…use automatic writing to predict the sinking of the Lusitania with loss of 1,200 lives and a profound effect to follow, which he gathered meant the entry of the US in the war. Doyle held that psychical research and spiritualism were profoundly relevant to conventional religion, a theme he pressed…
…draw conclusions about whether an effect occurs is a post hoc analysis that has little value. This was a significant change from his earlier writings. Arguments similar to Rhine’s late-life rejection of the usual optimistic views about meta-analysis began emerging in psychological writings about 40 years later. The evolution of…
…him vulnerable to criticism. 9Thouless (1968). Critique by Vernon Harrison In 1986 Dr Vernon Harrison, a senior SPR member and expert in photography and handwriting, published a powerful critique of the handwriting evidence in the Hodgson report. Having examined in the British Library all the Mahatma Letters received by Sinnett…
…inorganic matter.2Driesch, 1899). During the following years, he turned increasingly to writing about biological questions from an analytical and theoretical perspective. As a result of his published treatises he was invited to hold the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 1907 and 1908. These lectures were published in…
…theory is apparent in the writings of D Scott Rogo and other critics.11Matlock (1990), 253. Murphy’s comments were picked up by materialist sceptic David Lester, though without reference either to Carington’s survival theory or to Stevenson’s reply to Murphy.12Lester (2005), 152. Louisa Rhine Louisa E Rhine (1891–1983), wife of experimental…
…Wolf (1993). Examples of some of this other work are his writings Soeur Marthe (as Epheyre, 1889), Les Guerres et la Paix (1899), Circé (1903; with R. Brund), Abregé d’Histoire Générale (1919), La Selection Humaine (1919) and L’Aviation Triomphante (1926). Richet saw psychology as an extension of physiology. In his…
A chess match between a living grandmaster and an ostensible deceased one provides unusual evidence for postmortem survival. Conducted through automatic writing over nearly eight years, it drew attention not only for the quality of play but also for historically obscure information about his life apparently supplied by the communicator….
…communications through automatic writing or talking might simultaneously prepare food in the kitchen, write letters, or carry on a conversation. But even when we focus only on those cases of mediumship where the similarity to DID holds, there is no reason for taking the medium’s amnesia (say) as a prima…
…York, and a renowned inventor of agricultural products.During the 1850s, Mapes was disturbed by reports of mediumistic phenomena witnessed by family members and friends, who he believed were ‘running to mental seed and imbecility’. He was particularly anxious when his daughter claimed herself to have become an automatic writing medium….
