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Brian D. Josephson
Charles Robert Richet
John William Strutt
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie
Alfred Russel Wallace
Sir William Crookes
Sir Robert Boyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Richard Hodgson
Gary Schwartz
Neville Whymant
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Brian D. Josephson
(Nobel Prize for Physics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Josephson
Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, Wales, UK, 4 January 1940) is a
British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect
... won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics
... [H]e is the head of the mind-matter unification project in the Theory of Condensed Matter
research group.
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Josephson's is one of the more well-known scientists who believe that
parapsychological phenomena may be real...
In
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/psi/tucson.html
he writes:
"What are the implications for science of the fact that psychic
functioning appears to be a real effect? These phenomena seem
mysterious, but no more mysterious perhaps than strange phenomena of the
past which science has now happily incorporated within its scope."
His web site has links to many articles discussing the validity of psychic phenomena:
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/
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Charles Robert Richet
(Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine)
http://www.spiritwritings.com/charlesrichet.html
Charles Robert Richet: 1850-1925. Pioneer psychical researcher, honored professor of
physiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, and winner of the 1913
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
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He conducted experiments with a number of different mediums
including Franek Kluski, Jan Guzyk, and Stephen Ossowiecki, both in
Paris and Warsaw.
...
"The more I reflect and weigh in my mind these materializations,
hauntings, marvelous lucidity, apports, xenoglossie, apparitions and,
above all, premonitions, the more I am persuaded that we know absolutely
nothing of the universe which surrounds us. We live in a sort of dream
and have not yet understood anything of the agitations and tumults of
this dream."
Recommended Reading
Thirty Years of Psychical Research
http://survivalebooks.org/#Thirty Years of Psychical Research
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John William Strutt
(Nobel Prize for Physics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (12 November 1842 – 30 June
1919) was an English physicist who (with William Ramsay) discovered the
element argon, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh
scattering and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as
Rayleigh waves.
http://www.answers.com/topic/john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh
...[He] was president of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London,
1919.
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Lord Rayleigh became interested in psychical research after reading
about the investigations of his colleague Sir William Crookes.
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/researchers/rayleigh.htm
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"I have seen enough to convince me that those are wrong who wish to
prevent investigation by casting ridicule on those who may feel inclined
to engage in it."
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Marie Curie
(Nobel Prize for Physics and Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
Marie Curie was the first woman awarded a Nobel prize and she was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.
According to Wikipedia...
Her achievements include the creation of a theory of radioactivity (a
term coined by her[2]), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes,
and the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium. It was also
under her personal direction that the world's first studies were
conducted into the treatment of neoplasms (cancers), using radioactive
isotopes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
Marie Curie participated
in experiments with the medium Eusapia Palladino.
According to the "Occultism & Parapsychology Encyclopedia"...
The Institut Général Psychologique of Paris carried on extensive experiments in 43 sittings from 1905 to 1907. Pierre and Marie Curie were among the investigators.
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The Curies regarded mediumistic séances as "scientific experiments" and took detailed notes. According to historian Anna Hurwic, they thought it possible to discover in spiritualism the source of an unknown energy that would reveal the secret of radioactivity.[12]
http://www.answers.com/topic/eusapia-palladino
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Pierre Curie
(Nobel Prize for Physics)
Pierre Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
According to Wikipedia:
Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a
pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and
radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize
in Physics with his wife, Maria Sklodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel,
"in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by
their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by
Professor Henri Becquerel."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Curie
According to the "Occultism & Parapsychology Encyclopedia"...
On July 24, 1905, Pierre Curie reported to his friend Gouy: "We have had a series of séances with Eusapia Palladino at the [Society for Psychical Research]."
It was very interesting, and really the phenomena that we saw appeared
inexplicable as trickery—tables raised from all four legs, movement of
objects from a distance, hands that pinch or caress you, luminous
apparitions. All in a [setting] prepared by us with a small number of
spectators all known to us and without a possible accomplice. The only
trick possible is that which could result from an extraordinary facility
of the medium as a magician. But how do you explain the phenomena when
one is holding her hands and feet and when the light is sufficient so
that one can see everything that happens?[13]
http://www.answers.com/topic/eusapia-palladino
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace discovered the theory of natural selection at the
same time Charles Darwin did. This theory was based on extensive
observations of the natural world. Wallace was originally a skeptic
about the evidence of mediumistic phenomena but his great powers
of observation, the same ones which led him to discover the theory of natural
selection, also forced him to accept mediumistic phenomena as
genuinely paranormal.
