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…
…psychedelic 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…
…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…
Accounts of retrocognition occupy a curious borderland between apparitions, memory and historical reconstruction. A famous episode at Versailles turned that ambiguity into one of psychical research’s most enduring controversies, after two women claimed to have briefly encountered an eighteenth-century scene superimposed on familiar ground. In 1901, two English women said…
