This article presents 51 accounts of past-life memories of European children and compares them to cases from Asia. The length of the intermissions between lives tends to be much longer in Europe, and this may help to explain why there are relatively few European cases and why most of those…
Research on anomalous perception depends on understanding how ordinary perception becomes unstable, biased and prediction-driven. Jürgen Kornmeier has examined ambiguity, pareidolia and reversal dynamics, showing how the brain constructs meaning from uncertain input and how apparent spontaneity can conceal earlier neural change. Ambiguous emotional faces and ambiguous geometric figures elicited…
Automatic writing in the early twentieth century found one of its most accomplished exponents in an Irish medium whose scripts blended literary polish, spirit communication and evidential detail. Admirers emphasised voice, personality and striking verifications; critics noted the difficulty of separating survival claims from clairvoyance, inference or subconscious reconstruction. Her…
The Carl Edon case combines striking childhood memories with behavioural and physical correspondences, but also with serious evidential dispute. It has become a useful example of how a reincarnation case can appear persuasive to witnesses while still leaving key questions about identification, documentation and interpretation unresolved. As a young child,…
In 1977, a house in the north London suburb of Enfield was the scene of violent disturbances similar to what has been reported in poltergeist-type episodes – knockings and other noises with no apparent cause, doors opening and closing by themselves, small objects hurled across rooms, and suchlike. The case…
In a Brooklyn sleep laboratory from 1964 to 1978, researchers testing whether dreamers could pick up imagery mentally sent from another room. The resulting studies became some of the best-known work in dream ESP, admired for striking hits, disputed for their replication record, and central to later debates about experimental…
Stage magic, sceptical activism and media performance combined in the career of one of the paranormal field’s most influential antagonists. Celebrated for exposing fraud and ridiculed by opponents for polemics and overreach, he shaped public perceptions of psychics and parapsychology far beyond the laboratory or séance room. Randi’s exposure of…
…Twins reincarnation research. Psi Encyclopedia. [Web page, last updated 7 April 2019.] Wiseman, R. (2011). Paranormality: Why We See What Isn’t There. London: Macmillan. 24 Endnotes 1 Playfair (2012). 2 Playfair (2012). 3 Playfair (2012). 4 Baume (1863), 312-13. 5 Galton (1883), 165. 6 Gurney, Myers, & Podmore (1886), ch….
…encountered. He writes: With mediums, generally it is necessary to sit for a formal séance before anything is heard; but in the case of Miss Fox it seems only necessary for her to place her hand on any substance for loud thuds to be heard in it, like a triple…
