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“Dead” Mountain Climber Mallory Says He Never Made It To The Top
Posted on 06 May 2013, 12:18
“Because it’s there,” was the succinct reply of Englishman George Herbert Mallory (below) to the question of why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. Sometime later, on June 8, 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, disappeared as they approached the summit of Everest, never to…
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The Voice: Was It Really Confucius Speaking?
Posted on 22 April 2013, 9:16
If I were to rank all the books I have read on paranormal subjects as to intrigue, first place would likely come down to three books – Psychic Adventures in New York, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses, and The Case of Patience Worth, not necessarily in that order. …
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Michael & The Motorcycle: A Tale of Two Worlds
Posted on 08 April 2013, 10:26
Retired from full-time college and university teaching of cultural anthropology and sociology, Paul Biscop, Ph.D. (below) now has more time to focus on his duties as resident medium at the Two Worlds Spiritualist Centre in Nanaimo, British Columbia. He recently related a very interesting story to…
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Remembering Professor Archie Roy (1924 – 2012)
Posted on 25 March 2013, 19:46
Every now and then some “know-it-all” who fancies himself a defender of science and a debunker of all things paranormal or supernatural will leave acerbic remarks in the comments section of this blog, stating how ridiculous it is to believe such blatant fraud, such ridiculous superstition, such utter…
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A non-believer convinces another non-believer of life after death
Posted on 11 March 2013, 9:10
When he was alive in the flesh, George Pellew, an author, poet, and journalist, told Dr. Richard Hodgson, who was studying the mediumship of Leonora Piper, that he could not conceive of an afterlife but that if he died before Hodgson and found himself “still existing” he would attempt to let Hodgson…
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The Strange & Bizarre of Materialization Further Observed
Posted on 25 February 2013, 3:36
In his 1942 book, Life Now and Forever, Arthur J. Wills, Ph.D., a British-born American civil engineer and architect as well as president of the U.S. College of Psychic Science and Research, wrote that he had observed some two-thousand materializations over his years of research and that…
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Ectoplasm: Hokey but True?
Posted on 11 February 2013, 0:09
It is difficult not to laugh or even scoff at some of the photos of supposed materialized spirits one comes across in books or on the Internet. Some of these photos are hokey, bizarre, and absolutely ridiculous. Who in his right mind would possibly believe that such ludicrous objects…
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Scientist Reports on 10 Years of Research with Mediums
Posted on 28 January 2013, 12:30
In the epigraph heading up Chapter 1 of a recently released e-book, Among Mediums, Professor James Hyslop, a dedicated psychologist and psychical researcher of a century ago, is quoted as asking, in effect, why science aimed at discovering man’s origin is considered so honorable while…
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Was William James a Wimp?
Posted on 14 January 2013, 9:38
Much has been written about the contributions of Professor William James (below) of Harvard University to early psychical research and parapsychology. It was James who took the lead in organizing the American branch of the Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in late 1884 and then “discovered”…
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An Interview with the Author of “Resurrecting Leonora Piper”
Posted on 31 December 2012, 9:47
As my latest book, Resurrecting Leonora Piper, was just released by White Crow Books, I asked my higher self (HS) to interview my lower self about the book. So Michael, what prompted you to write this book? You put me up to it, HS, so you…
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