…there has been no experimental research in this area.If consciousness has the ability to divide and extend itself, this provides a context for understanding many reported psi phenomena, notably apparitional appearances and the entities encountered in mediumship and poltergeists episodes. Cross-cultural Background Tulpa The idea of thoughtform, as belief and…
…by the celebrated conjuror Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin were made at the request of the Marquis de Mirville, author of books on spiritualism. De Mirville, who was present at the encounter, subsequently published a verbatim account, including letters written to him by Robert-Houdin.8De Mirville (1855), 19-32; also in Wallace (1899), from which…
…experiments involving chicks, rabbits, and human subjects. The Imprinted Chick Experiments Peoc’h’s best-known experiments exploited filial imprinting, the behavioural mechanism by which newly hatched birds adopt the first moving object they encounter as a mother figure. Konrad Lorenz described this phenomenon systematically in his classic ethological work.9Peoc’h (1988). Newly hatched…
…enemies, or they might display reticence about discussing matters that the previous personality would have considered sensitive. Moreover, when they encounter the previous personality’s friends, relatives, or spouse for the first time, subjects may use locutions (for instance, nicknames) which had special or intimate significance to the previous personality and…
…writes that even though the results of parapsychological investigations will encounter a great, and reasonable, obstacle from common sense, ‘those who are engaged in psychical research should receive every encouragement … scientific men, working in something like scientific ways, must ultimately reach scientific results’.60Hartshorne & Weiss (1931–35), 6.587. Peirce comments…
…connected to the body (26%), and shock on return to the body (33%). Less commonly reported features were seeing a ‘cord’ connecting the out-of-body projection with the physical body (0%); encounters with ‘spirits’ (7%); hearing music (8%); and remembering earlier life events (15%). A commonly reported feature was seeing the…
Clinical encounters sometimes seem to produce telepathy, precognition and uncanny correspondences at the very point where hidden feeling is being uncovered. Yet within psychoanalysis, fascination with such episodes has long coexisted with caution, private curiosity and professional resistance, leaving psi as a recurring but uneasy presence on the discipline’s margins….
…behaviour of the control ‘Phinuit’, which Leaf in particular dwelled on. Leaf also considered that simple telepathy could most likely account for the phenomena, unlike Lodge, who believed the matter was less certain. Hodgson’s First Encounter Before he left London for Boston, Richard Hodgson was confident that he would expose…
…Mediums (PRISM). Psychical Research Noyes first encountered paranormal matters in 1930s comic books, and later became intrigued by the material to be found in the SPR’s journals and proceedings. He was impressed with the ganzfeld research started by Charles Honorton and others and pursued at the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at…
