…2019); see ‘News section — The Christina Boyer Legal Case’. See also Banning (n.d.). For updates, see here. KM Wehrstein Literature Banning, J. (n.d.). Christina Boyer: How a Dutch photographer fights for an American woman, wrongly imprisoned for murdering her own child. [Web page.] Conrad, J. (2006, 2019). News section…
…no apparent effort. Then she raised her arms and exclaimed in a clear, joyous tone the name of her husband. Her arms dropped again, she sank back and died.8Noyes (1952). Terminal Lucidity and Paradoxical Lucidity In 2019, the related concept of ‘paradoxical lucidity’ was introduced into the literature. Paradoxical lucidity…
Regression under hypnosis brought reincarnation into post-war popular culture through the Bridey Murphy case, in which an American housewife spoke as a nineteenth-century Irish woman and supplied names, places, customs and family details. The episode became a test case for how evidence, publicity and ordinary memory can become entangled. Under…
…presence of an effect that does not actually exist. In 2019 an attempted replication12Walleczek, J., Stillfried, N, v. (2020). of Dean Radin’s double slit experiment using the AMP method produced evidence of false positives, but these conclusions were emphatically disputed by Radin and his colleagues.13Radin et al (2020). In 2020,…
…Prize (Promotion Prize) for A Study of Spirituality, with Special Reference to Xenoglossy. (2011). Society for Mind-Body Science, 24 November 2012. Excellent Paper Prize, International Society of Life Information Science, 1 July 2019. 19th YUASA Yasuo prize for Scholarly Publications, for the book Katsugoro and Other Reincarnation Cases in Japan….
…a 1980 article written for Encounter magazine, Haynes described what she called ‘the boggle threshold’, by which she meant the mental equivalent of the concept of the pain threshold, the point at which a person becomes aware of, and starts to react to, physical pain.2Haynes (1980). As a child, Haynes…
…familiar and unfamiliar faces were shown, suggesting anticipatory effects in a conventional cognitive task. Emotionally related pairs showed stronger distant brain correlations than unrelated pairs, while unpaired individuals showed none. An online survey linked telepathic reports with cannabis, out-of-body experiences with ketamine, and entity encounters with DMT. Career Marios Kittenis…
…Although not an active member, he maintained close relations with the SPR, where his abilities and character were highly appreciated. Massey died on 29 March 1905.6Barrett (1905), 95; Lavoie (2012), 76. Views on Psychical Research From his early encounters with Spiritualism and Theosophy, Massey developed eclectic opinions concerning the teachings…
…characteristics, research methods, and theories of causation. The article brings together historical research, modern surveys, laboratory analogues and case investigation within one framework. It treats apparitions as methodologically diverse phenomena, ranging from crisis cases and purposeful encounters to hauntings, hallucinations and experimentally induced experiences. Finally, it shows why apparitions remain…
