…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…
…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…
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…
…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….
…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, we are here enough to take and give messages….
…during an election riot. Convinced by now that Piper was not a charlatan, Lodge nevertheless 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…
