…‘the most balanced book ever written’ 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…
…gold watch as his as soon as he saw it.8Stevenson (1974), 231-41. Bruce Peck Richard Peck was of the Haida First Nation, which is located near the Tlingit. Its people also believe in reincarnation, though the belief is not as strongly developed as the Tlingit’s. A successful fisherman, Peck disliked…
…provided evidence of the ‘Psychic Force’, consistent with Benjamin W Richardson’s theory of a gaseous ‘atmosphere’ within the nervous system, which shrouded the body and mediated sensory experiences.5Noakes (2019), 170; Crookes, Huggins & Cox (1871), 181. Later he became disillusioned with Crookes, believing that he had acted fraudulently in the…
…have sometimes 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…
…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 that he himself was the source of psi in his experiments. It is understandable that parapsychologists have recoiled from…
…Maine, USA: Park Street Press. Sheldrake, R. (2012). The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature. South Paris, Maine, USA: Park Street Press. Sheldrake, R. (2013). A response to Richard Wiseman’s article ‘How much is that doggie in the window?’ [Web page.] Sheldrake, R. (n.d.). James Randi…
…to psychedelics, 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…
…based on television footage of a function in the 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…
…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, she scored no better than chance. She then…
