Archive for April, 2012

Conference about Sleep and Dreams in Portugal

Carlos S. Alvarado, Atlantic University I recently returned from Porto, Portugal, where I attended the 9th Bial Foundation Symposium on “Sleep and Dreams,” March 28-31, 2012 (see the program here http://www.bial.com/en/bial_foundation.11/symposium.19/9th_symposium_.83/program.90/program.a189.html). For those of you not familiar with the Bial Foundation this is an organization founded in 1994 described in their website as devoted “to [...]

Poltergeist Article by William Roll and Colleagues

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., Atlantic University Here is an abstract of one of William G. Roll’s last contributions to the poltergeist literature, co authored with K.S. Saroka, B.P. Mulligan, M.D. Hunter, B.T. Dotta, N. Gang, M.A. Scott, L.S. St. Pierre, and M.A. Persinger: Case Report: A prototypical experience of “poltergeist” activity, conspicuous quantitative electroencephalographic patterns, [...]

Translation of Book About Eusapia Palladino

Carlos S. Alvarado, Ph.D., Atlantic University In a recently published essay-review (“Bottazzi and Palladino: The 1907 Seances.” Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2012, 26, 159–167) I commented about the translation of a book about medium Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918) authored by the prominent Italian physiologist Filippo Bottazzi (1867-1941). The book, Mediumistic Phenomena: Observed in a Series of Sessions [...]

Digital Libraries with Holdings of the Old literature–.VI

Carlos S. Alvarado, Atlantic University Internet Library of Early Journals (hup://www.bodley.ox.ac.uklilej/)   This website has collections of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman’s Magazine, and Notes and Qeries. (1853). The divining rod. Notes and Queries, 8, 623-624. (1845). A few passages concerning omens, dreams, appearances, &c., in a letter to Eusebius. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 58, 735-751. (1732). Of [...]