…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…
…details that cast doubt on this idea.6Medhurst & Goldney (1964b), 45. An edited book of his research on Crookes was published posthumously.7Medhurst (1972). Medhurst 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…
…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 killed, apparently both his psychical and his physical life settled down. In the meantime, Susy Smith left Miami, and…
…Alexander came to feel that he had an obligation, as a scientist and a healer, to share his experience. However, he was troubled that, unlike other NDE experiencers, he had not encountered deceased relatives; he particularly wished that his father, who had died about four months earlier, might have been…
…data, falsification of data’.40Fanelli (2009), 7. When the American Association for the Advancement of Science surveyed a random sample of its members, it found that 27% believed they had encountered or witnessed fabricated, falsified or plagiarized research over the previous 10 years, with an average of 2.5 examples.41Titus, Wells &…
…encountered. Dumas had told Grierson during his passage through Paris in the 1860’s, “[w]ith your gifts you will find all doors open before you.”5Marble (nd). Melvyn Willin See also: The Illusioned Ear: Disembodied Sound & The Musical Séances of Francis Grierson, an extended biographical appreciation by Matt Marble. Works Cited…
…and Proceedings. Some of his earlier investigations led him to report positively on the existence of paranormal processes. In one report, he described the mediumship of the Polish psychic Stephan Ossowiecki,5Dingwall (1924a). a notable encounter where Ossowiecki correctly identified the contents of a sealed envelope that he (Dingwall) was convinced…
…reductionist discursive talk. Psi directly influenced Marcel’s theory of intersubjectivity, since the experience of connectedness between individuals in psi is ‘the foundation of intersubjectivity’.32Marcel (2003), 106. Marcel also believes that an encounter with psi phenomena may be a preparation for faith. He states in his autobiography:‘I remain convinced that, within…
