…this is described in detail in Evrard (2016).Evrard has also published a book on the history of French Parapsychology.5Evrard (2016). Telepathy and Psychotherapy In a paper coauthored in 2021,6Rabeyron et al. (2021). Evrard discusses the writings of Freud in relation to the topic of thought-transference and its relationship with psychotherapy….
…When he began writing he wrote right to left, and when he drew he always included a star, though at the same time he had a phobia of stars, particularly the Star of David; once he fled a shop after seeing a Star of David necklace. He had a marked…
…sitting with Mrs ‘Smead’ (also a trance medium) on 9 December 1908. Gifford purported to control the medium, drawing what looked like a cross on top of a pile of rocks, and then writing that his name was on the cross. Interestingly, Thompson had encountered such a cross near the…
…argues for the need to conduct more research, writing, ‘then Metapsychics will come out of Occultism, as Chemistry was separated from Alchemy’.13Richet (1922), 793. Regardless of difficulties, he hopes the work would go on: ‘The task is so beautiful that, even if we fail, the honor of having undertaken it…
…Eisenbud, 1937, 1939, 1964, 1996. Eisenbud is perhaps best known for his pioneering investigations and theoretical writings in parapsychology, many of which explored the subtle manifestations of ESP in both clinical and everyday contexts. Eisenbud also conducted an extended series of careful experiments with Ted Serios, a Chicago bellhop who…
…in Psychology at Harvard, working with LT Troland at research on telepathy and survival, for which he took part in sittings with the Boston medium Leonora Piper.5Murphy (1961), xv. While supervising masters and doctoral candidates at Columbia, Murphy began writing the books that would cement his reputation as a prominent…
…them. However, marked disadvantages result from participation not being monitored at any level by an experimenter: there are no checks that participants are attending to the task to the exclusion of all distractions; it is not possible to verify that participants are not cheating by writing down the words as…
…New Writings on ESP, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition, PK, Mind over Matter, ed. by J.B. Rhine & R. Brier (1969). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 45, 179-82. The Evil Eye: The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by F. T. Elworthy (1971). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 46,…
…representative but by-no-means-complete sample follows. Gnanatilleka Baddewithana In this Sri Lankan case, the recognitions were carried out under the guidance of careful investigators, first the Sri Lankan scholar and journalist HSS Nissanka, then Stevenson. Nissanka recorded Gnanatilleka’s statements in writing before he set about verifying them. He brought three teachers…
