E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor Peter Wadhams (December 20, 2001): James "The Amazing" Randi

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Randi is a fraud, he is taking money under false pretences, setting himself up as an expert on a subject, when in fact he is only a professional wrecker."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Ian Hislop (December 16, 2001): Corruption in the Scientific Community

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Almost single-handedly this "expert" is holding up the pillar of orthodox scientific teaching throughout the world - that the mind and brain are the same and that death is the end of everything."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Sir Paul McCartney (December 14, 2001): Corruption in the Scientific Community:

In his letter Michael Roll writes:
"Please help to let people know that they are all immediately reunited with their "dead" loved ones when their physical body eventually packs in."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Ray Taylor (December 1, 2001): Linking Survival with Subatomic Physics

This letter was written in response to Prof. David Fontana's letter in the December 2001 issue of Psychic World.

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Psychologists and parapsychologists get very upset when people like me follow Sir Oliver Lodge and link survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics. They feel that their authority is threatened."
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Letter from Tom Jones to Dr Chris Roe (November 22, 2001): Survival Research

This letter was written in response to Prof. David Fontana's article about survival research in the October issue of Paranormal Review.

In his letter, Tom Jones writes:
"I am at a loss to understand why the Paranormal Review is not concentrating more on the study of the invisible part of the universe - quantum mechanics."


Thomas Jones quotes the Nobel Laureate for Medical Science, Professor Charles Richet:
"There is ample proof that experimental materialisations should take definite rank as a scientific fact."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Ian Hislop (November 20, 2001): Excommunication from Islam - Tony Blair's Admiration for Islam

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Mohammed had exactly the same experience as I did during a scientific experiment. A person from the etheric (spirit) world materialised and hugged him. We can now understand why our ancestors thought something supernatural had happened."
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Open Letter from Michael Roll to Robert Morrell (November 12, 2001): Attacks on Thomas Paine

This letter was written following comments made about Thomas Paine on BBC Radio 4's 'Start the Week' programme on November 12, 2001.

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"This latest vicious attack on Thomas Paine only goes to show just how dangerous his philosophy is to all those who control media and educational outlets in Great Britain."
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Letter from Robert Morrell to the Producer of BBC Radio 4's Start The Week Programme (November 12, 2001): Thomas Paine Attacked on UK National Radio

This letter was written following comments made about Thomas Paine on BBC Radio 4's 'Start the Week' programme on November 12, 2001.

In his letter, Robert Morrell writes:
"One can criticise Thomas Paine on a number of points, and personally I have done so, but I find it astonishing that in an age when information technology is supposed to be all important and influential we still encounter so much ignorance concerning his private life, or what we know of it, on the part of people who in light of their professions should know better."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Dr Roger Berry (October 23, 2001): Church of England

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"...the hierarchy of the Church of England chose this qualified physicist to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury. They could then gently lead the people over to accepting survival after death as something that happens to every person on Earth and not just Christians or believers in religious doctrines and dogmas."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (October 3, 2001): Linking Survival with Subatomic Physics

This letter was written about Nobel Physics Laureate, Prof. B. D. Josephson, head of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University.

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"The wrath of public opinion will destroy the religious and scientific establishments throughout the world immediately millions do the same as Josephson - link the "paranormal" with subatomic physics."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Jim Snyder (September 27, 2001): The Equivalent of the Taliban is Running Great Britain!

This e-mail was written after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
”The equivalent of the Taliban is running Great Britain!

There is a huge army of clerics and their victims who hold all the key positions in our Theocracy where the Church and the state are still established. Their propaganda is continually pumped out via the Religious Affairs Departments on all media outlets and in our schools with the backing of the full weight of the law. No philosophical balance is allowed.”
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Hugh Thomas (September 12, 2001): People who Believe Absurdities Commit Atrocities

This letter was written after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

In his e-mail, Michael Roll quotes the French philosopher Voltaire:
"People who believe absurdities commit atrocities."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Hugh Thomas (September 10, 2001): Religious Hatred

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"over the last few days the British people have been watching on their television screens brainwashed victims of priestcraft spitting at terrified little five year old girls going to school for the first time in Northern Ireland. This is having more impact than a religious fanatic leaving a bomb in a crowded pub or street."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Professor Gary Schwartz (September 9, 2001): Natural Forces in the Universe

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Nothing happened yesterday in the laws of physics that does not happen today. Sir William Crookes and I witnessed exactly the same phenomena as the followers of all these saviour-gods. Understandably they thought something supernatural had happened and they turned their heroes into God - the creator of the universe."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Peter Wadhams (August 24, 2001): Dr. Habgood Consecrated the Bishop of Durham!

