guest post by Christine Fulcher Havelock Ellis makes some interesting points about the personality features of geniuses in his book A Stud...

A young graduate who had read English at Oxford, and with whom I was corresponding, once referred to jokes about ageing. Certainly they are ...

One weakness of the pursuit of creativity is that it focuses attention on what seems to you to be significant (which admittedly is the only ...

metachoric experience = experience in which the whole of a subject’s visual field is replaced by a hallucinatory one Our research on lu...

50 years ago people used to talk about ‘getting one’s eye in’ when playing a game. This was associated with scoring more freely. My father...

Of course I knew when I was thrown out, to try to do research in the wilderness, that there was no sympathy with my position or predicament....

This was first published in September. I am re-posting it in connection with an article about a new book on near-death experiences which app...

One regularly sees articles in the newspapers to the effect that so-called near-death experiences (NDEs) have an explanation that does not i...

‘Near-death experiences’, which have become a staple of popular journalism, were never heard of (or at least I had never heard of them) unti...

text of a recent letter to an academic I have just sent you a link to our comments on the BBC’s omission of any mention of me from their ...

My colleague Dr Charles McCreery recently sent the following comment to the BBC in connection with a page about lucid dreaming on their onl...

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness, for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posses...

Some recent articles about out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) in the Daily Mail demonstrate the usual confusions about the topic. Research ...

It is difficult to believe how completely what was formerly accepted about IQ has been rejected and replaced by an entirely different set of...

Extract from Advice to Clever Children The human psychosis is extremely simple. Hatred of reality (originally caused, it is to be supposed...

Copy of a letter to an academic One of the last times I saw you I remember saying that ____ who got a First in maths was very unaware of he...

Why are people hostile to us? It appears that social approval is very important to people. When they see someone aiming to do something with...

To make the obvious explicit in the case of Princess Diana contrasted with the Queen Mother, the reason I say I find modern psychology incom...

A note on ‘anger’ If a person is angry at the way they have been treated by society (schools, hospitals, etc) this is regarded as demonstrat...

Another book ( Outliers – The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell) has been published on how there is no such thing as genius or ‘a born s...