…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…
…mental representation or automatic expression of a date and a number of days or years arises spontaneously, the sensitive has to estimate time, both as to its mode and extent, by interpreting the artifices of the imagination, variable in different sensitives and always of doubtful import. M. de Fleuriere, for…
…a Black Sea: A Study in Automatic Writing by G. Cummins (1966). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 43, 267-70. Obituary: The ‘Hodgson Report’ on Madame Blavatsky by A.E. Waterman (1968). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 44, 341-49. Towards the mysteries by Swami Omananda Puri (1969). Journal…
…Funk, had accompanied him to one sitting with the Brooklyn medium and agreed that she was genuine. On 2 October 1912, a communicator purporting to be Funk (who had died on 4 April) began addressing Hyslop through the automatic writing of ‘Mrs. Chenoweth’ (later identified as Minnie Meserve Soule). ‘Funk’ provided…
…approach that treats exceptional experiences as meaningful phenomena rather than automatically pathologising them. Career Thomas Rabeyron is professor of clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Lorraine in Nancy. He is director of the INTERPSY laboratory, which encourages collaboration between clinical psychology and medicine, with the aim of improving…
…argues that paranormal experience deserves ethnographic attention rather than automatic reduction to error, pathology or superstition. His Bristol circle research shifted his focus from why people believe in spirits to how communication with spirits may be experienced. By linking anthropology, ecology and parapsychology, he presses for more ontologically open accounts…
…York, USA: University Books. Articles Discussion of Professor Richet’s case of automatic writing in a language unknown to the writer, Part III. (1905, with A Johnson). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 19, 245-61. Private meeting for members and associates: The haunted solicitor, an unfinished comedy (1905). Journal of…
