…with permission, but afterwards, walk-ins are not aware of who they are. Montgomery identified walk-ins of the past as including Abraham Lincoln, Emanuel Swedenborg and Mahatma Gandhi.10Montgomery (1979), 20-21. Although this concept of walk-ins as enlightended beings continues to be promoted in popular writings,11Perry (2013). one also now finds the…
…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,…
…locking and 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…
…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…
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…
…gain 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…
…confirmed, it would imply a retroactive effect, but it should be treated 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,…
…Patience Worth: 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…
…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, Malcolm Publications. Psychical Research Green became interested in anomalous phenomena in 1944 when, on a visit with his father to an unoccupied Victorian house in Montpelier…
