Text Resources Thread

Carlos S. Alvarado has a blog post on "D.D. Home’s Mental Mediumship":
https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...ediumship/

From Esalen -

Five fully accessible books (thanks to Bob Rosenberg)

• Frederic Myers's Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
  
• Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers, and Frank Podmore's Phantasms of the Living, Volumes I and II
  
• Alan Gauld's Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations
  
• Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism by William Crookes, F.R.S.
  
• Frederic Myers's Fragments of Inner Life
  

Carlos S. Alvarado has provided an English-language bibliography of publications about mental mediumship, covering 2000-2019, with links to works that are available online:
https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...ediumship/

Carlos S. Alvarado has a blog post giving a detailed summary of his recent paper entitled 'Musings on Materializations: Eric J. Dingwall on “The Plasma Theory”', which appeared in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. The paper is a reprint of one by Dingwall from 1921, together with a commentary by Alvarado:
https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...phenomena/

The full paper is available here:
https://www.scientificexploration.org/do...varado.pdf

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - Michael Prescott has a new blog post about research into deathbed visions at a hospice in Buffalo, New York State, based on an article in the New York Times and a press release:
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...chers.html

Carlos S. Alvarado has a blog post on a recent paper:

Everton de Oliveira Maraldi, Ricardo Nogueira Ribeiro, and Stanley Krippner
Cultural and Group Differences in Mediumship and Dissociation: Exploring the Varieties of Mediumistic Experiences.
International Journal of Latin American Religions, 3, 170-192 (2019)
https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...revisited/

The paper reviews evidence from investigations of mediumship in Brazil and elsewhere, looking at the influence of religious affiliation and cultural factors.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page - in his latest blog post, Carlos S. Alvarado delves into the early 20th-century Italian spiritualist journal, Luce e Ombra, with the help of online digital archives:
https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com/20...e-e-ombra/

Michael Prescott has two blog posts on the bizarre photographs published by Harry Price, showing the medium Helen Duncan with obviously fake puppet-like figures. In the first post he speculates on various possibilities, but in the second he links to an article by Paul J. Gaunt published in 2015 in the online journal PsyPioneer, which he regards as exhaustive and comprehensive:
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...-show.html
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...t-two.html

Michael Prescott has posted on his blog an excerpt from a draft of his forthcoming book on the afterlife. Two more excerpts are to follow:
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...t-one.html

Michael Prescott has posted on his blog an excerpt from a draft of his forthcoming book on the afterlife. Two more excerpts are to follow:
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...t-one.html

The other two excerpts followed very closely:
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...t-two.html
https://michaelprescott.typepad.com/mich...three.html