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Cora Richmond: A Most Amazing Medium
Posted on 02 December 2013, 14:53
My 2011 book, The Afterlife Explorers, is about the principal mediums and psychical researchers before the formation of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882. The mediums include Emanuel Swedenborg, Andrew Jackson Davis, George Dexter, D. D. Home, and William Stainton Moses. …
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The Most Profound Near-Death Experience Ever?
Posted on 18 November 2013, 13:18
Although the near-death experience (NDE) was not so named until the 1970s, by Dr. Raymond Moody, reports of the phenomenon go back many years before Moody began researching them. It would be difficult to find a more dynamic NDE than that reported by Cora L. V. Richmond (below) in her 1923 book…
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Spirit Survives in Ireland
Posted on 04 November 2013, 9:51
After looking over the contents page of Emerald-Spirit, an intriguing book about Ireland by David Stang, (below) I was especially anxious to read the chapters dealing with Irish spirituality and mysticism. I questioned whether I should skip the early chapter about the weather in Ireland.…
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When a Famous Scientist Discovered Spirits
Posted on 21 October 2013, 8:07
When Professor James Mapes, (below) a renowned inventor and analytical chemist, first heard about the phenomena of spiritualism, he thought it was so much bunk. He was a man of science and could only scoff and sneer at the stories he was hearing about spirits communicating and producing various phenomena. …
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Debunking Babe Ruth & Leonora Piper
Posted on 07 October 2013, 10:58
Babe Ruth is considered one of the all-time greats of baseball, if not the greatest player ever. His 60 home runs in a single 154-game season (1927) has yet to be surpassed by anyone not suspected of using performance-aiding drugs (Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in a 162-game season.). However,…
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Remembering History’s Forgotten Man – Alfred Russel Wallace
Posted on 23 September 2013, 11:57
Nearly everyone knows who Charles Darwin was, but very few people today recognize the name of Alfred Russel Wallace, (below) co-originator with Darwin of the natural selection theory of evolution. While history has given Darwin all of the credit, it is well documented that Wallace was working…
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Overcoming Grief from the Loss of a Loved One
Posted on 09 September 2013, 10:01
Basically, as I have observed it over 76 years of living, there are four ways of grieving and dealing with the death of a loved one: 1 - Uncontrolled Despair – characterized by uncontrolled outward behavior, including wailing, collapsing, turning to alcohol and drugs, shutting…
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The Mystery of the Buried Crosses
Posted on 27 August 2013, 10:38
When asked not long ago to name what I thought to be the most intriguing book in the annals of psychical research, I narrowed it down to three stories: Psychic Adventures in New York, The Case of Patience Worth, and The Mystery of the Buried Crosses, not necessarily…
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Things You Can do When You’re Dead!
Posted on 12 August 2013, 8:30
The crash of the British airship R-101 in 1930 gave rise to one of the most intriguing cases in the annals of psychical research. Tricia J. Robertson discusses this case in her recently-released book, Things you can do when you’re dead, subtitled “True Accounts of After-Death Communication.” …
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FEAR OF DEATH IS THE REAL ENEMY SAYS ONCOLOGIST
Posted on 29 July 2013, 14:33
“...as for many of us, ego had dominated soul for lifetime. It had the grip of a vice rusted shut, clamped tight upon his psyche unto his last breath and heartbeat.” So writes Dr. Stephen J. Iacoboni of one of his dying patients in his book The Undying Soul. After reading…
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