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In Search of White Crows
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above: Professor Deborah Blum A century ago, roughly between 1885 and 1925, some distinguished scholars and scientists conducted some very thorough investigations of mediums. Their objective was to determine if spirits were really communicating through... More »
The Ghost v. Viktor the Terrible
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Above: Geza Maróczy Put the name Viktor Korchnoi into an Internet Google search and you'll get over 58,000 "hits." The major biographies identify him as a four-time chess champion of the Soviet Union, a... More »
Hollywood Fantasy or Cosmic Reality?
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In the 1990 hit movie, Ghost, "Sam" (Patrick Swayze), who had been murdered, communicates with "Molly" (Demi Moore), his girlfriend, through a somewhat mischievous medium, "Oda Mae" (Whoopi Goldberg). In one scene, Oda Mae reluctantly... More »
My "Interview" with Sir William Crookes (1832-1919)
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Put "Sir William Crookes" into an Internet Google search and you will receive some 79,000 hits. The very first one, from the Dictionary of National Biography, refers to him as a "Victorian Man of... More »
The Most Awesome Spirit Story You'll Ever Read
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Over the years I have read hundreds of accounts of spirit communication through mediums. People sometimes ask me to name the most interesting case I have come across. I tell them it is the... More »
A Life After Death Mystery
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above: one of the buried crosses now on display in the West Salem Historical Museum (photo by Dr. Keith Newlin) One of the most intriguing stories of mediumship on record was told by Hamlin... More »
The Physician Who Watched Himself Die
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In his 1903 book, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (published two years after his 1901 death), Frederic W. H. Myers, the pioneering psychical researcher, set forth a story about what is... More »
Traveling Out of Body
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In his 1907 book, The Psychic Riddle , Dr. Isaac K. Funk, the renowned publisher (Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary, etc.) tells of some out-of-body experiences (OBEs) told to him by a friend, whom,... More »
The Materializations of May King
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Above: Dr. John S. King In his 1920 book, Dawn of the Awakened Mind , John S. King, a Toronto physician and president of the Canadian Society for Psychical Research, tells of seeing and communicating... More »
Why the Decline of Spectacular Mediumship
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People familiar with the mediumship of 75-150 years ago often ask or wonder why the mediumship of today is not nearly as spectacular. With a few scattered exceptions, all of today's mediumship is of... More »
spirituality
May 2008