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Daniel P. Brown (1948-2022)

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
Obituary for Daniel P. Brown, Ph. D.
Barbara Easterlin
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Transnational Quaker pacifism and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. A qualitative case study of two network nodes connecting Finland to Scandinavia and the Anglo‐Saxon world 1919–1961

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 242-261, July 2024.
Abstract In this article, I will ask, how the international networks of peace movements have influenced the development of Quaker pacifism in Fenno‐Scandinavia. The question is answered with qualitative social network analysis when analyzing the vocational development of two Quaker network nodes, Greta Langenskjöld (1889–1975) and Deryck Sivén (1913 ...
Rony Ojajärvi
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The Hands of Albert Einstein: Einstein’s Involvement with Hand Readers and a Dutch Psychic

open access: yesCorrespondences, 2021
When the handprints of Albert Einstein sold in 2013 at Sotheby’s for £55,000, no one queried how Einstein might have come to allow the chiromancer Marianne Raschig to read his hands.
Alexandra Nagel
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Psychophysical Effects on an Interference Pattern in a Double-Slit Optical System: An Exploratory Analysis of Variance

open access: yesJournal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022
Objective: A two-year online experiment tested the hypothesis that focused human attention alternatively directed toward or away from a double-slit optical system would affect the interference pattern in a predictable, unidirectional fashion.
Dean Radin, Arnaud Delorme
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Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 164-170, February 2024.
Abstract Beginning in 2011, public scandals and high‐visibility critiques of research methods in psychology fed a broader “replication crisis”: foundational experiments could not be replicated, and statistical methods in social psychology demonstrated vulnerability to fraud and manipulation.
Greg Downey
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Rudolph Hermann Lotze's philosophically informed psychology

open access: yesJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.
Abstract This essay deals with four main topics: the notion of philosophical psychology; the idea that physical events and mental events cannot be compared to one another; psychophysical mechanism; and the theory of local signs. These are all key elements in the Medicinische Psychologie of Rudolph Hermann Lotze (1817‒1881). By philosophical psychology,
Michele Vagnetti
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A Parapsychologist, an Anthropologist, and a Vitalist Walk into a Laboratory: Ernesto de Martino, Mircea Eliade, and a Forgotten Chapter in the Disciplinary History of Religious Studies

open access: yesReligions, 2019
While the work of the Italian historian of religion, Ernesto de Martino (1908−1965), has frequently been compared to that of Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, or Clifford Geertz, he has hardly received any attention in anglophone scholarship
Flavio A. Geisshuesler
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A misinterpreted psychoanalyst: Herbert Silberer and his theory of symbol‐formation

open access: yesJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 2024.
Abstract The primary aim of this article is to give a more detailed exposition of the cultural, personal, and theoretical contexts in which the Viennese psychoanalyst, Herbert Silberer's theories were born. When assessing the broader picture that this approach offers, it can be concluded that Silberer was an innovative thinker who inspired several of ...
Júlia Gyimesi
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Psychiatry, spirituality, and quantum science

open access: yesYoga-Mimamsa, 2019
It would be impossible to comprehend the complexity of a human brain by a single cell organism; similarly, it would be impossible to understand the complexity of “Reality ”or “Ultimate Truth ”by a human brain hampered by limitations.
Hitesh Chandrakant Sheth
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Cryptography in the history of paranormal research. A few notable cases

open access: yesDocumenta & Instrumenta, 2018
The author examines a series of cryptographic cases related to paranormal re-searches (parapsychology) which were developed in different countries between 1860 and 1980.
Roberto Narváez
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