…254. Crookes said he also witnessed table levitation through the mediumship of Florence Cook. Testimony regarding Home’s ability to levitate furniture continued to appear, including a description by William Stainton Mosesof a sitting in 1872, when chairs were moved and a table levitated.22Myers (1893), 245. 1900 to the Present A…
…Goldney, & Hall (1956). With RG Medhurst, Goldney authored a historical examination of William Crookes’s investigations of Florence Cook and other mediums, defending them against charges of experimental incompetence and gullibility.2Medhurst, Goldney, & Barrington (1972). Soal-Goldney Experiments Goldney assisted SG Soal in telepathy experiments in 1941–1943 with Basil Shackleton, whose…
…to failed attempts between 1940 and 1954 to identify the contents of a sealed message left by Lodge as proof of his having survived death. RG Medhurst – Substantial writings, cuttings, articles and correspondence on topics, including material relating to the physical medium Florence Cook. Frederic Myers. The archive contains…
…sensorily isolated.24For a thorough survey of the issues and relevant references, see E.W. Kelly, Greyson, & Kelly (2007). Nevertheless, as Cook et al., concede, ‘we do not even know what physiological conditions are minimally required for organized, vivid cognition’.25Cook, Greyson, & Stevenson (1998), 404. But that would seem to be…
…213-29. Woollacott, M., & Shumway-Cook, A. (2020). The mystical experience and its neural correlates. Journal of Near-Death Studies 38, 3-25. 65 Endnotes 1 Woollacott & Peyton (2020). 2 Woollacott et al. (2020). 3 Woollacott & Cook (2020). 4 Woollacott (2015). 5 Schwartz et al. (2020). 6 Beauregard et al. (2020)….
…cases found, sixteen were ‘solved’, that is, the past incarnation was plausibly identified)15Barker & Pasricha (1979). a study of unsolved cases and discussion of possible reasons they had not been solved16Cook, Pasricha, Samararatne, Maung, & Stevenson (1983a, b). a study comparing solved Indian cases two generations apart, showing how their…
…(1998). 97 Sundblom, Haikonen, Niemi-pynttari, & Tigerstedt (1994); leGallez, Dimmock, & Bird (2000); Radin, Machado, & Zangari (1998); Dixon (1998); Loveland-Cook, Guerrerio, & Slater (2004). 98 leGallez, Dimmock, & Bird (2000); Dixon (1998); Loveland-Cook, Guerrerio, & Slater (2004). 99 Radin, Machado, & Zangari (1998); Beutler et al. (1988). 100 Astin…
…had shown that solved and unsolved cases were closely similar,12Cook et al. (1983a, 1983b). so they were combined for these psychological studies. The subjects were mostly unrelated to the previous persons in the Sri Lankan, Lebanese and Indian samples, but in the American study, there were family relationships in all…
…scientific experience beyond that gained in several parapsychological experiments as a student investigator at New York City’s Maimonides Hospital 14 years ago’.49Cook (1991). Jones was replaced as president by a lawyer, JD Fruhstorfer, in 1992, who in turn was succeeded by Nancy Sondow in 1993. Sondow, a parapsychologist friend of…
