…In one direction they shade off by degrees into poltergeist phenomena, and in another direction they morph gradually into cases of haunting ghosts or recurrent localized apparitions. Haunting phenomena center around a place rather than a person (as in poltergeist cases),30For a discussion of the subtleties and difficulties with the…
…hands and did my utmost to prevent it moving, but I was quite unsuccessful. By dint of great exertion I could prevent it from moving in any one direction and could keep it steady for a second or so, but it instantly moved in some other direction, the force changing…
…and pedagogy, investigated ostensible psi phenomena.170Price (1939). Hans Schäfer (1906–2000), professor and director of the Department of Physiology at the University of Heidelberg, epidemiologist, wrote about psi.171Schaefer (1952). Rocco Santoliquido (1854–1930), physician and Director General of Public Health, investigated a medium, and was founder and president of the Institut Métapsychique…
…client, being situated at a distant location, is not influenced by direct voice suggestion and is also unable to erect defensive barriers to the therapeutic process. Practitioners of the remote method claim that disruptive spirit entities can be ‘caught out’ and discovered because of the clandestine nature of the method.16Hickman…
Raymond Bayless moved from successful commercial art into a wide-ranging engagement with psychical research, writing on apparitions, poltergeists, direct voice mediumship and after-death communication. His interests were eclectic but consistent in one respect: they kept returning to the possibility that personality might survive bodily death. Claims of postmortem contact did…
…his death he was studying electronic voice phenomena (EVP) with Anabela Cardoso, publisher of the Instrumental Transcommunication Journal. Mostyn Gilbert (1924–1992) Mostyn Gilbert, an American-born historian resident in the UK, undertook research into mediumistic communications, table-turning and electronic voice phenomena (EVP). He was a member of the SPR from 1962….
…London: Futura Publications Limited. Innocent Voices in My Ear, Doris Stokes with Linda Dearsley (1983). Publisher: Sphere; New edition. A Host of Voices (1984, with P. and M. Kiddey). London: Futura Publications Limited. Whispering Voices (1985, with L. Dearsley). London: Macdonald & Company. Voices of Love, Doris Stokes with Linda…
…as was reported to be the case with some other ‘direct voice’ mediums.3West (1946), 34. However, the voice was also said to lack Helen’s strong Scottish accent.4West (1946), 50. Albert acted as master of ceremonies; sitters were not allowed to move or to touch the ‘ectoplasmic’ manifestations without his permission….
…violent movements, I was startled by the remarkable change in her voice – an exclamation, a sort of grunt of satisfaction, as if the person had reached his destination and gave vent to his pleasure thereat by this sound, uttered in an unmistakably male voice, but rather husky. I was…
