Matthew Manning

Matthew Manning
Born August 17, 1955 (1955-08-17) (age 56)
Residence Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk
Nationality British
Ethnicity Caucasian
Occupation Author and Healer

Matthew Manning (born August 17, 1955) is a best selling British author and healer, alleged to have psychic abilities.[1] As a child he and his family were allegedly subjected to a range of poltergeist disturbances in their Cambridge home and later at Oakham School.[2]

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Early life

While writing a school essay Manning discovered that he had the ability to do automatic writing and found that in doing so it would weaken or completely stop the poltergeist activity.[2] It is also alleged that he could do automatic drawing, sometimes called mediumistic automatism, and claimed to draw in the styles of many famous artists including Pablo Picasso.[3]

Manning was also tested for psychokinetic abilities by psychologist William Braud of the Mind Science Foundation in the late 1970s, with results that, according to Braud and coauthors in a research paper published in 1979, were better than chance.[1] Additionally during this time, it was reported that he could "bend metal paranormally, affect electrical equipment, move compass needles, and make medical diagnoses."[4]

The events of his childhood and later investigations by George Owen of the Cambridge Psychical Research Society[5] were published in a 1974 book entitled The Link,[6] which was translated into 16 languages and eventually sold more than a million copies, or "millions of copies" according to a 1997 Daily Mail article.[6]

Work

Today, Manning continues to devote his efforts to psychic healing and lecturing, the former a claimed ability of his, of which the medical community remains skeptical.[6]

Bibliography

Further reading

Braud, W., Davis, G., & Wood, R. (1979). "Experiments with Matthew Manning," Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 50, 199-223.

References

  1. ^ a b "It's All in Your Mind: San Antonio scientists probe the mysteries of ESP". Texas Monthly (Emmis Publishing, L.P.): pp. 122–127. September 1981. http://books.google.com/books?q=Texas+monthly+September+1981+%22Matthew+Manning%22&btnG=Search+Books.  Page 127: "He [psychologist William Braud of the Mind Science Foundation] has worked with professional psychics as well, notably Matthew Manning, an Englishman skilled in psychokinesis. The experiments involved psychokinetic influence on living things: Manning was supposed to will a gerbil located in a different room to move rapidly on an activity wheel, a fish to maintain its position in a tank, and human red blood cells to break down at a slower-than-normal rate. He bettered chance by 3 percent in the fish and gerbil experiments and by 11 percent in the blood cell test."
  2. ^ a b Heath, Pamela Rae, M.D., Psy.D. (2003). The PK Zone: A Cross-Cultural review of Psychokinesis. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-27658-X. 
  3. ^ Gordon, Henry (1987). Extrasensory deception: ESP, psychics, Shirley MacLaine, ghosts, UFOs. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. p. 101. ISBN 978-0879754075. http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Extrasensory+deception%22+%22Matthew+manning%22+Picasso&btnG=Search+Books. "Painting from the beyond ostensibly, one Matthew Manning executes art work while in a trance. Drawings and paintings in the style of Bewick, Rowlandson, Beardsley, Klee, Matisse, Picasso, and other great names began to appear over the walls of his rooms and then all over the ceilings." 
  4. ^ Berger, Arthur S.; Berger, Joyce (1991). The Encyclopedia of Parapsychological and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House. pp. 255–256. ISBN 1-55778-043-9.  "He also found that he could bend metal paranormally, affect electrical equipment, move compass needles, and make medical diagnoses. ... Manning has turned to healing in an attempt to prove that we are all interconnected."
  5. ^ editor in chief, Richard Cavendish ; editorial board, C.A. Burland ... [et al.] ; new edition edited and compiled by Richard Cavendish and Brian Innes. (1995) [1970]. Man, Myth & Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation. p. 1626, v. 12. ISBN 1-85435-731-X. OCLC 228665658.  Entry for Matthew Manning. Mentions separate lab experiments with Owen and Braud; automatic drawing, metal bending, and healing.
  6. ^ a b c "Matthew Manning Mystifies Scientists. How Can He Heal Just By Touch?". The Daily Mail (London, England). February 22, 1997. http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/daily-mail-london-england-the/mi_8002/is_1997_Feb_22/matthew-manning-mystifies-scientists-heal/ai_n35818538/pg_2/. Retrieved April 9, 2010.  22 February 1997 issue of The Daily Mail (London, England), writer: Angela Lambert.

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