…that involves guessing symbols on cards.14The Paranormal World of Paul McKenna (1997). Following this programme – along with a popular book and a journal article on twin telepathy – four similar experiments using the polygraph were shown on different channels.15Richard and Judy, (2003); Miracle Hunters (2004); Naked Science (2005); Twintuition…
…until he left the university in 2012. Roe served as CSAPP director from 2012 to 2017, at which point he became Research Lead for the Centre for Psychological and Sociological Sciences The group was later joined by Richard Broughton, former director of the Rhine Research Center (2004–2012). In 2005 University…
…and ufologist Margaret Driver. In July 1972 and again in 1973, Herbert and Cassirer travelled to Leningrad to film psychokinetic abilities demonstrated by Ninel Kulagina.6Cassirer (1974). Works Novels Crisis! 1992 (1936). London: Richards. They Don’t Always Hang Murderers (1943). Devizes: Lloyd Cole. Articles Notes on the Kulagina films (1969). Journal…
…of Dream Research, reaffirmed that the effect is real, and that ‘dream content can be used to identify target materials correctly and more often than would be expected by chance’.7Storm, Sherwood, Roe, Tressoldi, Rock, & De Risio (2017), 120. Sceptics James Alcock, Ray Hyman and Richard Wiseman were among the…
…0.1 to 30 Hz in the castle’s Tapestry Room. They concluded that ghostly occurrences reported by individuals lying on the bed were caused by interactions between the ambient electromagnetic fields and the iron bedframe.18Townsend (2004). Parapsychologists from the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Edinburgh, led by Richard Wiseman,…
…research on community psychokinesis and retrocausation, helping to link PEAR’s empirical programme to broader theoretical debates. 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 a Masters in physics and PhD in…
…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…
…to competing world views, dealing with the data as it comes. Some Christian 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…
…sentenced to be transported to the 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…
