Leo Ruickbie, PhD, is a British historian and sociologist of religion, specializing in paranormal beliefs, magic, witchcraft, and Wicca. He is a council member of the Society for Psychical Research and editor of the Magazine of the Society. He is author of several books, including Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician, A Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting, and Angels in the Trenches: Spiritualism, Superstition and the Supernatural During the First World War. He was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Here he describes the Society for Psychical Research and its approach to the study of the paranormal. He notes that the SPR does not take a position regarding the existence or non-existence of any particular phenomenon. He describes his essay on postmortem survival that won 3rd Prize in the 2021 Bigelow Institute competition. He also explains that, as a sociologist, he tends to avoid identifying with particular belief systems.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.
(Recorded on December 3, 2021)
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