E-mail from Michael Roll to Polly Toynbee (June 9, 2014): Professor Richard Dawkins Completely Vindicated

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Scientists all over the world are now making a careful study of survival after death and linking it to subatomic physics - forces that are normally out of range of our five physical senses."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Pravda (June 8, 2014): The Thinking Revolution has Started

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Another believer has just been chosen as Archbishop of Canterbury, he has recently appeared on television saying that he does not have to keep his fingers crossed when he recites the creeds."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Adrian Berry (June 4, 2014): Astronomy at The Telegraph

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"It does not take a mathematical genius to come to the conclusion that the force of gravity, that keeps the oceans from flying off into space, and the suns in a galaxy from doing the same thing, is in fact the force that is coming from the spiritual part of the universe."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Polly Toynbee (May 3, 2014): These Religious Nuts are Determined to get us in a Third World War

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Only Nigel Farage has had the guts to warn that it is the EU that is causing all the hatred in the Ukraine."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Wales on Sunday (April 28, 2014): Can we now Hear the Scientific Case for a Separate Mind and Brain?

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"We can only hope that in the future, whenever the subject of life after death is featured on mainstream media and educational outlets, that the readers, listeners and viewers will be presented with a fair balance; that people always have access to the two expert opinions."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor John Poynton (December 4, 2013): Why I am Optimistic

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"It is now time to give people a scientific balance on mainstream media and educational outlets: Newton or Einstein?"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor Richard Dawkins (December 1, 2013): Professor Richard Dawkins puts the Record Straight

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"It will be impossible for our leaders and teachers to deceive people for much longer."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor Richard Dawkins (November 3, 2013): Lord Melvyn Bragg and Thomas Paine

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Ditch Randi and move over to our fellow atheist Arthur Findlay, then working together we can blow the great religious hoax on the human race clean out of the water."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to the Western Daily Press (October 30, 2013): Censored Historical Facts and Scientific Discoveries

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"All the hard work has already been done but suppressed. All we have to do is just point people in the direction of two philosophical giants, Thomas Paine and Arthur Findlay, the most valuable Scotsman ever."
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Open Letter from Michael Roll to Professor John Poynton (November 28, 2005): A Fair Balance in SPR Publications

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"?"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Stephen Cox, of the Royal Society (May 3, 2005): The Discovery of People in the Invisible Part of the Universe

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Everything now rests with The Royal Society abandoning their 17th century pact with the Vatican never to make a study of forces in the universe that are beyond our five physical senses - so-called spiritual matters. All the religious killing will stop when people find out they are only fighting over supernatural mythology invented by priests who knew nothing about cosmology."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Dr Nicola Holt (November 14, 2004): Survival Terminology

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Professor Richard Dawkins highlights the current situation with regard to what is referred to as paranormal phenomena when he concludes that if it is eventually proved that what is known as the paranormal exists then it will turn out to be something that is natural and normal after all - coming within the laws of nature. "
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Letter from Alan Valiant to Michael Roll (August 16, 2004): Complaint About cfpf.org.uk

Author Alan Valiant brought to our attention an incorrect reference to him on this site as a "Spiritualist".
We are happy to correct this error.
A "Spiritualist" is an adherent of Spiritualism, a monotheistic (one-god) religion.
A "spiritualist" accepts the reality of life beyond death.
In his letter, Alan Valiant points out that he looks to not one, but three gods.

In his letter, Alan Valiant writes:
"The book was written at the request of the Lord God who is featured prominently in the bible. The monotheistic theory is false. There are three gods in the spiritual world, not one. To claim, as you do, that I am most likely being given information by "a joker in the etheric world who is on an ego trip and is pretending to be the creator the creator of the universe" is childishly ridiculous. How can you, who claim to be a reasonable and rational man, criticise a book that you have not read?"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Hugh Thomas (February 28, 2004): Balancing the Arguments of So-Called Experts

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Why can't we see our qualified British physicists balancing the arguments of the American magician James Randi and the professional obscurants who are on his side?"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Tariq Ali (December 15, 2003): The Truth About Colonialism

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"In 1947 the historian Arthur Findlay told the truth about colonialism - 'The Curse of Ignorance'. Not only that, he told the truth about the whole history of mankind. Needless to say this history really upset the powerful thought police who control what information people are allowed to receive."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Montague Keen (December 2, 2003): Perrott-Warrick

