…arousal appears before randomly selected emotional images, with reported effects later replicated by other researchers. He has published widely on optical and mind-matter experiments, while also writing accessible books that helped popularise modern parapsychology. Critics have challenged his statistical reasoning and interpretations, but supportive scientists have treated his work as…
…labelled ‘Hauntings & Poltergeists’ lists hundreds of unpublished cases with detailed information and geographical locations. In addition to this list there are numerous accounts scattered throughout the archive. Automatic writing/ drawing. Over one hundred references, with examples, from well-known cases such as Bligh Bond at Glastonbury, as well as obscure…
…and the reasons of his delay and his not writing were just the same as the man had stated. The woman was now curious to know what would be the result, if she visited the friendly solitary in company with her husband. The visit was arranged, but when the captain…
…the result. In each case the three girls were correct, giving male in red, Zhou in red, and see (colour not mentioned) (see Fig 1: second line). The boy, who was unable to identify the writing in his package became upset at having failed the test. Following this demonstration, more…
…write in German. The letters were separate, unlike Dolores’s usual cursive handwriting. Figure 1: Gretchen’s German writing, and the normal handwriting of Dolores Jay Fig. 1: Gretchen’s German script, and a sample of Dolores Jay’s handwriting made during her normal waking state.4Reproduced in Stevenson (1984), 43. Criticism and Controversy Stevenson…
…serious study of Hernani Guimãraes Andrade, who founded the Brazilian Institute for Psycho-Biophysical Research (IBPP) in 1963. Despite initial scepticism, Playfair became increasingly intrigued by the phenomena he investigated and was eventually persuaded of their genuineness. He researched a number of cases of ‘psychic surgery, automatic writing, materializations and poltergeist…
…automatically reliable nor automatically worthless, but as evidence whose force depends on context, convergence and the nature of the claim. Stephen Braude argues that appeals to general human bias cannot by themselves explain away every strong case, because some reports contain features that are difficult to assimilate to ordinary perceptual…
…founded or ran several newspapers and journals before turning serious attention to psychology and séance phenomena. Held that mediumistic effects were real yet produced by an automatic force generated within the human organism rather than by spirits. Worked with William Crookes on mediumistic investigations, later breaking with him over the…
…(1925). and the views expressed there were developed further as his career progressed, most notably in another monumental book, Lectures on Psychical Research.2Broad (1962). Broad’s writing on parapsychology was confined primarily to the topics of ESP and postmortem survival. Psychokinesis, on the other hand, was a topic he dismissed more…
