Mike Lamp

Historical background and foundational material on psychic traditions, notable figures, early theories, and how these ideas developed over time 📜

Paschal Beverly Randolph: The Forgotten Father of American Clairvoyance Who Was Paschal Beverly Randolph? There is a particular kind of historical figure who shapes an era so completely that the era forgets to credit him. Paschal Beverly Randolph was that figure for American clairvoyance, psychic culture, and occult thought in the nineteenth century. He was […]

J. W. Dunne Dream Experiments Began With a Man Who Should Have Known Better Than to Believe Them In the early 1900s, a British aeronautical engineer began keeping a notebook beside his bed. Every morning, before he spoke to anyone or read a newspaper or allowed the ordinary events of the day to crowd into […]

Ted Serios Psychic Photographer Began as the Last Person Anyone Expected Most unexplained stories in psychic history begin with someone unusual. A medium from a prominent family, a mystic with a following, a performer who built a career around mysterious abilities. The story of Ted Serios begins in a Chicago bar with a bellhop who […]

Arthur Ford’s Incredible Message From Beyond Harry Houdini died on Halloween night, October 31, 1926. He was 52 years old, and he left behind a world that had watched him escape from handcuffs, locked trunks, submerged crates, and sealed milk cans for three decades. But the one thing the great Houdini could not escape was […]

Jeane Dixon Prediction: That Made a Legend The Woman Behind the Headlines Jeane Dixon was not simply a fortune teller who found a wide audience. She was a carefully cultivated public figure, a Washington fixture, a syndicated columnist, and a media personality who shaped how millions of Americans thought about prophecy, fate, and the limits […]