…Gertrude Johnson, ‘Nancy Sinclair’, produced strong scores in telepathy, clairvoyance, automatic writing and crystal scrying. Tyrrell divided apparitional experiences into experimental, crisis, post-mortem and haunting cases. His book Apparitions became one of the classic attempts to classify and interpret apparition reports. Early Career George Nugent Merle Tyrrell was educated at…
…a scholarship at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Gardner decided to become a writer and worked briefly as a reporter in Tulsa. He then returned to the University of Chicago to work in its press relations office, mostly writing science research press releases. He also edited Comment, the university’s literary magazine,…
…complete a psychological questionnaire, and performed a Rorschacht test on Sumitra herself; he also had a handwriting analysis performed on three letters, two written by Shiva and another said to have been written by Sumitra following the transformation.5Dayal (1988), 60-61. See Annexure on page 77 for the handwriting analysis. Two…
…to any human being in the room’.75Crookes (1874 e), 90–91. In an instance with Kate Fox, the medium was writing a message while at the same time ‘a message to another person on another subject was being given alphabetically by means of “raps”, and the whole time she was conversing…
…Boston, known at the time by the pseudonym Mrs Chenoweth. Soule had not known Funk and although she was aware that he had written The Widow’s Mite, had not read it.19Hyslop (1919), 282-83. The first messages from Funk came in automatic writing through Soule on 2 October 1912, six months…
…and to explore how such experiences can be conveyed and explained to a ‘scientifically-oriented’ audience, in such a way that they are not automatically dismissed without a fair hearing.35Young & Goulet (1994), 12. Drawing inspiration from Turner’s writings, Frank Salamone has highlighted the need for a return to holism in…
…footsteps, buzzing sounds, the clatter of hoof beats, the rustling noise of clothes as if someone was moving. Direct writing. Writing appeared on paper without human touch. Disembodied voices that spoke and sang (see below). Responsive xenoglossy. There were conversations between sitters and the disembodied voices in languages unknown to…
…between body position and out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, comparing Brazilian Spiritist mediumship and dissociative identity disorder, testing a professional medium, and other anomalous phenomena.13Cardeña (n.d.). Research planned by Cardeña as of this writing includes using functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activity of a subject performing automatic writing and…
…psychical research: Personismus (‘personism’, pertaining to phenomena appearing as if caused by discarnate spirits involving no supernormal information or effect, merely stemming from a medium’s or percipient’s intra-personal unconscious dramatization, as, for example, in most instances of automatic writing); Animismus (‘animism’, describing phenomena appearing as if caused by discarnate spirits,…
