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'''Graham Nicholls''' (born 30 July 1975) is a British author, installation artist and specialist on [[out of body experience]]s. He speaks widely on [[parapsychology]], ethics and art at institutions ranging from the [[London Science Museum]],<ref name="BBC">{{citation | title=New expression for virtual city | publisher= BBC | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3721889.stm | access-date=12 January 2012 | first=Jo | last=Twist | date=18 May 2004}}</ref> [[Society for Psychical Research|The Society for Psychical Research]]<ref name="SPR">{{citation | title=Lecture – Out-of-Body Experiences – In Search of the Truth – Graham Nicholls | publisher=The Society for Psychical Research | year=2013 | url=http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=48 | access-date=20 July 2013 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718161358/http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=48 | archive-date=18 July 2013 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> to the [[Cambridge Union Society]].<ref name="cam">{{citation|title=CATS College Cambridge students at the world-famous Cambridge Union |publisher=CATS College |year=2011 |url=http://www.catscollege.com/en/enwiki/static/news/?newsitem=304 |access-date=12 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105113956/http://www.catscollege.com/en/enwiki/static/news/?newsitem=304 |archive-date=5 January 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
'''Graham Nicholls''' (born July 30, 1975 in [[London]], [[England]]) is an author, artist and expert on [[out of body experience]]s and spirituality. He speaks widely on issues around parapsychology, ethics and art at institutions ranging from the [[London Science Museum]] to the [[Cambridge Union Society]]. <ref name="pressprofile"/>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Graham Nicholls was born in the [[Paddington]] district of central London into a working class family. He states that during his early life he was surrounded by crime and social problems, but that the influence of literature, art, science and spiritual philosophies helped him to look beyond the limitations of this environment.<ref name="myartspace2008">{{citation | title= Graham Nicholls Interview| publisher= Myartspace.com | year=2008 | url= http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/05/art-space-talk-graham-nicholls.html | accessdate=2009-10-01 }}</ref><ref name="grahamnicholls2007">{{citation | title= Graham Nicholls Video Artist| publisher=Xfuns Magazine | year=2007 | url= http://www.grahamnicholls.com/xfuns.pdf | accessdate=2009-10-01 }}</ref>
Graham Nicholls was born in the [[Paddington]] district of central London into a working-class family. He states that during his early life he was surrounded by crime and social problems, but that the influence of literature, art, science and spiritual philosophies helped him to look beyond the limitations of this environment.<ref name="myartspace2008">{{citation | title= Graham Nicholls Interview| publisher= Myartspace.com | year=2008 | url= http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/05/art-space-talk-graham-nicholls.html | access-date=1 October 2009 }}</ref><ref name="grahamnicholls2007">{{citation|title=Graham Nicholls Video Artist |publisher=Xfuns Magazine |year=2007 |url=http://www.grahamnicholls.com/xfuns.pdf |access-date=1 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218212258/http://www.grahamnicholls.com/xfuns.pdf |archive-date=18 December 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>


==Art career==
==Art career==
Since the early 1990s he has developed artistic works which explore subjects such as [[sensory deprivation]], [[hypnosis]], and [[psi (parapsychology)|psi]] abilities.<ref name="grahamnicholls2007"/> Nicholls had his first solo show at a gallery run by James Fuentes in New York City in July, 1999 and in 2004 developed many of his psychological ideas into an interactive virtual reality installation at [[Science Museum (London)|London's Science Museum]], much of which was based upon his life and locations from his childhood.<ref name="myartspace2008"/>
Since the early 1990s Nicholls has developed artistic works that explore subjects such as [[sensory deprivation]], [[hypnosis]], and [[psi (parapsychology)|psi]] abilities.<ref name="grahamnicholls2007"/> Nicholls had his first solo show at a gallery run by James Fuentes in New York City in July 1999 and in 2004 developed many of his psychological ideas into an interactive virtual reality installation called The Living Image. The installation was a collaboration between Graham Nicholls, 3D designer Roma Patel, and site-specific artist Trudi Entwistle at [[Science Museum (London)|London's Science Museum]], much of which was based upon Nicholls's life and locations from his childhood. The project was the subject of an academic study into the impact of virtual reality and installation art, the details of which were later published in two books dealing with scenography and performance.<ref>{{cite book| title=The potentials of spaces: the theory and practice of scenography and performance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rv0sC4JisCgC&q=Graham+Nicholls+The+Living+Image&pg=PT60 | author1=Oddey, Alison | author2=White, Christine A. | date=June 2006|isbn = 9781841501376}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance |page=206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGZQAAAAMAAJ&q=graham+nicholls+the+living+image | author1=Oddey, Alison | date=June 2006|isbn=9780230524651 }}</ref> Technology and science, such as that used in The Living Image project, take a central role in his artistic output, his virtual web projects being considered internationally recognised by the ''Handbook of the economics of art and culture''.<ref>{{cite book| title=Handbook of the economics of art and culture, Volume 1| page=1162| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AKnhTlLkicC&q=Graham+Nicholls&pg=PA1162| isbn=978-0-444-50870-6| author1=Ginsburgh, Victor| date=November 2006}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


