…Nath’s memories of the past life were recorded in writing before they were confirmed and Shanti Devi’s identification of the place Lugdi Devi had secreted money was observed by a government committee. Krishnanand, also, personally observed the boy he wrote about identifying the place he had secreted money in his…
…on them appearing. He wrote: Held up to the light these slips revealed writing as if done with a pin – the messages were sometimes threatening, and sometimes more sober in character. I recall one night after an unusually loud series of rappings seeing a message on a slip of…
…a journalist and novelist in 1929 and started writing books at around this time. In the 1940s she worked for the British Council. She converted to Catholicism in 1942. In 1946 she became a member of the Society for Psychical Research. Psychical Research Haynes’s interest in psychical research began with…
…Chapter 30. He then makes a correct case for increasing population in his own era, and concludes that reincarnation therefore cannot occur. This is only one of many arguments against reincarnation that Tertullian raises in the treatise’s eight chapters. These and writings by other early Christian philosophers arguably played a…
…the investigation, early in his career, Stevenson counted Imad Elawar’s case as particularly convincing because he was present and able to create a written record while the child was actively remembering, before the other family had been contacted, instead of writing long after the fact. It should be noted that…
…of the Reincarnation Type series,4Full case report: Stevenson (1975), 176-205. All information in this article is drawn from this chapter except where otherwise noted. including Sahay’s pamphlet almost in full, with explanatory annotations. Stevenson considered this case important because statements made by the child were recorded in writing prior to…
…evidence showing that under certain (rather poor) séance conditions and for certain kinds of small-scale ostensibly paranormal phenomena (e.g., slate-writing), subjects err in their observations and sometimes report events that never occurred.17Besterman (1932); Hodgson (1892); Hodgson & Davey (1887). But the conditions of these tests were much more conducive to…
‘Boggle threshold’ is a colloquial term used to refer to the level of tolerance of any anomalous claim or new idea, which is likely to vary from one person to another. It was coined by the British historian and psychical researcher Renée Haynes in 1980, writing in the context of…
…parapsychologist cannot be held to be held to occur in the work of all parapsychologists (as Alcock assumes).22Palmer (1991). Other Critical Reviews Parapsychologist Adrian Parker, in a review of sceptic Paul Kurtz’s book A Skeptic’s Handbook of Parapsychology,23Kurtz (1985). singles out a chapter by Alcock, writing: ‘This chapter is disappointing…
