…some trick methods used by Miss Bangs of Chicago. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 10, 5-16. Moore, W.U. (1911). Glimpses of the Next State. London: Watts & Co. Quaestor Vitae et al. (1896). Type-writing without human contact. Light 16/785 (Jan. 25), 43-45. 4 Endnotes 1 Jones (1872), 4….
…a year or so, his health improved; however, having achieved very little success in the gold-mining venture, he returned to New York City, where he supported himself with some inheritance money and occasional writing jobs, as well as by assisting Hodgson in investigations for the ASPR, then the American Branch…
Psychical research has long included gifted experimenters, but also critics, bibliographers and independent commentators who hold the field to account. George Zorab (1898–1990) belonged to that tradition, combining investigation with prolific writing, methodological criticism and a determined preference for qualitative approaches to psi phenomena. Zorab investigated spontaneous phenomena and ESP,…
…related to the theosophical positions of Helena Blavatsky and AP Sinnett. In the preface, Dodgson (writing as Lewis Carroll) asserts that his story is an attempt to show what might possibly happen, supposing that Fairies really existed and … were sometimes visible to us, and we to them; and that…
…in psi began after a dowser apparently helped recover her daughter’s stolen harp. She later reviewed evidence from dream telepathy, ganzfeld work, presentiment, remote viewing and related research. Her writing emphasised both the empirical challenge of paranormal claims and the emotional resistance they can provoke. Life and Career Elizabeth ‘Lisby’…
…with Tina Resch, the girl raised from infancy by her foster parents.35Roll & Storey (2004). Tina received three neurological examinations when she was fourteen, all of which seemed to indicate that she faced mild difficulty with coordinated movements of her left hand (like those involved in handwriting) and motion of…
…He developed a particular concern for what he saw as the miscarriage of justice arising from the failure of the judiciary to understand aspects of psychopathology connected with spiritual development. Two cases in particular, of adolescent girls charged with murder, prompted an engagement with legal processes and the writing of…
…amateur musician writing a pleasant piece of music does not have the same impact on friends or the general public as the claim of divine intervention. Also, criticism of the music could be deflected towards the spirit composer or transmission problems rather than needing to be responded to on a…
…(2018). As a child, Steman made realistic drawings of soldiers jumping out of aeroplanes, which recall World War II battle scenes. Under hypnosis he recalled the name Morgan Probert, and later contacted Probert’s relatives in Wales. Steman was more interested in writing a moving literary novel about reincarnation memories than…
