…Pesquisas Psicobiofísicas (Brazilian Institute for Psychobiophysics Research – IBPP), founded in 1963 and dedicated especially to the investigation of poltergeist cases, mediumship, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences and reincarnation. The IBPP also carried out experimental research on what Andrade termed Modelo Organizador Biológico (Biological Organizer Model – MOB), referring to the…
…terms of psi among the living, and are therefore seen as strong evidence by advocates of survival. Definition The term ‘drop-in communicator’ was coined by parapsychologist and reincarnation researcher Ian Stevenson, who defines it as follows: One who purports to be a deceased person completely unknown to everyone at the…
…Stevenson makes this point as well.77Stevenson (1970) 193. Ian Stevenson Ian Stevenson, famous within the field for his meticulous, tireless work on cases of the reincarnation type, spent years looking at spontaneous psi. He wrote several papers on precognition and on the evidential strength of spontaneous cases.78See note 2 above,…
…themes of its predecessors. Its main contents include authoritative state-of-the-science reviews of research on precognition, NDEs, and cases of the reincarnation type, plus five additional theoretical contributions, plus initial reflections on implications of the three books together for consciousness research, for the future of the humanities generally (and for religious…
…introduced to Theosophy, Vedanta and Kundalini meditation, and learned about reincarnation from a lecture on the Bridey Murphy case. During this time, he began a lifelong study and practice of Buddhism. In May 1956, Targ left university to work in plasma physics at the research laboratories of Sperry Gyroscope Co…
…(psychokinesis on biological systems) – but also, independence of mind from body (out-of-body and near-death experiences) and post-mortem survival (after-death communications, mediumship and reincarnation).24Tart (2009). Parapsychology Awards Tart received the Parapsychological Association’s Outstanding Career Award in 199925Alvarado (2015). and the same association’s Charles Honorton Integrative Contributions Award in 2008. Up…
…medical journals. Conversely, Tressoldi and coauthors gave more weight to well-conducted research on reincarnation phenomena, shared death and after-death communication experiences. Despite the failure to reach consensus, the strength of the evidence in favour of post-mortem survival is celebrated in the paper. Mind-Brain Tressoldi and colleagues have contributed to theoretical…
…(2014). In the Hindu or Oriental romance – partly appearing at the same time as the Martian cycle – Hélène claimed to be the reincarnation of an Indian princess named Simandini. Simandini had a spouse called Sivrouka, supposedly one of Flournoy’s previous incarnations on Earth. The manifestations were too fragmentary…
…for survival (including cases of ostensible reincarnation, possession, and apparitions of the dead), at least those cases of mediumship whose features seem most difficult to explain without positing the survival of bodily death. Only then would one be in a position to assert confidently that no cases (or all or…
