Recent content by Dr Malcolm LEWIS

Hello RViharo, Sorry to hear about your experiences. i am not surprised. I have been foolish enough in the past to challenge these people, and its just not worth it. By the way 'jon donnis' is a well known skeptic whom I think runs the 'bad psychcis' web site. Worth having a look at for a laugh...

Hi Tim, You are quite correct. The majority of the meetings were in darkness. However it was noted in particular that the 'light' phenomena was spectacular. Both Ellison and Fontana comment of the production of small lights in the room which traveled at speed around the sitters. Not only that...

Hi, Just a point about David Fontana. I knew him slghtly, but when I ment him I always found him to be a most interesting guy who analysed evidence very seriously. He was a very well respected professor in his field in the UK and wrote many many books ( I even used them an an undergraduate ! )...

Hello Tim, I think I ruffled his feathers. I am a social scientist and retired university lecturer. I have used qualitative research extensively in my work, and I mereley pointed out you cannot dissmiss it by thinking using 'quantitative' methods are the ONLY approach. If you do take that...

Sorry if I miss typed your title Typoz, thank you for that. As I said I should have realised that its a pointless excercise taking on such viewpoints. I know what I have witnessed, and along with many other very credible researchers. Just becausae a research study is not 'qauntitiative' in...

Hi, Yes Roberta you are quite correct. I simply should not have taken the bait!!!. Research in general is such a wide field, it is profoundly incorrect to dismiss qualitative methods of investigation; particularly in the field of survival research. I and many others who have studied this...

Should have listend to Troy and not made any attempt to rationalise with this individual. As he did not like my posts I am no banned, which is just fine by me!!. I don't mind him criticising mediumship or survival, but its the last straw when he starts to crtiticise the validity of my PhD ...

Hello Typos, Thank you for your response. I will follow the thread to Cpt Snow, thanks. As for Colin you were quite correct, he was a good medium. I was fortunate to attend quite a few of his physical mediumship seances ( under test conditions ) in his early days, and he obtained some very good...

Hi Nicole, Oh, the topics jumping around quite a bit !. The 'angel' experience I talked about. Don't know what to make of it, it was certainly strange. I am not ready to dismiss it out of hand, so I have an open mind on that one, but not sure. Reincarnation is interesting ( just read the...

Hi Nicole, I have certainly seen this sort of thing. The holding of a 'pose' may well be that you attended a 'transfuguration' seance, or pehaps just a trance demonstration. The problem today is that there are just too many individuals who THINK they are mediums and are willing to demonstrate...

Hi all, Not been on for a while, but thought this thread of interest. I am afraid that all 'TV' psychics are on a hiding to nothing. The debate just continues. As for evidence of survival I am starting to feel a lot of mediumuistic evidence is very poor. Perhaps I am living in the past, but in...

This is a most interesting discussion and there are some good ideas put forward. For the record I am a retired Medical Soiciologist, and the argument in dismissing 'anecdotal' evidence is just flawed. Both Anthropologists and many sociologist rely upon first person 'accounts' and participant...

Intersting..the issue for me are veridical NDE's..How does this relate to pure hallucination ?. Reality distorts in hallucinogenic states, not clarifies. Neither do hallucinogenic individuals describe a reality verifiable by others

Dear Dr Savant, No, you are not missing anything !. A problem with such skepticism is the fundamental standpoint of MANY (not all) so called 'closed minded' skepticism. I don't like the term too much but for clarity we will use it here. The stance is often one of ATHEISM and a prime belief that...

Hi Neil, Don't be put off by the counter arguments or reponses. I think Vault 313 has a point also, but these arguments will continue. As I have mentioned I have been interested in this phenomena (survival research) for over 40 years now, and still find new and exciting avenues to explore. We...