…was open to various paranormal interpretations, including reincarnation, spiritualism, universal/genetic memory and telepathy and the unconscious.37Christie-Murray (1980), 312-14.The following examples are taken from his 1979 book Encounters With the Past co-written by historian Peter Moss and Joe Keeton.38Moss & Keeton (1979). Michael O’Mara, a senior business executive from Philadelphia, regressed…
Induced After-Death Communication Therapy is a bereavement therapy that aims to relieve grief by inducing vivid encounters with the dead. Supporters present these experiences as healing, structured and occasionally evidential, whist critics note that the method remains controversial and should not be treated as established clinical proof of survival. Reported…
…an Indian family.24Stevenson (1997b), 1764-82. Jenny Cockell is an Englishwoman who has documented her reincarnation journey as well as her current life story in six books.25Cockell (1994, 1998, 2008, 2017, 2019, 2021). After identifying her second most recent past self as an Irishwoman, Mary Sutton, she sought out Mary’s still-living…
…with regard to ghostly encounters: that they are based on a priori belief in ghosts, suggestion, or magnetic fields. Some 600 members of the public completed questionnaires measuring their belief in ghosts. Half were then informed that there had been a recent increase in unusual phenomena (positive suggestion) while the…
Jack Hunter is an anthropologist, writer and teacher, with particular research interests in mediumship and trance phenomena. He is author of Greening the Paranormal (2019) and editor of Paranthropology Career Jack Hunter pursued post-graduate work at the department of archaeology and anthropology at the University of Bristol, and has been…
…with regard to quantum models of the mind. Multi-Lab Replication In a 2020 publication, Maier and colleagues reported a preregistered multi-lab replication of Maier’s 2014 experiment 4.2Maier et al. (2020). The study started in 2013 and ended in 2019. The same design was used as previously, including a sophisticated quantum-based…
…grief counsellors and their clients regarding after-death communication and the idea of continuing bonds with the deceased. A large demand for alternative approaches to standardized grief counselling is the driving force behind a clinical study into the therapeutic potential of mediumship. A 2019 paper discusses the research regarding the effects…
The investigative reincarnation literature includes at least some specious cases. The ethereal nature of past-life memories affords great scope for fantasy-based and even fraudulent claims, made in search of attention, greater self-esteem, prestige, opportunity or financial gain. Such cases often involve claims of having lived past lives as famous deceased…
Will (not his real name) is among those rare people who remember more than one solved past life. In his first life to be investigated by a researcher, he apparently recalled being Wilhelm Emmerich, a non-commissioned SS officer assigned to help supervise the mass gassings in the death camp of…
