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…
…Zaleski identifies various literary influences in this late-medieval trend: the Bible, apocalyptic tales of late antiquity, classical works such as Vergil’s Aeneid and Plutarch’s Moralia, and the earlier medieval writings summarized in the next section. Earlier Medieval Writings The Vision of Saint Paul Zaleski names St Paul as ‘the pioneer…
…Research Gertrude Schmeidler In the early 1970s, Swann was tested for PK (psychokinetic) abilities by Gertrude Schmeidler at the American Society for Psychical Research. In this experiment, Swann repeatedly produced significant PK changes in continuous, automatic recordings of temperature variations of graphite samples. Extensive controls included insulating the thermistor in…
…a pre-registered confirmatory experiment, in which volunteers achieved winning outcomes 52.7% of the time when they used the CardioAlert. A conceptual replication experiment that allowed the CardioAlert to automatically avoid negative outcomes gave a yet higher winning outcome of 56.3% – an extremely significant finding (p = 10 x 10-6).3Tressoldi…
…Rabeyron. Research revealed strong evidence for PK effects in subjective trials (Bayes Factor: 17.14) where participants recalled their scores, while objective trials with automatic data storage showed no effects. This supports theoretical arguments about the relationship between measurement objectivity and psi manifestation, leading to concepts of hybrid ‘sobjective’ reality.6Maier et…
…argued that concepts like ‘fantasy proneness’94Wilson & Barber (1983). are based upon a normative model of a psychology that automatically assumes that anomalous experiences are entirely subjective; similar objections can be made concerning anomalistic psychology as a whole. This does not mean, however, that the psychological source hypothesis is not…
…objectivity on psi outcomes through research with Thomas Rabeyron from the University of Lorraine. In trials where data were recorded subjectively (participants recalled their scores) versus objectively (automatic data storage), strong evidence for PK effects emerged only in subjective trials (Bayes Factor: 17.14), while objective trials showed no effect. A…
…research led by Charles Honorton in the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL) at Durham, North Carolina. The KPU program made improvements to security features, with distant separation of receiver-sender rooms, a sound and electromagnetically insulated receiver room, automated and randomized target selection, and presentation where receiver mentation is automatically recorded, as…
…commented, ‘John never wrote songs as bad as that’.20Barry (1986). Rosalind Heywood, a writer on ESP and a member of the Society for Psychical Research, created a psychological profile of Brown, concluding that the medium was driven to the automatic production of material beyond her normal capacity by feelings of…
