…drink it and bathe in it.1Lourdes Sanctuaire. The Apparitions. No mention was made of healing in these encounters. The first healing incident is said to have occurred on 1 March, when movement was restored to a woman’s injured arm after she immersed it in the water. Another contender for ‘first…
…two of Bhimsen’s sons, Bhism Pitamah’s son, and a friend. At one point, some of the alleged murderers visited and were recognized by Ramoo and Rajoo, but Stevenson was unable to learn details of the encounter. He speculated that, in spite of the twins’ memories not being admissible in court…
…a night at Myers’s lodgings, and the evening with him and the Sidgwicks trying thought-transference experiments which, however, on that occasion did not succeed.’38H. James (1920), vol. 1, 287. James reported attending séances with Boston medium Leonora Piper, whom he encountered in 1885 (see below).39James (1890d). He also took a…
…was brought to England by the high-circulation tabloid newspaper The Sun. Reporter 36-year-old Briony Warden had been severely injured in a car accident three months before. Still wheelchair-bound, Warden concealed all outwardly visible signs of her injuries before Demkina came into sight. She described the encounter as follows: [Demkina’s] pupils…
…Occupation Zone in southern Germany.4Haraldsson (1997), 253. Osis enrolled at the University of Munich. There he encountered The Reach of the Mind by JB Rhine, an account of research with card guessing and dice throwing at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University in the United States. Intrigued, he had decks…
…Crookes was particularly incensed by Carpenter’s attack in the Quarterly Review, which he answered in detail, but complained was ‘so full of perverse, prejudiced, or unwanted misstatements, that it is impossible to take note of them all’.114Crookes (1871e), 9; for a further encounter see Carpenter (1877d) and Crookes (1877). Crookes…
…without presenting any visible path of travel.’17Wassilko (1926a), 515. In a later report, Wassilko described a clear observation of the apport phenomenon, which hitherto she had only encountered twice: I had just gone into my room, and was looking out of the window, when a shadow slipped across and in…
…some three months after the Despard family moved in, and a total of some six times over the following two years. She describes the first encounter as follows: I had gone up to my room, but was not yet in bed, when I heard someone at the door, and went…
…later life Guirdham became intrigued by the possibility of reincarnation. This followed an encounter with a patient which he described in his book The Cathars and Reincarnation (1970).1Guirdham (1970). The patient ‘Mrs Smith’, who had been referred to him for treatment for epilepsy, believed herself to be psychic and reported…
