Multimedia Resources Thread - Deathbed Visions & ADCs

Soal himself, writing as "Mr V" in 1929, gave this opinion: "If I did not know the truth about these scripts, and were compelled to choose between conscious fraud and cryptomnesia, I should have to stake on fraud."

I'm not sure who "Mr V" might be, but if it is Soal, he seems to be accusing himself of deliberate fraud?

I'm not sure who "Mr V" might be, but if it is Soal, he seems to be accusing himself of deliberate fraud?

Certainly "Mr V" was Soal, according to West and Markwick. But I think what the reader is meant to understand from what I quoted, is that if he didn't know the truth, he would consider fraud the most likely explanation. It does seem like an odd thing to acknowledge.

Thanks Chris. Your explanation is reasonable. It is though dependent on one's knowing who V was and his relationship to the case. Without that information it spins things differently.

Thanks Chris. Your explanation is reasonable. It is though dependent on one's knowing who V was and his relationship to the case. Without that information it spins things differently.

Yes. Looking at West's and Markwick's account again, a few years after the initial publication, Soal "came out" as Mr V and wrote about his involvement under his own name.

Nothing as far as I know, Typoz. I hadn't read the comments but I did find this one particularly enlightening :/ 

Larry Matters says:
February 27, 2019 at 10:21 AM
Almost everyone “goes” to Heaven – but most get “turned away at the gate” (“Depart from Me, I never knew you!”) – – – – However, people that have “pledged” to Satan, don’t even get to see Heaven’s Gate
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Cheers, Larry that's just fab !

It's weird, I can't see the comments section

It's weird, I can't see the comments section

You're not alone, I can't see it now either. Looks like the page was updated and the comments removed.

You're not alone, I can't see it now either. Looks like the page was updated and the comments removed.

  Censorship?

Another ParaMOOC2019 presentation.

Callum Cooper, "Survival: A Personal Reflection on the Parapsychology of Life Beyond Death", 28 April 2019:
Abstract: Dr Cooper has been interested in people’s experiences of ‘ghosts and hauntings’ since his childhood. Aside from other professional interests, reports of these alleged experiences are what triggered his career path in psychology and exceptional experiences. Now being well established in psychology, thanatology and parapsychology - based as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Northampton - he has been involved in a variety of research suggestive of survival. His knowledge in this area has seen him in numerous media outlets as a voice of sceptical activism in science and critical thinking. This lecture presents his own thoughts and reflections on research he been involved in on various levels and where we stand on the matter of ‘personality and its survival beyond death’.

Another ParaMOOC2019 presentation, which also covers NDEs and other phenomena.

Alejandro Parra, "Unusual perceptual experiences in hospital settings and anomalous experiences in nurses", 28 April 2019:
Abstract. There is a large number of unusual experiences on the part of doctors, caregivers, and nurses, sometimes in relation to hospitalized patients; however, although such professionals have themselves been witness to inexplicable events. Dozens of unexplained experiences, such as visions in people about to die, near-death experiences, or patients who recover suddenly and totally from illnesses after a religious intervention. Nurses themselves have often had their own experiences in a hospital context, such as seeing apparitions, noting significant “coincidences, ”seeing energy fields, lights, or “electric shocks” around ‒or coming out of‒ a hospitalized patient, observing anomalous behavior in animals, anomalous functioning of equipment or medical instruments, intuitively “knowing”the nature of a patient's illness or when he or she will die, or having unexpected experiences in intensive care units, neonatology areas, or pediatric or neuropsychiatric services.

A final presentation from last year's ParaMOOC course was uploaded last week:

Michael Nahm, "Terminal Lucidity: An Overview, Contextualization and Outlook", May 12, 2019: