…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…
…where otherwise noted. Florence Pollock grew up as a member of the Salvation Army and became Catholic upon marrying John. Despite his Christian faith, John also believed strongly in reincarnation, which he first encountered in a novel at the age of nine. John later told interviewers that at night he…
…moved to Boston before settling in New York City in 1904, where he worked as an assistant editor for Street and Smith magazines. Carrington became interested in psychical research after encountering books on the subject, joining the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1899 and the American Society for Psychical…
Environmental conditions may influence psi performance, but the relationship has proved elusive and complex. Adrian Ryan has explored that problem through studies of geomagnetic activity, meditation, reward, local sidereal time and open data, combining experimental curiosity with attention to wider questions of belief and research culture. Ryan analysed whether geomagnetic…
…that the mechanisms by which psi abilities manifest in a normal individual involves suppressing the frontal lobe functions that serve to inhibit psi.1Freedman (November 2019). Personal communication. His psi research is currently focused on determining which parts of the frontal lobes act as a psi inhibitory filter. First Study An…
Not all psi research relies on cards, dice, the ganzfeld or random number generators. Some investigators have tried to coax effects from more engaging, indirect or socially rich settings, using home-based guessing tasks, correlation-based mind-matter designs, psychotherapy sessions, mood cues, therapeutic groups and even unusual large-group meditation claims. Suitbert Ertel’s…
Attempts to ground psi in quantum-inspired theory continue in experimental work on nonlocal correlations between psychological and physical variables. Karolina Kirmse has pursued this programme through correlational matrix studies and a proposed distant-intention design, while also confronting persistent replication problems and theoretical ambiguity. Kirmse’s master’s work tested Generalised Quantum Theory…
Serena Roney-Dougal is a British parapsychologist, educator and author. Her research has probed the relationship between meditation and psi performance of yogic practitioners and Tibetan Buddhists, interactions with geomagnetic factors and possible links with the pineal gland, and, with Jerry Solfvin, distant healing effects on plant growth. Field experiments with…
