E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (September 14, 2002): Religionists Control the SPR
2002-September-14 Filed in: Campaign
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"[Dr John Beloff] was an executor of Arthur Koestler's will. He made sure the Koestler Chair came to his university - Edinburgh - where he could keep an eye on things. He chose a tame fellow psychologist as professor - Robert Morris - knowing very well he would never carry on the work of Arthur Koestler."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (August 26, 2002): Professional Wreckers
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"The time has come for people to realise that it's a scientific fact that we all survive the death of our physical bodies and it's nothing to do with believing in priestcraft."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (August 25, 2002): Professional Wreckers
2002-August-25 Filed in: Campaign
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"[Dr John] Beloff is the perfect ally for James Randi and all the rest of the professional wreckers who are fighting with all their might to block the secular scientific case for survival from reaching the public."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Charles Lowson (November 17, 2002): Only the Proof of Survival After Death is Censored, Evidence is Allowed Out
2002-November-17 Filed in: Mediums
In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"As biologists flatly refuse to recognise people in the invisible part of the universe, most of their conclusions are just as false as the base that the physicists have started from. Until they all do a complete u-turn orthodox scientific teaching is going in the same direction as the Church - nowhere."Read More...
E-mail from Victor Zammit to Michael Roll (September 14, 2002): One of the Greatest Betrayals in the History of Psychic Phenomena
2002-September-14 Filed in: Campaign
In his e-mail, Victor Zammit writes:
"Those who wilfully indulge in the deliberate and cruel manipulation of circumstances to elicit and disseminate darkness will inexorably pay a huge price - one that we do not have the earthly language to describe the colossal negative and horrific consequences!! Beloff - appears to be in deep, deep trouble!!"Read More...
An Open Letter to the Bath-based Scientist Ronald Pearson (June 27, 2002): Professor David Fontana
2002-June-27 Filed in: Campaign
In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"(...) the former President of the Society for Psychical Research, the psychologist Prof. David Fontana, is lecturing to students linking life after death with subatomic physics (...)"Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (July 2, 2001): The Scientific Proof of Survival After Death
2001-July-02 Filed in: Campaign
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."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor B D Josephson (February 24, 2003): "Psi Supporters"
2003-February-24 Filed in: Campaign
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"I hope you are right and the "psi supporters" at Edinburgh University now pluck up the courage to come out in the open and back Parnia and Fenwick."Read More...
Open Letter from Michael Roll to Professor John Poynton (November 28, 2005): A Fair Balance in SPR Publications
2005-November-28 Filed in: Campaign
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Surely in a situation as divided as this, rules should be made that all editors must be duty bound to always balance these two conflicting opinions, especially as I have proved to you that scientists within The Royal Society are relying on their colleagues within the SPR to keep a sharp look out for any important discoveries in what Sir Oliver Lodge called "Psychic Science"?"Read More...
Letter from Michael Roll to Ray Taylor (December 1, 2001): Linking Survival with Subatomic Physics
2001-December-01 Filed in: Science
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:
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."Read More...
Letter from John Samson to Victor Zammit (July 7, 2001): IS THERE A WIDENING DIVISION BETWEEN PARAPSYCHOLOGISTS AND SURVIVALISTS AT THE SPR?
2001-July-07 Filed in: Campaign
Part of this letter was published in Psychic News.
In his letter, John Samson writes:
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."Read More...
Letter from Michael Roll to Ray Taylor (June 4, 2001): A Balance in SPR Publications
2001-June-04 Filed in: Campaign
This letter was published unedited.
In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
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."Read More...
Letter to The Royal Society (December 12, 2004): Meddling in Divinity and Metaphysics
2004-December-12 Filed in: Religion
In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"I feel it's now time to abandon your 17th century pact with the Vatican - "not to meddle in divinity and metaphysics"."Read More...
Letter from Professor David Fontana to Ray Taylor (February 2002): The Facts!
2002-February-01 Filed in: Campaign
In his letter, Professor David Fontana writes:
"I believe Mr. Roll to be a sincere man who is dedicated to informing the public of the case for survival. Unfortunately he does far more harm than good by attacking - and misrepresenting - the work of anyone who he feels does not see exactly eye to eye with him over details. In attacking Dr. Beloff (who has now retired) he attacks a man respected world-wide for having done more to bring psychical research to the attention of the scientific community than almost anyone else alive today.”Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Montague Keen (December 2, 2003): Perrott-Warrick
2003-December-02 Filed in: Campaign
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"I can't understand why the latest recipient of money from the Perrott-Warrick fund, Prof. Delanoy, refuses to take part in any experiments with a materialisation medium. This is the only type of medium that can actually prove survival after death with repeatable experiments under laboratory conditions where all five of our senses are working."Read More...
E-mail from Michael Roll to Ron Pearson (January 10, 2003): Scientific Proof
2003-January-10 Filed in: Campaign
In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"this memo to William Woollard could explain why Dr. John Beloff and Professor Archie Roy worked together to make sure your scientific paper did not come to the attention of members of the Society for Psychical Research via their journal."Read More...