Psychometry
Referenced in 2 episodes
Definition
The claimed psychic ability to sense information about a person by handling an object that belonged to them.
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Former Psychic News editor Roy Stemman joins Jeffrey Mishlove to tell the story of Ena Twigg, a British medium known for her integrity who quietly bridged the spiritualist movement and the Anglican Church. The centerpiece is Episcopal Bishop James Pike of California, who became convinced through Twigg's sittings that his son Jim had survived death after taking his own life. Twigg also reportedly received messages from Pike himself after he went missing in the Israeli desert in 1969, apparently before his body was found.
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David Lorimer, longtime program director of the Scientific and Medical Network, argues that well-documented phenomena like crisis apparitions, near-death life reviews, and mediumship cannot be explained by the assumption that the brain produces consciousness. He traces this view through the visionary scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, William James, and the early Society for Psychical Research, and even describes an automatic-writing message said to come from the late skeptic Bertrand Russell. Lorimer concludes that if all minds are connected at a deep level, then harming others is harming ourselves, which gives the research a direct ethical meaning.
