Posted on 16 December 2024, 6:14

In my essay for the Bigelow contest of 2021, I presented a simulated present-day court trial in which The Survival School contends that consciousness…

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Posted on 02 December 2024, 7:57

American clergyman Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) is said to have communicated through the mediumship of Marcella De Cou Hicks (1888-1942), author of the book titled Eternal Verities, providing some indications as to what the afterworld is like.  Much of what Beecher (below) had to…

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Posted on 18 November 2024, 7:29

I wouldn’t call the detailed “vision” of a Christian pastor of the assassination attempt on former United States President Donald Trump a few months before it took place as “religious madness,” as a friend termed it. I can accept the likelihood that many people subscribing to religions have psychic…

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Posted on 04 November 2024, 8:16

In my blog of April 24, 2023, I asked Artificial Intelligence (AI) whether Patience Worth was really AI rather than the spirit of a long-deceased English woman or a group soul…

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Posted on 21 October 2024, 8:30

Thanks to Professor James Hyslop for being a guest columnist this fortnight.  This is an abridgement of the concluding chapter of his 1905 book, “Science and a Future Life.” Hyslop was professor of logic and ethics at Columbia University before becoming a full-time psychical researcher in…

Posted on 07 October 2024, 8:27

Maurice Barbanell (1902 – 1981) was a London journalist and a trance medium, most remembered as the medium for the entity known as Silver Birch, an apparently advanced spirit who assumed the persona of an American Indian guide. Over a period of some five decades, Silver Birch offered several…

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Posted on 23 September 2024, 7:08

Thirty-five or more years ago, when I was doing a lot of sports writing, I began noting many paradoxes in various sports and started keeping a file on them.  I collected several dozen paradoxes, but more or less lost interest in the subject after a few years.  In more recent times, I’ve…

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Posted on 09 September 2024, 7:21

More than a few “spirits” communicating with “earthlings” have said that their world is beyond human language and comprehension.  And yet, efforts have been made to give some indication as to what that world is like.  One such effort was said to have been made by the famous American clergyman…

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Posted on 27 August 2024, 7:43

Although I had read bits and pieces about William Lyon Mackenzie King, former prime minister of Canada, concerning his interest in spiritualism, I had not realized the extent of that interest until reading Anton Wagner’s comprehensive and intriguing books,

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Posted on 12 August 2024, 11:33

The mediumship of Mina Crandon, aka “Margery,” is probably the most controversial case in the annals of psychical research.  Only that of Eusapia Palladino rivals it in that respect. The Margery case has been previously discussed at this blog, the most recent being

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