…others; and Patric Geisler’s experiments with members of Brazilian cults. Case studies included Louisa E Rhine’s studies of ESP cases; Hornell Hart’s comparisons of published cases of OBEs and apparitions of the living and of the dead; Ian Stevenson’s reincarnation work; Donald J West’s examination of healing cases at Lourdes;…
…his book Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Publications A publisher said of Louisa Rhine that she was ‘one of the very finest writers that the parapsychological profession has ever produced’.18Cited by Rao (1983b), 5. All book descriptions here are drawn from this source. Books and Monographs Hidden Channels of the…
…Geley (1868–1924) Gustave Geley combined a successful medical career at Annecy in France with an interest in séance phenomena and reincarnation. He wrote books about the phenomena of clairvoyance, trance, and premonition that he witnessed as a member of the Society for Psychical Studies in nearby Geneva. In 1919, he…
The idea that ‘something leaves the body’ during an out-of-body experience has a long history in the literatures of spiritualistic and psychical research. This article complements factual information about OBEs, describing historical ‘projection’ theories formulated by writers from nineteenth century to the 1950s. These are based on the idea that…
…Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 26, 43-45. Osty, E. (1929). Ce que la médecine doit attendre de 1’étude expérimentale des propriétés psychiques paranormales de l’homme. Revue métapsychique 79-148. Osty, E. (1932.) Télépathie spontanée et transmission de pensée expérimentale. Revue Métapsychique, 233-56. Stevenson, I. (1997). Reincarnation and Biology: A…
…University of Lund – CERCAP (Sweden) Etzel Cardeña Hypnotism and psi, Ganzfeld. University of Iceland Erlendur Haraldsson (deceased) Surveys on paranormal experiences: reincarnation type, mediumship University of Padova Patrizio Tressoldi Presentiment, EEG correlations, meta-analyses. Michael Duggan Literature Ambach, W. (2008). Correlations between the EEGs of two spatially separated subjects: A…
…Frederico Figner describing the phenomena in more detail. Mentions of Prado are also found in Delanne’s study of reincarnation and in the Revue Spirite, a periodical founded by Allan Kardec.15Magalhães (2012). Death Prado was 39-years old when she passed away on April 23, 1923, as a result of burns from…
…remarked that ‘for reincarnation there is no valid evidence’, reflecting the lack of work of Stevenson’s quality at the time. In addition, the revival of research into mental mediumship in recent years by Gary Schwartz, Emily Kelly, and Julie Beischel appears to provide further support for the survival hypothesis.91For references…
…materialist in ontology and reductionist-empiricist in methodology. This results in the belief that consciousness is nothing but a consequence of complex arrangement of matter, or an emergent phenomenon of brain activity. Well documented empirical phenomena contradict this belief, including veridical near-death experiences, reincarnation cases in children and the well-established database…
