…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…
…(1912/1963). New Hyde Park, New 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…
…colleagues used single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and found that the brain activity in ten Brazilian Kardecist Spiritist ‘psychographers’ (mediums who perform automatic writing) when they wrote in trance was different from during control, non-trance states.53Peres et al. (2012). Everton Maraldi and Stanley Krippner examined the hand temperature, heart…
…in 1930, Winifred Coombe-Tennant, a medium known at the time by the pseudonym ‘Mrs Willett’, said she psychically perceived a young woman watching over him. Subsequently other mediums, including Margaret Verrall, Helen Salter and ‘Mrs Holland’, wrote automatic (trance) scripts which it was believed were dictated by this woman. The…
…According to Spiritism to their children and holding Spiritist meetings at their home. Zibia practised psychography (automatic writing) and eventually published books of spirit communications.1Dubugras (1987); Dubugras & Gasparetto (1979). Luiz was a nervous child, often unable to pay attention in class. Zibia enrolled him in a course at an…
…of the classic poltergeist haunting, though they are not claimed to be all of equal evidential value.4Fisk (1965), 94. Matthew Manning During his childhood, the British psychic Matthew Manning (born 1955) seemed to be the focus of poltergeist-type effects, which led to him producing automatic writing and artworks credited to…
…mediumship of William Eglinton, a physical medium known for a procedure in which ‘spirits’ wrote their messages on slates, whose abilities he also doubted; he co-authored reports underlining the fallibility of witness testimony and exposing cheating methods he suspected were used by Eglinton and other slate-writing mediums. As a result…
…e le ipotesi affrettate. Osservazioni sopra un articolo del Prof. C. Lombroso (1892). Padova, Italy: Drucker. A veridical message given by automatic writing (1892). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 5, 299-301. A case report (1893). In F.W.H. Myers’ ‘Subliminal consciousness’. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 9,…
