…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 In the unpublished manuscript and both published works in which he mentions it, the previous incarnation is named as Saada Hatoum, while in Shroder’s work she is named…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…
…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 persuaded…
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…
