…researchers have analysed and reported features of NDE cases that they suggest support the hypothesis of survival after death.7Cook et al. (1998). First is enhanced mentation, including the vivid and rapid revival of memories,8Stevenson & Cook (1995). at a time when brain functioning is decreasing or even absent. Second are…
…an area of concavity at the back of her skull, which she herself attributed to having banged her head on a pillar when she drowned.32Stevenson (1983). Parmod Sharma Born 1944 in Bisauli, Uttar Pradesh, India Aged two and a half, Parmod began telling his mother not to cook, because he…
…family’s Jat caste, to the extent that he might have starved had not a Brahmin neighbour agreed to cook for him in the Brahmin manner. After about a year and half the family began to cook for Jasbir themselves, and discovering it caused him no harm he eventually joined them…
…Conan Doyle reported on a sitting with Wriedt, where deceased friends communicated, giving good evidence of their identities. One individual, a rather irritable Anglo-Indian, spoke exactly as he had in life, giving his name and alluding to facts of his lifetime.11Doyle (1926), 202. Florence Barrett Geraldine Cummins, a medium and…
…clue was enough, in combination with the others, to make the identification certain in the minds of the families; they were also persuasive to Stevenson.24Full case study: Stevenson (1997), 2034-41. Gillian and Jennifer Pollock John and Florence Pollock, a British couple who ran small grocery stores, had two daughters, Joanna,…
…as fraudulent, even by many psychical researchers, and Wallace’s defence of individuals who were either accused of faking phenomena or caught in the act – including Katie Cook (sister of Florence Cook), Francis Monck, William Eglinton, Henry Slade and the ‘spirit photographer’ Frederick Hudson10Wallace (1888). – damaged his reputation.11McCabe (1920),…
…during his investigation of the materialization medium Florence Cook between 1872 and 1874, asserting that the images showed not Cook, who was constrained, but the spirit of her ‘control’ Katie King. Such images have often had the opposite effect to the one intended, appearing variously grotesque or implausible, and fuelling…
…Not long afterwards he was adopted by his maternal aunt, Mrs Cook. Then in 1842, when Daniel was nine, he and Mrs Cook emigrated to America and settled in Connecticut.1The following discussion has been adapted from portions of the treatments of Home in Braude (1997; 2007). Psychic experiences were not…
…sitting, Rich informed ‘Phinuit’ that the medicine he had prescribed for him was not working. ‘Phinuit’ retorted that Rich’s cook had not used the proper proportions, as he had not properly instructed her. On inquiry, Rich found that to be a fact, as his cook had understood him to say…
