…a corporation for him named Water Unlimited. Roberts died on 21 July 1957, after which time publicity regarding Gross’s dowsing activities largely ceased. Gross died in 1979. Bermuda Familiar with the Caribbean island of Bermuda from frequently writing his novels there, Roberts was aware that the island was thought to…
…paranormal and the recognition of personal distress2McHarg (1982a). McHarg explores both genuine and pseudo psi phenomena that might arise from ‘pre-existing psychotic, psychoneurotic, or physiological pathologies’.Here he mentions the writings of Hughlings Jackson, Henry James and cases of near-death experience. He further discusses the contribution of psychiatry to psychical research…
…illustrate this new approach, Rabeyron describes recent experimental developments in parapsychology such as the correlational matrix method. Theoretical Issues Rabeyron has published several papers in 2021-2 on theoretical issues. In a paper coauthored in 2021, Rabeyron discusses the writings of Freud in relation to the topic of thought-transference and its…
…and the US, he was held in high regard by many leading thinkers of his time. In 1917 he was appointed president of the Society for Psychical Research for one year, continuing as a vice-president to the end of his life. Psychical Research Writing on the subject of dreams, Jacks…
…on doing so said she had known her in her previous life. Swarnlata’s father began writing down her statements in September 1958 when she was ten, providing a written record of her memories prior to contact with the former family. The two families never lived in communities less than a…
…about his claimed abilities, to no avail. By 1969, when Owens published his book How to Contact Space People, he had begun trying to document his actions by announcing them in writing to other people beforehand and having witnesses write out and sign affidavits. It is only through seeing this…
…healings associated with the French shrine remained unproven (see below). However, as he acknowledged in Psychical Research Today, and despite the limited success of his own experiments, he believed that ESP had been scientifically demonstrated. He maintained this view throughout his life, writing in 2012 that ‘sufficient positive results have…
…140-41. The slate-writing mediumship of Mrs Pruden III (1926). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 20, 352-64. The ‘Margery’ mediumship (1926). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 20, 385-406. The methodology of psychical research (1926). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 20, 531-33. Observation…
…witnesses. Other less-well attested phenomena that was described to him included the classroom door ‘banging open’ after Virginia had been sent out, shutting it behind her; an apple floating out of a fruit bowl and a shaving brush flying around the bathroom; displaced objects; coloured writing appearing briefly on the…
