…Manning was filmed professionally after he displayed talents for producing psychic drawings and automatic writing.72Manning (n.d.). In the 1970s Toshiko Ichimura, director of the Japanese Parapsychological Research Association, reported the work of the spoon bender and thoughtographer Masuaki Kiyota on film and video.73Cited in Permutt (1983). Video footage featured strongly…
…at least ‘when associated with other phenomena suggesting unusual 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…
…SPR. Goodrich Freer joined the SPR in 1888 and became known for crystal-gazing, automatic experiences and writings under the pseudonym ‘Miss X’. Her 1899 Essays in Psychical Research presented a broad survey of psychical topics but included a disparaging treatment of Leonora Piper which Richard Hodgson disputed. The controversial Ballechin…
…be merely an instrument, like a crystal ball, for concentrating ESP faculties; Harry, the Dutch sculptor, who goes into trances in the 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…
…distress and traumatic death in the previous life. Responsive, Recitative and Passive Xenoglossy The term xenoglossy was coined by French physiologist and psychical researcher Charles Richet at the beginning of the twentieth century. He used it to refer to words in languages unknown to the writer that appeared in automatic…
…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. Consequently, psi interactions affect our behavior at a non-conscious level. Such processes, Carpenter believes,…
…the Council of the Society for Psychical Research for 57years, eventually becoming vice-president. He exposed weaknesses in some physical mediumship performances, including slate-writing and Eusapia Palladino’s phenomena. Although cautious about proof, he regarded short-range telepathy as highly important and insufficiently studied. Life and Career Joseph John Thomson was born in…
…Kelly’s writings on near-death experience emphasise cases in which vivid mentation coincides with documented physiological decline. She has stressed proxy sittings in mediumship research, and one larger DOPS study yielded highly significant results. Her contributions to Irreducible Mind and related books defend filter-transmission models of consciousness and revive Myers’s neglected…
…thought that telepathy was handled by the subliminal regions of the mind, and this idea can be seen in different ways in the writings of researchers to the present day, for instance Rhine and Pratt56Rhine and Pratt (1957).and Carpenter.57Carpenter (2012). From the results of card-guessing experiments, it has been stated…
