What motivated Eileen J. Garrett to dedicate her life to delving into the complexities of psychic phenomena with all its ramifications which culminated in the founding of Parapsychology Foundation, an organization my mother and I and now her great granddaughter all have administered in her absence? Life Magazine once described my grandmother as ‘Probably one… Continue Reading
I have been enjoying immensely the content of the 2023 Parapsychology and Education Massive Open Online Course (affectionately known as the ParaMOOC) addressing this year’s theme “Apparitions, Hauntings and Poltergeists”. I realize last month’s blog was dedicated to the value of the ParaMooc series but apart from its real time presentations all the lectures are… Continue Reading
It gives me great pleasure and pride to announce that the ParaMOOC series for 2023 is back from a two year hiatus due to Covid and the heartbreaking loss of one of its founders and coordinator Dr. Carlos S. Alvarado. Parapsychology Foundation has been a staunch supporter of this free Massive Open Online Course since… Continue Reading
I had occasion to “trip over” an article written by Eileen J. Garrett in her Tomorrow Magazine published in the Autumn 1958 issue which I found interesting as a comparison of trance states. Herewith I share a portion hoping you will find it equally interesting. “Hypnosis does not stand alone in human experience, like a… Continue Reading
Yet another year is waning and what a year it has been for Parapsychology Foundation. My mother, Eileen Coly, PF’s second President, often admonished me while growing up to not rush through my life experiences which she cautioned would pass by over the coming years with ever increasing speed. I should take care to be… Continue Reading
Wow! I am so excited that my “labor of love” in pulling together Eileen J. Garrett’s written transcripts of conversations and conjecture into manuscript form culminated in publication by Afterworlds Press, an imprint of White Crow Books, of CALL ME LUCIFER Dialogues with the Noble Stranger.”Despite a tongue and cheek release date of Halloween in… Continue Reading
It gives me enormous pleasure to announce with pride that the Parapsychology Foundation’s Eileen J. Garrett Research Library has not suffered the fate of so many other at risk collections but has now been preserved for future students of psi phenomena within its new home at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Special Collections,… Continue Reading
I was recently reshelving a seminal volume by the late Dr. Lawrence LeShan, The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist and paused to leaf through it and refresh my memory. I am so glad I did and I urge you to take a read as well as minds more astute than mine have found his… Continue Reading
While sorting through materials at the Garrett Library I came across a fascinating Special Issue, Spring 1970, of The American Theosophist. Within its pages I read “The Psychic Experience” by Eileen J. Garrett composed of excerpts from her book Many Voices, which struck me and thus I in turn want to share with you. I… Continue Reading
A historical figure who still attracts attention is Aleister Crowley. As Eileen Garrett knew him personally I thought some of you may be interested in her “take” on him. Taken from one of her books, Sense and Nonsense of Prophecy published by her own Creative Age Press in 1950, she wrote: “One cannot speak of… Continue Reading