British psychologist David Vernon is an active member of the Society for Psychical Research and the current editor of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. His published research includes articles on morphic resonance, telepathy, precognition, energy healing, as well as biofeedback techniques and creative problem solving. A 2024…
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….
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…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…
…topics such as sleep paralysis, false memories, eye-witness testimony, paranormal beliefs and magical thinking. French first encountered psychic claims while giving adult education classes, researching subjects requested by his class that sometimes included astrology and ESP. Initially inclined to give some credence to such things, he became more sceptical after…
…activity’,3Murdie (2018). and experienced a personal healing encounter at the hands of Edivaldo,4Fryer (2018). a psychic surgeon local to Rio de Janeiro. His investigations also covered Kardecist Spiritism, in which he claimed a ‘sympathetic interest’. Playfair’s The Flying Cow (1975) describes psychical research in Brazil, with chapters on Chico Xavier,…
