…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…
…the 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…
…primarily from the 1950s and 1960s6Luke (2012).. JB Rhine, the founder of parapsychology as an experimental science, ran informal psychedelic sessions in 1961 in collaboration with the then Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert,7Black (2001). although the sessions apparently generated too much spontaneous laughter for anyone to credibly test…
…city, which, it claimed, showed Sai Baba secretly taking a large gold chain from an assistant and then claiming to have materialized it. The incident was investigated by Haraldsson and Richard Wiseman, a British psychologist and amateur conjurer. The pair visited the offices of the newspaper, where they interviewed the…
…not responsible;he had handled three of the objects beforehand, checking for trick devices. Testing Roll had tested Tina for psychokinetic ability, observing that she rolled doubles at a rate well above chance. However, in a formal test carried out by Richard Broughton at the Institute for Parapsychology on 29 March,…
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…reconciliation to a situation which does not permit any radical alternatives to itself.23Skultans (1974), 4. More recent research has focused on the therapeutic potential of mediumship practices for the bereaved, especially in the Western context.24cf. Beischel, Mosher & Boccuzzi (2014); Osborne & Bacon (2015). Psychoanalytic Interpretations Richard Castillo has argued…
…from Hugh Tighe, marrying Richard Morrow and raising two stepchildren. She died in 1995, aged 72, leaving ten grandchildren.3Thomas (1995). Regressions In Pueblo, the Tighes became acquainted with Morey Bernstein, a businessman and experienced amateur hypnotist. Bernstein became interested in reincarnation after learning about the psychic healer Edgar Cayce, and…
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