…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…
…symposia from basic descriptions of simple research program to increasingly complex engagements involving luminaries in the field and outside (for 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…
…also later instructing Odysseus in 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…
…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 thrust out,…
…Review One of Walach’s main interests has been to gain a theoretical understanding of homeopathic 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…
…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…
…between 2001 and 2019, describing 18 experiments were analyzed. The overall outcome was strongly supportive of anomalous cognition by mediums (p < 10-9). Furthermore, two tests of publication bias – the tendency of some researchers to publish only significant results – found no evidence of such practices. Tressoldi and coauthors…
Clinical psychiatry, neuroscience and parapsychology come together in the work of Diane Hennacy Powell, a practising psychiatrist with training in neurology and internal medicine. Her research connects questions about consciousness and psi with practical interests in autism, trauma treatment and the limits of conventional materialist models. Powell trained in neuroscience,…
