Journal Papers
A selection of papers with a relevance to Survival Research published in scientific journals. Whenever a paper is available online this is indicated at the end of the citation respectively.
Papers from scientific, peer-reviewed journals (selection)
Alvarado, C. S. (2002). Dissociation in Britain During the Late Nineteenth Century: The Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1900. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 3:9-33. [PDF]
Alvarado, C. S. (2003). The Concept of Survival of Bodily Death and the Development of Parapsychology. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 67:65-95. [HTML]
Alvarado, C. S. (2004). On the centenary of Frederic W.H. Myers's 'Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.' Journal of Parapsychology, 68:3-43. [PDF]
Alvarado, C. S. (2005). Ernesto Bozzano and the phenomena of bilocation. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 23:207-238. [PDF]
Braude, S. E. (1992). Survival or Super-Psi? Journal of Scientific Exploration 6:127-144. [HTML]
Braude, S. E. (2001). Out-of-Body Experiences and Survival of Death. International Journal of Parapsychology, 12:83-129. [HTML]
Braude, S. E. (2005). Personal Identity and Postmortem Survival. Social Philosophy and Policy, 22:226-249.
Brayne, S., Farnham, C., & Fenwick, P. (2006). Deathbed phenomena and their effect on a palliative care team: a pilot study. American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, 23:17-24.
Broad, C. D. (1953). Phantasms of the Living and of the Dead. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 50:51-66.
Carington, W. (1934). The Quantitative Study of Trance Personalities. Part I. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 42:173-240.
Carington, W. (1935). The Quantitative Study of Trance Personalities. Part II. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 43:319-361.
Carington, W. (1936). The Quantitative Study of Trance Personalities. Part III. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 44:189-222.
Cook, E. W. (1987). The survival question: Impasse or crux? Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 81:125-139.
Cook, E. W., Greyson, B. & Stevenson, I. (1998). Do any Near-Death Experiences provide evidence for the survival of human personality after death? Relevant features and illustrative case reports. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 12:377-406. [PDF]
Dale, L. A., White, R. A. & Murphy, G. (1962). A selection of cases from a recent survey of spontaneous ESP phenomena. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 56:3-47.
Dodds, E. R. (1934). Why I do not believe in Survival. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 42:147-172.
Gauld, A. (1960). The 'Super-ESP' Hypothesis. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 53:226-246.
Gauld, A. (1971). A Series of 'Drop-In' Communicators. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 55:273-340.
Greyson, B. (2000). Dissociation in people who have near-death experiences: out of their bodies or out of their minds? The Lancet, 355:460-463.
Gurney, E. & Myers, F. W. H. (1889). On Apparitions Occuring Soon After Death. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 5:403-485.
Hastings, A., Hutton, M., Braud, W., Bennett, C., Berk, I., Boynton, T., Dawn, C., Ferguson, E., Goldman, A., Greene, E., Hewett, M., Lind, V., McLellan, K. & Steinbach-Humphrey, S. (2002). Psychomanteum Research: Experiences and Effects on Bereavement. Omega, 43:211-228. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. (1987). The Iyengar-Kirti Case: An Apparitional Case of the Bystander Type. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 54:64-67. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. (1988-89). Survey of claimed encounters with the dead. Omega, the Journal of Death and Dying, 19:103-113. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. (2000). Birthmarks and claims of previous-life memories: I. The case of Purnima Ekanayake. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 64:16-25. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. (2003). Children who speak of past-life experiences: Is there a psychological explanation? Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 76:55-67. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. & Stevenson, I. (1974). An Experiment with the Icelandic Medium Hafsteinn Björnsson. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 68:192-202. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. & Stevenson, I. (1975). A Communicator of the "Drop In" Type in Iceland: The Case of Runolfur Runolfsson. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 69:33-59. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. & Stevenson, I. (1975). A Communicator of the "Drop In" Type in Iceland: The Case of Gudni Magnusson. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 69:245-261. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E., Pratt, J.G. & Kristjansson, M. (1978). Further experiments with the Icelandic medium Hafsteinn Bjornsson. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 72:339-347. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. & Abu-Izzeddin, M. (2002). Development of Certainty about the Correct Deceased Person in a Case of the Reincarnation Type: The Case of Nazih Al-Danaf. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 16:363-380. [PDF]
Haraldsson, E. & Abu-Izzedin, M. (2004). Three randomly selected cases of Lebanese children who claim memories of a previous life. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 68:65-85. [PDF]
Hart, H. (1956). Six Theories about Apparitions. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 50:153-239.
