…These impulses began to dominate Thompson’s life, and (as his wife confirmed) during these periods he often felt that he was the artist Robert Swain Gifford. Thompson had met Gifford before, but only very casually. For example, they spoke briefly during an encounter in the marshes of New Bedford, where…
…as well as vast knowledge-that and knowledge-how of musical matters well beyond her education and exposure. Moreover, the quality and quantity of ‘hits’ continues unimpeded for a considerable period of time. Evaluation One would think that if we actually encountered cases of this quality, we would have to agree with…
…his lifetime Edwards was a popular public figure who, despite his Spiritualist beliefs, presented healing in a non-religious, down-to-earth manner, and did not demand either faith or money for his services.2Barbanell (1943), 9.Even today, anecdotal accounts of encounters with Edwards are common, especially in the Spiritualist and wider healing communities,…
…200 research articles9Monaghan et al. (2000). and occurs in animals as well as humans. The mere exposure effect is explained in terms of a natural disposition to be wary of novel stimuli, which is experienced as an arousal response that is labelled as negative (for example, on encountering a spider…
…Selected books and articles about J.B. Priestley Brome, V. (1988). J.B. Priestley Biography. London: Hamish Hamilton. Peake, A. (2018). Time and the rose garden: Encountering the magical in the life and works of J.B. Priestley. Alresford, Hants, UK: O-Books/John Hunt. Price, K. Testimonies of precognition and encounters with psychiatry in…
…American Society for Psychical Research 66, 253-68. Moody, R. A. (1992). Family reunions: Visionary encounters with the departed in a modern-day psychomanteum. Journal of Near-Death Studies 11, 83-121. Also see Moody, R. with Perry, P. (1993). Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones. New York: Villard Books. Roll, W. G.,…
…that invitation to Lyndon. Despite her scepticism, Lyndon arranged a private visit with Chapman at his home. Lang had died ten years prior. About the encounter, Lyndon wrote: George Chapman first visited my flat in 1947 to give sittings to myself and to friends and medical contemporaries of my brother….
…accounts, of friends and relatives walking in on her encounters with some manifestation of the Pharaoh Seti.3Personal communication from Sagan cited by Cott (1987), 205. A psychiatrist specializing in adolescent behaviour speculated that Eady’s childhood fall at age three might have caused brain damage that led to long-term ‘characterological discomfiture’,…
…Y. (ed.) (1996). From Ashes to Healing: Mystical Encounters with the Holocaust. Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA: A.R.E. Press. Matlock, J.G. (2019). Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Rowman & Littlefield. Mills, A. (1989). A replication study: Three cases of children in northern India who are…
