…old when he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 1957.5Stevenson (1989); Matlock (2024). Entrance into Parapsychology Stevenson read widely and at the end of 1954 encountered New World of the Mind, by JB Rhine, which mentioned a Medical Section of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). He joined the…
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…(who held the encryption keys, preventing data tampering by Radin or his colleagues) in 2013. Walleczek eventually published his version of the study in 2019.16Walleczek J., & von Stillfried, N. (2019).. In this publication, Walleczek draws parallels with the OPERA collaboration17Adam et al. (2013). that claimed to find evidence of…
…(2010). All of these sceptical proposals encounter difficulties when brought to bear on the case material. Satwant Pasricha examined the possibility of parental guidance in reference to nineteen Indian cases she uncovered in a survey but found it untenable partly because the details of the previous lives were unknown to…
…wrote extensively about psychic experiences and beliefs in Iceland.19For a list, see here. Additional information appears in Haraldsson (2021). In 1975, he conducted a large national survey of psychical and religious experiences and beliefs in Iceland. He found that 31% of his respondents reported encounters with someone who had died.20See…
…a worldwide cross-cultural study. 3 See Majeed (2012); Mbiti (1989); Onyewuenyi (2009). 4 Matlock (1993, 2019). 5 Matlock (1993). 6 Matlock (1993, 2019). 7 Uchendu (1965), 6. 8 Another African example, from northern Ghana, is mentioned by AW Cardinall (1920, 66-67): ‘On the death of an infant the grave diggers…
Julian Ochorowicz (1850–1917) was a Polish philosopher, psychologist and inventor and was a keen advocate of the medical benefits of hypnosis. He championed hypnosis as therapy, treated telepathic suggestion as a serious topic and later investigated mediums, while interpreting dramatic séance phenomena without resorting to spirits. Ochorowicz regarded hypnosis as…
…on Anomalous Expressions In a 2019 paper, Maraldi and Krippner applaud significant developments in understanding both the cognitive and personality aspects of anomalous experiences but decry the lack of cross-cultural comparison studies.With this is mind they critically review the limited scientific literature that describes anomalous experiences within a cross-cultural context….
