PI:Past & Present: Edmund Gurney

Edmund Gurney

Born at Hersham England in March 1847, Gurney was a Musician, an English Psychologist and Psychical Researcher.

Gurney was an avid learner, studying music for most of his youth, but being dissatisfied by his own execution, he went on to study medicine, not to practice it, but just for his own interest. He studied Physics, Chemistry and Physiology. He then went on to study Law in 1881.

Gurney's interests expanded with his knowledge of life and death, and the world in general, soon he became interested in the world of seances and medium-ship and found himself Co-founder of the Society of Psychical Research, one of the longest running and most respected paranormal related organisations in the world.

Amongst Gurney's study and experimentation were the subjects of “thought-transference” and hypnotism, of which he co-wrote many volumes on.

With other members of The Society of Psychical Research, Gurney's experiments would try and establish patterns and evidence for telepathy and hallucinations, many of the experiments were chronicled in the book “Proceedings for the Society of Psychical Research” and Gurney's own essay “Hallucinations”

Gurney's work would later become very controversial amongst his contemporaries as it claimed his assistant, George Smith, a well known theatrical performer, was using stage illusion and theatrical trickery to falsify results.

Douglas Blackburn, Smith's partner in performance, publicly admitted fraudulent activities in 1908 and 1911, of which Smith later denied.

Edmund Gurney died in 1888 from an overdose of Chloroform, it was widely thought at the time, that he had indeed committed suicide.

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Paranormal Investigators: Past & Present: Konstantīns Raudive

Konstantīns Raudive

The man who made EVP research famous, Konstantin Raudive, was already somewhat famous himself at the time of his paranormal research studies, studying philosophy and psychology under Carl Jung and writing numerous philosophical books that were always well received by his peers.


Raudive was born in Latvia but found himself in exile after the Soviets took back Latvia during World War 2. He moved to Sweden and taught at The University of Uppsala.




In 1964 he read Friedrich Jurgenson's book “Voices from Space” and arranged to meet the paranormal investigator.
 Raudive had always had an interest in the paranormal and studied parapsychology and supernatural literature whenever he could.
The meeting with Jurgenson led Raudive into a subject which would become his passion, and for which he would become famous worldwide for, Electronic Voice Phenomena.

For three months he experimented tirelessly with what he had learned and got nothing, then one day, he finally recorded a voice from an unknown source. His elation at finally making contact re-invigorated him and led him to experiment with different ways to record and conduct EVP sessions, thus becoming an EVP pioneer in the process.
As Raudive experimented, he developed new ways of recording spirit voices and tried many different things, including crystal radio sets, which he used in his early work extensively.

Soon he developed his own custom devices to help with clearer recordings, one of which, now known as the “Raudive Diode” uses Germanium in a circuit which acts as a microphone receiver.

Raudive conducted most of his experiments in controlled scientific conditions, using strict protocols. He was monitored by other scientists whilst doing his experiments, which were generally 18 minute EVP sessions.
His equipment had devices on them that would block radio and television signals, essentially a Faraday cage. Like most sessions, no voices were heard during the recording, but on playback, to the amazement of all involved, voices could be heard clearly, including Raudives own deceased sister, who said her name “Tekle” and Raudives nickname, “Kosti”

In the last ten years of his life Raudive collected around 100,00 audiotapes of “spirit” voices, it is claimed over 400 people became involved with his research and each and every one of them heard the voices recorded.
In 1968 Raudive published a book titled “ Unhörbares wird hörbar"- or “What Is Inaudible becomes Audible”, which has also been published in English as “Breakthrough”, He went on to write two more books before his death in 1974.
Raudive was a pioneer of early EVP work and set some of the standards for how the work should be conducted today.

For more on this remarkable man please follow the links below

http://atransc.org/circle/konstantin_raudive.htm

http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/571/electronic_voice_phenomenon

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www.eidolonparanormal.com.au

Paranormal Investigators: Past & Present: Peter Ramster

Peter Ramster

Australian born psychologist, movie producer and author Peter Ramster has written a number of books about reincarnation, and also the producer of 1983 documentary “The Reincarnation Experiments”.

Peter holds degrees in science and medical science has worked as a psychologist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist Recently Peter has taken an old form of yoga and redeveloped it for the modern age.

In his time he has researched and studied Human Psychology, Sexuality, Medical Science, Spirituality and various philosophical beliefs.

Peter has conducted lifelong studies of the human mind, he states: "I recognised that the brain cannot truly account for consciousness, meaning there must be more to life. If awareness cannot develop from the constituents of this world, then it must develop from another.”

Many of Peters book, movie's and experiments have featured past life regression and reincarnation. In his book “The Truth about Reincarnation”, his first book, he documents his work with clients who recalled past lives under hypnosis. In one of the stories a client recounts life in ancient Egypt, this client eventually spoke the ancient language whilst under hypnosis!

To read more about Peters work please visit his website at:

http://www.peterramster.com/

For Videos, please visit this link:

http://pastliferegress.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/peter-ramster-research-into-past-life.html

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written and researched by

Allen Tiller

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