…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…
…criticized by Rogo is the case of Mallika Aroumougam from Twenty Cases. Rogo charges that this case indicates that Stevenson ‘sometimes deletes important information when writing his reports’ because Stevenson does not mention that the subject’s father and grandfather publicly refuted a reincarnation interpretation of the case, or that he…
…regard. Errors of time are … common; for except in the few cases in which 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…
…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…
