…with unusual ease among performance, mediumship, journalism, public lecturing and movement-building. She collaborated with HP Blavatsky in founding the Theosophical Society in 1875 before their alliance dissolved in rivalry. Her later career combined missionary lecturing with editing, practical occult writing and major autobiographical and historical works on Spiritualism. Life Emma…
…the boys again being separated because of earlier suspicions of collusion, one of them complained that he could not start writing because his brother was ‘not ready’. It turned out that there had been a delay in providing his exam paper so that he too was not ready. It is…
…Korean, Spanish and Chinese.5Batthyány et al. (2006, 2009). Understanding Mind Batthyány co-edited a series of monographs and anthologies aimed at providing non-reductionist ontologies of consciousness, with particular reference to the writings of German philosophers Bolzano and Brentano. Such work aligns with the non-reductionist perspective in his academic writings and outlook.6Batthyany…
…asked by AIR to produce an independent report by a fixed date. Utts complied, and submitted her report by the deadline. Hyman did not. As a result he was able to see her report before writing his own, and the approach he chose to take, when he did write, was…
…books he had taken from an old safe. In the memories, realizing he was financially ruined, he picked up a gun and shot himself to death. In Schulz’s self-investigation, he started by writing down all the memories that were potentially verifiable, then began contacting officials in small seaports on the…
…for behaviours and other features that correspond closely to the remembered life. Especially significant from the evidential point of view are cases with ‘stranger’ relationships in which a child’s memories were recorded in writing before verifications were attempted. These cases, known as ‘early bird cases’, are indicated in the line…
…at the club remarked that his golf swing reminded them of Bobby Jones’s. He also liked to design golf courses with his blankets, and his favourite golf course was Augusta National Golf Club, which Jones had founded and helped design. As of Tucker’s writing, Hunter dominated the child golf circuit.8Tucker…
…conservatism. Writing in Annales des Sciences Psychiques, Marcel Mangin called it the best book available on the topic, and praised the author for being cautious in his conclusions, ‘which cannot be too much praised when the problems are so complex and so difficult to interpret’.20Mangin (1894), 374. The book was…
…visualize his signature, and no one in the circle knew his writing or that he was related to me. There was something inexplicable in this fact.’ 7Garland (1936), 160. A month later, Garland sat with Peters in his Sunday evening family circle, which called for the medium to be in…
