…reading books by psychical researchers, among them Hereward Carrington, to whom he wrote challenging Carrington’s belief that Le Fantâme des Vivants by Charles Lancelin covered practically all that was known on the subject of astral projection.4Cited in Melton (2001), 1068.This exchange led to a collaboration between the two in writing…
…Psychology. São Paulo, Brazil: Universidade de São Paulo. Rhine, L.E. (1966). Canais Ocultos do Espírito. São Paulo: Best Seller. [Originally published in English in 1961.] Rocha, A.C., Paraná, D., Freire, E. S., Lotufo Neto, F., & Moreira-Almeida, A. (2014). Investigating the fit and accuracy of alleged mediumistic writing: A case…
…for Burma. In the third dream, he was in this house, which had some distinctive architectural features.12East (1960), 146-52. See East’s account for many additional details about his dreams. East recorded each of these dreams in writing immediately upon waking and set about confirming the imagery in them. He discovered…
Czech parapsychologist Milan Ryzl (1928–2011) helped bring Cold War-era ESP research to international attention through his investigations of hypnosis as a psi facilitator and his striking experiments with Pavel Stepanek. After defecting from communist Czechoslovakia, he continued his scientific and popular writing career in the United States. Ryzl’s most famous…
…a large inheritance which in adulthood gave her considerable freedom.1Cline (1997), 24. She travelled widely, undertook private education and published five books of pastoral poems, some of which were set to music by well-known composers.2Cline (1997), 1. In the 1920s she began writing fiction, using the pen name Radclyffe Hall,…
…the story of the Druze boy on the Golan Heights lacked foundation, but several of the other cases have stood up to scrutiny. In fact, Vishwa 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…
…account of the phenomena by Frederick Robinson in 1941 added a further striking detail: slips of paper with messages 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…
…and Radclyffe Hall conducted systematic sittings with Gladys Osborne Leonard, alternating as questioner and note-taker. Troubridge also published a detailed account of an apparition she believed she had seen veridically. Her writings on trance and mediumship reveal a practical, observational interest rather than passive belief alone. Life and Career Una…
…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 vivid precognitive dreams. Some of…
