…the law and Sujith would hide whenever he saw policemen. Sixteen of Sujith’s statements about Sammy’s life were recorded in writing before they were confirmed, making this an exceptionally strong reincarnation case. Moreover, Sujith was only three and half when Stevenson began his investigation and he was able to witness…
…writer for newspapers. He left in 1981 to pursue personal writing projects, publishing books on travel, reincarnation, precognition and mediumistic channelling. His books have sold more than a million copies in 22 languages.1Coleman (n.d.). Louis Proud has written about his life in greater detail.2Proud (2020). Fisher died by suicide on…
…NDE was particularly deep. The maximum score possible is 32, the average score among Greyson’s subjects at the time of Sabom’s writing was 15, and the average among the subjects in Sabom’s study was 13.3.Reynolds scored 27. After her experience, Reynolds lost all fear of death. She said, as quoted…
…paranormal, writing that the Geller metal-bending effect is clearly not brought about by fraud and is so exceptional as to present a crucial challenge to modern science.2Taylor (1975). However, Taylor later became sceptical when he failed to find an electromagnetic basis for psychokinesis, the only mechanism that he considered to…
…Bengston’s experience confirmed this view at least up to the time of writing The Energy Cure in 2010. However, he remained optimistic. ‘I’m still hoping that Ben was wrong about that word “never”,’ he wrote.11Bengston (2010), 144. Neither of the scientists in the biology field who aided him in conducting…
…at one out of every three million visitors.21Carroll (2015). Carroll’s calculation is based on the number of declared ‘miracles’ (67 at the time of writing), when the number of reported cures is around 7,000, and the figure of actual cures (including those that are never reported) may be several times…
…patients and reports of 216 chair tests, also writings by Croiset and articles from newspapers and scientific journals in twenty languages.29John Borgman Fund. See also: Croiset Archive. KM Wehrstein Works Cited Bender, H. (1958). Experimented vooschouw (experimental precognition). Tijdschrijt voor Parapsychologie 26, 9-45. Bender, H. (1981). Pirmasens 1953 – Retrospektive…
…WL Gresham’s 1953 work Monster Midway, although Whaley4Whaley (1989) 173. describes it as ‘originally the argot of psychic mediums by 1924 […] from the fact that the customer walks in ‘cold’ — previously unknown to the fortune-teller’. The stratagem was probably first hinted at in the writings of Conan Doyle…
…thousand applicants, 204 were granted permission to enter. Initially, cash prizes of $500,000, $300,000 and $150,000 were offered for first, second and third place respectively; during the writing period, another eleven prizes of $50,000 each were added, and during the judging period another fifteen $20,000 prizes were added, at the…
