…BLACK BEAUTY.15Bean (2019). The second code, based on a book cipher, was solved in 2019 by Richard Bean, an IT expert at the University of Queensland, who used computers to scan all 37,000 English-language books in Project Gutenberg. After about five days this revealed the source text as the poem…
…Hodgson described as ‘resembling the planchette-writing of an adult rather than the first effort of a child’.28Myers (1903), vol. 2, 486. This case, too, is not thoroughly described. It may be that the child had never attended school or been taught the alphabet. But it is unlikely she had never…
…2, xvii-xviii by such authors as Ercole Chiaia, Xavier Dariex, Albert 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 Vesme41de Vesme (1908). and…
Richard Sheargold (1911–1988) was an English psychical researcher whose engagement moved from ESP card-guessing and precognition tests to electronic voice phenomena, arguing that anomalous recordings deserved serious attention while remaining cautious about whether the voices were truly those of discarnate beings. His experimental card-guessing results were mostly non-significant, and his…
…way of demonstrating the independent 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…
…investigating whether one-day-old chicks were influenced by previous batches of one-day-old chicks.29Sheldrake (1992a). Sheldrake and Rose disagreed over the interpretation of the results, with Rose stating that the morphic resonance hypothesis had been disconfirmed,30Rose (1992). and Sheldrake saying that the results were consistent with the hypotheses.31Sheldrake (1992b). Richard Wiseman In…
…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 Psychical Research 38, 12-18….
Richard Silberstein, an Australian neuroscientist, has brought brain-imaging into one of parapsychology’s most contested areas: telepathy between identical twins. Using a technique designed to track fast changes in functional connectivity, his work reports synchronised neural shifts between separated twins and points towards more fine-grained experimental designs. The study used SSVEP-ERPC,…
Laboratory parapsychology depends as much on method as on bold claims, and Richard Broughton’s career has revolved around that practical problem. His work links participant selection, computerised control, experimenter effects and evolutionary thinking, all aimed at understanding when psi appears strongest and why findings so often seem elusive. Broughton’s early…
