…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 tells…
…the Cambridge cinema ghost experiment. Tom Ruffles Blogspot [Web Site, 15 May.] Tompkins, M. (2016). The strange tale of an X-rated haunting. BBC [Web Site, 24 Octorber.] Wiseman, R. (2025). Celebrating Tony Cornell – paranormal pioneer. Richard Wiseman Substack [Web Site, 23 October.] 23 104 Endnotes 1 Cornell (2002). ↩︎…
…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?’ [Full text.] Web page. Sheldrake, R. (n.d.). James Randi – a conjurer attempts to debunk research on…
…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…
…provided science with a formidable collection of data that demands attention. Richard Broughton Works Cited Bem, D.J. (2011). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personal and Social Psychology 100, 407-25. Bem, D.J., & Honorton, C. (1994). Does psi exist? Replicable evidence…
…Boccuzzi (2014); Osborne & Bacon (2015). Psychoanalytic Interpretations Richard Castillo has argued that pathological approaches to the study of spirit possession in anthropology have traditionally tended towards one of three dominant perspectives: Freudian psychoanalytic theory, Pierre Janet’s dissociation theory and the generic non-pathological altered states of consciousness perspective (see below)….
…a home maker. She eventually separated 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…
