Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: Mental mediumship
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This post is from 2008. If I were writing it now, I might give more attention to the possibility of low-level spirits communicating through the planchette, rather than focusing on "ordinary" psi. The title, by the way, is a pun on a movie called Things to Do in Jersey when You're Dead. Or at least…
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Dr. Michael Sudduth is the rare academic who takes evidence for postmortem survival seriously – seriously enough, in fact, that he's written a book about it for a scholarly audience: A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Evidence for Postmortem Survival. I have to admit I haven't read the book. I did start it, but I'm afraid…
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Note: I've been doing some preliminary work on a possible book about the afterlife. The book would involve an overview of the dying process, interspersed with case histories supporting various points. What follows is the first case history I've written for this project. Because it is aimed at a general audience, I explain certain details…
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Here is a last series of excerpts from A Venture in Immortality, by David Kennedy. See the previous two posts for other excerpts. In trance [the medium] Albert Best spoke to me. "Ann is here again, she is saying something about Sauchie. (This is a village in Clackmannanshire.) I replied that yesterday I had officiated…
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More excerpts from A Venture in Immortality, by David Kennedy. I'm finding this book very worthwhile. Yes, it's true, as Amos Oliver Doyle pointed out in the previous comments thread, that all these stories tend to blur together after a while. But it's also true, as Art observed in the same thread, that if we…
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A Venture in Immortality, by David Kennedy, is a 1973 memoir about a series of after-death communications from the author's wife. The book is out of print and available only from used booksellers. I'd never heard of it until it came up on Michael Sudduth's Facebook timeline; Dr. Sudduth seems to have a good opinion…
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A grab-bag of brief items … — In an email to me, Michael Tymn, who wrote an introduction to Pierre Emile Cornillier's The Survival of the Soul (discussed here), noted my concern about the emphasis on suffering in the book's mediumistic communications. He said, What you call "suffering" I would call overcoming adversity. I see…
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White Crow Books recently released a new edition of a 1921 study of mediumship called The Survival of the Soul and Its Evolution after Death, by French artist Pierre Emile Cornillier, focusing on his seances with a young model named Reine. After Cornillier mentioned his interest in table-tipping experiments, Reine wanted to try it for herself. On…
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Here's a post from 2009, which refers back to John Edward's old show, Crossing Over, which even then was off the air. Although the specific content is dated, the basic point remains valid: any evidence, no matter how good, can be rationalized away. I've updated the link to my essay on Edward. The original link…
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If we look at channeled descriptions of the afterlife, we observe a fair amount of consistency, but also notable omissions and anomalies. Even in the most detailed narratives, we get no clear sense of what people do all day. We are told about their pleasant lives spent relaxing in a garden, or attending a symphony,…