…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…
…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…
