…the Scole phenomena. Mollie Goldney. A large quantity of written material concerning mediums, the 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…
…out. European psi research has depended heavily on small clusters around institutes, societies and a few durable laboratories rather than large permanent departments. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden have been especially important modern nodes, with Austria and France making significant contributions in the past. European psi research is increasingly…
…an ‘order during sleep’. In Britain a Romano-Celtic temple dating from the fourth century CE was discovered at Dwarf’s Hill in Lydney Park estate, Gloucestershire, with the help of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien.11Tolkien (2014). The temple was dedicated to the healing deity called Nodens, who is equivalent…
…and observations. Journal of Scientific Exploration 14, 233-55. 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…
…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 (1909). Series of sittings were held at…
…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 made his…
…her mother.4Sidgwick (1916), 170-76. She played games with Frederic Myers, a founder member of the SPR, and also knew the SPR’s first president Henry Sidgwick, his wife 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…
…dreamed in detail about the future death of his brother,9Ebon (1971). and the 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…
…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 recently deceased psychical researcher who was well-versed in classics), were genuine.17Verrall (1910). For more on after-death communications by Hodgson, see here. Cross-Correspondences Margaret Verrall’s automatic…
