…the development of the automatic ganzfeld, or autoganzfeld, by Honorton and colleagues at the Psychophysical Research Laboratory (PRL) in which sequences and outcomes were entirely controlled by a computer. Eleven studies carried out in these methodologically tight conditions produced a highly significant hit rate of 34% (p = 0.001). Other…
…the subjects and lookers in separate rooms. In these tests the subjects were not asked to guess whether they were being looked at or not. Instead, their galvanic skin response was recorded automatically, as in lie-detector tests. In a randomized series of trials the lookers either looked at the subject’s…
…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…
Siméon Edmunds (1917–69) was a British psychical researcher whose writings focused on hypnotism, spiritualism, spirit photography and parapsychology. A former College of Psychic Studies researcher, he is best remembered for sceptical studies of mediumship and spirit-photography and for introductory surveys of parapsychology. Edmunds wrote on hypnotism, ESP, parapsychology, spiritualism and…
Letitia Fairfield (1885–1978) was a pioneering medical doctor, lawyer and women’s rights campaigner, with an interest in parapsychology. The article sketches her professional life, her involvement with parapsychology and the writings she left behind, presenting her as part of a wider generation of intellectually adventurous women in the field. Fairfield…
Sujith Lakmal Jayaratne was a Sri Lankan boy who recalled being an alcoholic bootlegger of arrack, whose personality and characteristic behaviours he displayed as a toddler. Sixteen of Sujith’s statements about the previous life were recorded in writing before they were verified. Sceptical critics nevertheless have raised questions about the…
…ailments.5Shermer (2002), 13-15. He co-founded the Skeptics Society and began publishing Skeptic magazine in 1992, writing sceptical articles for major publications. He also made media appearances as a hobby. ‘As it grew, I realized by the late 90s that I could do this full time,’ he writes. ‘Publishing magazines, writing…
…noted.Unable to progress at fiction he visited his local library in Arlington, Virginia, in search of ideas for non-fiction writing and encountered books about reincarnation, a topic he had previously been intrigued by. Entrance into Parapsychology Matlock began collecting past-life regression accounts, recording each in detail on an index card….
…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…
