…studied, memorized, encountered, and reflected upon’.15Bialystok & Hakuta (1994), 210. So, how does all this help us get a handle on xenoglossy generally? First of all, it seems clear that learning a second language is a significantly different process from learning a language for the first time. It also seems…
…the psyches of analyst and patient. Jung said he often encountered such cases, and saw how significant these inner experiences were to his patients. He was ‘amazed’ at how many people had had experiences of this kind, and how carefully they kept them secret, for fear of exposing themselves to…
…having conversations in which Margaret participated, controlling her voice. Prince first knew Doris as Margaret; he did not encounter Real Doris, the girl’s primary personality, until shortly before she moved permanently to live in his household. Margaret Doris lived much of her daily waking life as ‘Margaret’, whom Prince describes…
…light phenomena around Bither, which decreased in frequency and intensity over the years (she died in 1995).2Taff (2011). Aliens Above, Ghosts Below Aliens Above, Ghosts Below (2011) describes ghostly apparitions reported by families across Los Angeles, along with stories of UFO sightings, alien encounters, and abductee experiences. It features accounts…
…the claim by the Italian psychiatrist Fernando Cazzamalli that there was such an explanation. However, as Vasiliev had to admit, ‘the electromagnetic hypothesis of mental suggestion, while certainly corroborated by a number of facts, nonetheless encounters a number of difficulties and contraindications which have not yet been eliminated’. As his…
…and Out-of-Body Experiences (1968), Green offered anecdotal descriptions, compared the two types of experiences (which she concluded were philosophically indistinguishable), and discussed their varying characteristics. Apparitions (1975), written in collaboration with Oxford psychologist Charles McCreery, quotes several hundred first-hand accounts of encounters with ghostly figures, animals and even objects. The…
…encountered the writer CS Lewis following Lewis’s death in 1963.3Charman (2013), 4. Among Bardens’s many books are several on psychic phenomena. These, combining first-hand knowledge with anecdotes, appealed to the public but somewhat less so to academic reviewers.4For instance, Heywood (1971), 146-47. Selected Works Ghosts and Hauntings (1965). London: Zeus…
…also attempted to investigate a 1937 incident by Harry Price, an encounter with what appeared to be the materialised spirit of a deceased young girl named Rosalie, whom he both saw and touched. Price gave few details, saying he had been invited to attend on the condition that he did…
…to Roll, reports would sometimes filter back about moving objects. Julio married and had a daughter. In 1969, he was shot and seriously wounded when he tried to obstruct gunmen robbing the gas station where he was working. Roll writes, ‘After this encounter, wherein Julio nearly succeeded in getting himself…
