…capacities’.7Hyslop (1912), 97-98. However, an attempt at automatic writing on his first meeting with Miguel in May 1911 provided no evidence for this.8Hyslop (1912), 100-1. Experiments with ‘chronomancy’ yielded highly significant results. In a first set, Hyslop named the year and the date of the month, and Miguel was to…
…Faraday cages and produces automatic scripts in Egyptian hieroglyphics; Narodny, the cockroach man, who is preparing experiments to test the effects of human telepathy on insects. It was all very lively and amusing – and, I really think, promising; for whatever may be said against Puharich, he is certainly very…
…to the writer that appeared in automatic scripts.1Richet (1905-1907). In 1974, Ian Stevenson distinguished between responsive and recitative xenoglossy in speech. In responsive xenoglossy, a person can converse intelligibly in an unlearned foreign language, whereas in recitative xenoglossy, the language is deployed in an uncomprehending, rote way only.2Stevenson (1974b), 1-8….
…all the time at an unconscious level, the way the human mind first contacts the material world; it is part of our cognitive system and is affected by our dispositions, needs and other psychological aspects, employing aspects of our psychology to manifest, among them perceptions, creativity, memory, and automatic processes….
…books, which had been torn up and thrown behind some filing cabinets. As was his practice, he declined to name the actual culprit, however.14Barrington et al. (2005), 107-108. Experiments Most of the experiments involved identifying the contents of concealed writing or drawings (usually in sealed envelopes), also occasionally photos and…
…and this idea can be seen in different ways in the writings of researchers to the present day, for instance Rhine and Pratt55Rhine and Pratt (1957).and Carpenter.56Carpenter (2012). From the results of card-guessing experiments, it has been stated that: The fact that psi is unconscious will explain many odd things…
…my people’, and was unwilling to leave. She constantly demanded that a chapter on ancient Egypt in a child’s encyclopedia be read to her. At six, having learned to read English, she stated that hieroglyphic writing was familiar, to her, but that she had forgotten how to read it. About…
…defigere, ‘to fasten’. Most Roman examples date from the third and fourth centuries CE and constitute ‘prayers for justice’8Ogden (1999), 5. A large body of other magical writings preserved on papyrus, the so-called Greek Magical Papyri (Papyri Graecae Magicae) from Graeco-Roman Egypt, illustrates a broad range of spells, many using…
…freelance writer and travelled widely through the Middle East, amongst other things writing reports on the Iraqi Kurd rebels, particularly their struggle for autonomy in Iraq. There followed travels through Iran and Pakistan, then to India where he stayed for a year, writing his first book, on Kurdish political history….
