…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…
…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…
…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 widely…
…was found to be the encounter with mystical beings and a life review. However, contrary to predictions, the sense of disembodiment often reported by experiencers was not associated with changes in death attitudes. The authors discuss these findings in the context of Terror Management Theory, concluding that they have implications…
…carried by Michael Persinger at the Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada. Persinger considered that electromagnetism might provide sufficient energy to cause experiences such as apparitions, poltergeists, precognition and UFO encounters. He thought that extremely low frequency (<60Hz) electromagnetic fields from both natural and man-made sources might be a likely cause,12Persinger…
…with relevance to the extrasensory part of his Psi-mediated Instrumental Response (PMIR) model.3Stanford (1974a). In 2019 he won the PA’s Outstanding Career Award. Stanford’s published work comprises 27 book chapters, 55 journal articles and 24 book reviews. Psi-mediated Instrumental Response Parapsychologists have assumed that psi aims to consciously encode the…
…is of particular importance, suggesting as it does that as brain functioning decreased, mental functioning increased, contrary to what a materialist view of mind-brain relations predicts. In 2010, Greyson published a review of historical and contemporary NDEs in which the experiencers encountered the apparent spirits of deceased persons who were…
