Dr. Susan Blackmore is a freelance writer and lecturer based in England. She was involved in research in Parapsychology for years and then stopped doing it in 2000 when “careful experiments showed that there were no psychic phenomena – only wishful thinking, self-deception, experimental error and occasionally, fraud.” Dr. Blackmore was in Chennai, India recently and on 25.1.2012, she gave a talk on “Mysteries of the Mind” at The Rationalists’ Forum, Periyar Thidal. I interviewed her for a few minutes [...]