…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…
…handwriting changed with each communicator and was unlike his own handwriting. Moreover, the communications were taken down with a rapidity greater than Dexter could manage when not entranced, while the ideas they expressed were often in conflict with Dexter’s own, or beyond his prior knowledge.8Edmonds & Dexter (1853), vol. I,…
Arthur Koestler (1905–83) was a Hungarian journalist and author, whose many writings included commentary on paranormal topics. Koestler’s importance to parapsychology lies less in conducting experiments than in arguing that anomalous experience deserved scientific attention and financial support. At his death, he left a major bequest to support research at…
…Pherecydes of Syros and Pythagoras. but Greek reincarnation beliefs are more closely related to Pythagoras. Unfortunately, Pythagoras favoured oral instruction and left no writings of his own (those attributed to him are now known to be forgeries).26Burkert (1972). In 440 BCE, Herodotus alleged that Greek reincarnation beliefs had been acquired…
