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…
…REM sleep. People can be trained to have lucid dreams. Training methods include dream diaries, reality testing and sensory cues timed to REM periods. Lucidity has been linked with problem-solving, motor practice, encounters with deceased figures and reports of shared or telepathic dreaming. A small but significant relationship has been…
…G Stanley Hall, Gurney’s unorthodox strand of psychological research failed to create an audience, let alone a lobby. Instead of receiving support for his tertium quid approach, Gurney and colleagues encountered opposition from representatives of otherwise often mutually antagonistic camps, ranging from orthodox religion and spiritualism on the one hand…
…Owens encountered Batcheldor’s work and decided to see if communications purporting to come from ‘Philip’ might ensue if they engaged in table-turning sessions similar to his.The sessions took place in full light and were recorded by video. The table produced raps and unusual movement that was not caused by the…
…a rather large group of experiences I am calling exceptional human experience…‘15White (1997a), 26. She defined EHEs further by telling us that they ‘[mark] the beginning of an effort to discover what could be learned if all types of psychical, mystical, encounter, death-related, peak, and other anomalous experiences were viewed…
…for the general reader. Mediumship Gauld’s outlook on mediumship was decisively influenced by his research with a mediumistic circle in Cambridgeshire.12Gauld, private correspondence. The medium was Win Beldam, whom he described as an intensely private person and ‘the most remarkable mental and physical medium that I have ever encountered.’13Personal communication.Gauld…
…articles in Nature,3Poynton (1961, 1962). The South African Journal of Science,4Poynton (1967). The African Journal of Herpetology,5Poynton (2013). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa6Poynton (1987). and The Annals of the Natal Museum.7Poynton (1964). Psychical Research Poynton’s interest in psi started with encounters with dowsing for water which is…
