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Volume 67.4 Number 873 October 2003

A Re-Examination of the Possibility of Chance Coincidence as an Alternative Explanation for Mediumistic Communication in the Cross-Correspondences Christopher M. Moreman 225 Francis Ward Monck and the Problems of Physical ...... John L. Randall 243 Encounter Experiences in the Context of Mental Boundaries and Bilaterality...... James Houran, Diane D. Ashe and A. Thalbourne 260 Revisiting False Memories as a Vehicle for Psi Chris A. Roe 281 BOOK REVIEWS The Trickster and the by George P. Hansen ...... Zofia Weaver 296 Você e a Reencarnação by Hernani Guimarães Andrade...... Guy Lyon Playfair 298 Early Modern : Proceedings of the “Early Modern Ghosts” Conference held at St John’s College, Durham, on 24th March 2001 edited by John Newton..... 299 , Philosophy and the Mind: Essays Honoring John Beloff edited by Fiona Steinkamp .....John Poynton 302 Twin by Guy Lyon Playfair...... Montague Keen 305 Electronic Voice Phenomenon: The Cinderella Science by Gerry Connelly...... David Ellis 308 CORRESPONDENCE Letter from ...... 310 Change of Editorship ...... Bernard Carr, Chris Roe 311

OBITUARIES John Hasted ...... David Robertson 313 Hernani Guimarães Andrade...... Guy Lyon Playfair 318 NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2004 ...... 320 Research Grants...... 320

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 68.1 Number 874 January 2004

A Possibly Unique Case of Detection Guy Lyon Playfair and Montague Keen 1 Results of the Application of the Robertson–Roy Protocol to a Series of Experiments with Mediums and Participants ...... T. J. Robertson and A. E. Roy 18 A Means of Producing the Electronic Voice Phenomenon Based on Electro-Dermal Activity ...... Alexander MacRae 35

BOOK REVIEWS The Coherent Universe: An Introduction to Geoffrey Read’s New Fundamental Theory of Matter, Life and Mind by Peter Hewitt ...... John L. Randall 51 The Paranormal in the Bible and in Old Norse Literature: ? by Nils Kvastad ...... John Poynton 52 The Faery Faith: An Integration of Science with Spirit by Serena Roney-Dougal ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 53 Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Plath by John Beer...... John Poynton 54

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Montague Keen and Archie E. Roy, Christopher Moreman; James Houran and Rense Lange ...... 57

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 68.2 Number 875 April 2004

Three Randomly Selected Lebanese Cases of Children Who Claim Memories of a Previous Life and Majd Abu-Izzeddin 65 A Phantom Battle Near Loch Ashie in the Scottish Highlands ...... Peter A. McCue 86 Reporting of Blind Methods: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Marleen Nagtegaal 105

NOTE A Note on Paranormal Belief and Paranormal Experience: Their Levels, Absolute and Relative Michael A. Thalbourne 115

BOOK REVIEWS Lumières Nouvelles sur la Réincarnation: Médiumnité, Possession, Liens Ancestraux, Transmigration by Laurent Guyénot ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 122 Spirit Messenger: Story of a Seventh Son by Gordon Smith...... Maurice Grosse 124

CORRESPONDENCE Letter from M. H. Coleman...... 125

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 68.3 Number 876 July 2004

A Clinical Approach to the Emotional Processing of Anomalous/Paranormal Experiences in Group Therapy Daniel Gómez Montanelli and Alejandro Parra 129 Reality Testing and the Formation of Paranormal Beliefs: A Constructive Replication...... Harvey J. Irwin 143 Investigation of Reports of a Recurrent Sensed Presence: Assessing Recent Conventional Hypotheses Devin Blair Terhune 153 NOTE A Filmed Experiment on Telephone Telepathy with the Nolan Sisters Rupert Sheldrake, Hugo Godwin and Simon Rockell 168

BOOK REVIEWS Un Voyant Prodigieux—Alexis Didier, 1826–1886 by Bertrand Méheust ...... Mary Rose Barrington 173 The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales by Edmund Jones, edited with an Introduction by John Harvey...... Alan Gauld 176 Do We Survive Death? by David Hodges...... Peter Hallson 178 Psi Wars: Getting to Grips with the Paranormal edited by James E. Alcock, Jean E. Burns and Anthony Freeman Donald J. West 179 CORRESPONDENCE Letters from David Rousseau; Peter A. McCue; John L. Randall...... 183

OBITUARY Manfred Cassirer ...... David Ellis 188 Bernard Carr 190 NOTICE Perrott-Warrick Grants...... 192

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 68.4 Number 877 October 2004

Survival Research: Opposition and Future Developments David Fontana 193 The Dreams and Visions of Eva Hellström, a Swedish Psychic Claimant ...... Stanley Krippner 210 Spontaneous During Dreams: A Theoretical Model ...... F. de Pablos 226 The Sense of Being Stared At: Analysis of Previous Data and a Pilot Replication...... Dean Radin 245 NOTES A Pilot Investigation into Sensory Noise, and Extrasensory Christine A. Simmonds and Jezz Fox 253 Long Shadow over Psychical Research: An Essay Review of Johnson’s Kant on Swedenborg: Dreams of a Spirit-Seer...... John Poynton 262

BOOK REVIEWS Elementos Descriptivos y Conceptuales de Parapsicología by Naum Kreiman and Fenomenos Paranormales by Alejandro Parra ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 269 The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky, Volume 1, 1861–1879 edited by John Algeo ...... John L. Randall 270 Les Avatars de la Réincarnation by Laurent Guyénot ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 271 European Cases of the Type by ...... Zofia Weaver 273 The Luck Factor: Change Your Luck and Change Your Life by Richard Wiseman...... David Luke 276 Helena Blavatsky edited by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke John L. Randall 277 OBITUARIES A. R. G. Owen ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 279 Montague Keen ...... David Fontana 280

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Fotini Pallikari; Chris Robinson; Donald J. West 286

NOTICE Annual General Meeting 2005 ...... 288 Volume 69.1 Number 878 January 2005

Mind-Matter and Emotion ...... James Lumsden-Cook 1 Are ESP and PK Aspects of a Unitary Phenomenon? The Effects of Deception When Testing the Relationship Between ESP and PK Chris A. Roe, Russell Davey and Paul Stevens 18

BOOK REVIEWS Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death by Stephen E. Braude...... Robert McLuhan 33

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Tom Butler; Anabela Cardoso, David Ellis..... 38

OBITUARY Robert Morris...... Bernard Carr 45

NOTICE Research Grants...... 48

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 69.2 Number 879 April 2005

The Case of Iris Farczády — A Stolen Life Mary Rose Barrington, Peter Mulacz and Titus Rivas 49 Edgehill and Souter Fell: a Critical Examination of Two English ‘Phantom Army’ Cases Peter A. McCue and Alan Gauld 78

BOOK REVIEWS The Angel of Mons: Phantom Soldiers and Ghostly Guardians by David Clarke ...... Peter McCue 95 Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe, An Intellectual Biography by Bart Schultz ...... Alan Gauld 96

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Peter McCue; Guy Lyon Playfair; David Fontana ...... 104

OBITUARY John Stiles ...... Mary Rose Barrington 111

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 69.3 Number 880 July 2005

Swedenborg and ...... Richard Lines 113 The Return of Katharine Bates: An Evaluation of a Claimed Autobiography...... Guy Lyon Playfair 121 Affect and Random Events: Examining the Effects of Induced Emotion Upon Mind–Matter Interactions James Lumsden-Cook 128 Depression and the Sheep–Goat Variable: Is There a Relationship? ...... Michael A. Thalbourne 143

BOOK REVIEWS Psychical and Spiritual by Michael Perry ...... Leslie Price 148 Life After Death: Living Proof by Tom Harrison...... David Fontana 148 Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg ...... Leslie Price 151 Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century edited by Michael A. Thalbourne and Lance Storm ... John Poynton 153 From Shaman to Scientist: Essays on Humanity’s Search for Spirits edited by James Houran . Alan Gauld 158

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Anabela Cardoso, David Ellis; Iván T. Lépes; Alan Murdie; Tom Butler; Michael A. Thalbourne...... 163

NOTICE Death Notices...... 176

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 69.4 Number 881 October 2005

