Could conscious observation make a difference in quantum events play out? Using subliminal priming driven by radioactive decay, Richard James Lucido has been involved in research programme to test whether observed and unobserved measurements behave differently, linking cognitive psychology with quantum theory. Radioactive-decay primes affected reaction times most strongly when…
…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…
…Hall, the Purcell Room and the Wigmore Hall, and featured in popular radio programmes such as Start the Week with Richard Baker. Brown also received communications of relevance to other musicians. For instance Debussy was said to have given advice to pianist Richard Rodney Bennett concerning his performance of a…
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…it must be acknowledged that Henry More’s works in the 1650s, such as An Antidote to Atheism, had also touched on similar areas and no doubt influenced other works that examined cases of ostensibly paranormal activity, such as Richard Baxer’s 1681 tome Certainty of the World of Spirits, and Richard…
…— the lower two-thirds of his right arm, and his right hand, were missing. Richard Peck had had a heart attack while on a boat and had fallen into the water, although he was pulled out before he drowned. Although Bruce never recounted memories of Richard’s life, he did have…
…in God,’ Peirce notes, apparently approvingly, the evidence concerning James’s star subject Leonora Piper. And he remarks that the researches of William Crookes, Lord Rayleigh, and Richard Hodgson make for a ‘very strong’ case for mediumistic phenomena.50Hartshorne & Weiss (1931–35), 6.514. And earlier, in ‘Telepathy and Perception’, he again expresses…