The Wikipedia article on Wallace gives a brief biography of his life
and work:
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural
selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace
The SurvivalAfterDeath.org.uk web site explains how Wallace was forced
to abandon his skeptical beliefs when the weight of his observations
proved to him that mediumistic phenomena are genuinely
paranormal. Wallace...
... was a confirmed philosophical sceptic, a materialist so
thorough that before he got acquainted with the facts of spiritualism
there was no place in his mind for the conception of spiritual
existence, or for any agencies in the universe other than matter and
force. The facts beat him. To quote his own words from his preface to
On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism:
"They compelled me to accept them, as facts, long before I could accept
the spiritual explanation of them: there was at that time 'no place in
my fabric of thought into which it could be fitted.' (Argument of Dr.
Carpenter). By slow degrees a place was made."
He was led to believe (1) in the existence of a number of preterhuman
intelligences of various grades; (2) that some of these intelligences,
although usually invisible and intangible to us, can and do act on
matter, and do influence our minds.
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/researchers/wallace.htm
Many skeptics believe that natural selection gives sufficient
explanation of the origin of life and humankind so that belief in
supernatural forces is unwarranted. Clearly this is a
fallacy
if one of
the discovers of natural selection believed in supernatural
intelligences.
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Sir William Crookes
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/researchers/crookes.htm
Sir William Crookes: 1832-1919. Discoverer of the element thallium.
Elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1863. Royal Gold Medal 1875,
Davy Medal 1888, Sir Joseph Copley Medal 1904, knighted in 1897, Order
of Merit 1910. Invented the cathode-ray tube.
Crookes first began his investigations into 'psychic' phenomena in 1869
as a hostile doubter. In his article, 'Spiritualism Viewed by the Light
of Modern Science' he declared:
"The increased employment of scientific methods will produce a race
of observers who will drive the worthless residuum of spiritualism hence
into the unknown limbo of magic and necromancy."
However...
Crookes' experiments with Daniel D. Home demonstrated the existence of
a 'psychic force' wholly ignored by science.
Crookes stated:
"Of all persons endowed with a powerful development of this Psychic
Force, Mr. Daniel Dunglas Home is the most remarkable and it is mainly
owing to the many opportunities I have had of carrying on my
investigation in his presence that I am enabled to affirm so
conclusively the existence of this force."
Recommended Reading:
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/books/crookes/researches/contents.htm
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Sir Robert Boyle
Sir Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was one of the most brilliant scientists of
all time. In the book "Extraordinary Knowing", Elizabeth Mayer explains
that Boyle was the father of modern chemistry, the founder of the Royal
Society of London, and the author of Boyle's Law.
Mayer also explains that Boyle investigated the spiritual healer
Valentine Greatrakes. At first Boyle was skeptical, but his
investigations convinced him of the genuineness of Greatrakes abilities.
Boyle's lab notebooks from 1666 contain notes on his observations.
This day a woman came among other Patients to be curd of a great
thicknesse of hearing she complaind of, & he haveing put his fingers in
her ears, and (as I remember) a litle strookd them, she complaind no
more of her deafnesse, but a great pain that resided in the fore part of
her Head, where haveing strookd her, he presently dislodgd the pain, &
after haveing chasd if from place to place about her Head, as she
informd us, at length she told us that both her pain & the deafnesse
were gone, & when I askd her how long she had [d] bin soe thick of
hearing, she innocently answerd me ever since the birth of her first
child, & when I smileing demaunded how it was since she was
brought in Bed of her first child, she said about a year & a quarter,
and affirmeing her self to be recoverd, as she seemd to the by-standers
to be, she went away joyfull.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/workdiaries/WD26Clean.html
More information about Valentine Greatrakes can be found here:
http://www.dungarvanmuseum.org/exhibit/web/Display/article
/45/1;jsessionid=911B007920C90CA58E0F147732A0580B
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/researchers/doyle.htm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930. . . . In 1881 he
obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery degree. . . .
As regards survival, in 1902 when he first met Sir Oliver Lodge he
had not arrived at a definite conclusion. But Myers' Human
Personality made a deep impression on his mind. . . .
Later . . .
http://www.spiritwritings.com/arthurconandoyle.html
Until his death Doyle remained convinced that life
continued after death, because of ongoing communications from deceased
family members who assured him that they lived in the spirit world.
These communications remained the "definite demonstration" that he had
sought since his days at the University of Edinburgh.