The Spellchecker Case: Computer-Mediated Mediumship? ...... Julie Rousseau and David Rousseau 177 Report of an Electronic Voice Phenomenon Experiment inside a Double-Screened Room...... Alexander MacRae 191 Increasing Hit Rates in Free-Response ESP Experimental Research: A Survey of Researchers and Academics José M. Pérez-Navarro 202 The Self Accomplishing: The Achievements of the Theory of Psychopraxia....Michael A. Thalbourne and Lance Storm 213

BOOK REVIEWS Is There An ? by David Fontana...... Maurice Grosse 227 Bealings Bells by Major Edward Moor ...... John Fraser 228

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Michael A. Thalbourne; Mary Rose Barrington; M. H. Coleman; David Fontana, David Ellis ...... 230

OBITUARIES Arthur Oram ...... Bernard Carr 235 Raymond Bayless...... Carlos Alvarado 238

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2006 ...... 240 Research Grants...... 240

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 70.1 Number 882 January 2006

Has Direct Brain to Brain Communication been Demonstrated by Electroencephalographic Monitoring of Paired or Group Subjects?...... Robert A. Charman 1 Environmental Sensitivity: Inquiry into a Possible Link with ...... Michael Jawer 25

BOOK REVIEWS Parapsychology: Research on Exceptional Experiences edited by Jane Henry ...... Donald West 48 100 Mots pour Comprendre la Voyance by Bertrand Méheust ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 51

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from David Fontana; Anabela Cardoso, David Ellis 53

OBITUARY Piero Cassoli ...... Massimo Biondi 63

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 70.2 Number 883 April 2006

An Assessment of Ostensible Communications with a Deceased Grandmaster as Evidence for Survival Wolfgang Eisenbeiss and Dieter Hassler 65 Differences in Body Image Between People Reporting Near-Death and Spontaneous Out-of-Body Experiences Craig D. Murray and Jezz Fox 98 NOTE Research Note: Testing for Precognitive Boredom with a Population of Visual Artists: A Pilot Study Nicola J. Holt 110

BOOK REVIEWS The New Paradigm: A Confrontation Between Physics and the Paranormal Phenomena by John O’M. Bockris John Poynton 121 The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Yale University Press...... Maurice Grosse 123 A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern by Corinna Treitel ...... Leslie Price 124 Heaven Confirmed by Miles Edward Allen Guy Lyon Playfair 125 Music, Witchcraft and the Paranormal by Melvyn J. Willin...... Maurice Grosse 126

CORRESPONDENCE Letter from John Poynton...... 127

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 70.3 Number 884 July 2006

The Effects of Traditional Zulu Healing upon a Random Event Generator J. J. Lumsden-Cook, J. Thwala and S. D. Edwards 129 Human Radiations: Concepts of Force in Mesmerism, Spiritualism and Psychical Research ...Carlos S. Alvarado 138

NOTES The Relationship Between Belief in the Paranormal and Performance on a Visual Imagery Task: Do Out-of-Body Experients have Better Visual Imagery Skills than Non-Experients? Craig D. Murray, Jezz Fox and David Wilde 163 Note on the Term Telergy Carlos S. Alvarado and Wim Kramer 170 The Origins of the First Psychic and Other Misrepresentations...Peter Lamont and Michael Murphy 176

BOOK REVIEWS

Swedenborg’s Secret by Lars Bergquist ...... John Poynton 181 Psicología de las Experiencias Paranormales edited by Alejandro Parra...... Guy Lyon Playfair 187 Mystical Encounters with the Natural World: Experiences and Explanations by Paul Marshall ...... Matt Colborn 187

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from David Fontana, David Ellis ...... 191

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 70.4 Number 885 October 2006

Taboo and Belief in Tibetan Psychic Tradition S. M. Roney-Dougal 193 Good Vibrations: The Case for a Specific Effect of Infrasound in Instances of Anomalous Experience Has Yet to be Empirically Demonstrated Jason J. Braithwaite and Maurice Townsend 211 Further Testing of the Precognitive Habituation Effect Using Spider Stimuli Louie Savva, Chris A. Roe and Matthew D. Smith 225

BOOK REVIEWS In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited by Steve Dewey and John Ries ...... Peter A. McCue 235 Metaphysical Media: The Occult Experience in Popular Culture by Emily D. Edwards ...... Tom Ruffles 237 The First Psychic: The Peculiar Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard by Peter Lamont...... Zofia Weaver 240 Histoires Paranormales du Titanic by Bertrand Méheust Guy Lyon Playfair 241 Dancing with Witches by Lois Bourne...... Melvyn Willin 243 Sueños: Cómo Interpretar sus Mensajes by Alejandro Parra ...... Anabela Cardoso 243 A World in a Grain of Sand by Mary Rose Barrington, Ian Stevenson and Zofia Weaver...... Julie Rousseau 244

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Alan Gauld; Robert Charman; Albert Donnay; Helmut Bartussek; George P. Hansen; M. H. Coleman .... 246

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2007 ...... 256 Research Grants...... 256

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 71.1 Number 886 January 2007

The Decline Effect in Spontaneous and Experimental Psychical Research ...... Matthew Colborn 1 An Analysis of Inter-Judge Concordance in a Series of Free-Response Experiments ...... Michael A. Thalbourne 23

NOTES A Preliminary Test of the ‘Four-Factor Model’ Using a Dream ESP Protocol Chris A. Roe, Lucy Jones and Catherine Maddern 35 Michael Whiteman at One Hundred ...... John Poynton 43

BOOK REVIEWS The Spirit of Dr Bindelof by Rosemarie Pilkington Guy Lyon Playfair 45 Is There Life After Death? by Anthony Peake Robert A. Charman 47 CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Michael Jawer; Dieter Hassler; Guy Lyon Playfair ...... 52

OBITUARIES John Beloff ...... Deborah Delanoy 56 Maurice Grosse ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 61 David Fontana 62

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 71.2 Number 887 April 2007

Paranormal Phenomena in British Witchcraft and Wiccan Culture With Special Reference to Spellcraft Melvyn J. Willin 65 Comparing and Non-Psychics through a ‘Token-Object’ Forced-Choice ESP Test Alejandro Parra and Juan Carlos Argibay 80 Comparing a Free-Response Test with a Free- Response Visual Imagery Test for a Non-Psychic Sample Alejandro Parra and Juan Carlos Argibay 91 NOTE On the Use of the Term Out-of-Body Experience Carlos S. Alvarado 100 BOOK REVIEWS Fantômes et Sciences d’Observation by ...... Carlos S. Alvarado 104 Hunters: and the Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum ..... Richard Noakes 106 The Indescribable Phenomenon: The Life and Mysteries of Annie Eva Fay by Barry H. Wiley...... Peter Lamont 109

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Florent Tournus, Rupert Sheldrake; Charles T. Tart, Matthew Colborn; John Crabbe; David Fontana; Robert Charman; Chris Roe; Gordon Rhead ...... 111

OBITUARY Michael Whiteman...... John Poynton 126

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 71.3 Number 888 July 2007

A Detailed Analysis of an Important Chess Game: Revisiting ‘Maróczy versus Korchnoi’ .....Vernon M. Neppe 129 Can a Slide-Show Presentiment Effect be Discovered in Brain Electrical Activity? ...... Thilo Hinterberger, Petra Studer, Marco Jäger, Colette Haverty-Stacke and Harald Walach 148

BOOK REVIEWS Old and New Evidence on the Meaning of Life: The Mystical World-View and Inner Contest. Vol.3. Universal Theology and Life in the Other Worlds by J. H. M. Whiteman ...... John Poynton 167 Now and Then: Reincarnation, Psychiatry and Daily Life by Denys Kelsey ...... Donald J. West 174 An Introduction to Parapsychology (5th edition) by Harvey J. Irwin and Caroline A. Watt...... John Poynton 175 : The Mystery Show Trial by Robert Hartley...... D. J. West 180 A Glossary of Terms Used in Parapsychology (2nd edition) by Michael A. Thalbourne...... Chris A. Roe 181

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Carlos S. Alvarado; Anabela Cardoso, David Ellis; Charles T. Tart; Carlos S. Alvarado; Acharya Ngawang Nyima ...... 188

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 71.4 Number 889 October 2007

Trait, State and Psi: A Comparison of Psi Performance Between Clusters of Scorers on Schizotypy in a Ganzfeld and Waking Control Condition Christine Simmonds-Moore and Nicola J. Holt 197 Ethical Guidelines for the Investigation of Haunting Experiences ...... Ian S. Baker and Ciarán O’Keeffe 216

