…wider issue of phenomena suggestive of survival of death.17E.g., Kean (2017). Later Writings Interestingly, Bozzano had a tendency to revise his monographs over the years, adding more cases to them. This was the case with the studies summarized here. They were published in later years as Musica Trascendentale,18Bozzano (1943). Le…
…his findings to be trusted. For instance, Robert Thouless made a detailed analysis, praising ‘a brilliantly designed experimental plan which well displayed Whately Carington’s gifts of boldness and originality’,8Thouless (1946–49), 199. but pointing out significant errors.9Thouless (1936–37), 223. The Cambridge philosopher CD Broad agreed, writing that Carington’s ideas and methods…
…her talks and writings, Besant encouraged the development of psychic faculties, as long as this was undertaken with appropriate spiritual preparation.7E.g., Besant (1916). Examples of her own claimed experiences are described by Kurt Leland in Invisible Worlds: Annie Besant on Psychic and Spiritual Development (2014). In Occult Chemistry (1908), Besant…
…podiatrist. She has a son and daughter. This article presents an overview of Cockell’s life and writings. She is one of very few people whose memories of more than one past life have been verified. The most detailed and best known of these is as Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who…
…he claims a high success rate. He plans also to explore the possibility of communication via writing, voice and even video.13Schwartz (2018). https://www.thesoulphonefoundation.org/ Building on his 2011 spirit-photonic communication findings, Schwartz has outlined plans for a multi-center, multi-blinded randomized control trial to investigate automated spirit presence and communication, employing cost-effective…
…‘neo-mesmerism’. This survey describes the movement’s main figures and their ideas. Introduction Many influences contributed to the development of the mesmerism movement in the eighteenth century. There was a growing interest in in psychic phenomena – particularly those related to healing – and in the writings and activities of Franz…
…PF offered the Frances P Bolton Fellowship, for post-doctoral writing of research, and the D Scott Rogo Award for Parapsychological Literature, for author assistance. The PF was forced to curtail its financial support early in the twenty-first century, but since 2016, has again offered a variety of different scholarships, awards…
…Charles II to report on the phenomenon. Writing several years later Chesterfield remarked that ‘we could neither see not hear any thing that was extraordinary’.9Cited in Hunter (2005), 13. According to Mompesson the visitors who came between May and December 1662 were all convinced of the truth of the story….
…yet their time to die, while Indians tended to learn that their brush with death was due to a bureaucratic error on the part of an underling of the death-God Yama writing down the wrong name.27Pasricha & Stevenson (1986). Pasricha’s NDE-related papers were republished in her second book.28Pasricha (2008). Publications…
