…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 hundred miles…
…Britain while writing widely on dreams, consciousness and survival. As SPR president and chair of its Survival Research Committee, he took an active role in field investigations, including the Scole sittings. He regretted the neglect of fieldwork and collaboration with mediums in favour of an exclusively laboratory-centred approach. Life and…
…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 documentation, Mishlove writes, that he was able to put any credence…
…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 been obtained in innumerable well-conducted tests by so many different experimenters at widely separate academic centres, that belief in ‘psi’ effects is justified’.3West (2012), 218….
…of the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 717-29. Observations on the Moss Case (1926). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 20, 41-54. ‘Margery’ the medium (1926). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 23, 140-41. The slate-writing mediumship of Mrs Pruden III (1926). Journal of the American…
…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 girls’ faces; and Virginia’s lips turning bright red….
…headaches: A research note. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 72,107-10. Book Chapters Zingrone, N.L. (1994). The medium as image: Power, pathology, and passivity in the writings of Cesare Lombroso and Frederic Marvin. and parapsychology: The proceedings of the 1991 Parapsychology Foundation conference, ed. by L. Coly & J….
…conduct international research projects in forestry science. Writing a book on unsolved riddles of evolution2Nahm (2007). triggered a permanent strong interest in parapsychology for Nahm, as he realized that paranormal phenomena posed the greatest challenge to the reigning materialistic and neo-Darwinian paradigm of biological processes, including evolution.3Alvarado (2017). This led…
…2. Five of the cases involve claimed past lives of internationally famous individuals (John F Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi and the biblical King David) or people prominent in their community. Stevenson and his co-authors quantitatively compared the seven suspect cases with cases they had not rejected at time of writing from…
