Mediums & Psychics

Mina Crandon, née Stinson, and better known by her pseudonym ‘Margery’, was an American séance medium who was frequently investigated in the 1920s. Besides levitations and other psychokinetic...

Persuasive 1980s survival case of a chess game played between Russian grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi and, via a medium, a communicator who identified himself as deceased Hungarian grandmaster Geza Maroczy.

Examines  similarities between the personalities that communicate in trance mediumship and those that manifest in cases of dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder).

Describes the view of  some scientists and medical professionals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that mediumship was an abnormal, pathological condition. 

 

Describes how 'spirit mediumship' and 'spirit possession' overlap, especially as experienced in non-Western contexts.

A review of research carried out with mental mediums since 2001.

Carlos Mirabelli (1889-1951) was a Brazilian medium credited with phenomena of similar power and frequency to those associated with DD Home, although he was little known in the English-speaking world.  The occurrences were observed by credible witnesses in conditions sufficient to rule out fraud, and often in daylight.

Study on mediumship by an Italian psychiatrist and psychical researcher (1852-1929), focusing in particular on Eusapia Palladino, with the emphasis on clinical and psychological aspects. 

William Stainton Moses (1839–1892) was an Anglican priest and teacher who described experiences with mediumship in a private circle.

Polish businessman (1877-1944) whose clairvoyant abilities made him famous in his native Poland and who was the subject of successful experiments with Polish, French and British psychical researchers.