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Loyd Auerbach has become one of the best-known public-facing parapsychologists in the United States, combining field investigation, teaching, writing and performance over several decades. His work centres on hauntings, poltergeists, reincarnation and other spontaneous cases, while his books have helped translate specialist material for general readers. Public visibility has made…
…important to note that taking these suggestions seriously is not the same as writing a blank super-psi cheque – that is, licensing the cavalier use of the super-psi hypothesis to explain everyday events. Indeed, defenders of the super-psi hypothesis would argue that if psi really is operating under the surface,…
…is true of any doctrine that speaks of experience without an experiencer. A Hierarchy of Souls The doctrine of multiple souls or selves within a single person is found in ancient Egyptian mythology and Aristotelian philosophy, and more recently has been proposed in the writings of modern neuroscientists such as…
…memories remembered at any age likely express a need of some sort, writing, ‘With adults, this may be a need for resolution of emotional conflicts carried forward from the past, a kind of unfinished business of the psyche.’41Matlock (2019), 209. James Leininger’s experience suggests that this may not only be…
…he studied at Columbia University and also became captivated by show-business, writing musical sketches and reviews. He later claimed to have a PhD from the London College of Applied Science, but this was disputed.1Fortean Times (2009), 29. He ‘went on to teach parapsychology at the New York Institute of Technology’.2Grimes…
…Medicine and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, which had both published his paper. In the New York Times, he squared off against a doctor who insisted any weight loss was caused by perspiration from body warming due to the cessation of circulation. Writing in Snopes.com, D….
Haunting research in Los Angeles acquired one of its best-known popular interpreters in Barry E Taff. Trained in psychophysiology and biomedical engineering, he moved from UCLA parapsychology into decades of field investigation, writing about ghosts, UFOs, alien abductions and possible explanatory models to explain these phenomena. Taff worked under Thelma…
