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…
…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…
