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….
…so doing, probably destroyed the electric or magnetic influence by which it was working; for the pencil dropped and the hand vanished. The writing was afterwards examined, and proved to be the name, in her own proper handwriting, of a relative and intimate lady friend of one in the circle,…
…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 Bessant, 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…
…people’s minds. Because 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,…
