Posted on Nov 7th, 2009
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above: ectoplasm beginning to form into a materialized spirit (Medium: Kathleen Goligher, photographer, Dr. William Crawford) Vice-Admiral W. Usborne Moore, a retired British naval commander, began investigating mediums in 1904. One of the... More »
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Posted on Oct 24th, 2009
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above: not all ectoplasm flows from the mouth Skeptical scientists insisted that ectoplasm was nothing more than cheesecloth or some other substance cleverly packed in the body and regurgitated at an opportune... More »
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Posted on Jul 6th, 2009
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Above: Jesse Shepard There has been much in the way of spirit communication to suggest that talented artists in the spirit world attempt to influence, or overshadow, people here on the earth plane, especially... More »
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Posted on Apr 29th, 2009
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above: Leonora Piper Before March 1892, Dr. Richard Hodgson, the executive secretary and chief investigator for the American Society for Psychical Research (SPR) rejected the spirit hypothesis of mediumship. He believed that the purported... More »
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Posted on Apr 15th, 2009
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above: Richard Hodgson Having heard that Dr. Richard Hodgson, an Australian teaching in England and serving as an investigator for the Society for Psychical Resarch (SPR), had supposedly exposed Madame Blavatsky as a... More »
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Posted on Sep 13th, 2008
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Pseudoskeptics and debunkers are usually quick to smirk and scoff at reports that spirits wear clothes. Indeed, it even exceeds the boggle threshold of many who believe in a spirit world. "When the soul... More »
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Posted on Oct 29th, 2007
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above: Eileen Garrett I had intended to run some more wisdom from the spirits of Swedenborg and Bacon in this blog post, but since Halloween is upon us I will hold that one until... More »
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Posted on Jun 19th, 2007
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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 »
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Posted on Feb 8th, 2007
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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 »
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