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Gardner on Exorcisms • Creationism and 'Rare Earth' • When Scientific Evidence Is the Enemy
GARDNER ON EXORCISMS • CREATIONISM AND 'RARE EARTH' • WHEN SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE IS THE ENEMY THE MAGAZINE FOR SCIENCE AND REASON Volume 25, No. 6 • November/December 2001 THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS OF THE PARANORMAL AT THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY-INTERNATIONAL (ADJACENT TO THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO) • AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Paul Kurtz, Chairman; professor emeritus of philosophy. State University of New York at Buffalo Barry Karr, Executive Director Joe Nickell, Research Fellow Massimo Polidoro, Research Fellow Richard Wiseman, Research Fellow Lee Nisbet, Special Projects Director FELLOWS James E. Alcock,* psychologist. York Univ., Susan Haack, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts Loren Pankratz, psychologist. Oregon Health Toronto and Sciences, prof, of philosophy. University Sciences Univ. Jerry Andrus, magician and inventor, Albany, of Miami John Paulos, mathematician. Temple Univ. Oregon C. E. M. Hansel, psychologist. Univ. of Wales Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist. MIT Marcia Angell, M.D.. former editor-in-chief, Al Hibbs, scientist. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Massimo Polidoro, science writer, author, New England Journal of Medicine Douglas Hofstadter, professor of human under executive director CICAP, Italy Robert A. Baker, psychologist. Univ. of standing and cognitive science, Indiana Univ. Milton Rosenberg, psychologist, Univ. of Kentucky Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chicago Stephen Barrett M.D., psychiatrist, author, Physics and professor of history of science. Wallace Sampson, M.D., clinical professor of consumer advocate, Allentown, Pa. Harvard Univ. Barry Beyerstein,* biopsychologist. Simon Ray Hyman,* psychologist. Univ. of Oregon medicine, Stanford Univ., editor. Scientific Fraser Univ.. Vancouver, B.C., Canada Leon Jaroff, sciences editor emeritus, Time Review of Alternative Medicine Irving Biederman, psychologist Univ. -
PDF, JSE 34:4, Winter 2020
JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION A Publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration (ISSN 0892-3310) published quarterly, and continuously since 1987 Editorial Office: [email protected] Manuscript Submission: http://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/ Editor-in-Chief: Stephen E. Braude, University of Maryland Baltimore County Managing Editor: Kathleen E. Erickson, San Jose State University, California Assistant Managing Editor: Elissa Hoeger, Princeton, NJ Associate Editors Carlos S. Alvarado, Parapsychology Foundation, New York, New York Imants Barušs, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Daryl Bem, Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Robert Bobrow, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Jeremy Drake, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts Michael Ibison, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austin, Texas Roger D. Nelson, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Mark Rodeghier, Center for UFO Studies, Chicago, Illinois Harald Walach, Viadrina European University, Frankfurt, Germany Publications Committee Chair: Garret Moddel, University of Colorado Boulder Editorial Board Dr. Mikel Aickin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Dr. Steven J. Dick, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC Dr. Peter Fenwick, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK Dr. Alan Gauld, University of Nottingham, UK Prof. W. H. Jefferys, University of Texas, Austin, TX Dr. Wayne B. Jonas, Samueli Institute, Alexandria, VA Dr. Michael Levin, Tufts University, Boston, MA Dr. David C. Pieri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Prof. Juan Roederer, University of Alaska–Fairbanks, AK Prof. Peter A. Sturrock, Stanford University, CA Prof. N. C. Wickramasinghe, Churchill College, UK SUBSCRIPTIONS & PREVIOUS JOURNAL ISSUES: Order forms on back pages or at scientific- exploration.org. COPYRIGHT: Authors retain copyright. However, when an article has been submitted to the Journal of Scientific Exploration, the Journal holds first serial rights. -
Astrologie Und Wissenschaft – Ein Prekäres Verhältnis Teil 1: Historischer Rückblick Auf Die Deutschsprachige Astrologie Im 20