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Mrs. Thatcher chose an Archbishop of Canterbury whom she could rely on to play the game - not let the public know that the Christian religion is a gigantic hoax on the human race."
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Letter from Michael Roll to John Samson (11 July 2001): Psychical Research Involving Selected Mediums (PRISM)

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"The fact that American scientists are behaving like seekers after knowledge (scientists) will really put the pressure on the hierarchy of the Society for Psychical Research who have been censoring papers that connect survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics."
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Letter from John Samson to Victor Zammit (July 7, 2001): IS THERE A WIDENING DIVISION BETWEEN PARAPSYCHOLOGISTS AND SURVIVALISTS AT THE SPR?

Part of this letter was published in Psychic News.

In his letter, John Samson writes:
"I am well aware that cultural and educational conditioning makes the truly open mind a difficult thing to achieve in any society, but I discovered the level of equivocation and negativity in the upper echelons of the SPR to be quite remarkable, especially in view of the work done by its pioneers and the volume of psychical evidence they accumulated."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (July 2, 2001): The Scientific Proof of Survival After Death

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Uncomfortable discoveries in physics that prove we all survive the death of our physical bodies are being deliberately blocked from even coming to the attention of people in Great Britain for them to accept or reject as the case may be. This is solely to keep the old-boy network ticking over nicely."
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Open Letter from Michael Roll (June 20, 2001): Censored in Great Britain

In his open letter Michael Roll writes to Campaign supporters in the USA about censorship in Great Britain:
"The Church and the State are still established. This makes sure all the top positions of power are in the hands of those who have ruthlessly used the Judaic-Christian ladder to get there."
(…)
”Ronald Pearson has discovered the "spirit" world. We now know that the subject of survival after death is a branch of physics - natural forces in the universe - and nothing whatsoever to do with believing in supernatural absurdities invented by our ancestors in the Dark Ages.”
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Letter from Michael Roll to Estelle Morris MP, Secretary of State for Education (June 18, 2001): A Philosophical Balance in our Schools

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"All the time our children are denied access to a rational balance the Government is flying in the face of Article 19 of The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This demands that "everyone" has the right to freedom of opinion and expression."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Dr Peter Wadhams (14 June, 2001): Destruction of Sir William Crookes FRS

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"We can only stop this appalling deception if all scientists take action to introduce a balance on all media and educational outlets. Supporters of Crookes are censored at the moment."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Ray Taylor (June 4, 2001): A Balance in SPR Publications

This letter was published unedited.

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"The criticism of the SPR will only cease when this balance is achieved. The secular scientific approach to survival after death is to be found on my web site www.scsad.afterlifeinstitute.org."
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Open Letter from Michael Roll to John Samson (April 1, 2001): SPR Censoring Scientific Proof of Survival After Death

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"In April's Psychic World, letters from the Secretary of the SPR and its President have totally ignored the fact that every paper presented to the SPR that links the subject of survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics is censored by those who are running the show. This proves that the SPR does have a "corporate opinion"."
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Ronald Pearson's Response to Bernard Carr's Letter of March 17, 2001 (March 31, 2001): Is The SPR Serious About Being Even Handed?

This letter was published in Psychic News, March 31, 2001

In his letter, Ronald Pearson writes:
"Theorists are searching for a 'Theory of Everything' and yet deliberately ignore the major factor: that psi phenomena suggest that something else must exist behind the universe of matter."

"The SPR refused my paper on grounds that it needed to first appear in a scientific journal because the expertise needed for its assessment did not exist within the SPR. This condition is now satisfied (...). Is the SPR now prepared to prove its claim of having no corporate policy by publication of this approach?"
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Open Letter from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (March, 2001): Failings of Education

In his letter Michael Roll writes:
"I plucked up courage to tell my son that he was being fed gobbledegook by his teachers. His answer summed up the whole rotten education system:

"O yes dad, we all know it is a load of tripe, but I asked you how I should answer it, not if it is correct. Every university student knows they are being taught absolute rubbish, but the name of the game is to get our degrees. We have to feed the academics what they want to hear." "
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Letter from Prof. Bernard Carr to Psychic News (March 17, 2001): SPR President Responds

This letter was published in Psychic News, issue 3587.

