…(W), fulfilment or non-attachment (N); it also corresponds respectively with Faith, Obedience, Active Recollection, Continuous Recollection.31Whiteman (1986). Whiteman placed great importance on this cycle having its opposites or ‘counterfeits’ of self-will, self-satisfaction, automaticity, complacency, which may lead to a corresponding cycle of ‘stresses’ of death-feeling, shame, pain, fear. This in…
…(1838). Lee published a detailed account of thirteen sittings in his 1866 book Animal Magnetism and Magnetic Lucid Somnambulism. He noted that Didier preferred to write down his sensations and communications rather than speaking them, which he took to indicate a preference for automatic writing.7Lee (1866). Robert-Houdin Tests of Didier…
…anomalies as documented by the family’s event diary. A nonlinear wave form rather than linear pattern was better approximated by temporal patterns characteristic of contagion effects. Study 3 scrutinized features of mysterious doodle-board messages using handwriting analysis. Marc’s handwriting as most similar to anomalous messages was independently identified by graphology…
…1923 sittings. From the sixth sitting, the amount and type of equipment used was expanded to include such easily-affected items such as toy musical instruments, writing paper, modelling clay, and devices invented by Price and others to confirm that the activity was not caused by normal physical force. Sitting 6:…
…another. Before any previous personality had been identified, Stevenson recorded the child’s statements in writing, a feature later treated as methodologically important. Many details pointed to Ibrahim Bouhamzy, yet confusion with Said Bouhamzy created a dispute that has followed the case ever since. The child’s recognitions and behavioural traits impressed…
A contemporary American parapsychologist with wide-ranging interests, Bryan Williams has worked across laboratory research, spontaneous cases and theoretical questions about mind and anomaly. His projects span out-of-body experience, psychomanteum work, poltergeist investigation and random-number studies, alongside educational writing and monograph publication. Williams’s work ranges from out-of-body states and psychomanteum research…
…of Calaveras County’ was published in the New York weekly The Saturday Press. This brought his writing into public recognition and led to many successful books, lecture tours and an honorary degree from Oxford University. Despite these achievements he was often short of money and prone to fits of despair,…
…when the most striking events occur in the presence of certain individuals. However, an alternative view is that such people act as triggers for the whole group, and their performance is dependent on the social interaction and setting. Sceptics At the time of writing, Batcheldor’s work appears to be unknown…
…writing about his two ‘deaths’ in an essay in which he was supposed to express his gratitude to his mother.11Ohkado (2017a). Tae This is a case in which a mother appears to have come back to her daughter as a daughter of the latter about three years after her death….
