…and the iron bedframe.18Townsend (2004). Parapsychologists from the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Edinburgh, led by Richard Wiseman, made electromagnetic field measurements while searching for explanations of reported hauntings at Hampton Court Palace and Edinburgh’s Vaults. The team used magnetometers to survey the ambient magnetic fields, but found…
York Dobyns was a long-term member of the research team at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory and continues to publish in parapsychology. Life and Career York Dobyns was born in 1960 to anthropologists Henry Dobyns and Cara Richards. He obtained a degree from Ohio State University in 1982,…
…and aggression, revealing positive links between universal love and spirituality while showing negative connections with aggression.15Dyer et al (2019). Criticism and Controversy Considerable media publicity and controversy followed the appearance of The Afterlife Experiments. Detailed criticisms were made by sceptics James Randi,16Randi (2001). Ray Hyman,17Hyman (2003a). Richard Wiseman18Wiseman & O’Keefe…
…writers concur with parapsychologists in considering psychokinesis, including levitation, to be a natural human ability.36Heaney (1984). 37Schwebel (2004). Others such as Richard Ravalli argue that the preference on the part of parapsychologists for naturalistic explanations is more an effect of bias than a careful consideration of the evidence and that…
…American colonies for his previous crimes. Interpretations Following the publication of Glanvill’s description of the case in A Blow at Modern Sadducism, nonconformist minister Richard Baxter wrote asking for further particulars. Baxter said he had heard it said in court and in legal circles that John Mompesson had admitted that…
…in a psychokinetic task with auditory and visual feedback. In Research in Parapsychology 1975, ed. by J.D. Morris, W.G. Roll, & R.L. Morris, 90–91. Metuchen, New Jersey, USA: Scarecrow Press. Ivtzan, I. (2008). Meditation on consciousness. Journal of Scientific Exploration 22, 147-60. Kozak, L., Johnson, L.C., Richards, T., King, H.,…
…purple light precedes transition. Light 41, 551. Tweedale, C.L. (1925). Man’s Survival after Death: Or, the Other Side of Life in the Light of Scripture, Human Experience, and Modern Research (3rd ed.). London: Grant Richards. Vesme, C. (1898). La dimostrazione sperimentale dell’esistnza del corpo fluidico [The experimental demonstration of the…
…A Tribute to Doris Stokes. London: Futura Publications. Evans. G. (2004). Stokes, Doris May Fisher (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, June. Oxford. Hoggart, S., & Hutchinson, M. (1988). Bizarre Beliefs. London: Richard Cohen Books. Kearney, B. (n.d.) Who was Doris Stokes? [Web page] Plummer, M. (1981). Doris Stokes Wrong…
…account.9E.g., John Richardson; see Leininger & Leininger (2009), 217. A unit logbook recording the crash can now be viewed online (scroll to page 32). At a reunion of the Natoma Bay pilots, James recognized one of them, Bob Greenwalt, by his voice.10Leininger & Leininger (2009), 244. Anne Barron also verified…
