…psychical research in Italy in the decades around 1900. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 48, 75–84. Braude, A. (2001). Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press. Burlet, P. (1863). Du Spiritisme Considéré comme cause d’Aliénation Mentale. Lyon: Imprimerie de Richard….
…of the will, Beloff was sufficiently well-regarded within the University of Edinburgh for its board to accept the funding and appoint him to the chair’s selection team. During his time at Edinburgh he supervised Richard Broughton and Adrian Parker, both of whom became prominent experimenters in the field of parapsychology….
…intellectuals who dominated the field in Britain. 28Morris (2006), 213. There is no doubt Price was an ambitious and sometimes abrasive character who was liked and disliked in equal measure. Author Richard Morris sums up Price as ‘a supreme bluffer, a hedonistic con man, a terrific raconteur, a great conjuror,…
…limited influence – a feature that any theory of psi would need to account for. SORRAT Morris joined with psychologist and psi sceptic Richard Wiseman, Morris to test claims of psi phenomena made by the Society for Research in Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT), a physical mediumship group.Two decks of ESP…
…issues, the European Journal of Parapsychology pioneered the option of journal-based pre-registration of experiments in 1978. To judge the impact on outcomes, Watt and psychologist and psi skeptic Richard Wiseman compared experimental findings for pre-registered versus non pre-registered studies, finding a clear decrease in the number of significant studies when…
…Richard (Dick) Auerbach was an executive producer at NBC Sports and VideoSpec International. Growing up outside of New York City, Auerbach graduated from Northwestern University in 1978 with a degree in cultural anthropology. He holds a Master’s degree in parapsychology from John F Kennedy University, now part of National University,…
…Researchers from the parapsychological department at Utrecht, who included Richard Broughton, Brian Millar and Susan Blackmore, held regular meetings with the Amsterdam team and a group from the SRU (Hans Michels) in Eindhoven to discuss theories and how to test them. Bierman’s major research topic shifted to the fashionable ganzfeld…
George Medhurst (1920–1971) was a British mathematician and engineer who carried out experiments and scholarly studies in psychical research. Life and Career Richard George Medhurst, born into a poor family, won scholarships that enabled him to take a degree in mathematics at Queen Mary College, London in 1942. He worked…
…Forget inspired an interest in the sudden expansion of consciousness he variably terms ‘awakening’, ‘enlightenment’ and ‘breakthrough’. He considers this transformation to be a natural stage of human evolution, agreeing with the early Canadian psychiatrist and coiner of the term ‘cosmic consciousness’ Richard Maurice Bucke (1837–1902), as well as Alain…
