…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…
…which 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…
…(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…
…theme at the University of Wisconsin. But his ultimate concern was, perhaps, human personality as a whole. His early views about this issue owed much to the writings of FWH Myers – although he did not share Myers’s interest in the possibility of human survival after bodily death. Jastrow believed…
…E. (1997). At the Hour of Death. New York: Avon. Lusseyran, 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:…
…(1991).His activities and writings brought him public recognition, which grew following a 1986 appearance on the BBC’s Wogan.6https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1986-wogan-lyall-watson/1126100821352477/ Supernature Watson’s 1973 book Supernature spent almost a year on the best-seller list in Britain and sold over 750,000 copies in paperback.7Grimes (2008). A reviewer for the Society for Psychical Research noted…
…‘A rational guide to the best evidence of post-mortem survival’, which was a runner-up in the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) essay contest. Much of Braude’s other writing also bears on the question of survival in various ways. Living-Agent Psi Hypothesis In Immortal Remains, Braude concludes that ‘the…
…she saw ‘a silvery shimmer’ leave her mother, travel to John and descend onto him’.6Ruffles (2011), 173. In his writings he questioned the comparative lack of interest in near-death experiences shown by parapsychologists, but expressed optimism that science would ‘throw some light on the world beyond death’. 7Randall (2009), 11….
