…into question the fundamentals of the ethnographic method of participant observation, and in particular the extent to which an ethnographer engaged in such practices can maintain a sense of objective detachment from their research subjects. Writing in 1978, Richard de Mille, who had been one of Castaneda’s chief critics, emphasized…
…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. Carpenter, W.B. (1877). Mesmerism and Spiritualism, &c. Historically & Scientifically Considered….
…university. As co-executor 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…
…be reached by the upper-class 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…
…be the source of positive results, in fact had 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…
…Richard (Dick) Auerbach was an executive producer at NBC Sports and VideoSpec International. Auerbach grew out outside New York City. He graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1978 with a Bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology. Auerbach holds a Master’s degree in parapsychology from John F Kennedy University, now part…
…to the Humanistic University in Utrecht). 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. Presentiment Bierman’s major…
…telepathy work and later defended Soal before the evidence against him became overwhelming. With KM Goldney, he challenged Trevor Hall’s claim that William Crookes was romantically compromised in investigating Florence Cook. Medhurst’s attempts to solve Harry Price’s Rosalie case were painstaking but inconclusive. Life and Career Richard George Medhurst, born…
…‘cosmic consciousness’ Richard Maurice Bucke (1837–1902), as well as Alain Forget and other sources. Fenwick contended that awakening does not necessarily require training but comes to people more often through overwhelming emotional trauma or spiritual experience. The resulting state is characterized by a stable core sense of joy unrelated to…
