…the IMI’s second director Eugène Osty collaborated with physicists and engineers to develop an automatic device that could instantaneously record any anomalous movement occurring in total darkness. This device helped both to expose cheating, as with the fraudulent medium Stanislawa Popielska, and also to confirm the presence of a genuine…
…(Poole’s maiden name) and details about the murder. Holohan contacted the police and gave 131 separate statements, including descriptions of the murder scene whose accuracy impressed the first detective who arrived there, Tony Batters. Holohan also gave a detailed description of the murderer’s appearance and used automatic writing to give…
…towards the goal of the study, and criticized previous work that assumed psychedelic states will automatically induce psi: as noted by Tart, Osmond, and Beloff,116Levine (1968). in traditional scenarios, the shamans who use these substances usually have extensive training and experience. It is further suggested that the experimental task be…
Herbert Saltmarsh (1881–1943) was a British businessman, forced into early retirement by ill health, who became known for careful, patient writings on precognition and mediumistic communications. His books Evidence of Personal Survival from Cross-Correspondences and Foreknowledge have been reissued in a single volume, The Future and Beyond. Herbert Saltmarsh joined…
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…
…writing and ideas as your own. Fraud by the subjects or participants in research is not discussed in this article. JB Rhine on Researcher Fraud JB Rhine’s many experiences with researcher fraud over sixty years of diverse investigations of psychic phenomena provides a useful background and frame of reference. Rhine’s…
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…