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."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Barry Duke (November 9, 2003): A Rational Explanation for "Supernatural" Phenomena

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Scientists have discovered people in the invisible part of the universe. Not angels, devils, gods or God, but people who are just as thick and stupid as when they were on Earth."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Barry Eaton (April 18, 2003): The Scientific Proof of Survival After Death Belongs to Every Person on Earth

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"In order to protect the jobs and reputations of professional "experts", organisations and Trust funds that have been set up specifically to look into life after death and related subjects have been infiltrated and destroyed from within. Huge amounts of money have been deliberately funnelled towards "experts" who can be relied upon to make sure the public never have access to the published work of scientists who started from the base of linking survival after death with the scientific discipline of subatomic physics - the study of the invisible part of the universe."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to John Turner (March 15, 2003): The Subject of Survival After Death has Been Hijacked by Religionists

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"My long fight to present the work of Arthur Findlay within the Spiritualist movement has had the opposite effect to the one I was hoping for. Instead of bringing all the Spiritualists over to Findlay's secular scientific approach to the study of survival after death it has caused an exodus. The thousands of people who have bothered to read Findlay's books have immediately left the movement."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor B D Josephson (February 24, 2003): "Psi Supporters"

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."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to an Inquirer (January 31, 2003): Presenting the Secular Scientific Case for Survival

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"The whole point of my fight for a balance on media outlets is to point out that there is no balance at the moment."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Ron Pearson (January 10, 2003): Scientific Proof

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."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to David Duffield (January 6, 2003): Philosophical Balance

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"I am appealing to the British sense of fair play. Every time you hear James Randi and his devoted followers, who still have total control of all media and educational outlets, attack our great scientist Sir William Crookes. Please say, all right, we have heard your case that Crookes was a liar, a fraud, a crank, a gullible Spiritualist, and a sex maniac. May we now please hear from qualified scientists who disagree with everything you say about this former President of the Royal Society?"
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Open Letter from Michael Roll to Professor Brian Josephson (December 11, 2002): Linking Survival with Subatomic Physics

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"There can be no excuse for refusing to look at experiments."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Sam Nicholls (December 10, 2002): James Randi

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"[Randi] and his supporters are always given total freedom on all media and educational outlets in the UK to attack arguably two of the greatest scientists that Great Britain has ever produced: The President of the Royal Society and holder of the Order of Merit, Sir William Crookes, and the inventor of radio, Sir Oliver Lodge FRS. No scientist, however well qualified, is allowed on media and educational outlets to balance these attacks."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Professor Brian Josephson (December 1, 2002): Scientific Proof and the Media

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"Whenever a scientist makes a public stand and links so-called paranormal phenomena with quantum mechanics, that is, hints that there may be a rational scientific explanation to account for any aspect of the "paranormal", it's as if a button is pushed on media computers and a list of names pop up of "experts" who will immediately be wheeled on to rubbish any scientist who dares to support Sir William Crookes and Sir Oliver Lodge, the pioneers of radio, television and subatomic physics."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to an Inquirer (September 27, 2002): Noah's Ark Society

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"For goodness sake help us to make the Noah's Ark Society fall in with the wishes of their founders - Alan Crossley and Robin Foy. They wanted to hit everything on a scientific level and prove survival to every person on Earth, not just to those within the one-god religion of Spiritualism."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to John Samson (September 16, 2002): Society for Psychical Research

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"This crushing proof of survival after death was not only censored by those who control what sees the light of day within the one-god religion of Spiritualism. It has also been censored by the thought police who have infiltrated the Society for Psychical Research ever since I first submitted these reports in 1983."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (September 14, 2002): Religionists Control the SPR

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."
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E-mail from Victor Zammit to Michael Roll (September 14, 2002): One of the Greatest Betrayals in the History of Psychic Phenomena

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!!"
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Charles Lowson (September 9, 2002): Near-Death Experiences

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"(...) Arthur Findlay insisted on getting rid of the emotive word "spirit" and making sure we always use the scientific word "etheric". I am bringing all the free thinkers with us solely because I have got rid of all the words associated with the evil forces of priestcraft."
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E-mail from Sam Nicholls to Michael Roll (September 4, 2002): James Randi

Sam Nicholls comments on criticisms of his article James Randi - His Amazing Role in the Great Psi Media Circus (1991) .

