Exploring the Unexplained
With the ever-expanding scientific knowledge and ever-exploding technological advances, we may be wondering where the boundary of scientific discovery resides, what governs the conditioning of the boundary of discovery, and which edge of the establishment the boundary of the discovery must stay on and not walk off. “In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.” (Freedman Dyson). “The value of science, of all its many values, the greatest must be the freedom to doubt.” (Richard Feynman). Science advances by questioning the present.
Since 1982, the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) has provided a professional forum for presentations, criticism, and debate concerning topics that for various reasons, are ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science. The SSE also promotes improved understanding of those factors that unnecessarily limit the scope of scientific inquiry, such as sociological constraints, restrictive world views, hidden theoretical assumptions, and the temptation to convert prevailing theory into prevailing dogma. The Annual Conference of SSE serves as a premier forum to spark rigorous new understandings from the examination of ever-updating empirical evidence.
The 43rd annual SSE conference will have the following program tracks:
- Unexplained aerial, oceanic, and terrestrial phenomena
- Unexplained consciousness, intelligence, and nous phenomena
- Unexplained dynamics, energy, and kinetics phenomena
- Unexplained health, medical, and veterinary medical phenomena
- Unexplained phenomena of sociological dynamics
The conference will consist of long talks (30-35-min talk +10~15-min Q/A) and short talks (15~20-min talk + 5-min Q/A). Among the many fascinating talks will be IONS scientist Arnaud Delorme, PhD on Exploring The Mechanisms of Biofield Therapy.
43rd Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration
Exploring the Unexplained
Online Conference (Zoom) | September 20-21, 2025
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This event is hosted by The Society for Scientific Exploration. Please visit their website for more information.
PRESENTERS
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a neuroscientist at IONS and has been studying human consciousness for the last 20 years. He is a CNRS Research Director in Toulouse, France, and a senior Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego. He is a long-time Zen meditator, and recipient of several research prizes. He is the author of some 160+ peer-reviewed publications, and is best known for his work on the neural correlate of mind wandering and for developing the EEG software that is now the most-used in EEG research worldwide. He is the author of Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn to Focus Your Thoughts.
Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and research trained with a Master of Clinical Research and two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published on and spoken internationally about her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, extended human capacities, stress, posttraumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing. Dr. Wahbeh is especially known for her research around — and noetic approach to — channeling.
