…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…
…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…
…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 of the ‘San Pedro haunting’ and the ‘Entity’ case that inspired a 1982 movie of the same name….
…‘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 subsequent research, involving telepathic induction at a distance, made clear, they never were, and he may have come to regret…
