Brazil has produced a notable cluster of child past-life memory cases in a culture unusually receptive to reincarnation ideas. The reports show familiar features such as memories, phobias and behavioural carry-overs, yet stand out for their frequent European links and comparatively long intervals between incarnations over time. Brazilian child cases…
The German philosopher Carl du Prel (1839–99) was a prominent theoretician and proponent of research into postmortem survival, psychic phenomena and the unconscious mind. He was a major pre-Freudian theorist of the unconscious and his transcendental psychology shaped later debates over spiritism, subliminal mind and postmortem individuality. The article shows…
…Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism, is currently in development.9Personal communication from Edward F. Kelly, October 2019. Consciousness Unbound Kelly and Marshall recently issued a third volume, Consciousness Unbound: Liberating Mind from the Tyranny of Materialism, which carries forward the main themes of its predecessors. Its main…
Lance Storm is Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, University of Adelaide. His research interests include anomalistic psychology, gambling behaviour and attitudes, Jungian analytical theory, and theories of perception, personality and therapy. He is particular interested in the use of emerging approaches in statistics and methodology to reach…
Mario Varvoglis, an American experimental parapsychologist living in France, his been president of the Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) since 1998. His research on ganzfeld telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis and consciousness broadened the IMI programme, helping to revitalize and preserve an important European centre of psi research. A precognition study using computer-built…
Although research with cases of past-life memory offers little support for the idea of fixed ‘soul groups’, some cases suggest that relationships may persist across lives. Twins, friends, spouses and children claiming intermission memories have all been cited in reports where recognitions and remembered connections appear to outlast a single…
…uses a true random number generator to select targets that users are invited to attempt to predict. Mossbridge presented her first analysis of the data from this website, showing significant precognition performance, at the 2019 Society for Scientific Exploration meeting. Her critical review of Sam Knight’s “The Premonitions Bureau” highlights…
This child reincarnation case from India was investigated together by two researchers, one of whom thought it was best interpreted as reincarnation, while the second attributed it to parents coaching the boy to validate their reincarnationist belief system. The case report has become an important source in sceptical commentary about…
Arthur Chattock belongs to the early scientific generation that moved between established physics and psychical research. Best known professionally for work in electrotechnology and radio-wave experiments, he also joined the SPR, lectured on telepathy and took part in small but historically revealing experimental thought-transference tests. One target was reproduced exactly,…
