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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’,…
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…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,…
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Matthew Smith is an applied psychologist and parapsychologist based at Buckinghamshire New University, where he has established a Centre for Positive Psychology. He has conducted studies probing whether feeling lucky reflects misperception alone, unconscious psi, or a more complicated mixture of personality, belief and circumstance. His doctoral work linked perceived…
…entirely on the side of the case subject.23Matlock (2017, 2019). James G Matlock Works Cited De Groot, J.J.M. (1901). The Religious System of China, Vol. 4. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill. Haraldsson, E., & Matlock, J.G. (2016). I Saw a Light and Came Here: Children’s Experiences of Reincarnation. Hove, UK: White…
