…cases, both of mediumship and DID. In the case of mediumship, the reason is that the older cases are often so strong and so detailed that they provide much more material to work with. Moreover, the comparison of mediumship to DID is most interesting when the evidence suggests strongly that…
…to different phenomena even within the Western context. Indeed, Spiritualist mediumship, as the above definition suggests, can be broadly split into two categories. There is ‘mental mediumship’, which itself can be split into two distinct forms of clairvoyant/telepathic/clairaudient/clairsentient mediumship, often also known as ‘platform mediumship’, and trance mediumship, duringwhich the…
…Four’ (telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis), only ‘an occasional nod’14Braud (2005), 40. has been given to topics like mediumship and life after death. Limitations Several factors have limited progress in the field of mental mediumship research. These include stigma around the topic and restricted financial support and personnel. Stigma Mediumship…
The question of whether personality survives bodily death sits at the heart of psychical research. Investigators have looked to mediumship, reincarnation-type cases, near-death experiences, apparitions and related phenomena, asking whether the strongest evidence points beyond ordinary explanation to some persistence of mind after death. Mediumship, reincarnation-type cases and near-death experiences…
…critics often explained mediumship through hysteria, nervous disturbance or allied psychological disorders. Some writers accepted paranormal elements while still arguing that pathological traits helped produce mediumistic phenomena. Recent empirical studies have not supported the broad claim that mediumship is inherently pathological. Background The emergence of Spiritualism in the mid-nineteenth century…
…(1927). The Margery Mediumship: The Case for and Against Psychical Belief. Worcester, Massachusetts, USA: Clark University. Crandon, L.R.G. (1928). Extract from The Margery Mediumship. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 24 (February), 186-93. Crawford, W.J. (1918). The Reality of Psychic Phenomena. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Dingwall, E….
…Gladys to work at menial jobs while pursuing a career in musical theatre. In 1907, she married the actor Frederick Leonard. In spare moments, together with friends she experimented successfully with table-tipping, and this soon developed into trance mediumship. Her mediumship gradually matured in the period before World War I,…
…Smith treated elaborate trance narratives and glossolalia as material for psychological analysis rather than simple marvel. He engaged not only with mental mediumship but also with physical mediumship and broader theoretical questions about psychical research. His work helped shape later discussion of dissociation, subliminal mentation and the relation between psychology…
…phenomena. Against this sophisticated philosophical backdrop, Braude assessed the relative evidential value of various survival-related phenomena. In Immortal Remains, Braude found the best evidence for survival to be certain highly impressive cases of mediumship and reincarnation/possession, so he understandably focused his analysis on these. His discussion of mediumship centered on…
