Cyril Burt (1883–1971), one of Britain’s most influential psychologists, took a serious interest in parapsychology, arguing that claims of extra-sensory perception and other psychic phenomena merited scientific attention. His writings on psi, produced after retirement, approached these disputed phenomena with caution, curiosity and rational scrutiny. After retiring from academic psychology,…
…parapsychology. He was not just a theorist but also a leading experimenter, who introduced the use of random generators into parapsychology. Schmidt had little interest in convincing others of his ideas: his writing was clear, but only for those with an advanced degree in physics. Walker worked at the prestigious…
…2022). As the previous incarnation’s family was prominent in Lebanon, Stevenson took pains to use aliases in his writings on the case. In the unpublished manuscript and both published works in which he mentions it, the previous incarnation is named as Saada Hatoum, while in Shroder’s work she is named…
Across cultures, mediums, shamans and possessed practitioners enter altered states to contact with spirits, ancestors or deities. Anthropologists and parapsychologists have interpreted these practices in different and sometimes conflicting ways: as social protest, healing, pathology, performance, embodiment, cognition, trance, or evidence of genuine spirit agency. In anthropological writing, spirit possession…
…a lack of understanding as to what Edwards’s claims actually were. For, example, Edwards made it clear at his public demonstrations, and in his writings, that he deliberately invited people onto the platform who had conditions that he had found responded most readily, and visibly, to healing. This was purely…
…only she and I could have known.’5Bradley (1924); cited in Tymn (2013). However, Bradley also described an incident in which writings purportedly made by deceased communicators were considered by a handwriting expert to have been written by Valiantine himself. This led to disillusion on the part of de Wykoff, who…
…regard. Errors of time are … common; for except in the few cases in which mental representation or automatic expression of a date and a number of days or years arises spontaneously, the sensitive has to estimate time, both as to its mode and extent, by interpreting the artifices of…
…a Black Sea: A Study in Automatic Writing by G. Cummins (1966). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 43, 267-70. Obituary: The ‘Hodgson Report’ on Madame Blavatsky by A.E. Waterman (1968). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 44, 341-49. Towards the mysteries by Swami Omananda Puri (1969). Journal…
…Funk, had accompanied him to one sitting with the Brooklyn medium and agreed that she was genuine. On 2 October 1912, a communicator purporting to be Funk (who had died on 4 April) began addressing Hyslop through the automatic writing of ‘Mrs. Chenoweth’ (later identified as Minnie Meserve Soule). ‘Funk’ provided…
