There are many ideas about the spiritual consequences of suicide and how it might affect reincarnation. This article examines past-life memory claims investigated by Ian Stevenson and other researchers around the world. Unexpectedly, in these cases, self-killing is associated with brief intermissions between lives and returns among relatives or friends….
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…
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…exorcism by treating the problem as a therapeutic encounter rather than simply expelling an evil force. Practitioners report methods involving intuition, hypnosis, remote work and attempts to guide earthbound spirits into ‘The Light’. The approach has historical roots in figures such as Hyslop, Wickland, Fiore and Baldwin, but robust validation…
…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…
…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 Robert Almeder4Almeder (1992). that it would be irrational in some sense not…
…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…
…three so-called ‘time plays’ – Dangerous Corner (1932), Time and the Conways (1937) and An Inspector Calls (1945) – are based on ideas he first encountered in JW Dunne’s An Experiment with Time. He appealed to viewers of the BBC programme Monitor to write to him about their own precognitive…
