…(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…
…psychic development, working with guides and angels, automatic writing, past and future lives, shamanic healing, chakras, energy work, palmistry, numerology, tarot, mysticism, paganism, scrying and crystals. One-to-one healing sessions and psychic mediumship readings are also offered. Publications In 1930, the London Spiritualist Alliance (as LSA. Publications Ltd) published five books….
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,…
