Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. In 2010, her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record was a New York Times bestseller. She is also coauthor of Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity as well as Henry Hyde’s Moral Universe. Her website is http://www.survivingdeathkean.com/.

Here she describes the many historical descriptions of spirit materialization, observed under well-controlled conditions by experienced researchers such as Nobel laureate Charles Richet. She acknowledges that such phenomena are ostensibly unbelievable, no matter how well-attested. She describes her own experience witnessing such phenomena in the presence of the spiritualist circle in England centered on the physical medium, Stewart Alexander. She describes levitations, matter passing through matter, materializations, and direct voice manifestations.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on June 9, 2020)

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LINKS TO BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS INTERVIEW:

Leslie Kean, Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit: The Struggle for Democratic Freedom and Dignity – https://amzn.to/3fpOVUd

Leslie Kean, Henry Hyde’s Moral Universe – https://amzn.to/3cWpSXc

Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record – https://amzn.to/3hpzEob

Hereward Carrington, Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena – https://amzn.to/30JkS5s

Zofia Weaver, Other Realities? The Enigma of Franek Kluski’s Mediumship – https://amzn.to/37rLGsE

Viscount Adare, Experiences in Spiritualism with D. D. Home – https://amzn.to/2zpY8fE

Malcolm Bird, Margery the Medium – https://amzn.to/2ZCSTm8

Carlos Alvarado, Charles Richet: A Nobel Laureate’s Exploration of Psychic Phenomena – https://amzn.to/37pK7uX

Gustave Geley, Materializations: Experimente Mit M. Franek Kluski – https://amzn.to/2Yuzgfl

Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain – https://amzn.to/3hmBt4Z

Stephen E. Braude, Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death – https://amzn.to/2MSyBij

Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter – https://amzn.to/3dYJ8oe

Leslie Flint, Voices in the Dark: My Life as a Medium – https://amzn.to/3fjm6bJ

Stewart Alexander, An Extraordinary Journey: My Life As a Physical Medium – https://amzn.to/3fhJhmU

Gladys Osborne Leonard, My Life in Two Worlds – https://amzn.to/2XXW2NA

Louie Harris, Alec Harris: The Full Story of His Remarkable Physical Mediumship – https://amzn.to/3hqmZB4

Charles Richet, Thirty Years of Psychical Research – https://amzn.to/3hjNecy

Sir William Crookes, Crookes and the Spirit World – https://amzn.to/30ID2Vj

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