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My position
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Showing posts with label
My position
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05 February 2015
Why I cannot write long books
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Sir George Joy KBE CMG (1896 - 1974) Professor H.H. Price, my DPhil supervisor, when saying that I had an alpha mind, also said that I ...
28 November 2014
A fellow undergraduate
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Maria Casares (1922-1996), star of Cocteau’s Orphée When I was an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, in the early 1950s, there...
10 July 2014
Appeal for funding to lucid dream researchers
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The following is an edited version of something I published on the web some years ago. Since that time, no financial contributions have been...
07 July 2014
Dream research
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We recently received an enquiry from the magazine of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, requesting an interview. This is...
27 June 2014
Lucid dreams: watching others get the benefit
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text of a letter to a journalist sent a few years ago When you came you asked me whether I regretted having written the first book on luci...
25 June 2014
Article on lucid dreaming in BBC Focus Magazine
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text of an email from the picture editor at BBC Focus Magazine: Dear Ms. Green, I am mailing from BBC Focus Magazine, a popular science ...
11 June 2014
Part-time ex-Oxford lecturers
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text of a letter to an academic I wonder if you know anyone who knows the Principal of Ripon Theological College, which is in Cuddesdon an...
29 December 2013
A cruel pretence
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There is a cruel pretence that the outcast professor (me) is not suffering from being deprived of an institutional (i.e. hotel) environment ...
05 February 2013
Letter about my Professorship applications
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text of a letter Dear ... I attach herewith a copy of a letter which I have been sending to members of electoral committees when I apply...
12 January 2013
Sedition
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Things are often defined somewhat differently in modern English dictionaries, by comparison with dictionaries published earlier. “Sedition...
26 April 2012
No sympathy for the victims of socialism
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This is something I drafted a long time ago but did not send because of lack of staff, money, and everything else that makes life tolerable....
10 March 2012
Mansion tax, pensions and ruined educations
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text of a letter to an academic I have had to attempt to claw my way back to a tolerable life after the ruin of my career and family life ca...
02 March 2012
Appealing for help is not illogical
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How can it be that I complain of the lack of support for my work? Well, of course, lack of support for ‘my work’ is lack of support for me ...
01 November 2011
Accommodation wanted
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copy of a post to our Facebook group : There are some people who express enthusiasm for such books and research as we have been able to prod...
09 October 2011
Notes on my CV
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Herewith the ‘Notes on my CV’ referred to in the previous post. In interpreting a CV it is normal to consider only what a person has been pe...
05 October 2011
Oxford’s Professorship in Psychology
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There follows the text of a letter of application which I made for a Psychology Professorship at Oxford University last year. The ‘notes on ...
29 September 2011
No better way of saying it
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Someone recently wrote the following to me: I guess the fact that you insist that you should have a different social position than the one y...
12 August 2011
Hopping mad
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copy of a letter You said I was ‘hopping mad’ about the item in the paper about rubbishy ‘research’ on out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) b...
06 July 2011
The Duke of Edinburgh and others
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My colleague Fabian Tassano has put some comments about the Duke of Edinburgh on his blog, and I am reminded of his correspondence with us....
05 June 2011
Cottage to let
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Copy of letter to an academic There is a cottage to rent fairly near us, and this might make more concrete the idea that well-wishers (if w...
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