…at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Wehrstein published a paper on Will in 2019.13Wehrstein (2019). All information in this section is drawn from this source. When she was pregnant with Will, his mother acquired an aversion for the smell of burning meat which stayed with her to the end of her life. As a…
…necromancy), that typecasts the witch as a woman. The witch’s lineage continued in the form of Medea, Circe’s sister or niece, and another devotee2Apollonius, 3.251ff. and sometimes daughter of Hecate.3Dionysius Scytobrachion, 4.45.3. We first encounter her in Euripides’s Medea in the fifth century BCE, where she is a priestess of…
…By the time she came to write her second book, Past Lives, Future Lives, she had started to encounter descriptions of near-death experiences, and included a detailed account. She remembered lying in a bed in a Dublin maternity hospital, in isolation. Then she knew that she had died, feeling ‘suddenly…
…effects. This has involved making experimental designs sufficiently sensitive to capture the often capricious effects encountered from controlled animal, human and non-biological trials. Walach created a comprehensive review of homeopathic drug ‘provings’ – trials in which healthy volunteers are given dosages intended to elicit symptoms of the same substance given…
…to at the University of Connecticut, Bengston was distressed by the indifference and hostility he encountered, being refused proper facilities and ostracized by the department head. He subsequently learned that a higher authority in the university was resentful that his program had been approved. Bengston expected to arouse debate when…
…Trust (n.d.). He spent the summer of 1990 at Ohio State University as a faculty fellow in psychophysiology, and 1988–91 as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar at Stanford. In 2019, he took a course from Copenhagen University in the emerging technique of non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation.5Cardeña (n.d.). However, his…
Diane Hennacy Powell is a practising psychiatrist with training in neurology and internal medicine. Her research interests include psychic abilities in autistic savants. She is author of The ESP Enigma: A Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena (2009). Career Diane Hennacy Powell trained in neuroscience at Ohio State University and Johns…
Hans Driesch (1867–1941), a German biologist and philosopher, advocated vitalism, the notion that human consciousness and other life phenomena are not explained solely by the laws that govern physical and chemical processes. Driesch considered psi phenomena to provide important empirical support for vitalism. His work initiated the development of holistic…
Announcing dreams are pregnancy dreams about the child a woman is carrying. They may be had by expectant fathers and other persons close to the mothers, and they may occur before conception and after birth as well as during pregnancy. Related to announcing dreams are a variety of other extraordinary…
