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Life after Death, Guilt & Remorse
Posted on 28 July 2014, 14:22
Dr. Minot Savage, a Unitarian minister and psychical researcher, (below) reported on a December 28, 1888 sitting which his brother, the Rev. William H. Savage, had with trance medium Leonora Piper, of Boston, Mass. Speaking through Mrs. Piper, Phinuit, her spirit control, told William that somebody…
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“Soul Sickness” in Disneyland?
Posted on 14 July 2014, 9:32
This is a slight rewrite of my editorial appearing in the July issue of the Journal for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies. For more information about the Journal and the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies, Inc., go to http://ascsi.org/ …
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Stafford Betty: No Pretender, No Player, No Wimp
Posted on 30 June 2014, 17:54
A roving reporter for a TV talk show program recently stopped people on the street and asked them to name the person they admired most. The first person named Johnny Depp, a movie actor best known for portraying a pirate. I was puzzled that a person whose main contribution to humanity…
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The Death Process as Described by Andrew Jackson Davis
Posted on 16 June 2014, 9:08
Andrew Jackson Davis (August 11, 1826 – January 13, 1910) is remembered as a “seer” – in effect, a clairvoyant able to enter into a higher state of consciousness and access information otherwise unavailable to humans. In a trance state, he could diagnose illnesses and recommend cures and give lengthy…
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Why “Higher Truths” Have Been Rejected By Humans
Posted on 02 June 2014, 9:51
Why don’t they say something meaningful? Why not tell us about how they live in the spirit world? Why not give us a cure for cancer? Why so much trivial stuff, like what happened to Uncle Jerry’s gold watch? Such were the questions often asked by skeptics about messages purportedly…
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Was Adin Ballou the First Psychical Researcher?
Posted on 19 May 2014, 12:34
Although the formation of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in London during 1882 is considered by many to be the beginning of scientific research into psychic phenomena, it is clear to anyone delving into the subject that there was considerable research going on well before then, beginning…
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Is Heaven for Real?
Posted on 05 May 2014, 20:14
The principal difficulty confronting the survival hypothesis is an intelligible Hereafter. – H. H. Price, Wykeham professor of logic, Oxford Univ. Most journalists seem to feel that they have to treat anything relating to the afterlife or the spirit world with tongue…
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Knowing if you are dead or not
Posted on 21 April 2014, 9:59
There have been numerous messages and signs from the spirit world indicating that many spirits are slow in recognizing that they are “dead,” some floundering in an “earthbound” stupor for a long time, however time is measured in that realm. This phenomenon was popularized in the hit movie, The…
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An Easter Message That Makes Sense
Posted on 07 April 2014, 12:19
With Easter approaching, I think of how much more sense it would make if Christianity would totally dismiss the idea of a physical body being resurrected and accept the evidence that has come to us through psychical research. I am reminded of the 2001 movie, The Body, in which the…
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One Life at a Time: The Way of the Philistine?
Posted on 24 March 2014, 10:23
Many friends and relatives who know of my interest in death and afterlife studies express concern that it is an unhealthy or taboo subject matter. “One life at a time for me” is a typical reaction, a subtle and supposedly “intelligent” way of saying that the person is not interested in discussing…
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