Review of ‘Greening the Paranormal’
‘Weirdness and Complexity’ – the full review by Alan Murdie of Greening the Paranormal: Exploring the Ecology of Extraordinary Experience (2019) edited by Jack Hunter, foreword by Paul Devereux A shortened version of this appeared in Fortean Times FT388 January 2020. You can read the Full Review here: Arthur C. Clarke once described […]
MAGIC, SKEPTICISM AND THE TIMES
In a piece entitled ‘Illusionists must be honest if magic is to survive’ carried by The Times of London on 25 July 2016, one of its leader writers Oliver Kamm paid tribute to conjurers, stage magicians and illusionists such as Houdini. However, Kamm veered into error when turning his article into an attack upon parapsychology, […]
POLTERGEIST KNOCKS
Scientific evidence of poltergeist knocking? A potentially repeatable paranormal phenomenon – if we look for it…. Illustration of the sound pattern of an unexplained rap occurring in poltergeist activity It is six years since Dr Barrie Colvin published an article ‘The Acoustic Properties of Unexplained Rapping Sounds’ in the Journal of the Society for Psychical […]