B. Premanand Effect: Working of the planchette board. Four persons, one among them is the spirit medium, touch the planchette (ouija board) lightly on four sides and concentrate on the spirit to come and give an answer to the question. Suddenly the planchette starts moving and it gives an answer. Planchette / Ouja Board Props: Planchette…
Abraham Kovoor This is the transcript of a panel discussion on Witchcraft – Fact or Fiction broadcast by CBC (Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation) on March 23,1971 in its feature “Forum of the Air”. Participants: Dr. Nandasena Ratnapala (Moderator), Lecturer, Vidyodaya University. Mr. Abraham Kovoor – President, Ceylon Rationalist Association. Mr. George Ondaatjie – Member, Ceylon Rationalist Association. Prof. C.E.C. Bulathsinghala – an astrologer and palmist.…
Abraham Kovoor (Selections from the Writings of Abraham Kovoor) On 25th January, 1969, the following challenge from an anonymous religious fanatic appeared in The Times Weekender:- “CHALLENGE TO MR. K. To Face the Unknown Terrors of an Unseen World? Abraham T. Kovoor, rationalist, has from time to time over the years laughed to scorn all…
Abraham Kovoor In Richmond, Virginia, one Mrs. C.D. Fonda owned a horse named ‘Lady Wonder’ reputed to possess psychic powers. In the journal of ‘Abnormal and Social Psychology’, Volume 23 (1929), on page 449-466 there appeared an article headed “An investigation of a Mind-reading Horse” by Dr. J.B. Rhine and Dr. Lousia E. Rhine of…
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Abraham Kovoor On September 17th 1963, the ‘DAILY SKETCH’ (London) carried an article by one Leslie Mallory, headed ‘NEW SCIENCE BACKS THE MIND-READER’, dealing mainly with the claims of the Russian Professor Leonid Vasiliev, who regularly put men and women to sleep by telepathy and awakened them at set intervals”. But the professor, we are…
Abraham Kovoor Perception is the process by which an organism becomes aware of its environment. Normally perceptions are of five types – all of a stimulus-response pattern. The five sensory stimuli in man and other highly evolved animals are the senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing. In some animals like the homing pigeons,…