…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 surely…
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…
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…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….
…reference to his death from being struck in the head by a stone during an election riot. Convinced by now that Piper was not a charlatan, Lodge nevertheless at first sympathized with the theory favoured by American investigators of Piper, notably William James and Richard Hodgson, that a ‘secondary personality’…
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…
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…
