…involve a common ‘encounter experience’ that is highly structured in its phenomenology and thus can be modelled as a biomedical syndrome.4O’Keeffe et al. (2019). Psychology of Haunters Houran and colleagues extended their investigations of haunting phenomena to include psychological aspects, following observation that haunting and poltergeist experiences tend to occur…
…over the airfield’s eastern end, where the departure runway was situated. At no more than 150 feet of altitude, the aeroplane encountered a microburst; this introduced a wind shear, which in turn imposed a downdraft and decreasing headwind. The plane struck the top of a row of trees and proceeded…
…and Wolfgang Fach, counsellers at Germany’s Institute of Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, expanded this principle to create a systematic phenomenological classification. Here, ExE typically appear as deviations in an individual’s reality model, classified according to two pairs of phenomena.10Fach (2011); Atmanspacher & Fach (2013, 2019). One pair…
…the internet.21Biddle (2019); Johnson (1977); Martain (2008). In 2018, Cooper was a runner-up for the Ockham’s Razor Award for Skeptical Activism sponsored by The Skeptic magazine. (See here.) In 2019, a student of Cooper researched the impact and process of dogmatic scepticism.22Wright & Cooper (2019). In 2020 at the University…
…to speak Arabic with her parents and by the time Stevenson met her, when she was nine, she had forgotten her childhood language. When Stevenson introduced her to a native speaker of Hindi and Punjabi, she showed no signs of understanding either.14Stevenson (1974b),17. Simone Nawal Daw encountered native speakers of…
Psi research in the twenty-first century increasingly overlaps with mainstream cognitive neuroscience, where controversial questions can be tested with familiar tools. Jacob Jolij exemplifies this approach, combining EEG, randomisation methods and large collaborations to examine presentiment, random processes and belief-laden perception in experimental settings. Jolij’s laboratory reported small but statistically…
…(2021). An encounter with the other: a thematic and content analysis of the DMT experience from a naturalistic field study. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 720717. Pascal, M., Luke, D., & Robinson, O. (2023). An encounter with the self: a thematic and content analysis of the DMT experience from a naturalistic…
…with spirit guides rather than the array of spirit entities encountered in spontaneous experiences and most of the role types identified by Matlock and Giesler Petersen are absent. Newton does not mention perceptions of the material world or interactions with the living and in fact does not describe anything that…
…death” spectrum… are the same experience.’7Charland-Verville et al. (2014). Sociologist Allan Kellehear observed that NDEs are a ‘regularly occurring social experience encountered by many people in a variety of settings other than illness.’8Kellehear (1996), 43, (emphasis in original). This is of particular importance with dNDEs, as it detaches the experience…