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==Out-of-body experiences==
Technology and science take a central role in his artistic output, his virtual web projects being considered internationally recognised by the ''Handbook of the economics of art and culture'' in 2003 (published 2006). Eight year ago his [[installation art]] website was also mentioned by one commentator as rating in the top four sites in the world in terms of search engine hits in one subject area. <ref>{{cite book| title=Handbook of the economics of art and culture, Volume 1 |page=1162 | |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4AKnhTlLkicC&lpg=PA1162&dq=Graham%20Nicholls&pg=PA1162#v=onepage&q=Graham%20Nicholls&f=false| isbn= 978-0444508706| author1=Ginsburgh, Victor| date=2006-11}}</ref>
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Nicholls claims to have had [[out of body experience]]s (OBEs) since the age of approximately twelve years old.<ref name="Express">{{cite news |title=Out of their minds? |author=Anna Pukas |newspaper=Daily Express |date=14 July 2011 }}</ref> These experiences led him to study many aspects of [[parapsychology]].<ref name="shahmai2009">{{citation | title=Graham Nicholls LCS Interview | publisher=London College of Spirituality | year=2009 | url=http://www.shahmai.org/podcasts/grahamnichollspodcast1.mp3 | access-date=1 October 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717084750/http://www.shahmai.org/podcasts/grahamnichollspodcast1.mp3 | archive-date=17 July 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> In 2009 Nicholls outlined his experiences and ideas relating to OBEs in an article that appeared in Kindred Spirit magazine. In the article he makes it clear that he believes mainstream science will eventually fully embrace psi, or psychical perceptions as natural, rather than supernatural or paranormal.


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As part of his inquiry into [[Psi-Theory|psi]] and human consciousness, in 2009 he began working on a series of [[telepathy]] experiments in a joint project with controversial scientist [[Rupert Sheldrake]]. The resulting data formed part of Rupert Sheldrake's research as director of the Perrott-Warrick project, administered by [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref name="spoonfed">{{citation|title=Art and Science: The Truth Behind Telepathy |publisher=Spoonfed |year=2009 |url=http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/art-and-science-the-truth-behind-telepathy-1248/ |access-date=1 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908141526/http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/art-and-science-the-truth-behind-telepathy-1248/ |archive-date=8 September 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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==Out-of-body experiences and parapsychology==
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Nicholls claims to have had hundreds of [[out of body experience]]s (OBEs) since the age of approximately twelve years old. These experiences led him to study many aspects of [[parapsychology]].<ref name="shahmai2009">{{citation | title= Graham Nicholls LCS Interview| publisher=London College of Spirituality | year=2009 | url= http://www.shahmai.org/podcasts/grahamnichollspodcast1.mp3 | accessdate=2009-10-01 }}</ref> In 2009 Nicholls outlined his experiences and ideas relating to OBEs in an article that appeared in Kindred Spirit magazine. In the article he makes it clear that he believes mainstream science will eventually fully embrace psi, or psychical perceptions as natural, rather than supernatural or paranormal. He draws upon the ideas of [[Brian Josephson]], [[Dean Radin]] and [[Rupert Sheldrake]].<ref name="shahmai2009"/> He also explores these issues in his 2011 book, ''Avenues of the Human Spirit''.


