Deborah Patton’s May 11 Society for Psychical Research presentation considered psi as an implicit process operating outside conscious attention. The event description links that approach with earlier precognition research and Patton’s work using Carpenter’s First Sight Theory.

The Society for Psychical Research lists the discussion in its 2026 recording archive. Readers can follow the event through the original host, whose recordings require membership or purchase. The talk explores a proposed explanation for psi experiences and how researchers might study them.

Source: Society for Psychical Research.

Image: Edwin Teale / Popular Science, 1937. Historical ESP experiment; not a modern event photo. Image source.