…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,…
…differences between the results of telepathic experiments among the living and the communications through mediums.17Worcester (1926), 13. He did not, however, embrace this alternative hypothesis dogmatically, for he accepted that ‘many of these automatic writings in deep trance, of which the medium remembers nothing on waking, present evidence of subconscious…
…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…
