…appointed its international vice-president in 1881. At this time he also started contributing to Rebus, a Russian Spiritualist magazine.7Petrovo-Solovovo (1903), 47. His report on French Spiritualists8Aksakof (1875), 73-75. presented Allan Kardec’s doctrine of reincarnation. His conclusions with regard to the mediums he investigated were mixed. He was disappointed by Henry…
…been home to laboratory-based psi and field research since 1967, when psychiatrist Ian Stevenson founded the Division of Personality Studies (now the Division of Perceptual Studies, DOPS)Much of its research is focused on the area of post-mortem survival, in particular cases of the reincarnation type (CORT). Stevenson amassed more than…
…Oxford University in 1942 after studying journalism and was ordained as a priest. He joined the SPR in 1945 and acted as archives officer for the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP). He later renounced the priesthood and turned to writing; a particular interest was reincarnation.10Christie-Murray (1981)….
…reports, correspondence and articles relating to psychokinesis are found throughout the archive. Reincarnation. The Clarice Toyne collection contains numerous examples and unpublished discussion about reincarnation. Also includes letters by leading researcher Ian Stevenson. Religious phenomena. Articles, cuttings and correspondence relating to Lourdes miracles, stigmata, bleedings statues, matters pertaining to ‘science…
Emily Williams Kelly is a researcher at the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies, with interests in near-death experiences, reincarnation and other phenomena suggestive of survival of consciousness after death. Career Emily Williams Kelly joined the Division of Parapsychology (later renamed the Division of Perceptual Studies, or DOPS) at…
…Delanoy’s95Delanoy (1987). report of a case of a metal bender, and Stevenson, Pasricha and Samararatne’s96Stevenson et al. (1988). discussion of reincarnation-type cases. Clinical Issues As mentioned above, a psychotherapeutic literature exists in which ESP is considered in the context of dreams and other experiences. For example, Freud was initially uncommitted…
…of the close correspondence between dreams and brain activity in the present world, it is difficult to see how a dream state contiguous with one’s present life could be maintained after the dissolution of one’s brain. Personality Evidence from mediumship and reincarnation cases suggests that some personality traits may persist…
…the origins of life, matter and spirit, the immortality of the human soul, and reincarnation, came to him as a result of his conversion to spiritism and theosophy.5Madero (2021), vol. I, 13. In 1904 he joined a spiritist circle in San Pedro, Coahuila, and began a long correspondence with similar…
…life research, James G Matlock writes: Michael Shermer [2018, p. 100] maintains that ‘one need not read deep in the literature’ to see that the identification of a previous person in a reincarnation case is due to ‘patternicity—the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and random noise’ (his…