===Veridical cases===
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As part of his inquiry into [[Psi-Theory|psi]] and human consciousness, in 2009 he began working on a series of [[telepathy]] experiments in a joint project with controversial scientist [[Rupert Sheldrake]]. The resulting data formed part of the Perrott-Warrick project, administered by [[Trinity College]], Cambridge.<ref>{{citation | title= Art and Science: The Truth Behind Telepathy| publisher= Spoonfed | year=2009 | url= http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/art-and-science-the-truth-behind-telepathy-1248/ | accessdate=2009-10-01 }}</ref> Nicholls is also a member of the [[Society for Psychical Research]]. <ref name="pressprofile">{{citation | title=Press & Speaker Profile| publisher=grahamnicholls.com | year=2011 | url=http://www.grahamnicholls.com/?page_id=489 | accessdate=2011-08-23 }}</ref>

Nicholls also claims to have had several veridical out-of-body experiences.<ref name="spoonfed"/> In his books, articles and in recent videos published he gives examples of his out-of-body experiences that have been witnessed and confirmed by others. The videos feature the witnesses describing what they saw and recorded in notes at the time of the OBEs supporting Nicholls version of events. He also outlines an example of a claimed objective OBE in his October 2011 article for the journal of [[Institute of Noetic Sciences|The Institute of Noetic Sciences]].<ref>{{cite journal| last =Nicholls| first =Graham| title =Out-of-Body Experiences: In Search of the Truth| date = October 2011| publisher =The Institute of Noetic Sciences| location =USA | issue =15| journal = Noetic Now}}</ref> Skeptics would generally dispute such claims as unreliable and impossible by current understandings of science.

===Skepticism===

In the October 2012 issue of The Psychologist, the journal of the [[British Psychological Society]], a review of Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience by Graham Nicholls, criticised him for failing "to take into account psychometric properties (e.g. reliability and validity)" in the questionnaire section of the book. The reviewer went on to state that the book "does not meet the standards required by professional psychologists".<ref>{{cite journal| last = Kearns| first = Anne| title = Review of Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques| volume = 25| date = October 2012| publisher = The British Psychological Society| location = Leicester, England| page = 765| issn = 0952-8229| issue = 10| journal = The Psychologist }}</ref>

Well known sceptic and critic of parapsychology [[James Randi]] also responded to an article about Nicholls that appeared in 2011 asking why those mentioned in the article, including [[Dean Radin]], Rupert Sheldrake, [[Michael Persinger]], and Graham Nicholls have not applied for the [[One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge]]. Nicholls penned a response to Randi expressing doubts towards Randi's honesty, scientific credibility, and the limits of a single test to explore issues such as the existence of OBEs.<ref name="spoonfed"/>


==Activism==
==Activism==
In 2004 Nicholls founded an organisation called the [[Shahmai Network]] with a special focus on work towards relieving poverty, as well as [[human|human rights]] and [[animal rights]]. The network were official member's of the [[Make Poverty History]] campaign focused on campaigning for debt relief to countries in situations of extreme poverty, this culminated with protests aimed to influence the [[G8]] conference, which took place in 2005. <ref name="makepoverty">{{citation | title= Make Poverty History Official Members | publisher=Make Poverty History | year=2005 | url=http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/whoweare/members-s.shtml | accessdate=2011-08-23 }}</ref>
In 2004 Nicholls founded an organisation called the ''Shahmai Network'' with a special focus on work towards relieving poverty, as well as [[human|human rights]]. The network were official members of the [[Make Poverty History]] campaign focused on campaigning for debt relief to countries in situations of extreme poverty, this culminated with protests aimed to influence the [[G8]] conference, which took place in 2005.<ref name="makepoverty">{{citation | title=Make Poverty History Official Members | publisher=Make Poverty History | year=2005 | url=http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/whoweare/members-s.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050523005204/http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/whoweare/members-s.shtml | url-status=dead | archive-date=23 May 2005 | access-date=23 August 2011 }}</ref>

Beyond poverty he is also interested in the various social justice issues. According to a 2012 book on polyamory, Nicholls supports [[LGBT]] issues, [[polyamory]], and [[feminism]].<ref>{{cite book| title=Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love and Intimacy with Multiple Partners |pages=205–6 | isbn=978-1442200227| author1=Anapol, Deborah| date=January 2012}}</ref>
In 2009 he founded www.polyamory.org.uk, the United Kingdom's first website about polyamory; at the time he was in a polyamorous triad with two female partners.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/taboo-tolerance/meet-the-polyamorists-ndash-a-growing-band-of-people-who-believe-that-more-lovers-equals-more-love-1785263.html|title=Meet the polyamorists – a growing band of people who believe|date=September 13, 2009|website=The Independent}}</ref>