In his letter, Professor Bernard Carr writes:
"I am not personally antagonistic towards survival research. While I remain agnostic on the reality (or at least nature) of survival, there is no doubt that this has always been an important part of the SPR's research activities and I hope it will remain so. On the other hand, it is no longer the only (or even main) thrust of our research programme."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Psychic News (March 17, 2001): Campaigner Compares Sceptics to Canute

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
”[Professor Gary Schwartz] is only receiving this publicity because he has not committed the scientific heresy of following in the steps of Sir Oliver Lodge - linking the subject of survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics (…)”
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Letter from Montague Keen to Psychic News (March 10, 2001): Scole: No Evidence of Fraud

In his letter, Montague Keen writes:
"What is depressing about the critics is their willingness to construct an upturned pyramid of hypotheses and speculations, all balanced on one improbable assumption after another. What is so remarkable is their unwillingness to accept the oft repeated challenge to take the scientifically warranted course of viewing all the evidence together, rather than attempting to pick theoretical holes in every individual item."


It is notable that this letter was published in Psychic News and not in New Scientist, where it would have provided a balance to the outburst from Dr. Susan Blackmore published there on November 4, 2000. Dr Blackmore referred to the Scole Report as "infamous".

It is also notable that experiments carried out by Professor Gary Schwartz are never censored because he has not linked the subject of survival after death with natural forces in the universe, and with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics that looks at the invisible part of the universe.

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Open Letter from Michael Roll to Dr Peter Wadhams (March, 2001): Only the Physics Connection is Censored

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"University psychologists are appeasing orthodox scientific teaching that has started from the base that we do not possess a soul. Any psychologist that backed the idea of a soul would have their careers destroyed immediately by the powerful physicists and biologists who are adamant that death is the end of everything."
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Letter from Ronald Pearson to Michael Roll (January 2001): Key to Consciousness: Quantum Gravitation

This letter comments on the letter from January, 1996 rejecting Pearson's paper Key to Consciousness: Quantum gravitation from publication in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

In his letter, Ronald Pearson writes:
"As it stands the rejection looks reasonable because it implies it was assessed "fairly and openly". The truth is very different. Both rejection letters made absolutely no reference to anything in the paper. Both simply extolled the perfection of general relativity as the best possible theory of gravity which could ever be devised and that was it!"
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Letter from Ronald Pearson to Psychic News (January 24, 2001): Peer Refereeing

In his letter, Ronald Pearson writes:
"It has become very clear that physicists have been secretly operating a 'closed shop' for many years and this is still stifling much needed progress."
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Letter from John Samson to Psychic News (January 24, 2001): Ronald Pearson

This letter was published in Psychic News, January, 2001

In his letter, John Samson writes:
"In my view, Ronald Pearson has been the victim of such misuse in a way that has left many of us baffled and dismayed. Especially so because sub-atomic physics now features with growing prominence as a legitimate line of enquiry in the paranormal arena, and Mr. Pearson's approach is simply a further reflection of this."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Jeff Rense (January 11, 2001): Scientific Proof of Survival After Death

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"In order to show that the invisible part of the universe is teeming with life I knew we had to repeat the experiments of Sir William Crookes, and other international teams of scientists, using modern sophisticated recording equipment. They had already proved survival after death 100 years ago (...)

The only reason these revolutionary experiments failed to have the impact they should have done was because they lacked the mathematical theory to back them up (...)"
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Open Letter from John Samson (January 9, 2001): Survivalists in the SPR

This letter was written after Professor Bernard Carr was made President of the SPR.

Professor Bernard Carr and his committee rejected Ronald Pearson's paper that he had prepared for the 23rd International Conference of the SPR held at the University of Durham in September 1999. He also censored Michael Roll's paper that told the story of how mothers had been physically reunited with their "dead" children over and over again.
Professor Carr justified this decision with the following words:
"Your topic is not really appropriate for the conference audience.”


In his letter, John Samson writes:
"when one links this statement with the vociferous attempts by those at the heart of the SPR who wished to suppress the Scole Report and regarded it as 'an embarrassment to the Society', then we are confronted by a most regrettable situation indeed.”
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