…to work as a lawyer and journalist. The two met when he joined the ASPR. An atheist, Pelham told Hodgson that he could not conceive of an afterlife, but that if he died before Hodgson, and found himself ‘still existing’, he would attempt to let Hodgson know.35Hodgson (1892), 295. Pelham…
…reality. The authors also examined such interventions for thanatophobia, analyzing 15 studies carried out between 2009 and 2019 in four categories: psychotherapy, mindfulness, psychedelic drugs and virtual reality. Psychotherapy approaches, including meaning-centred and life review therapies that strengthened belief in an afterlife, were shown to reduce death anxiety, although these…
…Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. New York: Simon & Schuster. Arcangel, D. (2005). Afterlife Encounters: Ordinary People. Extraordinary Experiences: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA: Hampton Roads. Bailey, L.W., & Yates, J. (1996). The Near-Death Experience: A Reader. New York & London: Routledge. Barrett, W. (1926/1986). Death-Bed Visions: The Psychical Experiences…
…from Julia) set forth communications that Stead believed the deceased Julia had written through his hand. They dealt primarily with afterlife conditions, beginning with Julia’s first awareness after death, her awakening, her orientation in the afterlife, the nature of the afterlife, and various lessons she had learned in her new…
…a spirit medium 22Fontana & Moore (2001). See Smith (2001). The website appears to be defunct. In a New York Times article, Bigelow attributed his and his wife Diane’s original interest in the afterlife to the suicide, at age 24, of their son Rod Lee in 1992. His son Rod…
…that strengthened belief in an afterlife, were shown to reduce death anxiety, although these findings were weakened by small samples and absence of control groups. Mindfulness exercises were found to reduce anxiety but typically without altering afterlife beliefs. Psychedelic drugs (LSD and psilocybin) showed promise in dissociating mind from body…
…The Afterlife Experiments (2002). In the first experiment, mediums gave readings to sitters while separated by a screen; the sitters were required to say no more than ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and the encephalograms of mediums and sitters both were recorded; the sitters then rated the mediums’ accuracy, scoring them substantially…
…with Gladys Leonard, of a comfortable upper middle-class family in late Victorian/Edwardian England who recreated their earthly lives together in the afterlife.31Thomas (1946), 9-10. The Leonard material was disguised by pseudonyms, but the introduction to the Cummins book by Gibbes contains enough information to identify the individuals and houses involved.32Cummins…
…addressing the survival question, which they have argued involves marked inconsistency about the quality of methodologies and finding.10Tressoldi et al. (2022). First, Laythe and Houran’s Drake-S Equation (used to guide an adversarial collaboration between a sceptic and an afterlife proponent) analysis,11Laythe & Houran (2022). They found that the published effect…
