Author: Stacy Horn

Take this with a great big grain of salt, because these were the results I got when I searched on the word “parapsychology.” When you search using “parapsychology books” you get different results, and of course you would get different results if you searched under “paranormal,” or ESP and so on. Still, I was very happy to see my book made the list.

1. Parapsychology by Richard S. Broughton Ph.D. (Sep 1, 1992)

2. I Believe by Patti Roberts (Nov 30, 2011)

3. An Introduction to Parapsychology by Harvey J. Irwin and Caroline A. Watt (Feb 21, 2007)

4. Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology… by Stacy Horn (Mar 9, 2010)

5. The Parapsychology Revolution: A Concise Anthology of Paranormal and Psychical Research by Robert M. Schoch and Logan Yonavjak (Jan 31, 2008)

6. The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena by Dean Radin (Jun 30, 2009)

7. Science and Psychic Phenomena: The Fall of the House of Skeptics by Chris Carter and Rupert Sheldrake (Feb 22, 2012)

8. Your Psychic Potential: A Guide to Psychic Development by Richard Ireland and Mark Ireland (Jan 11, 2011)

9. Parapsychology: Research on Exceptional Experiences by Jane Henry (Dec 31, 2004)

10. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin (Apr 25, 2006)

Reality Sandwich is a website that I thought would be of interest to people who stop by this blog. From their About section:

“Reality Sandwich is a web magazine for this time of intense transformation. Our subjects run the gamut from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies. We hope to spark debate and engagement by offering a forum for voices ranging from the ecologically pragmatic to the wildly visionary (which, to our delight, sometimes turn out to be the one and the same). Counteracting the doom-and-gloom of the daily news, Reality Sandwich is a platform for voices conveying a different vision of the transformations we face. Our goal is to inspire psychic evolution and a kind of earth alchemy.”

They have a regular section called Psi in the News, which is written by David Metcalfe, “a Contributing Editor to Reality Sandwich and Books Editor for The Revealer, the online journal of NYU’s Center for Religion and Media.”

In other news: here is a list of courses that are being offered at the Rhine Education Center Winter Session, 2013. Loyd Auerbach is teaching a class titled, Investigating Apparitions, Hauntings, and Poltergeists.

J. B. Rhine, teaching class at Duke University (I believe). This picture makes me think of that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indiana Jones is teaching an archaeology class.

The very charming drawing below is the work of the late Dr. Elizabeth McMahan—BettyMac to her friends. BettyMac was a scientist and a researcher at the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory from 1943 to 1954 (and she died in 2009).

When I was researching the history of the former Duke Parapsychology Laboratory, BettyMac’s letters were my favorites to read because she always included personal details and I feel like I got to know the lab scientists, many long gone, through her.

I couldn’t find a list of illustrations to explain this drawing, but I believe she made it in 2001, and I’m guessing it was for her nieces and nephews. Thank you for sharing your wonderful drawings BettyMac, and Happy Holidays everyone!

I love old photographs of mediums, they’re usually so beautiful. The pictures below are from The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult. This one is from 1921, the photographer was Staveley Bulford, and the medium was Miss Evans.

This is from 1925, and it’s of Mina Crandon, aka Margery. There are many posts here about Mina. If you put Margery in the search box on the upper right you’ll find them. The photographer is only credited as Gerke, and the pictures show ectoplasm coming out of Mina’s nose and ear.

A free lecture examining the photographic and video evidence for table levitation phenomena, 1850-2006, including experiments in which the presenter, Walter Meyer zu Erpen, BA, MAS, President, Survival Research Institute of Canada, participated.

Thursday, October 4, 7:30 to 9:00 pm
University of Manitoba Archives
Room 330 – Elizabeth Dafoe Library,
Fort Garry Campus, Winnipeg

More information here. The picture below is from The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult. The photographer credited is Sven Turck, and it is dated 1940-1945.