…think about giving up the chairmanship of his department so that he could engage full time in research and writing. Parapsychology Foundation grants helped to compensate for income from his clinical practice and allowed him to stop seeing patients, but he was still spending a good deal of time on…
…that refuse normal explanation. Louisa Rhine helped devise early experimental methods, but her distinctive legacy lay in collecting and analysing spontaneous psi reports. She accepted broad testimony for pattern-finding rather than case-proof, seeking clues for future laboratory research. Her writings proposed a two-stage psi process and explored dreams, intuitions, crisis…
…five years as honorary secretary. Gregory (writing as Kohsen) translated Russian researcher LL Vasiliev’s writings into English for publication under the title Experiments in Distant Influence in 1963.2Grattan-Guinness (1985), 61. She also edited the writings of Cyril Burt, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1975. Investigations and Experiments Rudi Schneider…
…and parapsychology. The effort has involved the creation or major rewriting of more than 630 articles, which ‘has empirically improved verifiability on pseudoscience entries by increasing the proportion of citations from credible scientific literature’.11Matsakis (2018). About Time In 2018, Gerbic founded About Time, a non-profit organisation that manages her various sceptical…
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 In the unpublished manuscript and both published works in which he mentions it, the previous incarnation is named as Saada Hatoum, while in Shroder’s work she is named…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…
…and the Church’.55Edwards (1953a). This 574-page book contains extracts from thousands of letters from absent healing patients, claiming improvement or cure. There are also examples of Edwards’s brief progress notes for some cases. Edwards had source material cross-checked by a firm of chartered accountants who testified in writing that ‘the…
