…her husband, who had been reading beside her in bed. Three months later Mrs Smith visited her mother and discovered that she had received a letter from Bessie, who was writing to ask whether Mrs Smith were alive or dead. Her mother had not forwarded the letter, unopened, because she…
…Guirdham was a practising psychiatrist whose reincarnation writings brought him unusual public attention in the 1970s. His books proposed that members of a present-day circle had lived together among the persecuted Cathars. Those claims drew criticism, but they also gave group reincarnation a distinctive place in modern survival literature. Life…
…Physicist Stephen Hawking appeared to give credence to this view, writing in 1991 that corn circles are either hoaxes or formed by vortex movement of air.21Taylor (2011), 4. Meaden’s ideas were taken up by Ralph Noyes, a senior Ministry of Defence official and an expert in UFO phenomena, who wrote:…
…six mornings a week. In addition to his own writings, he involved others, including Gertrude Schmeidler and Joseph L Woodruff. Scheidler and Woodruff were parapsychologically trained psychologists who conducted experiments under the auspices of the ASPR as well as New York’s City College, where they taught. In 1948, a group…
…psychical research, and books on crystal gazing, dowsing, mediumship, and the theosophist and women’s rights activist Annie Besant. Besterman was open to the existence of psychic phenomena, but his writings are noted for a cautious and often sceptical approach. The author and spiritualist campaigner Arthur Conan Doyle took such exception…
…of the contents of its journals and proceedings published since 1882 and eventually summarised these in a catalogue for personal use. Other related activities are listed below. ParanormÄlia Blog In 2007, McLuhan started a blog named ‘paranormÄlia’, writing regular essays and reviews on topical subjects related to parapsychology. The blog…
