…study was continuing as planned, with twelve sites actively working on the study and others planning to start in 2018. In a 2019 abstract in the journal Circulation, Parnia and three co-authors reported a scaled-down and retitled version of the completed study which now included both auditory and visual stimuli….
Some spontaneous reincarnation cases suggest more than passive rebirth. In them, people nearing death appear to announce where they will return, which family they will join, what sex they will be, or what signs they will provide afterwards. Such cases raise unsettling questions about choice, continuity and pre-birth intention. Evidence…
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) became one of the most influential psychics of the twentieth century through trance readings that ranged from medical diagnosis to past lives, prophecy and metaphysics. His legacy spans reported cures, major influence on New Age thought, and continuing debate over evidence, interpretation and credibility. Cayce’s medical readings…
Brazilian anomalistic psychology has grown through work that treats unusual belief and experience as serious subjects for social and psychological study. Wellington Zangari has helped shape that growth through research on mediumship, religion, hypnosis, altered states and the institutional training of new scholars. At the University of São Paulo, Zangari…
Consciousness research increasingly joins laboratory testing, survey science and lived contemplative practice. Helané Wahbeh works in that space, studying noetic experiences, telephone telepathy, channeling and other anomalous capacities while trying to connect rigorous measurement with questions people actually bring to everyday life and spiritual practice. In telephone telepathy trials, guesses…
…in this article is drawn from the resulting book (Roll & Storey, 2004) except where otherwise noted. 2 Roll & Storey (2004), 219-24. 3 Harden (1984). 4 Randi (1985). 5 Conrad (2006, 2019). This source includes extensive excerpts from hearing transcripts. 6 Horn (2008). 7 Conrad (2006, 2019); see ‘News…
…died.8Noyes (1952). Terminal Lucidity and Paradoxical Lucidity In 2019, the related concept of ‘paradoxical lucidity’ was introduced into the literature. Paradoxical lucidity refers specifically to unexpected lucid episodes in people with severe neurodegenerative brain conditions that are deemed to be irreversible, such as in the examples above (e.g., advanced Alzheimer’s…
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…
…testing for false positives – a result that indicates the presence of an effect that does not actually exist. In 2019 an attempted replication12Walleczek & von Stillfried (2020). of Dean Radin’s double slit experiment using the AMP method produced evidence of false positives, but these conclusions were emphatically disputed by…