NOTE A Pilot Study Using a Ganzfeld Induction Procedure ...... Chris A. Roe and Stuart Flint 230

BOOK REVIEWS The Judge Case: A Conspiracy which Ruined the Theosophical Cause by Ernest E. Pelletier ....Leslie Price 235 Invizikids: The Curious Enigma of ‘Imaginary’ Childhood Friends by Michael J. Hallowell...... David Fontana 240 : The by Richard Morris...... John L. Randall 243 Opening to the Infinite: The Art and Science of Nonlocal Awareness by Stephan A. Schwartz.... Guy Lyon Playfair 247 Outside the Gates of Science: Why It’s Time for the Paranormal to Come in from the Cold by Damien Broderick...... John Poynton 248

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Charles T. Tart; Carlos S. Alvarado; Acharya Ngawang Nyima (continuation of July issue) ...... 193 Letters from Ivan Lay; Serena Roney-Dougal; George P. Hansen, T. J. Robertson and A. E. Roy, Betty Markwick; Michael A. Thalbourne; Nick Greaves ...... 251

OBITUARY Ian Stevenson...... Emily Williams Kelly 263

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2008 ...... 272 Research Grants...... 272

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 72.1 Number 890 January 2008

The Andover Case: A Responsive Rapping Barrie G. Colvin 1 ESP of Emotions Using Skin Conductance as Indicator of Psi ...... Peter Ramakers 21 Putting Magnetism in its Place: A Critical Examination of the Weak-Intensity Magnetic Field Account for Anomalous Haunt-Type Experiences Jason J. Braithwaite 34

NOTE Acoustic Research Infrasound Detector Steven T. Parsons and Ciarán J. O’Keeffe 51

BOOK REVIEWS Strange Things: The Story of Father Alan McDonald, Ada Goodrich Freer, and the Society for Psychical Research’s Enquiry into Highland Second Sight by John J. Campbell and Trevor H. Hall...... Tricia J. Robertson 58

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Bill Stoney, John Poynton; Heyme Breederveld 59

OBITUARIES Wyllys Poynton: A Tribute...... Peter Johnson 63 Ian Stevenson: Some Personal Reminiscences Mary Rose Barrington 64

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 72.2 Number 891 April 2008

The Historiogaphy of Psychical Research: Lessons from Histories of the Sciences ....Richard Noakes 65 The Sense of Being Stared At: An Automated Test on the Internet Rupert Sheldrake, Charles Overby and Ashwin Beeharee 86 The Sense of Being Stared At: Do Hit Rates Improve as Tests Go On?...... Rupert Sheldrake 98

NOTES Headaches and Out-of-Body Experiences Carlos S. Alvarado and Nancy L. Zingrone 107 Didier and Dumas ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 111

BOOK REVIEWS Ghosts Caught on Film: Photographs of the Paranormal by Melvyn Willin ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 117 This House is Haunted by Guy Lyon Playfair.... M. J. Willin 118 Mit Goethe durch die Welt der Geister: Geisterbegegnungen aus vielen Jahrhunderten Einbändige Kurzausgabe by Annekatrin Puhle ...... Peter Mulacz 119 Voyage to the Rainbow by Milan Ryzl..... Guy Lyon Playfair 121 In Search of Ghosts: Real Hauntings from Around Britain by Darren W. Ritson ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 123

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Michael Thalbourne; Don Mason; Peter Hayes; Tom Ruffles; Roger Straughan ...... 124

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 72.3 Number 892 July 2008

Conceptual Metaphor: A Meaning-Oriented Approach for Parapsychology...... Carl Williams 129 The Effect of Closeness of Relationship on Interpersonal Psychopraxia, in a Free-Response Study Evaluated by Both Response-Ranking and Target-Ranking Methods Michael A. Thalbourne 146 The Ingeborg Dahl Case Revisited Adrian Parker and Annekatrin Puhle 164

BOOK REVIEWS The Gold Leaf Lady and other Parapsychological Investigations by Stephen Braude ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 180 The Rediscovery of Glastonbury: Frederick Bligh Bond, Architect of the New Age by Tim Hopkinson-Ball Wendy E. Cousins 182 The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts by Owen Davies ...... John Newton 184

OBITUARIES Alan Wesencraft...... Tom Ruffles 188 Tribute to Alan Wesencraft...... Alan Gauld 190 Hubert Larcher ...... Djohar Si Ahmed 191

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 72.4 Number 893 October 2008

Psi May Look Like Luck: Perceived Luckiness and Beliefs About Luck in Relation to Precognition ...... David P. Luke, Deborah Delanoy and Simon J. Sherwood 193 Extraversion and Performance at a Forced-Choice ESP Task with Verbal Stimuli: Two Studies Chris A. Roe, Sarah J. Henderson and Jason Matthews 208

NOTE Revisited – Evidence Old and New: an Essay Review of Knock, Knock, Knock! Who’s There? by Patrick Waddington...... Zofia Weaver 222

BOOK REVIEWS Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England by Sasha Handley...... John Newton 231 The Eager Dead: A Study In Haunting by Archie E. Roy...... Robert McLuhan 236 Spirit Communication: A Comprehensive Guide to the Extraordinary World of Mediums, Psychics and the Afterlife by Roy Stemman...... John L. Randall 239 Parapsychology and the Skeptics by Chris Carter...... Steve Hume 240 New Clothes for : Worldwide Evidence for Reincarnation by Guy Lyon Playfair.....Roy Stemman 243 Okkulte Stimmen Mediale Musik: Recordings of Unseen Intelligences 1905–2007. 3-CD set edited by Andreas Fischer and Thomas Knoefel...... Tom Ruffles 245

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Carlos S. Alvarado; Michael A. Thalbourne; Tom Butler; Erlendur Haraldsson...... 249

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 73.1 Number 894 January 2009

Implicit Intuition: How Heart Rate Can Contribute to Prediction of Future Events Patrizio E. Tressoldi, Massimiliano Martinelli, Elisa Zaccaria and Stefano Massaccesi 1 Personality, Mental State and Procedure in the Experimental Replication of ESP: A Preliminary Study of New Variables José M. Pérez-Navarro, Tony Lawrence and Ian Hume 17 NOTES Research Brief: The Relationship Between Paranormal Beliefs and Attitude Toward Theistic Beliefs Emyr Williams, Leslie J. Francis, Jeff Astley and Mandy Robbins 33 An Experimental Study with Ordinary People for Testing ‘Sacred’ Objects through Psi Detection Alejandro Parra and Juan Carlos Argibay 41 BOOK REVIEWS Soul Shift: Finding Where the Dead Go by Mark Ireland...... Penny Sartori 50 Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fátima and the UFO Phenomenon by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina Di Armada Celestial Secrets: The Hidden History of the Fátima Incident by Joaquim Fernandes and Fina Di Armada Fátima Revisited: The Apparition Phenomenon in , Psychology, and Science compiled by Fernando Fernandes, Joaquim Fernandes and Raul Berenguel ....Hilary Evans 51 The Art of Dying: A Journey to Elsewhere by Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick...... Dennis Bury 54 The Conscious Mind and the Material World: On Psi, the Soul, and the Self by Douglas M. Stokes...... David Luke 56 The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: A Sociological Account by Jeremy Northcote ...... Chris Bratcher 58 Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America by Molly McGarry...... John B. Buescher 61

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2009 ...... 64 Research Grants...... 64 Volume 73.2 Number 895 April 2009 Moderating Factors in Precognitive Habituation: The Roles of Situational Vigilance, Emotional Reactivity and Affect Regulation...... Alexander Batthyany, Georg Sebastian Kranz and Astrid Erber 65 NOTES Frequency of Precognitive Dreams: Association with Dream Recall and Personality Variables...... Michael Schredl 83 Searching for an Optimal Level of Transliminality in Relation to Putative Psi ...... James Houran and Rense Lange 92

