Dr Chris Roe of the University of Northampton is going to embark on a series of rigorous experiments in order to investigate whether it is possible for remote viewers to observe a distant location to see what happens there in the future. Does this sound like a wild theory? Dr. Roe doesn’t think so. He said in an interview that time does not seem to be a barrier to remote viewing.

While Dr Roe’s work may appear controversial, he is starting to garner the support of eminent academics such as Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Cambridge University, who says: “The experiments have been designed to rule out luck and chance. I consider the evidence for remote viewing to be pretty clear-cut.”

The military is also taking a keen interest. The Ministry of Defence takes the phenomena seriously enough to have commissioned its own research.

Source: Daily Mail

After his son’s death in 1918, Dr. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton began to experiment with psychic phenomena, investigating paranormal occurrences such as rappings, psychokinesis, ectoplasms, trance states, psychic phenomena, and apparitions. He conducted his experiments under scientific conditions that he believed would minimize errors and expose hoaxes. His work became known throughout Europe as well as the United States.

The picture above is one of 700 in this paranormal photo collection, which were taken in the beginning of the 20th century. To see more, visit:

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Paranormal skeptic, James Randi launched what is known as his Million Dollar Challenge in 1964, offering $1,000 to anyone who could read another’s mind or bend a spoon under controlled conditions. Few took him up on his challenge, even when he increased the prize to $10,000. That changed in 1996, when an anonymous donor contributed a million dollars to his cause.

Since then, people from across the globe started applying in droves. Swedish medium Carina Landin was one of the scant few who came close to passing Randi’s rigorous exam. She succeeded in identifying the genders of 16 out of 20 authors of diaries by touching their covers. The vast majority of the applicants failed for one reason or another, most of them showing signs of a serious mental illness.

This dilemma has forced Randi to revamp his application process, effective April 1st, which requires applicants to submit press clippings and/or television footage along with an academic endorsement of their supernatural abilities. While this will weed out most of the would-be applicants, Randi’s real targets are high-profile psychics such as John Edward and Sylvia Browne, who have yet to accept his much-publicized challenge. He believes these psychics, among others, have defrauded millions of people into believing that they connected with the spirits of their departed loved ones.

Randi plans to relaunch his challenge, using high-profile media resources such as The New York Times. Will he succeed in exposing these Edward and his colleagues as frauds, or will his meticulous investigations into their backgrounds and methods prove to be as much of a time-waster as his Million Dollar Challenge?

Last week, I wrote about the practice of fraudulent psychics. Today, I’d like to introduce Gordon Smith, a psychic medium who is highly regarded in the UK both in the paranormal and the scientific circles. The following quote is from an excerpt of the foreward, written by Professor Archie Roy of Glasgow University for Gordon Smith’s Spirit Messenger.

As a psychical researcher, it has been my good fortune over the years to have known many mediums. Some I have not only watched demonstrating on Spiritualist platforms, but also had sittings with. Others I have worked with in PRISM (Psychical Research Involving Selected Mediums), the organization set up to bring mediums and psychical researchers together in order to study and evaluate mediumistic phenomena. Some, I am happy to say, I regard as good friends of mine.

Gordon Smith is one of those friends. But he is special. Gordon Smith is a medium, a person who, in every other way, leads a normal life, working as a hairdresser, yet who demonstrates again and again his ability to receive information he simply could not have obtained through the use of the five senses. This is precise, detailed information, startling relevant to the recipient, conveyed either at a meeting-place or during a private sitting.

Apart from Spiritualists and psychical researchers, the public knows little about mediums. In films, TV and books, people are invariably presented with grossly distorted caricatures of mediums. In Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, Madame Arcati is a figure of fun, although in due course, Charles, the sceptical husband, is shocked to find that she is genuine after all.

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