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From Skepticism to Conviction of a Spirit World
Posted on 04 December 2023, 9:30
At the time her husband, Theodore, died on December 23, 1895, May Wright Sewall, a leader in the suffrage movement, considered herself, as well as her husband, “Radical” Unitarians. “We desire immortality as most happy people do; we believed in it much as we believed in the indestructibility of matter;…
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Pulitzer Prize winning Author Offers Views on Life After Death
Posted on 20 November 2023, 8:01
If famous American author Booth Tarkington (1889-1946) can still tune in to the earth vibration, my thanks go to him for providing this blog, as extracted, edited and abridged from his introduction to the 1920 book, “Neither Dead Nor Sleeping” by May Wright Sewall. Tarkington, a Pulitzer Prize winner,…
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William James, the Minister, and the Medium
Posted on 06 November 2023, 9:37
After Professor William James carried out a dozen experiments with Leonora Piper and became convinced that she had supernormal powers, he arranged for 27 of his friends, relatives, and associates to sit with her and report back to him on their experiences. Twelve of them got nothing, except…
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Do Spirits Influence Great Artists?
Posted on 23 October 2023, 9:51
“It is not every medium who is able to get into the headlines of the British press without being ridiculed, but this feat has been achieved by Herr Heinrich Nusslein,” psychical researcher Harry Price wrote in the November 1928 issue of Psychic Research, published by The American Society…
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Will Secular Students Eventually Turn to ‘Anxious Trembling’?
Posted on 09 October 2023, 7:55
When I see polls or surveys stating that more and more people in Generation Z are counted as secularists, atheists, humanists, or whatever label is applied to them, I react with ambivalence and mixed emotion. On the one hand, I see it as a positive sign that so many have recognized the apparent myths…
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Biorhythms: A Missing Component in the Study of After-Death Communication
Posted on 25 September 2023, 7:51
In an article published in the December 1925 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, Dr. Hans Thirring, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, reported on his research with several mediums, primarily the brothers Willy and Rudi Schneider. “I had not…
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The 13th Witness for Life After Death: Dr. Gustave Geley
Posted on 11 September 2023, 7:10
A French physician and Laureate of the French Medical Faculty at the University of Lyons, Dr. Gustave Geley (1868 – 1924, upper right photo) gave up his medical practice in 1918 to become the first director of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris. He is most remembered for his research…
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Do Earthbound Spirits Really Influence Humans?
Posted on 28 August 2023, 6:58
Do the dead influence the living? That’s the subtitle of The Case for Possession, authored by Cynthia Pettiward in 1975 and recently republished by
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Remembering Three Men of God
Posted on 14 August 2023, 8:23
If I begin with 1953, when I served as sports editor of my high school newspaper, this year marks 70 years of contributing to newspapers, magazines, journals, and other media. While recently sorting through about 2,000 old articles I had filed away in drawers and boxes, I began to wonder which…
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Conversations with the Dead: Real or Imagination?
Posted on 31 July 2023, 19:18
Of the 350 or so blogs I have written over the past 14 years, only two or three have involved Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), or as it is more broadly categorized today Instrumental Trans Communication (ITC). I wasn’t especially impressed with the communication as nearly all I had come across…
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