…Raymond Lodge, attached to the South Lancashire Regiment, was killed near Ypres on 14 September 1915 having been struck by a shell fragment in the attack on Hooge Hill. The ‘Faunus’ Message On 8 August 1915, cryptic statements addressed to Lodge appeared in the automatic writings of Leonora Piper. One,…
…filmed and videotaped many times, as in a 1973 film produced by the Stanford Research Institute.73See UriGeller.com. The English psychic Matthew Manning was filmed professionally after he displayed talents for producing psychic drawings and automatic writing.74Manning (n.d.). In the 1970s Toshiko Ichimura, director of the Japanese Parapsychological Research Association, reported…
…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…
…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…
…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. Consequently, psi interactions affect our behavior at a non-conscious level. Such processes,…
…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…
