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From Psychic News, May
1999.
Mr
John Samson has drawn attention (April 29) to the regrettable
manner in which The Ark Review has treated the publication
of the Scole Report, issued as part of the Proceedings of
the Society for Psychical Research.
This
is all the more surprising considering what several distinguished
critics have said about it. Dr Crawford Knox, who was one of the
referees, and whose speech at the SPR's recent study day on the
Report won by far the most prolonged applause, has written that it
"will place on a firm footing evidence for the existence of a
spirit world and its impact on our everyday world, and for
survival of death".
Professor
Archie Roy, who sat with the Scole Group has said that it
"will become a benchmark against which all other serious
investigations of this nature will be measured", while the
distinguished author Colin Wilson, has called it "one of the
great documents of psychical research... a classic... and one
of the most important reports the society has ever
published".
One
might have imagined that since the Noah's Ark Society is dedicated
to the promotion of physical mediumship and phenomena, and that
what happened at Scole between 1993 and 1998 was a direct and
impressive outcome from a group led by a founder of the Society, a
more temperate assessment of the evidence and its significance
would have been encouraged. Instead, the Editor of the NAS has
decided to allow no further correspondence in his journal, and
thereby to suppress a detailed refutation from me, (as the
principal author), of several criticisms appearing in earlier
issues.
Montague Keen
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