After-death communications (ADCs) are spontaneous experiences in which people perceive contact from someone who has died. This overview examines their history, forms, prevalence and effects, from sensed presences and dreams to apparitions, voices and signs, and surveys psychological, neuroscientific and survival-based explanations. ADCs are distinguished from mediumship and other deliberately…
…(1838). Lee published a detailed account of thirteen sittings in his 1866 book Animal Magnetism and Magnetic Lucid Somnambulism. He noted that Didier preferred to write down his sensations and communications rather than speaking them, which he took to indicate a preference for automatic writing.7Lee (1866). Robert-Houdin Tests of Didier…
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…
…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…
