…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 died in…
…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…
…between mesmerism, hypnosis and psychical research. 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 Anton Mesmer.1For overviews of mesmerism,…
…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 and grants. Conferences From its beginnings the…
…Berkeley, sent by King 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…
…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 Parapsychological Books Pasricha, S.K. (2019). Claims of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India. UK & USA: White Crow Books. [Originally published 1990 by Harman Publishing…
…case he would most probably have reported positive findings.8Rhine (1934), 26-27. The critics concluded that the findings provided no justification for his claim that telepathy was absent from his findings, still less that, as he held, they definitively ‘proved’ its non-existence. Coover died while writing a response, and this was…
…(2005), 285. In contrast, earlier in that century, also in France, the Baron and Baroness de Beausolail, who had made a career out of dowsing on behalf of miners, fell foul of the civic authorities and died in prison having been charged with witchcraft (after having writing seminal books on…
…J. (2007). And There Was Light. Gateshead, UK: Athenaeum Press. Parnia, S., with Young, J. (2013). Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death. New York: HarperCollins. Pasricha, S.K. (2008). Near-death experiences in India: Prevalence and new features. Journal of Near-Death Studies 26/4, 267-82. Puhle,…
