…He decided to treat the medium, to use his own words, as a ‘telegraph cable’, sending ‘a current from her right wrist along her right and left arms to her left wrist’. This created a steady circuit signalled by a reflecting galvanometer. The breaking of the circuit would be automatic…
…to settle the controversy around physical phenomena, Osty collaborated with physicists and engineers (including his son Marcel) 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…
…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…
…confirmed it all.12Holt (1914), 415-16. On another occasion, Minot Savage’s deceased son Philip communicated through Piper’s automatic writing. Philip asked his father to go to his room, look in a desk drawer and find papers he wished to have destroyed. Philip had died two years before, at age 31, and…
…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….
Anna Rebello Prado (1883–1923) was a Brazilian spiritist medium reputed to produce direct writing, levitations, apports and materialization phenomena. Her case was investigated by followers of Kardecist spiritism in Brazil. She also attracted the attention of French psychical researchers and spiritualists such as Pascal Forthuny and Gabriel Delanne. Prado’s séances…
