…on cucumber samples. Analyses revealed extremely significant effects of mental influence (p = 3.1×10-10), in addition to highly significant time delayed effects (p = 3.5×10-6), in which mental influences were measured some time after the person had left the laboratory. In a 2019 study, Kokubo aimed for a clearer understanding…
…me that there are higher levels of reality that go beyond the purely materialistic one, so one needs to go beyond that’.4Carr (2022). In 2019, Carr published a paper contesting claims by psychologists Arthur Reber and James Alcock that psi phenomena are incompatible with well-established laws of physics, and therefore…
…part warns the faithful against it’.16Holy See (n.d.). In Brazil, Kardec has been criticized by religious figures including the parapsychology critic Oscar González-Quevedo Bruzón, aka Padre Quevedo. Film Kardec is a 2019 dramatized biography which ‘follows the story of Allan Kardec, from his days as an educator to his contribution…
Carlos S Alvarado combined scholarship, historical recovery and empirical curiosity in a way few parapsychologists have matched. He wrote on early psychical research, out-of-body experiences and a wide range of spontaneous anomalous phenomena, while also building educational resources that helped keep the field intellectually connected across generations. With Nancy Zingrone…
…us hope of possibility and if it should become widely enough shared, it could begin to generate its own reality’.4Ring (1984), 263. For an interesting contextualizing review, see Grosso (1985). Near-Death Experiences and UFOs Ring’s comparison of the sequelae of NDEs and claimed UFO encounters has gained new relevance with…
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) was a Swedish engineer, scientist, theologian, philosopher, seer and psychic. Swedenborg is best known as a reporter of encounters with spirits who had passed through an earthly existence, and as a re-interpreter of Biblical texts, which became the foundation of a New Church. Some notable psychic experiences…
…drugs, and virtual reality. The authors also examined such interventions for thanatophobia, analyzing 15 studies carried out between 2009 and 2019 in four categories: psychotherapy, mindfulness, psychedelic drugs and virtual reality. Psychotherapy approaches, including meaning-centred and life review therapies that strengthened belief in an afterlife, were shown to reduce death…
…the incident in the barn, the family reported lead bullets breaking windows of the house and falling harmlessly to the floor. Word spread throughout the region, and several curious neighbours reported their own encounters on the McDonald farm. WL Burnham, who was sixteen years old at the time of the…
…instance Jessica Utts, former president of the American Statistics Association, in 1990.) Bias and prejudice were sometimes encountered from outspoken individuals, notably physicist John Wheeler’s exhortation in 1979 to ‘throw out the pseudos from the workshop of science’. However, the dominant response towards these symposia has been curiosity and open-mindedness….