BOOK REVIEWS Hunting with the Heart: A Quest to Spiritual Emergence by Graham S. Saayman...... John Poynton 103 Maiden Tribute: A Life of W. T. Stead by Grace Eckley...... Michael Perry 105 Life After Death: Some of the Best Evidence by Jan Vandersande ...... David Fontana 106 The Paranormal Caught on Film: Amazing Photographs of Ghosts, and Strange Phenomena by Melvyn Willin ...... Gordon Rutter 107 H. G. Wells in Nature 1893–1946: A Reception Reader edited by John S. Partington ...... Zofia Weaver 108 Near-Death Experiences: Exploring The Mind–Body Connection by Ornella Corazza...... David Fontana 110 Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory by Stacy Horn John L. Randall 113 Twin Telepathy: The Psychic Connection by Guy Lyon Playfair...... Robert Charman 115 Life Beyond Death: What Should We Expect? by David Fontana ...... John L. Randall 118 Charles Richet: O Apóstolo da Ciência e o Espiritismo [Charles Richet: Apostle of Science and ] by Samuel Nunes Magalhães...... Carlos S. Alvarado 120

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from A. Albano-Müller; John D. Ralphs; Anabela Cardoso, David Ellis; Eric Carlton...... 125

NOTICE Perrott-Warrick Grants...... 128 Volume 73.3 Number 896 July 2009

Exploring How Gender Role and Boundary Thinness Relate to Paranormal Experiences, Beliefs and Performance on a Forced-Choice Task Christine A. Simmonds-Moore and Stephen L. Moore 129

NOTE Frederic W. H. Myers, Psychical Research and Psychology: An Essay Review of Trevor Hamilton’s Immortal Longings: F. W. H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death...... Carlos S. Alvarado 150

BOOK REVIEWS Mrs Miller’s Gift: the Helen Duncan Séance, December 1937, with “Ernest Oaten Makes History” and “ Speaks”. CD written and produced by Gerald O’Hara Malcolm Gaskill 171 Spirits With Scalpels: The Culturalbiology of Religious Healing in Brazil by Sidney M. Greenfield Guy Lyon Playfair 175 : Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso and , including CD of F. W. H. Myers’s Human Personality...... Rob McLuhan 177 The Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Self by Anthony Peake...... Robert Charman 184

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Guy Lyon Playfair; Carlos S. Alvarado ...... 189

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 73.4 Number 897 October 2009

Angelos Tanagras, the 1935 Oslo International Parapsychology Congress and the Telekinesis of Cleio...... Fotini Pallikari 193 René Sudre (1880–1968): The Metapsychist’s Quill Renaud Evrard 207 NOTES Inácio Ferreira: Institutionalizing the Integration of Medicine and Paranormal Phenomena Angélica A. Silva de Almeida and Alexander Moreira-Almeida 223 Can ESP be trained? A model for ESP training Yung-Jong Shiah 231 BOOK REVIEWS Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Lycett ...... Garth Willey 244 edited by Gertrude Schmeidler Donald J. West 246 OBITUARIES John Crabbe ...... Zofia Weaver 249 Oliver Knowles...... David Fontana 250 Michael Coleman...... Rod Coleman 252 Moira Howie 253 Martin Mathieson, David Ellis 254 NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2010 ...... 256 Research Grants...... 256

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 74.1 Number 898 January 2010

The relationship between belief in extra-terrestrial life, UFO-related beliefs and paranormal belief.. Neil Dagnall, Gary Munley, Andrew Parker and Kenneth Drinkwater 1 NOTE Knots, Bands and : Regarding the Zöllner–Slade Phenomena ...... Sasho Kalajdzievski 15

BOOK REVIEWS The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena by Dianne Hennacy Powell ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 23 El Mundo Oculto de los Sueños: Metáfora y Significado para Comprender toda su Riqueza by Alejandro Parra Sean K. Sayers-Montalvo 24 The Articulate Dead: They Brought the Spirit World Alive by Michael E. Tymn...... Zofia Weaver 25 The Case Against Reincarnation by James Webster David Fontana 27 The Psychology of Paranormal Belief: A Researcher’s Handbook by Harvey J. Irwin ...... Robin Wooffitt 30 A New Science of the Paranormal: The Promise of Psychical Research by Lawrence LeShan ...... Robert Charman 32 The Psychic Tourist: A Voyage into the Curious World of Predicting the Future by William Little Guy Lyon Playfair 38 , Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden...... Alan Gauld 40 (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science by William H. Brock ...... Andreas Sommer 45

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Michael Nahm; Carlos Alvarado; Lew Sutton, Malcolm Gaskill...... 53

NOTICE Parapsychological Association Convention: Call for Papers ... 64

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 74.2 Number 899 April 2010

The Acoustic Properties of Unexplained Rapping Sounds Barrie G. Colvin 65 What the Animals Have to Say: Conceptual Frameworks, Commonalities and Tensions in Professional Animal Psi Research and Lay–Animal Psychic Communication Carl Williams and Diane Dutton 94 A Ganzfeld Study Using Identical ...... Adrian Parker 118

BOOK REVIEWS Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism by Marlene Tromp Tom Ruffles 127 The South Shields Poltergeist: One Family’s Fight Against An Invisible Intruder by Michael J. Hallowell and Darren W. Ritson...... Alan Murdie 129 Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Destructive Hauntings by Colin Wilson...... Barrie Colvin 132 : The Full Story of his Remarkable Physical Mediumship by Louie Harris ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 133

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Lew Sutton, John D. Ralphs; Michael A. Thalbourne...... 135

NOTICES Gertrude Schmeidler: Psychology and Parapsychology James Carpenter 139 ‘Telephone Telepathy’ Research Project...... 144

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 74.3 Number 900 July 2010

Extrasensory Experience and Hallucinatory Experience: Comparision Between Two Non-Clinical Samples Linked With Psychological Measures Alejandro Parra and Luis Espinoza Paul 145 NOTES “Heads I Lose, Tails You Win”, or, How Richard Wiseman Nullifies Positive Results: A Response to Wiseman’s (2010) Critique of Parapsychology ...... Chris Carter 156 Precognitive Dreams: A Pilot Diary Study Michael Schredl, Simon Götz and Susanne Ehrhardt-Knutsen 168 BOOK REVIEWS The Borley Rectory Companion: The Complete Guide to ‘The House in England’ by Paul Adams, Eddie Brazil and Peter Underwood ...... Matthew Colborn 176 The End of Materialism by Charles T. Tart Feargus O’Connor 179 To Die For: The Physical Reality of Conscious Survival by James E. Beichler...... John D. Ralphs 181 The Parapsychology Revolution: A Concise Anthology of Paranormal and Psychical Research edited by Robert M. Schoch and Logan Yonavjak ...... Zofia Weaver 184 The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense by Michael A. Jawer with Marc S. Micozzi ...... Robert A. Charman 187 Utrecht II: Charting the Future of Parapsychology edited by Chris A. Roe, Wim Kramer and Lisette Coly Donald J. West 192 OBITUARIES David Christie-Murray ...... (edited by) David Ellis 202 Tony Cornell...... Alan Gauld 207 Tony Cornell: Psychical Researcher, Intrepid Investigator and Mischievous Spirit...... Bernard Carr 213 Michael Thalbourne ...... Lance Storm, David Ellis 217

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2011 ...... 224 Research Grants...... 224

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 74.4 Number 901 October 2010

Anomalous Cognition Technical Trials: Inspiration for the Target Entropy Concept Edwin C. May and Nevin D. Lantz 225 NOTES Case Note: The Case of the Ghostly Bailiff ...... Alan Murdie 244 Some Thoughts on the Happy Schizotype Michael A. Thalbourne 246 Note: Transliminality and Sensory Sensitivity Michael A. Thalbourne 251 The Near-Death Experience: a Reliable Paranormal Phenomenon? An Essay Review of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences, edited by Janice Miner Holden John L. Randall 254 BOOK REVIEWS Psychical Research by William James, William James and Psychical Research and The Report of William James about ‘the Hodgson-Piper Control’ (all in Spanish) Carlos S. Alvarado 260 Reborn For Love by Hernani Guimarães Andrade Roy Stemman 264 Mit Shakespeare durch die Welt der Geister. Geisterberichte aus England, Schottland, Irland, Wales und Cornwall by Annekatrin Puhle Peter Mulacz 266 Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World by Brenda J. Dunne and Robert G. Jahn Chris Bratcher 268 : Essays from Parapsychological and Psychological Perspectives edited by Matthew D. Smith Chris Jensen Romer 270 There is Life After Death: Compelling Reports from Those Who have Glimpsed the Afterlife by Roy Abraham Varghese...... Dennis Bury 274 Filters and Reflections: Perspectives on Reality edited by Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne, Zachary Jones and Elissa Hoeger...... Robert McLuhan 276 Witnessing the Impossible by Robin P. Foy Guy Lyon Playfair 280 CORRESPONDENCE Letters from David Fontana, Robert Charman, John D. Ralphs ...... 282 Volume 75.1 Number 902 January 2011

