…were: the sense of being dead feelings of peace and well-being body separation entering the darkness encountering a presence or hearing a voice taking stock of one’s life, seeing or being enveloped in the light seeing beautiful colours entering the light encountering visible ‘spirits’ Each of the components included in…
…witness in other epochs encounters with aliens during out-of-body experiences There are several points of intersection between traditional UFO/alien encounters and other types of paranormal experiences. UFO experiencers often claim to have acquired paranormal abilities as a direct consequence of contacts with aliens, such as extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, temporarily…
…Barbara, California, USA: Praeger. Video The Psychology of Belief with James E. Alcock. New Thinking Allowed, 7 January 2019. A Skeptical Look at Parapsychology with James Alcock. New Thinking Allowed, 1 March 2019. Believe It or Not: Can We Always Make a Choice? Center for Inquiry, lecture given at CSICon…
…into a book, introducing it with a strong child case he himself investigated and adding other new material, and published it in June 2019 under the title Signs of Reincarnation: Exploring Beliefs, Cases, and Theory. He considers this the culmination of his work so far.15Matlock, personal communication, 10 May 2019….
…The appearance of rare commemorative coins might reflect unconscious psychokinetic processes, the researchers speculated.11D’León et al. (2025). Technical Challenges The investigation encountered technical challenges. Camera disconnections occurred with increasing frequency after October 2021, sometimes when neither HM nor LS present. Video analysis confirmed no visible entity approached the camera connections…
…cases, memories were prompted by a piece of music or other creative work, or an object the person might have come across in the past life; in others the trigger was a visit to a place reminiscent of the past life. The most common stimulus was an encounter with a…
Reports of hauntings and ghostly episodes need not be treated as either simple delusion or simple proof. James Houran has approached them as patterned encounter experiences shaped by personality, expectation and setting, building psychometric tools and broader models that connect anomalous episodes with stress, sensitivity and context. Houran’s work treats…
…encounters with the deceased among the bereaved at between 43% and 55%.19Steffen & Coyle (2012); Barbato (1999). It is less clear how many of these encounters constitute crisis impressions. An Icelandic study determined that 86% of encounters constituted the first intimation that a death had occurred.20Haraldsson (2012). In Germany, ‘Crisis…
…and Triggers James Matlock notes that, as in the present life, a past-life memory can be triggered by chance encounters with people, places, sounds, smells, emotions and so forth. James Leininger’s visit to a World War II aircraft museum, for example, seems to have triggered his memories of having been…
