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Remembering Professor William Newbold and His Research with Leonora Piper
Posted on 22 April 2024, 8:06
As a member of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), William Romaine Newbold (1865 – 1926, lower left photo), a University of Pennsylvania professor of philosophy and psychology, carried out considerable research with trance medium Leonora Piper of Boston, Mass. Between 1891 and…
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What Easter is (or was) all about
Posted on 08 April 2024, 15:17
Easter 2024 is behind us. I hope all readers of this blog had a good Easter. However, it seems clear to me that the meaning of Easter has been completely lost in our hedonistic world. USA Today kicked off its Easter coverage on “Holy Thursday” with a front-page article on the cost of eggs.…
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Irrefutable Evidence of Life After Death?
Posted on 25 March 2024, 9:37
I don’t know how anyone can read the reports by some very renowned researchers about the mediumship of Etta Wriedt and conclude that she was a charlatan or that the phenomena described by various witnesses suggest anything other than spirit communication and, concomitantly, survival in a spirit world. …
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The Irish are Still Quite Fey
Posted on 11 March 2024, 9:16
I try to pay special homage to my Irish ancestors on St. Patrick’s Day, which is coming up on Sunday. They include my maternal grandmother, Mary Ellen Donovan (right photo), her father, Jeremiah Donovan (top left), his two sisters Bridget and Catherine Donovan (bottom left), who cared for Mary…
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30 Witnesses Say: “No One Really Dies”
Posted on 26 February 2024, 8:50
When an aging friend appeared to be suffering from “existential angst” as he recovered from serious health challenges, I gave him one of my books,
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An Interview with Professor William James
Posted on 12 February 2024, 8:42
During his final years at Harvard and immediately thereafter, William James, is said to have suffered from fits of depression, what he called “soul sickness,” and even considered suicide. Apparently, the “death of God” and the increasingly materialistic world view of the times brought on by…
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How Much Do We Remember After Death?
Posted on 29 January 2024, 10:19
While sorting through boxes of old papers and photos not long ago, I came upon a stack of letters I wrote to my parents between 1958 and 1961, while I was in the Marine Corps. My mother saved everything. In one of the letters written from Quantico, Virginia in 1958, I informed my parents that I had…
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Spirits, Science, Extraterrestrials & Uri Geller
Posted on 15 January 2024, 9:00
I don’t know what to make of Uri Geller and the somewhat bizarre reports concerning interdimensional beings surrounding him. Although I had heard and read a little about him over the years, primarily about his psychic spoon-bending and watch-stopping abilities, I saw him as not much more than a gifted…
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Existentialism 101 – Pondering on Life & an Afterlife, Part 2
Posted on 01 January 2024, 9:24
In my blog of May 23, 2023, I offered 37 quotes drawn from a hypothetical university class in Existentialism 101. Here are an additional 25 quotes from that class…
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Portraits of the Dead
Posted on 18 December 2023, 10:47
May Wright Sewall, a leader in the women’s suffrage movement (upper left photo), had vehemently opposed mediumship until she experienced some very evidential phenomena at the Lily Dale Assembly Grounds in New York during August 1897. (See
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