…require only 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…
…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…
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…
…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… Personally…
…the morphic resonance hypothesis had been disconfirmed,23Rose (1992). and Sheldrake saying that the results were consistent with the hypotheses.24Sheldrake (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…
…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…
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…
Richard Broughton is an American parapsychologist who has specialized in cognitive aspects of ESP and its evolutionary development. His 1991 book Parapsychology: The Controversial Science is a classic introduction to the subject. Career Richard Broughton gained his doctorate in psychology at the University of Edinburgh, under the tutorship of John…
Richard James Lucido is an American psychologist and author with an interest in metaphysical idealism. He has carried out experiments that provide empirical support for the idea that consciousness causes the collapse of the wave function. Career Richard James Lucido obtained a master’s degree in School and Community Psychology and…
