…investigate spontaneous cases with Edmund Gurney and FWH Myers for Phantasms of the Living (1886). His later writings increasingly explained mediumship and poltergeist claims through fraud, conjuring and witness error. Survival evidence he could not explain away he believed could be accounted for by ESP. Life and Career Podmore was…
…is peculiarly her own, and consists in writing with her finger, and leaving behind marks as of a lead pencil, while no such article is in her possession or even in the room. She will also take hold of the hand of the sitters, and cause the same phenomenon of…
…to reach cases early enough so that he or a colleague could record a child’s statements in writing or on tape before assessing the accuracy of the memories, but it proved difficult to do this in the Asian countries in which he concentrated his research. As Stevenson built up a…
…writing, a rough bottle drawing and the package’s coloured envelopes. Life and Career Stefan Ossowiecki was born in 1877 in Moscow. His father was a wealthy chemical manufacturer who in his youth had been assistant to Dmitri Mendeleev, inventor of the Periodic Table of elements. Both parents’ families were landed…
…table-turning and spirit rappings, sitting with notable séance mediums of the day, such as William Eglinton, DD Home and Mrs Guppy, and claiming to have repeatedly witnessed materializations, slate-writing, music from unknown sources, apports, and the like.6Fodor (1934), 403. This led him to a belief in the existence of ‘preterhuman…
René Warcollier (1881–1962) was a French chemical engineer, inventor and parapsychologist who devoted much of his career to the experimental study of telepathy by means of transmission of drawings. His writings are considered a major contribution towards understanding the complex psychological processes underlying telepathy. Warcollier led the journal of the…
The natural philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626), a key figure of the scientific revolution, is widely believed to have been sceptical of psychic phenomena. In fact, his writings show a strong belief in the occult and also in the possibility that its manifestations could be investigated empirically; his reluctance to do…
…colleagues to test whether predictions generated from perceptual patterns automatically influence the processing of a current stimulus. Ambiguous Necker lattices and unambiguous variants were used. Brain responses and reaction times were measured while manipulating what had been seen before in the immediate past by the participants. In Experiment 1, brain…
…showed a modest increase of scoring level, but going to a two million bit trial size gave confounding results with a highly significant backwards effect – the high and low outcomes were reversed relative to operator intention.12Dobyns et al. (2004). PEAR also assessed manual vs automatic trial sequencing in groups…