The Psychical and the Mystical: Boundaries, Connections, Common Origins...... Paul Marshall 1 The Importance of Extraordinary Experiences for Adopting Heterodox Beliefs or an Alternative Religious Worldview Gerhard Mayer and René Gründer 14 Discarnate Entities and Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychopharmacology, Phenomenology and Ontology David Luke 26 BOOK REVIEWS Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by Jeffrey J. Kripal ...... Christopher Laursen 43 The Near-Death Experiences of Hospitalized Intensive Care Patients: A Five-Year Clinical Study by Penny Sartori David Rousseau 47 Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death by Chris Carter...... John Poynton 50 : A Survivor’s Guide by John Fraser Gordon Rutter 53 Beyond the Threshold: Afterlife Beliefs and Experiences in World Religions by Christopher Moreman Chris Jensen Romer 55 CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Carlos S. Alvarado, Robert Charman; John D. Ralphs...... 59

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 75.2 Number 903 April 2011 Possible Thermodynamic Limits to Anomalous Cognition: Entropy Gradients...... Edwin C. May 65 Psychic Experiences a Third of a Century Apart: Two Representative Surveys in Iceland with an International Comparison...... Erlendur Haraldsson 76 Psychic Phenomena and the Vital Force: on “Vital and Psychical Phenomena”...... Carlos S. Alvarado and Michael Nahm 91

BOOK REVIEWS Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Bruce and Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross...... Zofia Weaver 104 Medium: A Yeoman of England by Ronald Hearn Guy Lyon Playfair 106 The Science of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Help Us Avoid Danger, Maximize Opportunities, and Create a Better Life by Larry Dossey Gregory M. Westlake 107 Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions edited by Mu-Chou Poo ...... Elliot Cohen 109 The Seer in Ancient Greece by Michael Attyah Flower...... Jeremy Anscombe 111 Spectres of the Self: Thinking About Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920 by Shane McCorristine...... Paul Cowdell 113 Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France by M. Brady Brower...... Renaud Evrard 115 Randi’s Prize: What Sceptics Say About the Paranormal, Why they are Wrong and Why it Matters by Robert McLuhan...... James Lumsden-Cook 118 Pointers to Eternity by Dewi Rees ...... Michael Perry 121 Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism, and Near-Death Experience by Gregory Shushan ...... David Rousseau 122 : Medium of the Century by Guy Lyon Playfair...... Roy Stemman 125

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Helen Thalbourne; David Ellis...... 128 Volume 75.3 Number 904 July 2011

Talking with the Spirits: Anthropology and Interpreting Spirit Communication...... Jack Hunter 129 Not Feeling the Future: A Failed Replication of Retroactive Facilitation of Memory Recall...... Eric Robinson 142

NOTE Ketamine, Bergson and NDEs...... John Smythies 148

BOOK REVIEWS An Extraordinary Journey by Stewart Alexander...... Steve Hume 151 Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Experiences by Louis Proud...... Christopher C. French 153 Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance: Mediums, Spiritualists and Mesmerists in Performance by Amy Lehman...... Tom Ruffles 155 Plato’s Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance by Cathy Gutierrez...... Alan Gauld 157 The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind by Claude Lecouteux ...... John Newton 159 The Energy Cure: Unravelling the Mystery of Hands-On Healing by William Bengston ...... Robert A. Charman 161 Los Poderes de la Mente: Ultimas Investigaciones en Psicología Paranormal [The Powers of Mind: Further Investigations in Paranormal Psychology] by Alejandro Parra ...... José Miguel Pérez-Navarro 165 Science and Spirit by Hernani Guimaraes Andrade Barrie Colvin 166 OBITUARIES David Fontana ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 168 Anabela Cardoso 170 John Randall...... Tom Ruffles 172

CORRESPONDENCE Letter from Chris Jensen Romer...... 175

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2012...... 176 Research Grants...... 176 Volume 75.4 Number 905 October 2011

Mirror-Gazing Facility and Psi: Examining Personality Measures...... Alejandro Parra and Jorge Villanueva 177 Anomalous Cognition: Two Protocols for Data Collection and Analyses...... Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha and Vinay Chaganti 191 Testing the Theory of Morphic Resonance Using Recognition for Chinese symbols: A Failure to Replicate Chris A. Roe and Glenn A. M. Hitchman 211 NOTE Physicalism, Christianity and the Near-Death Experience: An Essay Review of Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences: Brain-State Phenomena or Glimpses of Immortality? by Michael Marsh...... David Rousseau 225

BOOK REVIEWS Where Science and Magic Meet by Serena Roney-Dougal ...... Stanley Krippner 235 Sliders: The Enigma of Streetlight Interference by Hilary Evans...... Wendy E. Cousins 238

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 76.1 Number 906 January 2012

Recurrent Spontaneous Anomalous Physical Events Suggestive of Poltergeist Activity: Evidence for Discarnate Agency? Clinical, Evolutionary and Learning Perspectives...... Paul R. Burgess 1 The Orb Zone: Accounts of Experimentation into the Natural Causes of ‘Orbs’ ...... Dave Wood 17

NOTES England’s ‘Most Enigmatic ’: An Essay Review of Michael Hallowell and Darren Ritson’s The Haunting of Willington Mill..... Alan Gauld 32 Psychical Research in Germany before 1939: An Essay Review of Heather Wolffram’s The Stepchildren of Science...... Adrian Parker 38

BOOK REVIEWS Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion? edited by Stanley Krippner and Harris L. Friedman ...... Robert McLuhan 44 Electronic Voices: Contact With Another Dimension? by Anabela Cardoso...... Elizabeth E. McAdams 47 God’s Biologist: A Life of Alister Hardy by David Hay ...... John Poynton 49 Ghosts: A Social History edited by Owen Davies...... John Newton 50 Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences by Jeffrey Long with Paul Perry Wendy E. Cousins 53 CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Charles T. Tart, Arthur Hastings, Alejandro Parra & Jorge Villanueva; John D. Ralphs; Malcolm Matthews ...... 58

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 76.2 Number 907 April 2012 Explorations of the Features of Out-of-Body Experiences: An Overview and Critique of the Work of Robert Crookall...... Carlos S. Alvarado 65

NOTES Nonevident Psi: Investigating the Invisible....William Braud 83 A Target Pool and Database for Anomalous Cognition Experiments ...... E. C. May, L. V. Faith, M. Blackman, B. Bourgeois, N. Kerr and L. Woods 94 BOOK REVIEWS and Psi: Imagery Cultivation as an Alternative to the Ganzfeld Protocol by Lance Storm and Adam J. Rock...... Matthew Colborn 104 Consciousness and the Source of Reality: The PEAR Odyssey by Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne ...... D. J. West 107 Les Miracles de l’Esprit. Qu’est-ce que les Voyants Peuvent nous Apprendre? by Bertrand Méheust Guy Lyon Playfair 110 The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry by Rupert Sheldrake ...... John Poynton 111 Paranormal Case Files of Great Britain. Volume 1: Malcolm Robinson Investigates by Malcolm Robinson...... Gordon Rutter 114 The Out-of-Body Experience: The History and Science of Astral Travel by Anthony Peake...... John Poynton 116 Paranormal Technology: Understanding the Science of Ghost Hunting by David M. Rountree Chris Jensen Romer 120 Mind–Matter Interaction: A Review of Historical Reports, Theory and Research by Pamela Rae Heath Zofia Weaver 122 Indizienbeweise für ein Leben nach dem Tod und die Wiedergeburt — Band 1: Spontanerinnerungen kleiner Kinder an ihr früheres Leben by Dieter Hassler Armin Albano-Müller 126 CORRESPONDENCE Letter from Guy Lyon Playfair ...... 128

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 76.3 Number 908 July 2012

Further Facets of Indridi Indridason’s Mediumship, Including ‘Transcendental’ Music, Direct Speech, and Light Phenomena... Erlendur Haraldsson 129 Infrasound and the Paranormal ...... Steven T. Parsons 150

BOOK REVIEWS Pluralism and the Mind: Consciousness, Worldviews, and the Limits of Science by Matthew Colborn Robert A. Charman 175 Mysterious Minds: The Neurobiology of Psychics, Mediums, and Other Extraordinary People edited by Stanley Krippner and Harris L. Friedman David Rousseau 178 Paranormality: Why We See What Isn’t There by Richard Wiseman ...... Robert McLuhan 179 by Nicola J. Holt, Christine Simmonds-Moore, David Luke and Christopher C. French...... Christian Jensen Romer 182 If This Be Magic: The Forgotten Power of by Guy Lyon Playfair...... Gregory M. Westlake 184 Mediumistic Phenomena Observed in a Series of Sessions with by Filippo Bottazzi Guy Lyon Playfair 185 Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings—Am I Being Haunted? edited by Michael Pye and Kirsten Dalley ...... Gordon Rutter 186 Dreamer: 20 Years of Psychic Dreams and How they Changed my Life by Andrew Paquette ...... Zofia Weaver 187

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from David Rousseau, Caroline Watt ...... 190

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 76.4 Number 909 October 2012

Dissociation, Absorption, Fantasy Proneness and Sensation-Seeking in Psychic Claimants Alejandro Parra and Juan Carlos Argibay 193 NOTE Awkward Questions...... Donald West 204

BOOK REVIEWS Perspectives of Clinical Parapsychology: An Introductory Reader edited by Wim H. Kramer, Eberhard Bauer and Gerd H. Hövelmann...... Donald J. West 210 Investigating the : From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931 by Sofie Lachapelle Andreas Sommer 213 Glimpses of Eternity: An Investigation into Shared Death Experiences by , with Paul Perry Robert McLuhan 216 Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences: A Handbook for Clinicians edited by Mahendra Perera, Karuppiah Jagadheesan and Anthony Peake .... Erlendur Haraldsson 218 A Path Prepared: The Story of Isa Northage by Allan MacDonald ...... Steve Hume 219 Paranormal : America’s Fascination with Ghosts and Hauntings, Spooks and Spirits by Deonna Kelli Sayed ...... Christopher Laursen 220 Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson by G. William Barnard...... Alan Gauld 222 The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities by Russell Targ...... Chris Bratcher 227 Percepciones Imposibles: Alucinaciones, Visiones y Experiencias Perceptuales Inusuales [Impossible : , Visions and Unusual Perceptual Experiences] by Alejandro Parra Daniel E. Gómez Montanelli 232 CORRESPONDENCE Letters from David Ellis; Roger J. Morgan...... 234

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2013...... 240 Research Grants...... 240 Volume 77.1 Number 910 January 2013

Comparing Artists With Controls on a Free-Response Experience-Sampling Task: Creativity and Anomalous Cognition ...... Nicola J. Holt 1 A New European Case of the Reincarnation Type Dieter Hassler 19 NOTE Betraying the Present by Distorting the Past: Comments on Parker’s Tendentious Portrait of German Psychical Research ...... Eberhard Bauer, Gerd H. Hövelmann and Walter von Lucadou 32 BOOK REVIEWS Brain at Night: Scientific Foundations of Precognitive Dreams by Fernando de Pablos ...... Zofia Weaver 43 The Afterlife Revealed: What Happens After We Die? by Michael Tymn ...... Guy Lyon Playfair 46 Who Was Mrs Willett? by Chris Nunn...... Chris Bratcher 46 Aspects of the Paranormal Healing Phenomenon: A Narrative Approach by Frans W. J. J. Snel John Poynton 50 An Introduction to the Psychology of Paranormal Belief and Experience by Tony Jinks ...... Christian Jensen Romer 51 Exploring Frontiers of the Mind–Brain Relationship edited by Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Franklin Santana Santos...... Michael Potts 53 Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, Body and Human Potential edited by Christine Simmonds-Moore ...... Robert A. Charman 59 Zones of Strangeness: An Examination of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots by Peter A. McCue ...... Gordon Rutter 61

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Etzel Cardeña; Caroline Watt ...... 63

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 77.2 Number 911 April 2013 Anomalous Experiences and the Intuitive-Experiential Style of Thinking...... Harvey J. Irwin and Krissy Wilson 65 NOTES The Relationship between Local Geomagnetic Activity, Meditation and Psi. Part I: Literature Review and Theoretical Model Serena M. Roney-Dougal, Adrian Ryan and David Luke 72 The Chaffin Will Case Revisited: Did the Spirit of his Deceased Father Visit James Pinkney Chaffin During June 1925 to Reveal the Whereabouts of a Second Will? Robert A. Charman 89 Betraying the Future by Distorting the Present: A Reply to Bauer, Hövelmann and von Lucadou Adrian Parker 102 BOOK REVIEWS Telephone Calls from the Dead: A Revised Look at the Phenomenon Thirty Years On by Callum E. Cooper Matthew Colborn 105 Qué es . . . Sensilidad Psíquica: Cómo Abrir la Mente y Aprender a Reconocer las Impresiones Psi [What is . . . Psychic Sensibility: How to Open the Mind and Learn to Recognize Psi Impressions] by Alejandro Parra Carlos S. Alvarado 107 The Internationalization of Ayahuasca edited by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Henrik Jungaberle ... Gerhard Mayer 109 The Big Book of Reincarnation: Examining the Evidence that We Have All Lived Before by Roy Stemman Zofia Weaver 113 The Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead by ...... Gordon Rutter 114 The Labryinth of Time: The Illusion of Past, Present and Future by Anthony Peake...... Robert A. Charman 116 The Thought Reader Craze: Victorian Science at the Enchanted Boundary by Barry H. Wiley Roger Luckhurst 120 The Departed Among the Living: An Investigative Study of Afterlife Encounters by Erlendur Haraldsson Guy Lyon Playfair 122 Seriously Strange: Thinking Anew about Psychical Experiences edited by Sudhir Kakhir and Jeffrey J. Kripal...... Donald J. West 124

NOTICE Invitation for Proposals: Survival Research Fund ...... 128 Volume 77.3 Number 912 July 2013

On the Paucity of Apparitions in Jewish Contexts and the Cultural Source Theory for Anomalous Experience Christopher M. Moreman 129 Studying Ernesto Bozzano: Suggestions for Future Historical Studies...... Carlos S. Alvarado 147

NOTES Did Mrs Wilmot Cross the Sea During an OBE in the Pre- Dawn Hours of 14th October 1863 to Visit Mr Wilmot? Robert A. Charman 164 Applying the Theory of Reasoned Action to a Computerized Test of Intuition: Part I. Methodological Note James Houran, Rense Lange and Xavier Lange 178

BOOK REVIEWS Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable – and Couldn’t by Steve Volk Robert A. Charman 190 Science and the Afterlife Experience: Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness by Chris Carter Zofia Weaver 191 Twin Telepathy by Guy Lyon Playfair...... Zofia Weaver 195 Resurrecting : How Science Discovered the Afterlife by Michael Tymn...... Alan Gauld 196 Science, The Self, and Survival After Death: Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson edited by Emily Williams Kelly ...... Donald West 201

OBITUARY Archie E. Roy, 1924 – 2012...... Tricia Robertson 204 A Tribute to Archie Roy: Earnest Investigator of Heavenly Bodies and Earth-Bound Spirits...... Bernard Carr 206

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 77.4 Number 913 October 2013

Tertullian’s Theory of the Soul and Contemporary Psychical Research ...... Michael Potts and Amy Devanno 209 Exceptional Experiences Amongst Twins... Göran Brusewitz, Lynn Cherkas, Juliette Harris and Adrian Parker 220 Applying the Theory of Reasoned Action to a Computerized Test of Intuition, Part II: Decision-Making in a Hidden Test of Psi ...... James Houran and Rense Lange 236

NOTE On William James ...... John Beloff with a Foreword by Adrian Parker 252

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Michael Tymn, Alan Gauld; Eberhard Bauer, Gerd H. Hövelmann, Walter von Lucadou, Adrian Parker 264

NOTICES Research Grants...... 271 Annual General Meeting 2014 ...... 272 Invitation for Proposals: Survival Research Fund ...... 272

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 78.1 Number 914 January 2014 Medium or Author? A Preliminary Model Relating Dissociation, Paranormal Belief Systems and Self-Esteem ...... Everton de Oliveira Maraldi 1 A Remarkable Photographic Anomaly and the Social Dynamics of its Interpretation...... Gerhard A. Mayer 25

