presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, 18-21 Sept 2009. Scarborough, UK. |
| 2009 | Beyond the Irreducible Mind: Evidence is not Enough. Presented at the 33rd International Conference of the Society for Psychical Research, 4-6 Sept 2009. University of Nottingham. |
| 2009 | If minds are not just brains, what sort of thing could they be? Presentation to the Scientific and Medical Network, 18 November2009. Guildford, UK. |
| 2009 | The Cryptic Poltergeist from Queen's House in Lipton. Presentation to the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, University of Glasgow. |
| 2008 | New evidence regarding the poltergeistic phenomena associated with the healer Matthew Manning. Presented at the Joint Conference of the Society for Psychical Research and the Parapsychological Association, Winchester College, Winchester, UK, 17 August 2008. |
| 2005 | The Kuhnexus Project: collecting, classifying and rating paradigm-challenging experiences. Presented at the 25th Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 2002 | Cases of small object teleportation: come-back JOTTs. Presented at SPR Study Day on Teleportation Phenomena. |
| 2002 | Strategies for making the evidence count. Keynote lecture to SPR Study Day. |
| 2001 | (with J Rousseau) White Crows, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and the Philosophy of Parapsychology. Presented at the 25th SPR Conference (Clare College, Univ. Cambridge) |
| 2001 | New Insights into Relationships between Anomalous Phenomena. Presentation to the Society for Psychical Research, Kensington Library Lecture Hall, London. |
| 2000 | A New and Generic Approach to Classifying Anomalous Phenomena. Presented at the 24th SPR Conference University of Northampton, 8-10 Sept 2000. |
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