…but 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 (2009). In 1962, he married…
…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…
…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 to psychology to…
…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 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 roofs…
…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 near-death experiences. He further discusses the contribution of psychiatry to psychical research in a book published to mark the centenary of the founding of the SPR.4McHarg…
…Green’s writings on lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences became part of the modern conceptual vocabulary of those subjects. She founded the Institute of Psychophysical Research, giving unusual experiences a more durable research setting. Her work joins empirical collection with philosophical analysis rather than treating anomalous experience as merely anecdotal. Life…
…later edited the British Journal of Medical Psychology. Within the Society for Psychical Research, he concentrated on multiple personality, including a case from his own practice and the Doris Fisher case. His writings helped connect psychoanalysis, psychopathology and mediumistic trance within one continuing field of inquiry. Career Thomas Walker Mitchell…
