…a modest degree of linguistic precocity. In the second case, a girl of four who had never been taught the alphabet or even how to hold a pencil, scribbled ‘your Aunt Emma’, a tracing of which Richard Hodgson described as ‘resembling the planchette-writing of an adult rather than the first…
…de Rochas, Richard Hodgson, Oliver Lodge, Cesare Lombroso, Julian Ochorowicz, Manuel Otero Acevedo, Charles Richet, and Arnaldo Vassallo. Critical and sceptical publications are also included. Reception Reviews of the book were published by Cesar de Vesme42de Vesme (1908). and Cesare Lombroso,43Lombroso (1908). both of whom considered it important, particularly in…
…action of soul, and therefore, to put it at the lowest, the possibility of its existence apart from bodily organs… Myers, Gurney and Hodgson [all deceased SPR investigators who had reportedly communicated to the living after death] are messengers of truth from the Beyond as surely as Isaiah or Amos……
Richard Sheargold (1911–1988) was an English psychical researcher with particular interests in electronic voice phenomena. Life and Career Richard Kempsell Sheargold was born on 20 December 1911 in Caterham, Surrey. He worked as departmental manager at McMichael Radio, Slough, which specialized in radio production and military technology. Psychical Research Sheargold…
…the hypotheses.32Sheldrake (1992b). Richard Wiseman In 1996, Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertford, criticized Sheldrake’s experiments with the return-anticipating dog Jaytee, and agreed to perform a replication study using the same experimental design as Sheldrake.33Sheldrake & Smart (2000). While Wiseman’s data agreed with Sheldrake’s, he concluded that…
…P. (1967). Robert de Montesquiou, a Fin-de-Siecle Prince. London: Seker & Warburg. Lambert, G.W. (1953). Antoine Richard’s garden: A postscript to An Adventure. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 37, 117-54. Lambert, G.W. (1955–1956). Antoine Richard’s garden: A postscript to An Adventure. Supplemental Note. Journal of the Society for…
…appeared in the automatic writings of Leonora Piper. One, which appeared to have originated with the surviving spirit of Frederic Myers and to have been relayed by Richard Hodgson (both leading SPR investigators until their decease), read: Now Lodge, while we are not here as of old, i.e., not quite,…
…sympathized with the theory favored by American investigators of Piper, notably William James and Richard Hodgson, that a ‘secondary personality’ in Piper’s subconscious received the information telepathically from living people, or conceivably from some ‘cosmic reservoir’ of facts and memories. However, as the investigation of Piper progressed, Lodge became convinced…
Richard Silberstein, an Australian neuroscientist, has recently carried out a brain imaging study that appears to confirm telepathic interactions between identical twins. Career Richard Silberstein is professor emeritus at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He served as chairman of the department of physics and subsequently as founding director…
