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Why The Afterlife Is Beyond Science
Co-founder in 1882 of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Frederic W. H. Myers, a Cambridge scholar, is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Psychical Research.” As Myers came to realize during his lifetime, mediumship is very complex and does not easily lend itself to human understanding or to scientific research. After his death on January 17,
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Automatic Writing Explained
The so-called skeptics assume that the automatic writing form of mediumship is just so much bunk, baloney, and bosh, nothing more than the imagination playing tricks on the person. Some parapsychologists believe it is all coming from the individual’s subconscious and unrelated to spirits. But so much of what has come through automatic writing has
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Human Levitation Experiment
Learn how to levitate a person About human levitation Reports of paranormal human levitation have been reported down the ages. In most cases, the phenomenon is associated with Christian saints, Yoga practitioners, witchcraft, Spiritualist mediums, ‘demonic possession’, and poltergeist cases. Among the most famous examples are: Also, of course, there are many example of the
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Electronic Voice Phenomena
How to record Raudive Voices What are Raudive Voices? Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) were first discovered by the Swedish artist Friedrich Jürgenson in 1959. Jürgenson was recording birdsong using a reel-to-reel tape recorder. When he replayed the tapes, he heard faint but intelligible voices in the background, even though there was no-one else in the
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Psychical Researchers
Discover notable figures About psychical researchers Scientific approaches to researching psychical and other paranormal phenomena began in the mid-nineteenth century. At this time, spiritualism was spreading rapidly across the US and Europe. Séance-room phenomena such as materializations and levitations appeared to violate the laws of physics and this attracted the interest of several eminent scientists,
