The Definitive Account of Early Mediumship : A review of The Heyday of Mental Mediumship: 1880s-1930s: Investigators, Mediums and Communicators, by Alan Gauld.

Following his acclaimed earlier study on mediumship and survival, Alan Gauld providesa more complete account of about 50 years of early studies on mediumship with a select group ofmediums (e.g., Mrs. Piper, Mrs. Leonard, Mrs. Dowden). He describes in detail why many if not mostof the criticisms against extraordinarily accurate accounts by these mediums do not hold waterwhen analyzed in detail. Gauld does not provide easy answers, but in his masterwork doessomething much more important by offering a justification to those who may want to base theirbelief of potential survival on empirically defensible grounds

Alejandro Parra and Dante’s eighth circle of hell

This commentary places Alejandro Parra’s very long list of plagiarisms and data misrepresentations within the context of Dante’s classification of human foibles. The responses from two Argentinean universities are described, along with continuing examples of Parra’s misrepresentations