…Soal-Shackleton experiments and Borley rectory. Her extensive correspondence can be found scattered elsewhere throughout the archive. Maurice Grosse. The Enfield poltergeist collection and other investigations. Richard Hodgson. Extensive correspondence about Leonora Piper, also papers relating to his investigation of Helena Blavatsky. The collection also contains correspondence with the Sidgwicks and…
…to the healing deity called Nodens, who is equivalent to the Roman god Mars. Of great importance in a Greek sanctuary was its entrance gate, the propylon. The gate functioned not just as an ordinary opening, but also as the threshold between profane and sacred spaces.12Sassu (2012). Inside the sanctuaries,…
…for Psychical Research, again involving Myers and Lodge, together with their colleagues Henry Sidgwick, Eleanor Sidgwick and Richard Hodgson. Impressive phenomena were reported at Île Roubaud. However, the Cambridge series was a failure: the phenomena were poor and Palladino was repeatedly observed to cheat. Most later investigations produced positive results.49Carrington…
…Storr, W. (2013). Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science. Picador, London. Tsakiris, A. (2009). Dr. Richard Wiseman on Rupert Sheldrake’s dogs that know. [Interview published on Skeptiko.] Tsakiris, A. (2010). Rupert Sheldrake and Richard Wiseman clash over parapsychology experiments. [Podcast debate published on Skeptiko.] Wiseman, R. (2011a). How much…
…learning disabled and showed lack of coordination in physical activities such as drawing, throwing balls, skating and skiing, consistent with a head injury such as that suffered by Kalevi.31Stevenson (2003), 148-52. Richard Williamson (England) Richard Williamson recalled being his own grandfather, who had died thirteen months before his birth. He…
…Eleanor, and Richard Hodgson, one of the Society’s most active investigators of mediums. Margaret Verrall’s experiments included automatic writing, in which the hand writes material that appears not to originate in the conscious mind. Following the death of Myers in 1901, statementsthat appeared to originate from his surviving mind began…
…visions experienced by Ted Hughes’s mother.10Hughes (1995). In the second category fall Cesare Lombroso and founding members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) such as Eleanor Sidgwick and Richard Hodgson, who took a lot of convincing by other researchers before they would endorse the validity of a phenomenon.11Gauld (1968)….
…England then and again in 1907-8 generated several discussions in papers by Verrall of Piper’s automatic writing, which contained many allusions to classical literature despite a lack of classical education. This suggested to her the likelihood that communications appearing to originate from the deceased Myers, and from Richard Hodgson (another…
…it successfully or that he had not survived death. The third code was solved by James J Gillogly in 1995 with the aid of a computer, the keywords revealed as BLACK BEAUTY.15Bean (2019). The second code, based on a book cipher, was solved in 2019 by Richard Bean, an IT…
