…in South Africa, where he was prosecuted for libel on eight separate occasions; affronted the Boers’ religious sensibilities by publishing a fanciful story about a cherubim being shot out of the sky; and invented a bogus pedigree for Viljoen, a Boer general – among other escapades. Blackburn possessed real writing…
…that his teacher never ceased to confess his belief in the alleged phenomena, as is evident from Fechner’s diary, his letters to Wundt and others, and his published writings.16Wundt (1901), 85-90. Other excerpts from Fechner’s diaries, which tell a different story than Wundt’s selections, were first printed in Fechner (1888)….
…with neuroscientific and empirical methods. A Bigelow essay with co-authors argued that Francisco Xavier’s writings and letters are better explained by survival than by fraud or super-psi. Her recent OBE research has explored empathy effects and used voluntary eye movements as markers of self-induced OBE onset. Career Marina Weiler is…
…He moved from journalism and thriller writing into psychical investigation after researching paranormal features for a popular magazine. His books ranged across ghosts, apparitions, Belmez faces, time-slips and precognition, with an emphasis on careful case presentation. A reviewer praised his refusal to force cases into a fixed thesis, noting the…
…dream interpretation he taught as the University of Southern Maine. In 2013, an unpublished manuscript entitled Conversations with Ghosts was finally edited and published with the assistance of Callum E Cooper. Today, further archival research is being conducted, with unpublished writings by Tanous – concerning clinical parapsychology, healing, ufology, and…
…might have been available to the twins through normal means. As an alternative explanation Wilson proposes maternal impression, writing, ‘it can scarcely be doubted that during her pregnancy with the twins Florence Pollock must have played and replayed in her mind the events of the life and death of her…
…A large collection of Carrington’s writings and correspondence is held in the Princeton University library. Mediumship An extensive knowledge of conjuring made Carrington sceptical about the claims of séance mediums. His 1920 book The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine gives detailed descriptions of tricks that he argued were…
…in writing and included a sketch of a castle he recalled living in (Figure 8). He spent the next few years searching for the location and attempting to verify details, with some success. Figure 8.16Reproduced from Stevenson (2003), Fig. 2. By Neidhart’s own account, he began exploring the region in…
…discernment of past associations attached to natural or manufactured articles.2Buchanan (1863). William Denton A generation later, geologist William Denton’s attention was drawn to Buchanan’s writings by his wife Elizabeth, who believed she herself was sensitive to associations imprinted on articles that she handled. Denton carried out extensive experiments with her…