Zeitschrift für Anomalistik Band 20 (2020), S. 86–117 Astrologie und Wissenschaft – ein prekäres Verhältnis Teil 1: Historischer Rückblick auf die deutschsprachige Astrologie im 20. Jahrhundert und gegenwärtige Entwicklungen1 Gerhard Mayer2 Zusammenfassung – Dieser zweiteilige Aufsatz beleuchtet das schwierige Verhältnis von Astrologie und Wissenschaft aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Während im vorliegenden ersten Teil ein histo- rischer Rückblick auf die Entwicklungen im 20. Jahrhundert im deutschsprachigen Raum gegeben wird, beschäftigt sich der zweite Teil (in der kommenden Ausgabe) mit theoretischen und methodi- schen Überlegungen zu empirischen Untersuchungen zur Validität der Astrologie. Während des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde die Astrologie im deutschsprachigen Raum von einigen Personen geprägt, die ein besonderes Streben nach Anschlussfähigkeit an wissenschaftliche Befunde und Modelle sowie nach einer naturphilosophischen Fundierung verfolgten. Der Astrologe Thomas Ring entwickelte eine elaborierte „astrologische Anthropologie“, die „revidierte Astrologie“, die den Anspruch hatte, anschlussfähig an andere wissenschaftliche Disziplinen wie die Biologie und die Psychologie zu sein. In dem Parapsychologen Hans Bender fand Ring einen interessierten Ansprechpartner, der bereit war, Experimente zur Überprüfung der Astrologie durchzuführen. Diese Offenheit für wissenschaft- liche Überprüfung, kombiniert mit dem Wunsch, alte, auf magischem Analogiedenken beruhende Konzepte durch stärker mit wissenschaftlichen Modellen kompatible zu ersetzen, -
Jung on Astrology
Jung on Astrology Jung on Astrology brings together C. G. Jung’s thoughts on astrology in a single volume for the fi rst time, signifi cantly adding to our understanding of his work. Jung’s Collected Works , seminars, and letters contain numerous discussions of this ancient divinatory system, and Jung himself used astrological horoscopes as a diagnostic tool in his analytic practice. Understood in terms of his own psychology as a symbolic representation of the archetypes of the collective unconscious, Jung found in astrology a wealth of spiritual and psychological meaning and suggested it represents the “sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.” The selections and editorial introductions by Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice address topics that were of critical importance to Jung – such as the archetypal symbolism in astrology, the precession of the equinoxes and astrological ages, astrology as a form of synchronicity and acausal correspondence, the qualitative nature of time, and the experience of astrological fate – allowing readers to assess astrology’s place within the larger corpus of Jung’s work and its value as a source of symbolic meaning for our time. The book will be of great interest to analytical psychologists, Jungian psy- chotherapists, and academics and students of depth psychology and Jungian and post-Jungian studies, as well as to astrologers and therapists of other orientations, especially transpersonal. Safron Rossi, PhD, is a Professor of mythology and depth psychology in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization at Pacifi ca Graduate Institute, Cali- fornia. For many years she was curator of the Joseph Campbell and James Hillman manuscript collections. -
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research V27 1931-32
JOURNAL OF THE Society for Psychical Research VOL. XXVII 1931-1932 For Private Circulation among Members and Associates only THE SOCIETY'S ROOMS 31 TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, W.C.i All rights reserved CONTENTS PA8E Impression received at the Time of a Friend's Death - 3 A Premonition - -- -- -- --18 Annual Report of the Council for the Year 1930 20 Apparition of a Relative seen at the Time of her Death - 34 Annual General Meeting - - - - - - 52 A Notable Booktest obtained at a Sitting with Mrs Leonard ; by Theodore Besterman ------ 59 A Series of Mediumistic Statements made to Four Sitters - 74 Poltergeists by W. H. Salter - - - - - - 91 ; A Case of apparent Haunting in Moscow by Count ; Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo ------ 95 The Medium Frau Silbert by Rudolf Lambert - 112 ; Two Incidents - -- -- -- -- 126 Towards a Theory of Dowsing : I. Introduction by Theodore Besterman - - - 142 ; II. The Art of the Dowser ; by Vicomte Henry de France -------- 143 III. Dowsing as a Physico-Physiological Phenomenon ; by Graf Carl von Klinckowstroem - - - 147 IV. Reply to Graf von Klinckowstroem by Vicomte ; Henry de France ------ 152 V. Reply to Vicomte de France by Graf Carl von ; Klinckowstroem - - - - - -155 VI. The Psychical and Physical Theories of Dowsing ; by Theodore Besterman - - - - - 157 The Lourdes Cures - -- -- -- - 165 Ancient or Unknown Controls by A. W. Trethewy - - 178 ; A Prophecy in Old Moore's Almanack Theodore Bester- ; by man - - - - - - - - - - 182 24851.9 iv Cements PAGE Annual Report of the Council for the Year 1931 195 in Classical by Prof. Supernormal Occurrences' Antiquity ; E. R. Dodds - - 216 Annual General Meeting - - - 234 An Experiment in Long-Distance Telepathy by Theodore ; Besterman - - ------ 235 Sitting with Bert Reese by Dr Walter Franklin Prince - 249 A ; The Relation between Parapsychical and Paraphysical - - 268 Phenomena ; by W. -
Spirituality: the Legacy of Parapsychology
Archive for the Psychology of Religion 31 (2009) 277-308 brill.nl/arp Spirituality: Th e Legacy of Parapsychology Harald Walacha), Niko Kohlsb), Nikolaus von Stillfriedc), Th ilo Hinterbergerc), Stefan Schmidt c) a) Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Th e University of Northampton, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road, Northampton NNZ 7AL, UK E-mail: [email protected] b) Generation Research Project, Human Science Centre, Ludwig-University-Munich, Munich, Germany c) University Medical Centre, Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, Freiburg, Germany Received: August 2008; accepted: 27 December 2008 Summary Spirituality is a topic of recent interest. Mindfulness, for example, a concept derived from the Buddhist tradition, has captivated the imagination of clinicians who package it in convenient intervention programs for patients. Spirituality and religion have been researched with reference to potential health benefi ts. Spirituality can be conceptualised as the alignment of the individual with the whole, experientially, motivationally and in action. For spirituality to unfold its true potential it is necessary to align this new movement with the mainstream of science, and vice versa. Hence, both a historical review, and a systematic attempt at integration is called for, which we are trying to give here. It is useful to go back to one of the roots: parapsychology. Parapsychol- ogy was founded as a counter movement to the rising materialist paradigm in the 19th century. Adopting the methods of the natural sciences, it tried to prove the direct infl uence of conscious- ness on matter. After 125 years this mission must be declared unaccomplished. Surveying the database of parapsychological research it is obvious that it will not convince sceptics: Although there are enough exceptional fi ndings, it has in general not been possible to reproduce them in replication experiments. -
Jse 29 1 Reviewbraude.Pdf (145.5Kb)
Reprinted from “Australian Poltergeist: The Stone-Throwing Spook of Humpty Doo and Many Other Cases”, Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. [29], no. [1], pp. [158-160], published by the Society for Scientific Exploration, http://www.scientificexploration.org. Access to this work was provided by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) ScholarWorks@UMBC digital repository on the Maryland Shared Open Access (MD-SOAR) platform. Please provide feedback Please support the ScholarWorks@UMBC repository by emailing [email protected] and telling us what having access to this work means to you and why it’s important to you. Thank you. Journal of Scientifi c Exploration, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 158–160, 2015 0892-3310/15 BOOK REVIEW Australian Poltergeist: The Stone-Throwing Spook of Humpty Doo and Many Other Cases by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper. Strange Nation, 2014. 300 pp. ISBN 978-1-921134-34-0 (print), 978-1-921134- 35-7 (digital). No doubt this breezily written and informative volume will fill a gaping lacuna in most JSE readers’ knowledge of evidence for psychokinesis generally and poltergeist phenomena in particular. It certainly did for me. Healy and Cropper survey 52 different Australian cases, spanning the years 1845–2002. The first eleven chapters cover the authors’ 11 strongest cases in considerable detail. Chapter 12 describes the remaining 41 cases more briefly, and catalogues all 52 cases in chronological order. Chapter 13 purports to wrap things up, but it’s followed by three appendices introducing additional cases outside Australia and brief discussions of similar or at least potentially relevant physical mysteries—for example, some Asian fire poltergeist cases, ball lightning, UFOs, and reported rains of fishes. -
Biennial Report 2018−2019
Biennial Report 2018−2019 ψ ψ Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e. V. (IGPP) Freiburg im Breisgau Biennial Report 2018–2019 Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e. V. Freiburg i. Br. Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e. V. (IGPP) Wilhelmstr. 3a D-79098 Freiburg i. Br. Phone: +49 (0)761 20721 10 Telefax: +49 (0)761 20721 99 Internet: www.igpp.de Prof. em. Dr. Dieter Vaitl (ed.) Printed by: schwarz auf weiss. Litho- und Druck GmbH, Freiburg i. Br. All rights reserved: Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e. V. Freiburg i. Br., April 2020 Content Preface ...................................................................................................................1 1. History ...............................................................................................................3 2. Research ..........................................................................................................5 2.1 Natural Sciences and Experimental Research ...........................................6 2.1.1 Dual Aspect Monism ..........................................................................6 2.1.2 Perception and Cognition ...................................................................7 2.1.3 Time Perception and Time Consciousness ...................................... 11 2.2 Social and Cultural Research ...................................................................15 2.2.1 Cultural Studies and Social Research .............................................15 -
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AnnaLux Passing Through the Needle’sEye Dimensionen der universitären Integration der Parapsychologie in Deutschland undden USA 1Einleitung¹ Im Rahmendes Dies Academicus an der FreiburgerUniversität hielt Hans Bender, Professor für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, Anfang 1958 einen Vortrag unter dem Titel „Parapsychologische Phänomene als wissenschaftliche Grenzfrage“. Darin konstatierteBender gleich zu Beginn die „Sonderstellung“ des Faches Pa- rapsychologie, das als einziges gezwungen sei, „die Existenz seines eigenen Ge- genstandes zu beweisen oder zumindest,seine Eigenständigkeit und Nicht-Re- duzierbarkeit glaubhaft zu machen.“² Diese „Sonderstellung“ war für Bender nicht nur eine epistemologische Herausforderung.Vielmehr hatte er sich schon zu Beginn seiner Karriere das Ziel gesetzt,die Parapsychologie als Universitätsdis- ziplin zu etablieren.³ Denn nur als Bestandteil vonUniversitäten – so die Annahme – könnten die Forschungen des Fachs aufDauer gestellt, personelle Kontinuitäten gesichert,Anerkennungund Legitimität geschaffen sowieSichtbarkeit erzeugt werden.⁴ Als Bender1958 den genannten Vortrag hielt,hatte er wichtigeEtappen aufdem Wegzur Erfüllungdieses Ziels bereits genommen. Seit 1954 war er planmäßiger außerordentlicher Professor an der Universität Freiburgmit aus- drücklichem Lehrauftrag für die Grenzgebiete der Psychologie. Er war ein er- folgreicher akademischer Lehrer und Wissenschaftsorganisator. Und nicht zuletzt wiesen ihn seine Rolle als Redner während des Dies Academicus, alsoimoffizi- ellen Programm der Universität,als -
Und Die Deutsche Parapsychologie / Anna Lux. - Berlin [U.A.] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020
C GESELLSCHAFTSWISSENSCHAFTEN CB BILDUNG UND ERZIEHUNG CBA Wissenschaft und Forschung Parapsychologie Personale Informationsmittel Hans BENDER BIOGRAPHIE 21-1 Wissenschaft als Grenzwissenschaft : Hans Bender (1907 - 1991) und die deutsche Parapsychologie / Anna Lux. - Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. - XII, 330 S. : Ill. ; 23 cm. - (Okkulte Moderne ; 5). - ISBN 978-3-11-067081-3 : EUR 49.95 [#7240] Hans Bender, 1946 Gastprofessor, ab 1954 außerordentlicher und von 1967 bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 1975 ordentlicher Professor der Universi- tät Freiburg i. Br., gehörte viele Jahre zu den bekanntesten Hochschulleh- rern nicht nur der Freiburger, sondern der bundesrepublikanischen akade- mischen Welt insgesamt. Seine Fachbezeichnung lautete nach den Anga- ben von Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender zunächst „Psycholo- gie“, wurde aber im Lauf der Jahre um „Tiefenpsychologie“ und „Parapsy- chologie“ erweitert. Seine Forschungen wurden in dem von ihm 1950 ge- gründeten Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene e.V. (IGPP)1 durchgeführt, das bis 1995 auf der Freiburger „Eichhalde“ an- gesiedelt war, dann aber, als die dortigen Räumlichkeiten – infolge neuer Stiftungsmittel - zu klein wurden, in die Freiburger Wilhelmstraße umzog. Es war institutionell unabhängig, d. h. (mit Ausnahme der Bibliothek) nicht mit der Universität Freiburg i. Br. verbunden. Bender hatte somit als IGPP- Direktor bzw. Universitäts-Professor (später Lehrstuhlinhaber) eine Doppel- funktion, wie auch sein Schüler und Nachfolger Johannes Mischo (1930 - 2001), der 1998 emeritiert wurde. 2 1 https://www.igpp.de/allg/welcome.htm [2021-01-12; so auch für die weiteren Links]. 2 Zum universitären Kontext vgl. Die Freiburger philosophische Fakultät : 1920 - 1960 ; Mitglieder - Strukturen - Vernetzungen / hrsg. von Eckhard Wirbelauer. In Verbindung mit Frank-Rutger Hausmann .. -
Breast Cancer Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options Foreword III
Foreword I Bombardieri · Bonadonna · Gianni Breast Cancer Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options Foreword III E. Bombardieri · G. Bonadonna · L. Gianni (Eds.) Breast Cancer Nuclear Medicine in Diagnosis and Therapeutic Options With Contributions by R. Agresti · A. Alessi · H. Bender · S. Bergomi · T. Beyer · H.-J. Biersack · E. Bombardieri A. K. Buck · E. Brugola · J. R. Buscombe · I. Butti · V. Cappelletti · A. Carbone M. L. Carcangiu · A. Coli · P. F. Conte · F. Crippa · M. G. Daidone · A. Fabbri · F. Fazio L. Florimonte · R. Fonti · O. Gentilini · A. Gerali · L. Gianni · L. Gianolli · M. Gion V. Guarneri · N. Harbeck · K. Hausegger · O. S. Hoekstra · I. Igerc · M. Intra · F. Iommelli N. C. Krak · J. M. H. de Klerk · M. G. E. H. Lam · A. A. Lammertsma · C. Landoni · P. Lind G. Lucignani · G. Madeddu · L. Maffi oli · C. Di Maggio · C. L. Maini · S. Manoukian P. Mariani · N. Mazzuca · C. Messa · A. J. Nordin · H. Palmedo · G. Paganelli · L. Pagani F. Pallotti · A. Paradiso · R. Pasqualoni · F. Piacentini · M. Picchio · P. Reinprecht · S. N. Reske P. P. van Rijk · I. Roca · M. Salvatore · O. Schillaci · M. Schmitt · R. Sciuto · E. Seregni G. Serfi ni · A. Spanu · L. Strigari · F. Sweep · L. Tagliabue · G. Trecate · G. Trifi rò S. Del Vecchio · D. Vernaghi · U. Veronesi · G. Viale · B. Zangheri · A. Zannetti With 72 Figures in 156 Separate Illustrations, 56 in Color and 30 Tables 123 IV Foreword Emilio Bombardieri, MD Division of Nuclear Medicine Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Via Venezian 1 20133 Milano Italy Luca Gianni, MD Division of Medical Oncology Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Via Venezian 1 20133 Milano Italy Gianni Bonadonna, MD Chair, Perspective Clinical Trials Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Via Venezian 1 20133 Milano Italy Library of Congress Control Number: 2007933314 ISBN 978-3-540-36780-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. -
The Man Who Fooled Edison . . . but Not Houdini
NOTES ON A STRANGE WORLD MASSIMO POLIDORO The Man Who Fooled Edison . but Not Houdini n one of the earliest letters for whom?” Rather a strange ex changed between magi- question, but it happened cian Harry Houdini and that I was having constructed an Exedra for my Beloved ISherlock Holmes creator Sir Mother, and naturally he Arthur Conan Doyle, a fer- could not “guess,” though, vent Spiritualist, the English from the other questions author asks his friend about he answered, he is a gifted the mysterious powers of one reader of character and judges human beings perfectly. I Professor Bert Reese. caught him red-handed, and In actual fact, Reese was no he acknowledged it was the professor—his real name was first time in his life that any- Berthold Riess (1841–1928). one had ever “recognized his A fat, bald, and jovial char- Powers.” And I’ll put it in writing that he was the slickest acter, Reese toured the world I have ever seen. astounding crowned heads and the cream of the crop What was Reese doing of society with his demon- then? What is the “Pellet strations of apparent telep- Test”? A pellet, in magician’s athy. Thomas Alva Edison, lingo, is a billet rolled into a inventor of the phonograph, ball. Reese would ask his sitters had seen him perform and to write something on their became convinced that he billets while he left the room: a really possessed supernatural question, a name or something powers. “Most prodigies are Berthold Riess else. When he would return, merely prodigies, meaning, the billets would be rolled into really, nothing, and this may when charged with fortune-telling in balls—pellets—and he would be the case with Reese,” said Edison with Judge Rosalsky’s Court, he gave a test correctly guess the content of each one.