NOTE Case Note: The Spontaneous of a Recognised Person Coincident With Death Alan Murdie and John Fraser 39 BOOK REVIEWS One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters by Larry Dossey Robert A. Charman 44 Advances in Parapsychological Research 9 edited by Stanley Krippner, Adam J. Rock, Julie Beischel, Harris L. Friedman and Cheryl L. Fracasso...... Donald J. West 48 The Science of : A 21st-Century Approach for Research and Intervention Within the Conceptual Approach of F. W. H. Myers by Terence Palmer Michael Potts 52 Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques by Graham Nicholls...... William Buhlman 55 A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife by Victor Zammit and Wendy Zammit...... Leslie Price 56 Aspects of Consciousness: Essays on Physics, Death and the Mind edited by Ingrid Fredriksson .... Chris Bratcher 58

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Carlos S. Alvarado; Chris Nunn ...... 61

OBITUARY Colin Wilson, 1931 – 2013...... Guy Lyon Playfair 63

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 78.2 Number 915 April 2014

Two Cases from the Lost Years of Mrs Piper ...... Alan Gauld 65 The Views of Parapsychologists: A Survey of Members of the Parapsychological Association...... Harvey J. Irwin 85

BOOK REVIEWS Things You Can Do When You’re Dead: True Accounts of After-Death Communication by Tricia J. Robertson Guy Lyon Playfair 102 A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting by Leo Ruickbie...Tony Percy 103 The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences: How Understanding NDEs Can Help Us Live More Fully by Penny Sartori...... Robert A. Charman 107 Cuando Hablan los Espiritus: Historias del Movimiento Kardeciano en la Argentina [When the Spirits Speak: A History of the Kardecian Movement in Argentina] by Juan Gimeno, Juan Corbetta and Fabiana Savall Alejandro Parra 110 Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities by Dean Radin Robert A. Charman 112 Landscapes of the Mind: The Faces of Reality by Lawrence LeShan...... Matthew Colborn 116 Wenn die Dunkelheit ein Ende findet: Terminale Geistesklarheit und andere ungewöhnliche Phänomene in Todesnähe [When Darkness Draws to a Close: Terminal Mental Lucidity and Other Unusual Phenomena Near Death] by Michael Nahm...... Andreas Sommer 119 Demystifying Shamans and their World: A Multidisciplinary Study by Adam J. Rock and Stanley Krippner Christian Jensen Romer 121 The Secret History of Poltergeists and Haunted Houses: From Pagan Folklore to Modern Manifestations by Claude Lecouteux ...... Alan Gauld 124

CORRESPONDENCE Letter from Robert A. Charman...... 128 Volume 78.3 Number 916 July 2014

From Symptom to Difference: ‘Hearing Voices’ and Exceptional Experiences ...... Renaud Evrard 129 Théodore Flournoy’s Contributions to Psychical Research Carlos S. Alvarado, Everton de Oliveira Maraldi, Fatima Regina Machado and Wellington Zangari 149

BOOK REVIEWS Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks ...... Robert A. Charman 169 Okkulte Ästhetik: Wunschfiguren des Unbewussten im Werk von Albert von Schrenck-Notzing [Occult Aesthetics: Wish-Figures of the Unconscious in the Work of Albert von Schrenck-Notzing] by Timon L. Kuff...... Michael Nahm 172 and Deception: The Smoke and Mirrors of Paranormal Claims edited by Bryan Farha Robert Mcluhan 174 Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness edited by Cameron Adams, David Luke, Anna Waldstein, Ben Sessa and David King...... Christian Jensen Romer 176 Reimagining the Soul: Afterlife in the Age of Matter by Douglas M. Stokes ...... Matthew Colborn 180 The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World edited by Christopher M. Moreman...... Walter Meyer zu Erpen 186

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 78.4 Number 917 October 2014 Dissociative Tendencies, Sensory-Processing Sensitivity and Aberrant Salience as Predictors of Anomalous Experiences and Paranormal Attributions Harvey J. Irwin, Malcolm B. Schofield and Ian S. Baker 193 Exploration of the Validity and Utility of a Reward Contingency in a Non-Intentional Forced-Choice Precognition Task ...... David Luke and Shelley Morin 207 Effects of Participant and Target System Lability upon PK Performance using an I Ching Task...... Chris A. Roe, Hannah Martin and Sophie Drennan 219 BOOK REVIEWS Science and Spirit: Exploring the Limits of Consciousness by Charles F. Emmons and Penelope Emmons Nemo C. Mörck 239 Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives by Harvey J. Irwin ...... Ian S. Baker, Malcolm B. Schofield and Paul Staples 240 Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife by Greg Taylor ...... Robert A. Charman 242 Opening Heaven’s Door: What the Dying Tell Us About Where They’re Going by Patricia Pearson Robert McLuhan 244 Paranormal Intruder: The True Story of a Family in Fear by Caroline Mitchell ...... Alan Murdie 246 Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience by Christopher C. French and Anna Stone Christopher Laursen 249 CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Peter Wadhams; Robert A. Charman...... 252

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2015...... 255 Research Grants...... 255 Invitation for Proposals: Survival Research Fund ...... 256

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 79.1 Number 918 January 2015

Personality Traits Associated With Premonition Experience: Neuroticism, Extroversion, Empathy and Schizotypy Alejandro Parra 1 Paranormal Attributions for Anomalous Pictures: A Validation of the Survey of Anomalous Experiences Harvey J. Irwin 11 In the Eye of the Beholder: Uncovering the Characteristics of Prospectively Reported Spontaneous Precognitive Dreams...... Caroline Watt, Milan Valášek, Sarah Cawthron and Armandina Almanza 18

BOOK REVIEWS Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives by Jim B. Tucker...... Zofia Weaver 34 Hauntings: and Ghostly Transmissions by Stephen Frosh...... Graham Kidd 36 The Certainty of Eternity: The Story of Australia’s Greatest Medium by L. C. Danby ...... Steve Hume 38 Wolf Messing: The True Story of Russia’s Greatest Psychic by Tatiana Lungin .... Tom Ruffles and Alexandra Nagel 41 The Survival Hypothesis: Essays on Mediumship edited by Adam J. Rock ...... James G. Matlock 45 Crimes of Reason: On Mind, Nature, and the Paranormal by Stephen E. Braude...... Michael Potts 48

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Lew Sutton; Carlos S. Alvarado; Gerhard Mayer; Robert A. Charman ...... 54

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2015 ...... 64 Appointment of Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher ...... 64

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 79.2 Number 919 April 2015

Exploring precognition using a repetition priming paradigm David J. Vernon 65 The Role of Doublethink and Other Coping Processes in Paranormal and Related Beliefs...... Harvey J. Irwin, Neil Dagnall and Kenneth Drinkwater 80 Features of Out-of-Body Experiences: Relationships to Frequency, Wilfulness of and Previous Knowledge about the Experience Carlos S. Alvarado and Nancy L. Zingrone 98

BOOK REVIEWS Modern Miracles: Sathya Sai Baba, a Modern-Day Prophet by Erlendur Haraldsson ...... Brian Steel 112 The Improbability Principle: Why Incredibly Unlikely Things Keep Happening by David Hand ...... Robert A. Charman 115 Las Alas de Psiqué: Extender la Mente mas allá de los límites by Alejandro Parra ...... Stanley Krippner 119 Thomas Manns Geisterbaron: Leben und Werk des Freiherrn Albert von Schrenck-Notzing by Manfred Dierks...... Peter Mulacz 122 Le royaume de l’au-delà by Thomas A. Edison Renaud Evrard 123

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Erica Brostoff; Carlos S. Alvarado ...... 126

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 79.3 Number 920 July 2015

Thinking Style and the Making of a Paranormal Disbelief Harvey J. Irwin 129 Mysterious Ways: The Riddle of the Homing Ability in Dogs and Other Vertebrates ...... Michael Nahm 140 Note on the Reception of Théodore Flournoy’s Des Indes à la Planète Mars Carlos S. Alvarado and Nancy L. Zingrone 156

