…about Wilkins including news clippings, personal writings, collections and more, see the Wilkins Foundation website here. Harold Sherman Harold Morrow Sherman (1898–1987) was a prolific American writer, producing books and magazine articles on various topics including sports for boys, self-help, and parapsychological research, as well as plays, some of which…
…other Spiritist texts and also wrote two short treatises (see list below). On 31 March 1869, while in the process of setting up an organization to which he would bequeath the copyright to his writings to ensure the continuation of Spiritism, Kardec died of a ruptured aneurysm. The organizational work…
…parapsychology from the same university in 1980. Blackmore has two children by her first husband, Tom Troscianko, whom she married in 1977 and divorced in 2009.1Blackmore (2018). She is now married to writer and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis.2Blackmore (1992). While raising her children, she worked at freelance writing and media appearances,…
Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) was a Hungarian journalist and author, whose many writings included commentary on paranormal topics. His estate funds the Koestler Parapsychology Unit, an academic chair at Edinburgh University. Life and Career Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest on 5 September 1905 to Jewish parents. He was educated in…
…his observations – notably the frequent time lag between the idea conceived by the agent and its reception by the percipient – argued against the idea of mental radio as a literal mechanism, he often returned in his writings to the comparison between telepathy and wireless telegraphy. However, eventually he…
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…
…case indicates that Stevenson ‘sometimes deletes important information when writing his reports’ because Stevenson does not mention that the subject’s father and grandfather publicly refuted a reincarnation interpretation of the case, or that he used one informant (the previous person’s brother-in-law) as an interpreter to interview another informant (the subject’s…
…vaguely or symbolically, they often muddled it. Two of his sensitives, however, were exceptions in this regard. Errors of time are … common; for except in the few cases in which mental representation or automatic expression of a date and a number of days or years arises spontaneously, the sensitive…
…Swami Omananda Puri (1960). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 40, 312-14. The Mystical Life by J.H.M. Whiteman (1963). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 42, 25-26. Swan on a Black Sea: A Study in Automatic Writing by G. Cummins (1966). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research…
