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When the U. S. Senate Jested Over Spirits
Posted on 05 December 2022, 8:53
In April 1854, a petition by some 15,000 people calling themselves “memorialists” requested the United States Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives to appoint a scientific commission to conduct an investigation into the strange “occult force” that had been witnessed by so many of them…
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Spirit Communication issues as explained by Sir Oliver Lodge
Posted on 21 November 2022, 8:46
On October 18, 1929, Sir Oliver Lodge, (below) a distinguished British physicist and pioneering psychical researcher, delivered the first Frederic W. H. Myers Memorial Lecture to the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in London. Myers, one of the founders of the SPR, had died in January…
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When Tables Attacked People: A Life After Death Situation
Posted on 07 November 2022, 9:17
Some of the mediumistic phenomena of yesteryear were “absurd,” as Professor Charles Richet, the 1912 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, put it. Nevertheless, he added, some were true, even if they were absurd. Perhaps even more absurd than the many languages that came through the direct-voice…
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Is “Speaking in Tongues” Evidence of a Spirit World?
Posted on 24 October 2022, 7:03
There are some stories so mindboggling, so weird, so utterly out of the norm, that people just shrug them off and give them no heed, seemingly assuming that they are pranks of some kind. The rational mind wants nothing to do with them. Parapsychologists apparently fear that even mentioning them will…
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Seeing Karma and the Big Picture
Posted on 10 October 2022, 9:56
“There is so much to be studied in the bible of humanity! By it, we know that everything has to be paid.” So wrote Amalia Domingo Soler (1835-1909), a Spanish poet, philosopher, writer, editor, social reformer, Spiritist, and the author of Acts that Prove, recently translated…
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Dealing with Existential Angst at Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral
Posted on 26 September 2022, 10:51
According to a recent survey (World Values Survey 2017-2022), only 41.7 percent of the population in the United Kingdom believes in life after death. Thus, while watching the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II on television on September 19, I wondered what the other 58.3 percent of those…
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Professor De Morgan Gave Meaning to “Spiritual But Not Religious”
Posted on 13 September 2022, 9:58
The biography of famed British mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871) at Wikipedia is very informative and well presented, except for the section near the end when it cites psychologist John Beloff as declaring that De Morgan was barred from positions at Oxford and Cambridge…
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What the Nuns Forgot to Teach about the Spirit World
Posted on 29 August 2022, 12:26
While attending Catholic school during the 1940s, I became familiar with several of the stories about apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as she was referred to by good Catholics, the most notable at that time being those at Lourdes in France, Fatima in Portugal, and Guadalupe in Mexico, (below)…
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A Spirit Explains Ectoplasm
Posted on 15 August 2022, 8:01
In the February 1905 issue of “The Annals of Psychical Science,” Ernest Bozzano, an Italian psychical researcher, offers an article titled “A Defence of William Stainton Moses.” It is in response to comments made by Frank Podmore, the resident skeptic of the Society for Psychical Research,…
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The Balance Problem in Weighing the Afterlife Evidence
Posted on 01 August 2022, 6:24
Over the years, I have posted 20 biographies and articles about various psychic phenomena at the PSI Encyclopedia website, which is sponsored by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). They include bios of Sir Oliver Lodge, Leonora Piper, Professor James Hyslop, and William T. Stead,…
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