Montague Keen (1925–2004), a journalist and later a farmer, investigated crop circles and mediums, and was a leading member of the Society for Psychical Research. Life and Career Montague Keen was born in London on 7 February 1925, and raised as an orthodox Jew. He left school aged 16 after…
…349-51. De Morgan, A. (1863). Preface to “C. D.” [Elizabeth De Morgan], From Matter to Spirit. The Result of Ten Years’ Experience in Spirit Manifestation. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers (v-xlv). London: Longman & Co. Faraday, M. (1859). Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics. London: Richard Taylor and William…
…Haida of Alaska and British Columbia.1Stevenson (1986). In 1994, Antonia Mills contributed data from three other first nations in British Columbia, the Gitxsan, Beaver and Witsuwit’en.2Mills (1994), 242-46. That same year, Richard Slobodin supplied data for the Kutchin (Gwitchen) of the Canadian Northwest Territories.3Sobodin (1994), 141, 147. We also have…
…country for her apparent ability to view organs and tissues within human bodies, and correctly diagnose diseases. Aged seventeen, Demkina agreed to take part in a filmed investigation commissioned by the TV channel HBO and carried out by a CSI (CSICOP) team consisting of Hyman, Andrew Skolnick and Richard Wiseman….
…Richard Adams, Lisette Coly, Robert Franklin, and Luis Portela. All members receive access to the Journal of Parapsychology and Mindfield. Members are able to receive discounts for registration to annual PA conventions. They are also given online access to an electronic archive of selected convention papers and videos. Voting rights…
…on Sai Baba’s ‘miracles’.28Lane (n.d.). Erlendur was interested in trying to distinguish genuine claims to macro-PK from legerdemain and wrote several papers on this topic, some with critic Richard Wiseman.29Haraldsson & Houtkooper (1994); Haraldsson & Wiseman (1995, 1996); Wiseman & Haraldsson (1995). Mediumship Erlendur wrote about both mental and physical…
…chosen death as a source of inspiration, in works such as Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert, Death and Transfiguration by Richard Strauss and The Island of the Dead by Serge Rachmaninoff. In Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, the text by Roman Catholic Cardinal John Newman tells the…
…HAVE-NOT experimenters seem to live in quite separate and incompatible worlds. After an initial period of success some researchers have unexpectedly drawn a blank in testing unselected groups: notable in this respect are Rhine’s lieutenant Gaither Pratt and Richard Broughton who lost the ‘Midas touch’ after he began to suspect…
…period when she was returning, a significance level of p<0.0001. This experiment was replicated on a minor scale by psychologist Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertford, who filmed four sessions. Wiseman, a prominent media sceptic, carried out an analysis according to his own more complex criteria and…
