…theological or philosophical assumptions.12Laythe (2023). AI-Generated ‘Entity Encounter’ Narratives Houran and Laythe used ChatGPT-3.5 artificial intelligence to compare twelve types of mystical, supernatural, or anomalous entity encounter narratives constructed from publicly available information. Details were compared to the phenomenology of spontaneous accounts via the Survey of Strange Events (SSE) and…
…2019, combined, totaled a staggering $12,001,784.35.59The ASPR’s mortgage loan amounts and dates signed by Sondow are as follows (these are the dates signed, not the document dates): $1,500,000 (26 September 2002), $3,951,784.35 (21 July 2011), $2,000,000 (12 May 2014), $2,800,000 (22 May 2016), and $1,750,000 (30 July 2019) (Ruffles &…
…out. European psi research has depended heavily on small clusters around institutes, societies and a few durable laboratories rather than large permanent departments. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden have been especially important modern nodes, with Austria and France making significant contributions in the past. European psi research is increasingly…
…analyzing, or reporting. Every anthropologist makes assumptions about the paranormal. Most of these are tacit assumptions. When apparent anomalies are unexpectedly encountered, hidden assumptions bring about skeptical or subscriptive reactions that may not represent the best interpretations the anthropologist is capable of. Either following such an unexpected encounter or before…
…programmes on these topics (see ‘Video’ below), and served on editorial boards of several academic journals including the parapsychological Journal of Scientific Exploration. Fenwick pursued spiritual development alongside his scientific work. He began meditating daily in 1965 and claimed to have done so ever since.6Fenwick (2019), 27. In his 2019…
…an ‘order during sleep’. In Britain a Romano-Celtic temple dating from the fourth century CE was discovered at Dwarf’s Hill in Lydney Park estate, Gloucestershire, with the help of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien.11Tolkien (2014). The temple was dedicated to the healing deity called Nodens, who is equivalent…
…basing her thesis on her own investigations of cases of spontaneous past life memories among young children. The 1978 thesis was expanded to include more recent work and published in 1990, then republished in 2019.10Pasricha (2019). See Society for Psychical Research review here. It includes sample cases with thorough analyses,…
Michael Nahm has ranged widely across modern parapsychology, but a single thread runs through much of his work: the possibility that mind cannot be reduced to brain alone. His studies connect end-of-life phenomena, reincarnation evidence, biological theory and critiques of scientific misconduct in modern research. With Bruce Greyson, Nahm popularised…
…(NDEs), Moody observed a powerful therapeutic effect following seeming encounters with deceased loved-ones. He was also aware that spontaneous encounters are frequently claimed by widows and other bereaved persons, similarly helping to alleviate grief. Wondering whether such encounters could be artificially stimulated, he began to explore the literature on ‘mirror-gazing’,…
