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An Intriguing 1911 Near-Death Experience
Posted on 24 February 2014, 10:04
While Dr. Raymond Moody is credited with naming the near-death experience (NDE) and popularizing it in his 1975 book, Life After Life, there were numerous accounts of NDEs long before Moody began doing research on them. Several of the pre-Moody NDEs have been discussed in earlier…
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W. Stainton Moses: Awesome Medium or Impostor?
Posted on 10 February 2014, 12:50
According to those who knew him, William Stainton Moses (below) was as morally righteous and honest a person as can be found. He was a priest of the Church of England and English Master at University College, London. “With the even tenor of this straightforward and reputable life was interwoven…
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What the Bible Really Says About Mediumship
Posted on 27 January 2014, 10:54
When my #fundamentalist,evangelical,“born-again”friends – whatever name be attached to them – become aware of my interest in mediumship, they express concern that I am being influenced by Satan himself. They cite Deuteronomy 18:12-13, which they interpret to say that we should not consult the…
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Trying to Make Sense of Ghosts
Posted on 13 January 2014, 9:55
For the most part, I have little interest in haunted houses, ghost hunting, poltergeists, ghostly apparitions, or related anomalous phenomena. However, I had read some interesting and curious things here and there over the years about Alex Tanous (1926-1990) and that prompted me to read a recently…
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Why Harmony is Important in Spirit Communication and Related Phenomena
Posted on 30 December 2013, 9:35
Many a baseball player has said that trying to hit home runs usually results in strike outs. The harder they try, the more they fail. The important thing is to simply relax and make contact with the ball without any extra effort. It’s a matter of finding just the right rhythm, the right harmony. …
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Cora L. V. Richmond – An Amazing Medium (Part II)
Posted on 16 December 2013, 10:08
Scientists, scholars, ministers, and journalists were befuddled by young Cora Scott (later Cora Richmond), who, at age 11, began giving lengthy discourses on various philosophical, metaphysical , social, political, and reform matters. Or rather, one or more advanced spirits gave the discourses through…
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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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