…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…
…naturalist in metaphysics, 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…
…farming, anthrosophy, psychodrama, palmistry, graphology, JB Rhine, Upton Sinclair, unconventional sexual theories, the Bridey Murphy reincarnation case, and many other topics. In 1975, Gardner wrote a short satirical book under the pseudonym ‘Uriah Fuller’ entitled Confessions of a Psychic, poking fun at the celebrity psychic Uri Geller. In 1976, he…
…experiences, mediumship, and reincarnation. The paper concludes by providing possible applications and topics for future research. Selected Works Book In Foundations of Chinese Psychotherapies: Towards Self-Enlightenment (2021), Shiah provides an overview of the foundations of Chinese psychotherapy, based on a consideration of Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist teachings. This book is…
…either it is not possible to detect subtle energy or the experimental conditions were unfavourable. Complementing this work, surveys of academic attitudes toward survival research have revealed that research probing near-death occurrences, mediumship, and reincarnation garner the highest persuasiveness ratings among scholars.34Wahbeh, Delorme, & Radin (2023). Mass Testing Radin has…
…teens, if not earlier, he was handing out sweets, flowers and ice cream that appeared to form in the palm of his hand or from the air around him. When he was thirteen, he declared he was the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi (1837–1918), a holy man from a…
…Arigo’s life and practice is a culture sympathetic to religion and the supernatural, one in which his psychic healing activity could flourish. The strong Brazilian belief in mediumship, reincarnation and after-death communication evolved from two main sources. Spiritist ideas derived from the teachings of the nineteenth century French educator and…
…The first book is short, the second more substantial. Both cover the central theme of humankind’s progression after death: the averagely-decent soul first inhabits an illusory world which reassuringly resembles their earthly existence and gradually progresses to higher spiritual levels interspersed by a number of reincarnations.21Cummins (1967), 35-49; Cummins (2013),…
