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Media Watch for May 2003 (Issue 18)
The Scole group, as the experimenters have become known, hosted many scientists and scientific experiments during the five years that they worked together. As reported in the 16 January 2003 Parapsychic Journal, “People, including psychic researchers from SPR, witnessed handwriting, symbols and messages appearing on factory-sealed, unopened photographic film.” They saw many materializations and received numerous apports. “One was a fifty-year old newspaper, the Daily Express, printed on paper of the type used in the 1940s—but it was in almost mint condition, and no sign of the usual yellowing.”
We are sorry to report that the Spiritual Science Foundation has published their last issue of The Spiritual Scientist magazine. However, you can still find information about the Scole group at www.psisci.force9.co.uk. The photograph is of the table around which the experiments were conducted. From The Scole Experiment, Grant &Jane Solomon, Judy Piatkus Publishers Ltd, London, 1999 Update: The book, The Scole Experiment, has been updated. See www.thescoleexperiment.com
EEG analysis during trance. American Professor, Charles H. Hapgood, reported in his book, Voices of Spirit, that he had tested a medium to see if the electroencephalograph (EEG) of the medium, Elwood Babbitt, when out of trance, would be different from when the medium's mind was allegedly taken over and controlled by intelligences from the other side. Hapgood took EEGs of Babbitt while three different intelligences were allegedly in control of the medium. The EEGs of each of the three were found to be completely different from each other and from the EEG of Babbitt not in trance. An EEG expert, Dr Bridge, noticed that the EEGs were characteristic of people of different physical age and could not belong to the one person. Hapgood reproduces the EEG diagrams in his book. Hapgood, Charles H. (1975) Voices of Spirit Nordon Publications New York 1975: pg. 224-227. From Victor Zammit, victorzammit.com
The way to good luck. A psychologist claims that he has found the secret to good luck after eight years of investigation. Dr. Richard Wiseman of Hatfield’s University in Hertforshire, UK, says that consistent luck is not attributable to intelligence or psychic ability, but the way people approach everyday life.
His four principles of luck are to expect good fortune, to create opportunities, to go along with gut feelings and to cope with misfortune by imagining how things could have been worse. Dr. Wiseman said, “The whole thing is about looking at living in different ways.” The University has even set up a “luck school” under Dr. Wiseman to change the fortunes of unlucky people using the four principles. Wiseman estimates that it will achieve an 80 percent success rate.
The doctor’s results support his theory that lucky people are more likely to be extrovert, intuitive and optimistic. He said, “These findings are in line with my other research, and show people experience increased levels of good fortune because of their psychological make-up.” Dr. Wiseman’s research is in, The Luck Factor, published by Random House. Theory claims to reveal way to good luck, from The St. Albans Observer stalbansobserver.co.uk/
Comment: We would like to draw your attention to the three terms in italic. Dr. Wiseman argues that “psychic ability” is not required for good luck, but then provides a rule that a person should follow his or her “gut feelings” and identifies a typical quality of a lucky person as one who is “intuitive.” Spiritualists realize that these are related characteristic and are nearly synonymous.
After 120 years of psychical research—confusion abounds! An article with that title by long time Society for Psychical Research (SPR) member, Maurice Grosse, ran in the Paranormal Review, a journal published by the SPR, Issue 24 October 2002. The article discusses the battle within the SPR. Grosse writes about the scientific community and how most continue to believe that paranormal activity is merely the product of an over-stimulated imagination. He writes, “I find it difficult to understand why these skeptics persist with their interest in psychical research. To investigators in the field, it is disheartening when active involvement in macro-PK research is often subject to a bombardment of comment, questioning the reliability of the personal experience. If that were not enough, doubts are cast on the analytical abilities of the researchers, who are only pursuing the aims of our founding fathers.”
He ends the article with an appeal. “Let us stop playing the skeptics game. Let us stop falling into the trap of qualifying our positive results with an air of apology. It sends the wrong message to those who wish to listen. Let us admit openly and positively that there are such things as inexplicable phenomena. We do believe that our research is legitimate and of great importance . . . We are not just a scientific society, but a society that leads a quest that is as important to humanity as any of the physical discoveries that dominate our lives today.”
Psychic detectives. Andrea Thompson, past anchor on CNN’s Headline News was the host of a show examining the use of psychic mediums by police for Court TV. Told from a detective's point of view, Psychic Detectives, shown on Feb.27, looked at crimes where a psychic was brought in to help locate missing persons or solve crimes. Stressing that everyone is psychic (or intuitive) to a certain degree, the show tried to teach the audience some of the techniques used. If you missed it, watch your Court TV channel for a possible rerun of the show.
Phenomena in our lives. S.B. wrote to describe how one of her husband’s new gloves managed to become lost while they were out shopping. She said that they had been shopping on a very cold day and her husband had been wearing the gloves. They were certain that they had the glove with them up to the time that they prepared to leave a restaurant for home. It was then that they noticed that one of the gloves was missing. S.B. told us that, “On the way to the car, I quietly asked Spirit to help us find the glove.” The following Monday, her husband discovered the missing glove when, “He reached into a small basket kept by the front door where extra gloves and hats are kept. He slightly moved the basket, and there between the basket and the wall, was the missing driving glove. It had found its way home with the help of Spirit.”
We decided to bring this report to you because it illustrates how the presence of Spirit in our lives is manifest in many small and important ways. A common aspect of many day-to-day phenomena in our lives is that they seem to be so normal or that it seems there must be a mundane explanation for them. It is as if our friends in Spirit are constrained to leave a little bit of “wiggle room” so that those who are not yet ready to accept the existence of a greater reality will have a way out.
It is important to look for mundane explanations for what happens in our lives before concluding that we have experienced nonphysical phenomena. However, when something does happen in our lives, such as the experience S.B and her husband had with his errant glove, we should be equally as careful not to overlook the gift that is given to us.
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