…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…
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 marginally significant result. The findings were confirmed by 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% –…
…through collaboration with Thomas 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…
…(2008). On the other hand, it could be 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,…
…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 fortuitous data preservation error allowed validation of these findings, supporting the concept of…
…automatically recorded, as well as their target choices and resulting hits or misses. High hit rates were often in the 40% range where 25% was expected by chance, and significant personality and belief correlations found in the data.1Morris et al. (1998). Direct Mental Influence of Living Systems (DMILS) In a…
