…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 only modest evidence for a magnetic field causation.19Wiseman et al. (2002). Other researchers carried out…
…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 Bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University in 1982, a Master’s in physics in 1985 and…
…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…
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…(3rd ed.). London: Grant Richards. Vesme, C. (1898). La dimostrazione sperimentale dell’esistnza del corpo fluidico [The experimental demonstration of the existence of the fluidic body]. Rivista di Studi Psichici 4, 147–55, 175–82. Vieira, W. (2008). Projeciologia: Panorama das experiências da consciência fora do corpo humano [Projectiology: Overview of experiences of…
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…accompanying insert. Clinching testimony came from eyewitnesses who had seen the plane was hit in the engine, which exploded in a ball of fire before it crashed, confirming James’s account.9E.g., John Richardson; see Leininger & Leininger (2009), 217. A unit logbook recording the crash can now be viewed online (scroll…
