…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…
…fire. The hands of each one present were upon the table, in full view, so that it could not have been one of the party who was thus writing. Being the nearest one to the hand, I bent down close to it as it wrote, to see the whole of…
…Jung married Emma Rauschenbach, whose family wealth relieved him of financial concerns. In 1905, Jung was employed as lecturer in the medical faculty of the University of Zurich. He resigned a few years later in order to dedicate himself to research, writing, and private practice as a psychiatrist.3Wehr (1987). In…
…became acquainted with theosophical literature of Annie Besant, Henry S Olcott, and other leaders of Helena Blavatsky’s movement. Following his return to Mexico in 1903, Madero began to experiment systematically as a scribe medium receiving communications in writing, guided by Kardec’s Book of Mediums. According to the memoir he wrote…
…visual history of ghosts, art and science. Objects on display included ectoplasm photographs, spirit trumpets, slate-writing tablets, materialised hand casts and spirit photographs. A section on CG Jung connected mediumship and ghostly phenomena with his theory of externalised unconscious processes. The Exhibition The exhibition Geister. Dem Übernatürlichen auf der Spur…
…of the danger that denying the supernatural might lead to disbelief in key tenets of Christian doctrine, Glanvill saw his writings on the subject as: necessary for our Age, in which Atheism is begun in Sadducism. And those that dare not bluntly say, There is NO GOD, content themselves, (for…
…think about giving up the chairmanship of his department so that he could engage full time in research and writing. Parapsychology Foundation grants helped to compensate for income from his clinical practice and allowed him to stop seeing patients, but he was still spending a good deal of time on…
…that refuse normal explanation. Louisa Rhine helped devise early experimental methods, but her distinctive legacy lay in collecting and analysing spontaneous psi reports. She accepted broad testimony for pattern-finding rather than case-proof, seeking clues for future laboratory research. Her writings proposed a two-stage psi process and explored dreams, intuitions, crisis…
…five years as honorary secretary. Gregory (writing as Kohsen) translated Russian researcher LL Vasiliev’s writings into English for publication under the title Experiments in Distant Influence in 1963.2Grattan-Guinness (1985), 61. She also edited the writings of Cyril Burt, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1975. Investigations and Experiments Rudi Schneider…
