Arthur Findlay's On the Edge of the Etheric was first published in 1931. The used edition I purchased came out in 1970; it was the 66th printing in the United Kingdom. The book has been translated into at least 19 languages as well as Braille. According to Amazon.com, the book remains in print to this…

I haven’t posted anything about the David Thompson controversy in quite some time, and I really don’t want to get drawn into the endless (and largely pointless) debate all over again. But … Despite my reservations about reopening  a can of ectoplasmic worms, I do think this editorial by Simon Forsyth on The Psychic Times…

In the comments thread of my last post, Renaud Evrard pointed me to an excellent article by Mario Varvoglis on the Kluski materializations. This piece goes into more detail about the experiments and clearly shows the weaknesses of the attempted skeptical explanation. The two skeptical researchers, Massimo Polidoro and Luigi Garlaschelli, performed some tests supposedly…

Arthur Conan Doyle’s History of Spiritualism, in two volumes (complete text available online: Vol. I and Vol. II), makes rewarding reading for anyone interested in the early years of parapsychology. That’s not to say there aren’t problems with the book. Doyle’s dogged commitment to the reality of psi phenomena, especially as pertaining to life after…

In his book After Death — What? Researches in Hypnotic and Spiritualistic Phenomena (1909; Aquarian Press edition 1988), turn-of-the-century scientist Cesare Lombroso recounts the experiments that led him from a strictly materialist worldview to a belief in spirits and life after death. One of the most striking chapters is Lombroso’s account of "seventeen séances held…