http://www.skeptic.org.uk/news/2010/2605 News, Views, Events, Reviews Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.skeptic.org.uk/news/2010/2605/comment-page-1#comment-1329 Kerry Schofield Mon, 10 May 2010 10:21:21 +0000 http://skeptic.org.uk/news/?p=2605#comment-1329 Very sorry to hear this sad news. I didn't have the pleasure of meeting him personally, but came into contact with his work on many, many occasions - it's hard to imagine that such a distinguished and prolific contributor to the fields or parapsychology and personality research is no longer with us. Very sorry to hear this sad news. I didn't have the pleasure of meeting him personally, but came into contact with his work on many, many occasions – it's hard to imagine that such a distinguished and prolific contributor to the fields or parapsychology and personality research is no longer with us.

]]> http://www.skeptic.org.uk/news/2010/2605/comment-page-1#comment-1327 Skip Daniel Fri, 07 May 2010 12:22:38 +0000 http://skeptic.org.uk/news/?p=2605#comment-1327 Michael was a friend/colleague of mine, and I too received an email on 5/6/2010 from his brother Bryan Thalbourne informing me of Michael's passing. I was not involved in parapsychological research. Instead, I am involved in psychology of religion and psychology of mysticism reserch. In this regard, Michael and I were writing an academic article entitled, "Mystical Experience, Mystical Union, and Mystical 'Deification': Psychological and Theological Issues" for the (Belgium-based) journal <i>Archive for the Psychology of Religion /Archiv für Religionspychologie.</i><i> </i>Michael and I both had a history of mystical experiences. Michael himself, in 1991, created a formal mysticism scale, The Mystical Experience Scale,which was published in the online journal <em>The Exceptional Human Experience Network</em>. (This Scale was based on his own personal mystical experiences, and has, since then, been psychometrically verified.) I first met Michael by writing him concerning his concept of "transliminality," with was discussed in either a <em>Time</em> or <em>Newsweek</em> article on "The Biology of Religious Experience." Thus Michael had, in addition to the parapsychology "vector" to his research, other "vectors" in mystical psychology and in personality psychology. He will be missed by many of us.  Michael was a friend/colleague of mine, and I too received an email on 5/6/2010 from his brother Bryan Thalbourne informing me of Michael's passing. I was not involved in parapsychological research. Instead, I am involved in psychology of religion and psychology of mysticism reserch. In this regard, Michael and I were writing an academic article entitled, "Mystical Experience, Mystical Union, and Mystical 'Deification': Psychological and Theological Issues" for the (Belgium-based) journal Archive for the Psychology of Religion /Archiv für Religionspychologie. Michael and I both had a history of mystical experiences. Michael himself, in 1991, created a formal mysticism scale, The Mystical Experience Scale,which was published in the online journal The Exceptional Human Experience Network. (This Scale was based on his own personal mystical experiences, and has, since then, been psychometrically verified.) I first met Michael by writing him concerning his concept of "transliminality," with was discussed in either a Time or Newsweek article on "The Biology of Religious Experience." Thus Michael had, in addition to the parapsychology "vector" to his research, other "vectors" in mystical psychology and in personality psychology. He will be missed by many of us. 

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