One would expect that a trained doctor and surgeon and the creator of
the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes would not be taken in by
fraudulent mediums and would reach reasonable conclusions from the
evidence.
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Richard Hodgson
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/researchers/hodgson.htm
Richard Hodgson 1855-1905 . . . Professor of legal studies at
Cambridge University. . . . His legal training and personal
attainments made him specially qualified for the detection of fraud. .
. . The change in his general attitude towards the phenomenal side of
'spiritualism' was brought about very slowly and after desperate
resistance by his unparalleled opportunities of investigation with the
mediumship of Mrs. Piper for a period of fifteen years.
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Gary Schwartz
Psychic Researcher: Gary Schwartz Ph.D.
From
http://veritas.arizona.edu/investigators.htm
GARY E. SCHWARTZ, Ph.D., Director of the VERITAS Research Program, is a
professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at
the University of Arizona and director of its Human Energy Systems
Laboratory and its Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science.
After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as a
professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of
the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral
Medicine Clinic. Dr. Schwartz has published more than four hundred
scientific papers, edited eleven academic books, is the co-author of The
Living Energy Universe, and is the author of The Afterlife Experiments:
Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death and The Truth About
Medium.
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Neville Whymant
http://www.freewebs.com/psilib/PsychicAdventuresWhymant.txt
At the end of March, 1926, I first arrived in New York, having left
England a few days before. Previously I had spent several years in the
Far East engaged in ethnologic research, an occupation which
necessitated my speaking several Oriental languages daily. This
acquaintance with a variety of tongues was the direct cause of my being
drawn into the series of strange happenings which form the burden of
this tale.
. . .
As the [spirit] voice went on I realized that the style of Chinese
used was identical with that of the Chinese Classics, edited by
Confucius two thousand five hundred years ago. Only among the scholars
of Archaic Chinese could one now hear that accent and style, and then
only when they intoned some passage from the ancient books. In other
words, the Chinese to which we were now listening was as dead
colloquially as Sanskrit or Latin, and had been so for even a greater
length of time. If this was a hoax, it was a particularly clever one,
far beyond the scope of any of the sinologues now living.
. . .
I asked if "the Master" would explain to me the meaning of one of these long-obscure odes.
. . .
In declaiming the ode the voice had put a new construction on the
verses and made the whole thing hang together as a normal poem. It was,
I was told, a psychic poem, and it was well known that the Chinese
recognized psychic literature as a thing apart from ordinary literary
compositions. "Read in this way," the voice had said, "does not its
meaning become plain?
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More Eminent Researchers
A more complete list of eminent researchers can be found at:
http://www.aspsi.org/feat/life_after/tymn/testimonials.htm
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Books by Eminent Researchers
The chapter
E-Libraries
has links to on line libraries of free e-books on the subject of
survival after death.
Many books and articles by the professionals listed on
http://www.aspsi.org/feat/life_after/tymn/testimonials.htm
are available free on line. Here is a list of some of them
Judge John W. Edmonds
Spiritual Tracts by (100+ page excerpt)
http://www.spiritwritings.com/SpiritualismEdmonds.pdf
Allan Kardec, Esq.
Sir William Crookes
Researches into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/books/crookes/researches/contents.htm
The Rev. William Stainton Moses
Sir William Barrett
Death-Bed Visions
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/books/barrett/dbv/contents.htm
Frederic W. H. Myers, Esq.
Human Personality Vol II
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/articles/myers/intro.htm
Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. James H. Hyslop
Dr. William James
On Mediumship
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/articles/james/mediumship.htm
Dr. Charles Richet
Dr. Carl A. Wickland
Edward C. Randall, Esq.
Dr. Isaac K. Funk
The Psychic Riddle
http://survivalebooks.org
The Rev. Charles Drayton Thomas
Dr. T. Glen Hamilton
Intention and Survival
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/books/hamilton/contents.htm
Dr. C. J. Ducasse
A Critical Examination of the Belief in Life After Death
http://www.survivalafterdeath.org.uk/books/ducasse/critical/contents.htm
Gary Schwartz, Ph.D.
"Anomalous Information Reception by Research Mediums Demonstrated Using
a Novel Triple-Blind Protocol" Julie Beischel, Gary E. Schwartz Explore
(New York, N.Y.) 1 January 2007 (volume 3 issue 1 Pages 23-27 DOI:
10.1016/j.explore.2006.10.004)
http://www.explorejournal.com/article/PIIS155083070600454X/fulltext
More free e-books on psychic research can be found in the
Psychic Research
section of the chapter
Recommended Reading
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