…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…
…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…
…Society of Life Information Science, 31 March 2010. Yuasa 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…
…History (1982). In 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…
…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…
…fraud by Blavatsky. 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…
…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…
…called Mireille, he induced out-of-body travels in which she said she visited other planets and encountered spiritual entities. In Mars, ‘she discerned canals of an enormous size’.60de Rochas (1896), 229. In some tests, de Rochas claimed the subject was induced to leave the body by hypnosis61de Rochas (1905; 1906; 1910)….