Hart, H. (1967). Scientific Survival Research. International Journal of Parapsychology, 9:43-52. [PDF]
Hart, H. & Ella, B. (1933). Visions and Apparitions Collectively and Reciprocally Perceived. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 41:205-249.
Hodgson, R. (1892). A Record of Observations of Certain Phenomena of Trance. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 8:1-167.
Hodgson, R. (1898). A Further Record of Observations of Certain Phenomena of Trance. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 13:284-582.
Hyman, R. (1977). “Cold reading”: How to convince strangers that you know all about them. The Zetetic, 1(1):18-37.
Hyslop, J. H. (1901). A Further Record of Observations of Certain Trance Phenomena. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 16:1-649.
Irwin, H. J. (2002). Is scientific investigation of postmortem survival an anachronism? The demise of the survival hypothesis. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 2:19-21.
James, W. (1909). Report on Mrs. Piper’s Hodgson-Control. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 23:2-121.
Johnson, A. (1908). On the Automatic Writing of Mrs. Holland. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 21:166-391.
Keil, H. J. & Stevenson, I. (1999). Do Cases of the Reincarnation Type Show Similar Features Over Many Years? A Study of Turkish Cases a Generation Apart. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 13:189-198. [PDF]
Keil, H. J. & Tucker, J. B. (2005). Children Who Claim to Remember Previous Lives: Cases with Written Records Made before the Previous Personality Was Identified. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 19:91-101.
Kelly, E. W. (2001). Near-Death Experiences with Reports of Meeting Dead People. Death Studies, 25:229-249.
Maher, M. (1999). Riding the waves in search of the particle: A modern study of ghosts and apparitions. Journal of Parapsychology, 63:47-80.
Metzinger, T. (2005). Out-of-Body Experiences as the origin of the concept of the "soul". Mind & Matter, 3:57-84. [PDF]
Mills, A. (2004). Inferences from the Case of Ajendra Singh Chauhan: The Effect of Parental Questioning, of Meeting the "Previous Live" Family, an Aborted Attempt to Quantify Probabilities, and the Impact on His Life as a Young Adult. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 18:609-641. [PDF]
Myers, F.W.H. (1889). On Recognised Apparitions Occuring more than A Year After Death. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 6:13-65.
Myers, F.W.H. (1890). A Defence of Phantasms of the Dead. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 6:314-357.
Myers, F.W.H. (1892). On Indications of Continued Terrene Knowledge on the Part of Phantasms of the Dead. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 8:170-252.
O'Keeffe, C. & Wiseman, R. (2005). Testing alleged mediumship: Methods and results. The British Journal of Psychology, 96:215-231. [PDF]
Osis, K. (1986). Characteristics of Purposeful Action in an Apparition Case. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 80:175-193.
Osis, K. & Haraldsson, E. (1977). Deathbed Observations by Physicians and Nurses: A Cross-Cultural Survey. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 71:237-259.
Osis, K. & Nester, M. L. (1962). Deathbed Observations by Doctors and Nurses. International Journal of Parapsychology, 4:27-56.
Osis, K. & McCormick, D. (1980). Kinetic effects at the ostensible location of an out-of-body projection during perceptual testing. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 74:319-329.
Parker, A. (2001). What can cognitive psychology and parapsychology tell us about Near-Death Experiences? Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 65:225-240. [PDF]
Parnia, S., Waller, D.G., Yeates, R. & Fenwick, P. (2001). A qualitative and quantitative study of the incidence, features and aetiology of near death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors. Resuscitation, 48:149-156.
