…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…
…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…
…‘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…
…and PhD students participated fully in academic life, with dissertations by Boerenkamp on psychics, Attevelt on healing and Houtkooper on the observational theories of psi functioning. Regular meetings were held between visiting research associates of Johnson, including Brian Millar, Richard Broughton, Susan J Blackmore, Joop Houtkooper from the Study Center…
…“paranormal fire brigade” for members of the public distressed by their paranormal experiences.’20SSPS (n.d.). Over the years on the educational side, the SSPR has attracted an impressive list of speakers at its normally monthly speaker events. These include Colin Wilson, Michael Bentine, Graham Hancock, Rupert Sheldrake, Maurice Grosse, Richard Wiseman…
…the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 190-227. Mr Dingwall and ‘Margery’ (1925). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 309-14. In reply to Dr Boring (1925). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 536-38. Dr Richardson’s voice-control machine (1925). Journal of the American Society for…
…backwards Second, an interpretation of quantum physics promoted by Richard Feynman emphasizes that there is no difference in nature between a photon moving forwards or backwards in time, from the point of view of electrodynamics. Feynman started from the classical electromagnetic equations of Maxwell, which are symmetrical in relation to…
