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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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A More Comprehensive Look at Trance Medium, Leonora Piper
Posted on 18 July 2022, 7:18
In my 2013 book, Resurrecting Leonora Piper, I attempted to make a case for the spirit and survival hypothesis, i.e., that consciousness survives death in another realm of existence sometimes called…
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What the Spirits Say on the Abortion Issue
Posted on 04 July 2022, 7:41
With the United States Supreme Court reversing a prior decision in favor of abortion rights, the country is further dividing itself and there is much self-righteousness on both sides. I don’t want to get into politics at this blog and don’t pretend to know which side is right or whether there…
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12 Possible Reasons why Thomas Edison Failed to Communicate After Death
Posted on 20 June 2022, 7:45
A recent television program dealing with mysteries of the unknown featured a story about the great inventor Thomas Edison (below) giving the famous mentalist Joseph Dunninger 10 words that he would attempt to communicate to him through a medium after his death, as evidence that he had survived death.…
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A Longing After Immortality
Posted on 06 June 2022, 6:09
Many thanks to guest blogist Howard N. Brown, D. D. for writing this blog. It first appeared in the March 1914 issue of the Journal of the The American Society for Psychical Research (Volume VIII, No. 3. Since it was written entirely by Dr. Brown, (below) no quotes are used. …
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Canadian Physician Informed: “We Do Not Die”
Posted on 23 May 2022, 17:03
Due to failures of certain researchers to grasp the anomalies of mediumship, including the research involved with the mediums Mina Crandon, aka Margery, George Valiantine, and Rudi Schneider, during the 1920s and early ‘30s, parapsychology began replacing psychical research, the emphasis being on…
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Boggled Spirit Minds & Messages – Part II
Posted on 09 May 2022, 8:17
“When we converse through a medium and with a medium or automatist we become, as it were, dependent on her thoughts, words and images, and we go wrong, we stray in that tide. It can be a River of Forgetfulness temporarily too, for the struggling communicator in many cases, and it can be a mixture;…
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Why Spirit Messages are Sometimes Twisted, Garbled, and Distorted
Posted on 25 April 2022, 9:10
Although the evidence for spirit communication is overwhelming, it seems well established that messages from the spirit world coming through mediums are often distorted by the medium’s subconscious mind. Moreover, the messages are altered, twisted, and garbled by the inability of the medium…
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How An Evangelical Discovered Mediumship was Not Demonic
Posted on 11 April 2022, 8:49
As an ordained Baptist minister, Charles Mundell believed that mediumship was the work of the devil. However, he gradually became more liberal in his thinking, especially after reading Sir Oliver Lodge’s 1916 book, Raymond or Life and Death, in which Lodge, a renowned British physicist,…
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Overcoming Existential Angst with Afterlife Evidence
Posted on 28 March 2022, 8:58
According to several internet references, old-age begins at 65, but 65-74 is “young-old,” while 75-84 is “old” and 85-and-up is “old-old.” As I cross the threshold into that oldest classification, perhaps best referred to as “dotage,” it seems like an appropriate time to philosophize, including…
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