Pasricha, S. K. (1998). Cases of the Reincarnation Type in Northern India With Birthmarks and Birth Defects. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 12:259-293. [PDF]
Pasricha, S. K. (2001). Cases of the Reincarnation Type in South India: Why So Few Reports? Journal of Scientific Exploration, 15:211–221. [PDF]
Piddington, J. G. (1904). On the Types of Phenomena displayed in Mrs. Thompson’s Trance. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 18:103-307.
Piddington, J. G. (1908). A Series of Concordant Automatisms. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 22:19-416.
Podmore, F. (1889). Phantasms of the Dead from Another Point of View. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 6:229-313.
Ring, K. & Lawrence, M.M. (1993). Further evidence for veridical perception during near-death experiences. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 11:223-229.
Roll, W. G. (2003). Poltergeists, Electromagnetism and Consciousness.
Journal of Scientific Exploration, 17:75–86. [PDF]
Roy, A. E. & Robertson, T. J. (2001). A double-blind procedure for assessing the relevance of a medium's statements to a recipient.
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 65:161-174.
Schmidt, S. (2002). "Jenseitsforschung" mit psychophysiologischen Rüstzeug [Research into the "afterlife" by the armamentarium of psychophysiology]. Forschende Komplementärmedizin und Klassische Naturheilkunde,
9:55-58. [PDF]
Schouten, S. A. & Stevenson, I. (1998). Does the Socio-Psychological Hypothesis Explain Cases of the Reincarnation Type? Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 186:504-506.
Sharma, P. & Tucker, J. B. (2004). Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Memories from the Intermission Between Lives. Journal of Near-Death Studies, 23:101-118. [PDF]
Sidgwick, E. M. (1885). Notes on the Evidence, collected by the Society, for Phantasms of the Dead.Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 3:69-150.
Sidgwick, E. M. (1915). A Contribution to the Study of the Psychology of Mrs. Piper’s Trance Phenomena. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 28:1-652.
Sidgwick, E. M. (1917). On the Development of Different Types of Evidence for Survival in the Work of The Society. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 29:245-259.
Sidgwick, E. M. (1922). Phantasms of the Living. An Examination and Analysis of Cases of Telepathy between Living Persons printed in the 'Journal' of the Society for Psychical Research since the Publication of the Book 'Phantasms of the Living,' by Gurney, Myers, and Podmore, in 1886. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 33:23-429.
Sidgwick, H., Johnson, A., Myers, F.W.H., Podmore, F. & Sidgwick, E. M. (1894). Report on the Census of Hallucinations. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 10:25-422.
Sommer, A. (2005). Im Niemandsland der Bewusstseinsforschung: Survival Research. Eine Übersicht [The no man's land of consciousness studies: survival research. A review]. Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, 5:178-237 [PDF]
Stevenson, I. (2001). Ropelike Birthmarks on Children Who Claim to Remember Past Lives. Psychological Reports, 89:142-144.
Stevenson, I. & Haraldsson, E. (2003). The Similarity of Features of Reincarnation Type Cases over Many Years: A Third Study. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 17:283–289. [PDF]
Tart, C. T. (1997). Six Studies of Out-of-the-Body Experiences. Journal of Near Death Studies, 17:73-99. [HTML]
Thouless, R. H. (1984). Do we survive bodily death? Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 57:1-25.
Tucker, J. B. (2000). A Scale to Measure the Strength of Children’s Claims of Previous Lives: Methodology and Initial Findings. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 14:571-581. [PDF]
Van Lommel, P., Van Wees, R., Meyers, V. & Elfferich, I. (2001). Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands. The Lancet, 358:2039-2045. [PDF]
Wiseman, R. & O'Keeffe, C. (2001). Accuracy and replicability of anomalous after-death communication across highly skilled mediums: A critique. The Paranormal Review, 19(20):3-6. [HTML]
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