…most significant item of information connected with object. In a face-to-face encounter the psychometrist might first take the sitter’s hand, if the purpose is to demonstrate his or her powers by telling the sitter details of his past life and other people connected to him. However, most psi practitioners are…
…down; the experience of seeing the physical body from another location in space; and perceptions of events that the patient could not have perceived or guessed normally.4Cook [Kelly], Greyson, & Stevenson (1998), Kelly, Greyson, & Stevenson (1999–2000). A fourth feature of NDEs suggestive of survival is the encounter with deceased…
…later as an office secretary. Cranshaw became involved in mediumship after a chance encounter on a train with Harry Price, a paranormal investigator. Price engaged her in conversation after she showed interest in the spiritualist periodical Light, a copy of which was among his papers: she mentioned that she occasionally…
…either that Ariel’s phenomena were fraudulent or that his investigators had committed some kind of error which they were determined to uncover. Previous encounters with members of that latter group had been unpleasant and inhibiting for Ariel. So further requests from that group were indefinitely delayed. On the other hand,…
…‘intervention’ as a consequence of a naïvely literal interpretation of the foreseeing. The typically ‘catastrophic ending may be viewed as the kind of distortion typically seen in dreams. It is the kind of thing encountered day in and day out by those who listen to dreams for a living’.87Eisenbud (1982),…
…wanted to hold onto all that we have brought with us. In the preface to his first book with Rosemarie Anderson, a friend and colleague,4Braud & Anderson (1998). Braud expressed gratitude for the ‘number and diversity of the research approaches encountered at different points in my career’.5Braud & Anderson (1998),…
…head telling her to scrap the ‘silly letter’ and instead go to her mother at once and tell her to ‘stop all that ridiculous mourning’. She hesitated, but eventually visited the mother, who gratefully accepted the message.7Heywood (1964/1978), 163-7. In another instance, she encountered the apparition of a friend who…
…effects under comparable conditions, but no accepted replication followed. Introduction The term ‘thoughtography’ was introduced in 1910 by Tomokichi Fukurai, a Japanese psychology professor who encountered the phenomenon accidentally, while working with a clairvoyant.1Fukurai (1931). He conducted some interesting experiments, but his work was severely criticized, and eventually he was…
…its top, I encountered a remarkably solid resistance when I tried to push it downwards and towards the medium at an angle of about 45 degrees. So great was the resistance in this direction that it felt like pushing against a solid strut of wood or metal. During the whole…
