…time Joshi touched her, Uttara felt inexplicably that his touch was familiar, and from then on she was drawn to him, in her own words, ‘like an iron particle to a magnet’.6Akolkar (1992), 217. Akolkar refers to Joshi as ‘Dr Z’. She shared her writings of the time with Akolkar,…
…unlocking of doors windows shattered furniture overturned spontaneous fires spontaneous writing on walls and paper Marianne Foyster thrown from her bed11For full details see Adams et al. (2009). Price was inclined to believe the Foysters, since some of the phenomena could not have been produced by them fraudulently and there…
…White’s obituary, writing, This brief characterization of White’s life barely scratches the surface … of her contributions to parapsychology. … She was full of encouragement to many of us, an epitome of what a mentor should be. …But her real gift to us is that decades from now many more…
…of the Dead, references to Jesus of Nazareth casting out demons in The Bible, and the ancient writings of Homer, Plutarch and Josephus. She discovered the cultural traditions of the ancient Chinese in their acknowledgement of ancestral spirits that go back more than ten thousand years, and more recently the…
Alan Gauld (1932–2024) was a British academic who taught biological psychology and neuropsychology at the University of Nottingham. He is noted for writings on mediumship, poltergeists, parapsychology’s early history, and the history of hypnosis. The article presents him as a worker whose authority grew from patient scholarship rather than bold…
…access.2Leaf (1903), 56.. But he thought of this in a positive sense, writing: It is a hope and not a fear that the dissolution of the body may mean the dissolution of this spiritual crust as well; that one day the infinite which is within us all may have freer…
…cautiously. Peoc’h summarized his cumulative findings in a paper presented at the 2002 Parapsychological Association convention and later published in the Journal of Parapsychology.24Peoc’h (2002). Criticisms The experiments attracted substantial criticism. Damien Triboulot, writing for the Cercle Zététique, argued that the results could be explained by an ‘edge effect’. Because…
…A Critical Study of Certain Unusual Phenomena by WF Prince (1927). This is one of the basic works of assessment of the ‘Patience Worth’ writings of Pearl Curran, analyzed by Stephen Braude for the Psi Encyclopedia. Prince presents answers from Curran to his questions, as well as from his interviews…
…he worked in public relations and management and as a magazine editor. He then turned to full-time writing and publishing, establishing his own firm Malcom Publications. Psychical Research Green became interested in the paranormal in 1944 when, on a visit with his father to an unoccupied Victorian house in Montpelier…
