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Artificial Intelligence Gives Answers on Life After Death
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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OVERCOMING THE FOLLIES OF A FUTURE LIFE
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…
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Who (or What) was Spiritual Teacher, Silver Birch?
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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A Paradox of Life: “Nothing” is “Everything”
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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The Spirit World: What is it like?
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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The Prime Minister Who Balanced Political Zealousness with Spiritual Zaniness
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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More Support for Margery on the Spirit Hypothesis
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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Evidence of an Afterlife? Recalling the Awesome Scole Experiments
Posted on 29 July 2024, 7:22
As I read the book, The Scole Experiment, subtitled “Scientific Evidence for Life After Death,” by Grant and Jane Solomon, soon after its release in 1999, I was continually fascinated with the phenomena reported by the investigators over their five-year study, beginning in 1993, in the…
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Experiencing a Pre-Death Life Review
Posted on 15 July 2024, 8:34
A number of people have reported a “life review” during a near-death experience (NDE) – seeing every second of their lives flash before them in what might be called a timeless moment. A man named Tom Sawyer had an NDE in 1978, one in which he recalled living every thought and attitude connected…
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Deathbed Soul Mist: More Witnesses
Posted on 01 July 2024, 8:13
If I Could rewrite Chapter III of my 2011 book, The Afterlife Revealed, I would include comments made by Charles L. Tweedale, an Anglican minister, in his 1909 book, Man’s Survival After Death. …
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Mackenzie King, London Mediums, Richard Wagner, and Adolf Hitler by Anton Wagner, PhD. – Besides Etta Wriedt in Detroit and Helen Lambert, Eileen Garrett and the Carringtons in New York, London was the major nucleus for King’s “psychic friends.” In his letter to Lambert describing his 1936 European tour, he informed her that “When in London, I met many friends of yours: Miss Lind af Hageby, [the author and psychic researcher] Stanley De Brath, and many others. Read here |
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