…‘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…
…these forces and wherefrom did they operate? Of this, he could not be certain, because he had encountered many confused communications that pointed away from a surviving personal intelligence. The best he could do was to draw attention to the need for research on phenomena he understood to be of…
…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…
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…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…