In his e-mail, Sam Nicholls writes:
"(...) comments about "slurs and misrepresentations" and using "slanted language" and "innuendo" are quite apt - that's exactly how I feel about the quality of Mr Randi's writing."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Victor Zammit (August 25, 2002): Professional Wreckers

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."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Jeff Rense (August 20, 2002): We can Stop the Third World War, but Only if we all Fight Very Hard Indeed

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"We can stop the Third World War, but only if we all fight very hard indeed."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to The Producer, Tomorrow's World (July 25, 2002): Philosophical Balance

Tomorrow's World is a popular TV science programme, broadcast by the BBC.

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"You will see from the enclosed that there is another school of scientific thought, put forward by Cambridge University professors of physics, that disagrees with the conclusions of Dr. Richard Wiseman who has started from the base that the mind and the brain are the same. However, as things stand at the moment in what is meant to be a free country, only one of these expert opinions is actually reaching the public."
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Open Letter to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales (June 30, 2002): Ronald Pearson

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"[Sir William Crookes] was quite rightly made President of The Royal Society, knighted and awarded the highest decoration in the land - The Order of Merit.

Surely the same honour should be bestowed on the Derbyshire scientist Ronald D. Pearson who has provided the missing mathematics to back up the experiments that were carried out by Sir William Crookes whose paper was published in 1874 in The Quarterly Journal of Science?"
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An Open Letter to the Bath-based Scientist Ronald Pearson (June 27, 2002): Professor David Fontana

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 (...)"
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Letter from Michael Roll to The Royal Society (April 26, 2002): Philosophical Balance

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"I see that Professor Bernard Carr, the President of the SPR, has been booked to speak at The Royal Society on 9th May. May those of us who have started from the base that Sir William Crookes and Sir Oliver Lodge were correct in their conclusions be permitted to balance the thoughts of Prof. Carr and the hierarchy of the SPR?"
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E-mail from Jeff Rense, to Michael Roll and Ron Pearson (April 4, 2002): Presenting the Secular Scientific Case for Survival

In his e-mail, Jeff Rense writes:
"There was without question, an instinctive recognition by millions of listeners that your and Ron's work is LOGICAL, SENSIBLE, and PRAGMATICALLY brilliant."
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Letter from Thomas Jones to Ray Taylor (February 11, 2002): SPR Member Responds to Prof. Fontana

In his letter, Tom Jones writes:
"It is understandable then that Mr. Roll makes the remark that any connection between survival and physics "threatens the authority" of psychologists, and I am at a loss to understand why the professor labels this claim as "absurd". Perhaps it is due to Mr. Roll's unfortunate use of terms; he should have said, the connection between subatomic physics and survival, if real, contradicts the current paradigms upon which psychology is based, and the evidence in proof of a separate mind and brain shows the inadequacy of psychology as a true and convincing science regarding consciousness and its survival of death."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to an Inquirer (February 6, 2002): Secular Case for Survival

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"This now explains why our ancestors made the terrible mistake of inventing all the dangerous and divisive religions. They witnessed the same thing that I did and jumped to the wrong conclusions. They thought the people who live in the invisible part of the universe were angels, devils, gods or worst of all, Big Daddy God himself! Sadly, most of them are just as thick and stupid as when they were on Earth."
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Letter from Michael Roll to Ray Taylor (February 5, 2002): Censorship in the SPR

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
"In spite of what Professor David Fontana says, those who control the Society for Psychical Research censor vital information that is upsetting to the powerful religious and scientific establishments. It's called peer-refereeing but it still boils down to censorship."
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Letter from Professor David Fontana to Ray Taylor (February 2002): The Facts!

