OCCULTISM AND MEDIUMSHIP IN FERNANDO PESSOA

Some Directions for Mediumship Research

The study of mediums was part of a larger program of psychical research, begun in the late 19th century, intended to examine specifi cally whether human personality survives bodily death, and more generally whether the brain produces mind or consciousness, as most scientists since the late 19th century have assumed. Although a vast amount of high-quality research resulted from that effort, the ...

Testing alleged mediumship: methods and results.

Mediums claim to be able to communicate with the deceased. Such claims attract a considerable amount of public interest and, if valid, have important implications for many areas of psychology. For over 100 years, researchers have tested alleged mediums. This work has obtained mixed results and provoked a considerable amount of methodological debate. This paper reviews the key issues in this deb...

Fernando Patolsky and

Central to detection is the signal transduction associated with selective recognition of a biological or chemical species of interest. Nanostructures, such as nanowires1-7 and nanocrystals8-12, offer new and sometimes unique opportunities in this rich and interdisciplinary area of science and technology. The diameters of these nanostructures are comparable to the sizes of biological and chemica...

Fernando Pereira and Ian Burnett

The previous decade has seen a variety of trends and developments in the area of communications and thus multimedia access. While individual, isolated developments produced small advances on the status quo, their combination and cross-fertil ization resulted in today’s complex but exciting landscape. In particular, we are beginning to see delivery of all types of data for all types of users in ...

Fernando Martel García: Replication Proposal, Fernando Martel García, Ph.D., P0022014v01D