…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…
…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 a year later, she saw pictures of the Temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt, and claimed it was the building of which she…
…(plural defixiones), from the verb 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…
…government in Baghdad. Erlendur became a 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…
…telepathy experiment. During and after World War II, Wilkins served as a geographer for the British Army. He died on 1 December 1958 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.3Antarctic Circle (n.d.) For more information about Wilkins including news clippings, personal writings, collections and more, see the Wilkins Foundation website here. Harold Sherman…
…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 was…
…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, and lectured part-time at two English universities. In 1992 she began lecturing…