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.”
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Professor Peter Wadhams (January 15, 2002): Nailing Colours to the Mast

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"We do not worship any person on Earth and it's just as important not to worship, or take too much notice of etheric people, just because they are out of range of our physical senses. Our ancestors made the terrible mistake of thinking that etheric people were angels, devils, gods or worst of all, Big Daddy God himself! They are just people, exactly the same as we are, and definitely not to be worshipped or kowtowed to."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Jeff Rense (January 10, 2002): Discoveries in Physics Belong to Every Person on Earth

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Please help to present the secular case for survival after death. All the religious killings will stop. This will happen very quickly once people find out they are all fighting over nothing whatsoever apart from mythology gone mad."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Melody Mehta (January 9, 2002): Church and State

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"Immediately people find out that it's a scientific fact that we all survive death then nobody will ever grovel before a priest again."
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E-mail from Michael Roll to Jeff Rense (January 7, 2002): Uncomfortable Discoveries in Physics

In his e-mail, Michael Roll writes:
"What really hurts is that nobody is spreading these lies from a base of ignorance. Intellectuals and university academics, with a great deal to lose from uncomfortable discoveries in physics, know exactly what they are doing - keeping the old-boy network intact from the wrath of public opinion."
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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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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 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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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."
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”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.cfpf.org.uk."
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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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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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E-mail from Bob Hollings to Mensa Magazine (December 1, 2000): Surviving Physical Death

In his e-mail, Bob Hollings writes:
"The evidence has actually been available for decades, but lesser scientists continue to refuse to admit it. The reason being that agreement would force them to make changes that they do not wish to make."
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Letter from Graham Butler to Lyn G. de Swarte (April 11, 2000): Michael Roll

In his letter, Graham Butler writes:
"I would like to endorse, through your columns, the scientific approach to Spiritualism and survival as advocated by Michael Roll. His indefatigable energy in promoting the best evidence available is, like your own, wholly admirable.”
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Open Letter from Ron Pearson to John Samson (August 13, 1999): Does the Society for Psychical Research Have a "Corporate Policy"?

In his letter, Ron Pearson writes:
"The corporate policy of the SPR is to support a paradigm of established physics: that mind is mere brain function.
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This is in direct conflict with an overwhelming bulk of evidence, which shows that our immortal minds transfer to another system of matter invisible and untouchable to us (since it operates on a different quantum wavelength). I think this is the main reason the Church has tried to suppress the truth about the real nature of spirituality for so many centuries."
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Letter from Michael Roll to John Pilger (February 20, 1997): Censored Philosophers

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
”As you know the way to destroy any philosopher or scientist who is a danger to established thinking is to float a lie in the press and media, then censor out those who try to put the record straight.”
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Letter from Michael Roll to Professor Norman Dixon (December 19, 1996): Telling the Truth

In his letter, Michael Roll writes:
Many psychologists agree with you, but they are too frightened of peer pressure to come out in the open.
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Letter from Michael Roll to David Blunkett MP (April 15, 1995)

In his letter to David Blunkett, Michael Roll writes:
”John Smith’s dying wish is coming true. Thanks to the (…) Internet. millions are at last gaining access to the suppressed work of the great English philosopher Thomas Paine.”
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Letter from Buckingham Palace to Michael Roll (April 28, 1993)

In his letter to Michael Roll, Kenneth Scott writes:
"The Queen has taken note of your suggestion that Mr. Ronald Pearson should be awarded the Order of Merit."
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Letter from Richard Dawkins to Stan Ford (January 22, 1992): Supernormal Phenomena

In his letter, Richard Dawkins writes:
"I strongly applaud your statement that, if such phenomena were demonstrated to exist, they would not be supernatural but natural. I said as much in the full version of the lecture (...). All that I was trying to demonstrate (...) was that much of the alleged evidence that people think is convincing is not really convincing at all."
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Letter from The International Centre for Theoretical Physics to Michael Roll (July 4, 1988)

In the letter, Ms Edda Vidiz writes:
"I am pleased to inform you that, on behalf of Professor Abdus Salam, under today's date we have instructed our Bank (Cassa di Risparmio di Trieste) to send you UK £ 100. - as a grant from the Fund for Physics for the period July 1988 - July 1989."
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Letter from Professor Abdus Salam to Michael Roll (February 19, 1987)

In his letter, Abdus Salam writes:
"Thank you for sending me copies of letters you have sent to various politicians and journalists in England. I have noted the contents. We do in fact place all letters which we receive from you in the Reading Room here at the Centre to which all our delegates and members have access."
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Letter from University College Cardiff to Michael Roll (March 30, 1984): Chair of Sub-atomic Phenomena

In his letter, the Principal C W L Bevan writes:
”I can assure you that if you can raise a million pounds we will do our best to set up a Chair of Sub-atomic Phenomena.”
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