…such beliefs reflected poorer psychological health.6Dagnell et al. (2025). Haunted Places In a paper published in 2021, Escolà-Gascón and James Houran explored the relationship between paranormal belief and individuals’ encounters within natural settings, particularly those reputed to be haunted. The paper introduces the concept of “sense of place”, challenging the…
…Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Shamdasani, S. (1994). Encountering Hélène: Théodore Flournoy and the genesis of subliminal psychology. In From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages by T. Flournoy. Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University. Spinari-Pollalis, T. (2001). André Breton: Psychiatry in…
…paradigm of rebirth. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 31/2, 85-95. Book Chapters Mills, A. (1994). Making a scientific investigation of ethnographic cases suggestive of reincarnation. In Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience, ed. by D.E. Young & J.-G.[A.] Goulet, 237-69. Peterborough, ON. Mills, A. (1994). Reincarnation…
…maladjustment.18Burlet (1863), 22. Pierre Janet Similar views were held by the French clinician Pierre Janet, who had encountered psychic phenomena in his work with a hypnotic subject, but who later, working with mental patients, came to dismiss such phenomena as pathological. For Janet, most mediums were victims of a nervous…
…spiritual experiences.3Woollacott & Cook (2020). Books Infinite Awareness In Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind Woollacott recounts her lifelong journey in understanding the relationship between mind and brain. She illuminates the difficulties standard materialism encounters with a range of phenomena from near death experiences, the placebo effect, alternative…
…of young psychologists encounter the subject in a rational, balanced, legitimate and erudite manner at various levels of study.22Luke (2012). Michael Duggan A list of British institutions, and their main research activities, is given in the table below. Institution Leading researcher(s) Current or usual research activities Koestler Parapsychology Unit, University…
…Ehrenwald. Originally the meetings were for the purpose of discussion, but eventually members of the group began experimenting with table-tipping, and that led to Eisenbud’s first encounter with ‘homegrown psychokinesis’.4Eisenbud, 1987, 12. On one of these occasions, held in the usual substreet level of a New York brownstone home, ‘the…
…Precognitive dream. Heywood, Rosalind. An apparently paranormal dream. Journal 38, 1955, 195-97. A man dreams he encounters a bulldog belonging to friends and places a penny on its head. The next day he visits the friends and mentions the dream. It transpires that two puppies in a recent litter have…
…to be essential to phonological mastery’, and ‘there is no shortcut for learning words. They need to be studied, memorized, encountered, and reflected upon’.16Bialystok & 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…
