…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…
…some of Price’s conjectures but doubted whether the characteristics of apparitions could be accounted for within a non-physical theory; he suggested that apparitions have some objective existence in the material world, and that they might to some extent reflect light waves.44Johnson (1961), 213-17. GNM Tyrrell, writing in the 1940s, looked…
…marking substance usually is Sumi writing and drawing ink. This appears to be an old practice, mentioned as early as 1661. A mother marked the face of her deceased daughter with Sumi ink and her next child had a similar mark in the same place.23Ohkado (2017), 564. In a case…
…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 have no fresh groundwater for drinking, only brackish water; the only sources were rainwater, gathered mainly from the…
…to the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research and other journals (see list below). In an article about the 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…