BOOK REVIEWS Why Materialism is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe, and Everything by Bernardo Kastrup Matthew Colborn 165 The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness Beyond the Brain by Ervin Laszlo with Anthony Peake ...... Bob Charman 172 El buscador de maravillas: Tras los pasos de clarividentes, psíquicos, curanderos (y farsantes) de la Argentina reciente. [The Wonders Searcher: Sightings, Clairvoyants, Psychics, Healers (and Fakers) of Recent Argentina] by Juan Gimeno ...... Alejandro Parra 178 Talking with the Spirits: Ethnographies from Between the Worlds edited by Jack Hunter and David Luke Paul Devereux 179 Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory edited by Edwin C. May and Sonali Bhatt Marwaha Donald West 180 Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem by Peter Lamont ...... Ted Dixon 183

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Robert A. Charman; David Ellis ...... 186

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH 49 MARLOES ROAD, LONDON, W8 6LA Volume 79.4 Number 921 October 2015 Linking Minds Through Joint Attention: A Preliminary Investigation ...... Rupert Sheldrake 193 The ‘Skinwalker Ranch’: A Paranormal Hot Spot? Peter A. McCue 201 BOOK REVIEWS Induced After Death Communication: A Miraculous Therapy for Grief and Loss by Allan L. Botkin and Craig Hogan Robert McLuhan 225 Contagion: In the Shadow of the South Shields Poltergeist by Darren W. Ritson and Michael J. Hallowell Alan Murdie 227 Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports edited by Damian Broderick and Ben Goertzel Robert A. Charman 231 Other Realities? The Enigma of ’s Mediumship by Zofia Weaver...... Michael Tymn 237 Australian Poltergeist: The Stone-Throwing Spook of Humpty-Doo and Many Other Cases by Tony Healey and Paul Cropper...... Barrie Colvin 243 Adventures in Psychical Research: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration of the Nature of Consciousness and its Survival of Bodily Death by Piero Calvi-Parisetti Christian Romer 246 The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case Against Life After Death edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine Robert McLuhan 249 CORRESPONDENCE Letter from Barrie G. Colvin ...... 253

NOTICES Annual General Meeting 2016 ...... 255 Research Grants...... 255 Invitation for Proposals: Survival Research Fund ...... 256

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Volume 80, Number 1 January 2016

Out-of-body experiences during physical activity: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH A report of four new cases...... Carlos S. Alvarado 1 The boundary construct and anomalous experiences in psychics...... Alejandro Parra & Juan Carlos Argibay 13

BOOK REVIEWS Demystifying the out-of-body experience: A practical manual for exploration and personal development, by Luis Minero...... Robert Charman 24 Paracoustics: Sound and the paranormal, edited by Callum E. Cooper and Steven T. Parsons Elizabeth E. McAdams 27 Co-habiting with ghosts: Knowledge, experience, belief and the domestic uncanny, by Carol Lipman... Alan Murdie 29 A Search for Meaning in Victorian Religion: The Spiritual Journey and Esoteric Teachings of Charles Carleton Massey, by Jeffrey D. Lavoie...... Lori Lee Oates 33 Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event, by Eric Ouellet...... Peter A. McCue 35 Beyond physicalism: Toward reconciliation of science and spirituality, edited by Edward F. Kelly, Adam Crabtree, and Paul Marshall...... John Poynton 40 7 Reasons to believe in the afterlife: A doctor reviews the case for consciousness after death, by Jean Jacques Charbonier

Donald West 47

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Ashley Knibb, Charles T. Tart, Robert A. Charman, Carlos S. Alvarado, and Donald J. West...... 50

OBITUARY JANUARY 2016 Rosemary Dinnage, 1928–2015 Mary Rose Barrington, Marian Barton 63 VOLUME 80, NUMBER 2 Journal of the Society for

Psychical Research

Volume 80, Number 2 April 2016

Paranormal Belief and Perceived Control Over Life Events Chris A. Roe & Clare Bell 65 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH Analysed Through Morphic Resonance Jean-Pierre Courtial and René Peoc’h 78

BOOK REVIEWS Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays On Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, And Culture by Bernardo Kastrup...... Graham Kidd 86 Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills by Steven Novella, Skepticism 101: How to Think Like a Scientist by ...... Arthur P. K. John 90 Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidenceedited by Etzel Cardeña, Steven Jay Lynn and Stanley Krippner...... Christopher C French 93 Experimentelle Parapsychologie: Eine Einführung [Experimental Parapsychology: An Introduction] by Stefan Schmidt...... Ulrich Ott 95 The World’s Most : The True Story of the Bridgeport Poltergeist on Lindley Street by William J. Hall...... Barrie Colvin 97 Light Changes: Experiences in the Presence of Transforming Light by Annekatrin Puhle PhD...... Robert Charman 99 The Hyperspace of Consciousness: An Hypothesis About the Physics of Creation and Non-Local Information Inside an Intelligent Universe by Massimo Teodorani

Robert Charman 102 A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Post-mortem Survival by Michael Sudduth...... Donald West 106 Indridi Indridason: The Icelandic Physical Medium by Erlundur Haraldsson and Loftur R. Gissurarson...... Alan Gauld 109 Answers About the Afterlife: A Private Investigator’s 15-Year Research Unlocks the Mysteries of Life After Death

APRIL 2016 by Bob Olson...... Graham Nicholls 115

CORRESPONDENCE Zofia Weaver, John Fraser, Michael Nahm, Carlos Alvarado, Chris Connelly, Robert A Charman...... 118 VOLUME 80, NUMBER 3 Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

Volume 80, Number 3 July 2016

Return of the Gods: Heidegger as the Herald of the Final Scientific Revolution and its Impact on Society.... Jason Reza Jorjani 129 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

RESEARCH NOTE Seeing an Apparition at Glasgow Airport —­ The Robert Macleod and Robert Hambleton-Jones Case Reconsidered...... Robert A Charman 149

BOOK REVIEWS Enquête Sur 150 Ans De Parapsychologie: La Légende De L’esprit by Renaud Evrard...... Guy Lyon Playfair 158 An Den Grenzen Der Erkenntnis. Handbuch Der Wissenschaftlichen Anomalistik [At the frontiers of Knowledge. Handbook of Scientific ]edited by Gerhard Mayer, Michael Schetsche, Ina Schmied-Knittel, and Dieter Vaitl...... Renaud Evrard 161 The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman...... Robert A. Charman 165 The Man Who Could Fly. St Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of . by Michael Grosso...... Guy Lyon Playfair 168 A Question of Spirit by Andrew Macpherson...... John Poynton 170 Medical Pioneers of a Different Kind: Towards a New Paradigm Integrating Body, Mind and Spirit by Carmen Gleadow...... Christian Jensen Romer 172 Indizienbeweise Für Ein Leben Nach Dem Tod Und Die Wiedergeburt — Band 2a Und 2b: Rückführungen In “Frühere Leben” Und Deren Nachprüfung by Dieter Hassler...... Armin Albano-Müller 174 Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century edited by Etzel Cardeña, John Palmer, and David Marcusson- Clavertz...... Caroline Watt 176 More Things You Can Do When You Are Dead: What Can You Truly Believe? by Tricia Robertson...... Robert A Charman 182

JULY 2016 Knowing the Unknowable: Putting Psi to Work by Damien Broderick...... Matthew Colborn 185 The Science of Spirit Possession (2nd Edition) by Terence Palmer...... John Poynton 189

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Carlos S. Alvarado and Malcolm S. Matthews...... 191 VOLUME 80, NUMBER 4 Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

Volume 80, Number 4 October 2016

Psi and : A Controlled Comparison JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH John Palmer 193 Exploratory Study of the Temperament Theory and Paranormal Experiences Alejandro Parra & Juan Carlos Argibay 214

RESEARCH NOTE The Variety of Experiences...... Carlos S. Alvarado 223

BOOK REVIEWS The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher...... Michael Tymn 230 Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind by Marjorie Hines Woollacott...... Robert A Charman 236 Die Dunkle Nacht Der Seele: Nahtod-Erfahrungen und Jenseitsreisen [The Dark Night of The Soul: Near-Death Experiences and Journeys to The Beyond] by Hans Peter Duerr...... Gerhard Mayer 240 Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert: Philosophers on Telepathy and Other Exceptional Experiences by Hein Van Dongen, Hans Gerding And Rico Sneller...... John Poynton 246 The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained by Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey J. Kripal...... Eric Ouellet 251

CORRESPONDENCE Letters from Tricia J. Robertson and Robert A. Charman...... 253

NOTICES Research Grants...... 255 Invitation For Proposals: Survival Research Fund...... 256 Annual General Meeting 2017...... 256 OCTOBER 2016