Inquiries into nonmaterial phenomena, of which afterlife phenomena occupy a prominent role, often open vast and seemingly limitless realms that in some ways appear to intersect to offer us glimpses into what may comprise reality itself. Spiritual and psychic phenomena…
electronic voice phenomena
Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are usually defined as sounds found on electronic recordings that are thought to be voices of spirits that have been unintentionally recorded or intentionally requested and recorded. They are typically brief, usually the length of a…
why is psi research not better known?
I would not be surprised that a general ready who might be very knowledgeable about science, religion, and psychology, after pursuing a good discussion of psychic research could be left with the question, “Why wasn’t I ever exposed to this?”…
mental/spiritual influences in healing
Healing involving the help of spiritual agencies or powers has a very long history going back to hunter gatherer groups predating the rise of agrarian societies. Healing the sick was one of the principle activities of Jesus, and healing through…
field consciousness
In speculating about the nature and limits of psi phenomena parapsychologist Dean Radin posed an intriguing question. Are we dealing with a personal perceptual skill that can be used to our private advantage, like an improved form of visual acuity…
psychokinesis (mind over matter)
The fact that our thoughts influence our behavior is a fundamental principle in psychology. And in an indirect fashion though our behavior our thoughts can influence others and the material world. This can also occur on an unconscious level. If…
precognition
One of the most widely reported characteristics of ESP is that it operates across time as well as space. This raises fundamental questions. Nothing seems so basic to our sense of reality than that time flows in one direction from…
remote viewing
Probably no area of psi research in recent years has attracted as much popular attention as what is known as remote viewing. These experimental investigations of clairvoyance actually have a long history dating back to picture-drawing studies published by psychical…
psi in ganzfeld experiments
Charles Honorton was intrigued by the evidence for psi in dreams and other altered states of consciousness. To make sense of this he developed the theory that psi might operate as a weak signal that is normally masked by the…
psi in dreams
Psi in dreams During the many years the Rhines conducted their research people from all over the US upon hearing about it began sending them anecdotal stories of their own spontaneous psychic experiences. In 1948 Louisa Rhine began to systematically…
esp. parapsychology, and the Rhines
We are fascinated by stories of unusual things that we think of as supernatural or paranormal, ghosts, contact with deceased loved ones, direct awareness of people’s thoughts, glimpses of the future, and the like. Many of us who view ourselves…
parapsychology, esp, Rhine, psi in dreams
We are fascinated by stories of unusual things that we think of as supernatural or paranormal, ghosts, contact with deceased loved ones, direct awareness of people’s thoughts, glimpses of the future, and the like. Many of us who view ourselves…
ghosts, hauntings,and poltergeists
Hauntings and ghosts Among the oldest and most universal phenomena associated with life after death, accounts of hauntings and ghosts provide the gist for stories that intrigue us with questions as to whether they’re just fiction or could possibly be…
science and ndes
Before leaving our discussion of the NDE literature, a recap of what scientifically oriented critics have to say will be informative. Some of these criticisms apply equally to other types of spirit related experiences. Perhaps most obvious is that because…
Eben Alexander nde
Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, wrote a 2012 bestselling book, Proof of Heaven, in which he described his remarkable near-death experience. This account is highly significant for several reasons, primarily because it occurred to a neurosurgeon. Alexander’s background was described in…
Howard Storm nde
Howard’s NDE has personal significance for me because at the time it occurred he and I were both professors at Northern Kentucky University, and we talked a good deal about it, in the process becoming friends. In the summer of…
George Ritchie nde
George Ritchie, who was later to become a psychiatrist, experienced a profound NDE in 1943 which he later described in his 1978 book “Return from Tomorrow”. Ritchie’s encounter with spirit occurred three decades before Moody coined the term NDE and…
negative ndes
Recall that in Gallup’s 1982 survey five percent of his sample or around 7.7 million in the total adult population reported having had an NDE. One percent of those described very negative or even hellish elements, quite different from anything…
nde’s and cardiac arrest patients
The studies discussed thus far that included people reporting NDEs during cardiac arrest were retrospective in design. They involved questioning people about their experience and looking at their medical records some time after they actually happened. A much better research…
near-death experiences – early research
Interest in what came to be known as near death experiences (NDEs) pretty much began with the publication in 1975 of” “Life After Life ” by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. Moody, described some 150 accounts of what he called the “near-death…
strong cases involving hypnosis
Although cases of children’s spontaneous past life memories no doubt provide the strongest evidence for reincarnation, such cases are relatively rare, particularly in this country. A second, and much more common broad group of past life memories are those emerging…
children’s past lives – James
Jim Tucker, M.D, an associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia, has been continuing the work of Ian Stevenson. He described his work in two books, Life Before Life: Children’s Memories of Previous Lives (2005),…
past lives memories of children
While cases like the above are interesting, there is general agreement that the strongest evidence supportive of reincarnation comes from the spontaneous memories of young children. It seems that they would be much less likely than adults to have acquired…
investigations of reincarnation – Jenny Cockell,
Study of reincarnation has yielded some of the strongest evidence supportive of life after death. This research can be divided into two broad types. The first, statements made by psychics about their clients’ previous incarnations such as those in the…
Bridey Murphy
One of the most significant events attracting a great deal of interest in reincarnation in the last half of the 20th century was the publication of Morey Bernstein’s book The Search for Bridey Murphy, which became a best- seller and…
life beyond death
In his book 2009 book” Life Beyond Death” Fontana reviewed and synthesisized insights to the nature of the afterlife from many sources including communications from mediums, whose contacts with the deceased are known on good authority to be genuine, near-death…