He is also an outspoken supporter of [[animal rights]] and [[veganism]]; in a recent interview he states that he has been vegetarian since 1992 and went vegan in 2005. He also states that "Veganism was the obvious next step in my ethical understanding and one that avoids supporting violent and exploitative practices."<ref>{{citation|title=Graham Nicholls interview with Elisabeth Haljas (Estonia) |publisher=fruitarians.net/ |year=2010 |url=http://fruitarians.net/forum/topic/Veganism-Interview-with-Graham-Nicholls.htm |access-date=20 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019035243/http://fruitarians.net/forum/topic/Veganism-Interview-with-Graham-Nicholls.htm |archive-date=19 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>


==Books==
==Books==
* Avenues of the Human Spirit (2011) ISBN 978-1-84694-464-2
* [[Avenues of the Human Spirit]] (2011) {{ISBN|978-1-84694-464-2}}
* Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques ISBN 978-0738727615 (Scheduled for April 2012 publication)
* [[Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques]] (2012) {{ISBN|978-0-7387-2761-5}}


==References==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bxCnLY9sy8 Extraordinary Out-of-Body Experience] – A video detailing a witnessed OBE, 2013
* [http://www.thelivingimage.org The Living Image] - The website of the virtual reality project
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQP4N61GP0 Interview with AfterlifeTV] – A video interview with Bob Olson, 2012
* [http://www.polyamory.org.uk Polyamory.org.uk] - The polyamory site founded by Graham Nicholls
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111029081150/http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/avenues-of-the-human-spirit-an-interview-with-graham-nicholls-6040/ Avenues of the Human Spirit] – Interview about Nicholls' first book, science and scepticism, 2011
* [http://www.shahmai.org The Shahmai Network] - The organisation founded by Graham Nicholls in 2004
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111007121014/http://noetic.org/noetic/issue-fifteen-october/out-of-body-experiences/ Out-of-Body Experiences: In Search of the Truth] – Article by Graham Nicholls for Noetic Now, the journal of the [[Institute of Noetic Sciences]], 2011
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* [http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/Examskeptics/TAM_London2010.html Skeptical Investigations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521183744/http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/Examskeptics/TAM_London2010.html |date=21 May 2011 }} – A report on TAM London by Graham Nicholls, 2010
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===Interviews===
* [http://www.skeptiko.com/upload/skeptiko-147-Graham-Nicholls.mp3 Can Out-of-Body Experiences Explain God?] - Graham Nicholls interview with Skeptiko exploring the existence of God, morality and the spiritual, 2011
* [http://traffic.libsyn.com/thespiritguides/GrahamN20110824C.mp3 The Spirit Guides Network] - Interview about his book as well as wider social and spiritual issues, 2011
* [http://shamanicfreedomradio.podomatic.com/enclosure/2011-08-08T01_26_16-07_00.mp3 Shamanic Freedom Radio Episode 78] - Interview about his book, Avenues of the Human Spirit, 2011.
* [http://www.grahamnicholls.com/?p=313 Spiritual Lounge Magazine] - Interview with Graham Nicholls about his spiritual philosophy and life, 2010
* [http://traffic.libsyn.com/thespiritguides/graham_nicholls_20100907.mp3 The Spirit Guides Network] - Audio interview with Graham Nicholls on his out of body experiences, 2010
* [http://www.grahamnicholls.com/?p=204 Veganism & Animal Liberation] - An interview with Graham Nicholls on his vegan views, 2010
* [http://www.shahmai.org/podcasts/grahamnichollspodcast1.mp3 London College of Spirituality] - Audio interview on his out-of-body experiences, 2009
* [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/05/art-space-talk-graham-nicholls.html Myartspace.com] - Indepth Interview on his art and philosophy 2008
* [http://www.grahamnicholls.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/xfuns.pdf Xfuns Magazine] - Interview in English and Chinese, Issue 30, 2007

===Articles and reviews===
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* [http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-fifteen-october/out-of-body-experiences/ Out-of-Body Experiences: In Search of the Truth] - Article by Graham Nicholls for Noetic Now, the journal of the [[Institute of Noetic Sciences]], 2011
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* [http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/avenues-of-the-human-spirit-an-interview-with-graham-nicholls-6040/ Avenues of the Human Spirit] - Article about Nicholls' first book, science and skepticism, 2011
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* [http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/Examskeptics/TAM_London2010.html Skeptical Investigations] - A report on TAM London by Graham Nicholls, 2010
* [http://www.grahamnicholls.com/?p=87 Expanding Horizons] - Kindred Spirit magazine article by Graham Nicholls on his out-of-body experiences, 2009
* [http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/tom-699/art-and-science-the-truth-behind-telepathy-1248/ Art and Science: The Truth Behind Telepathy] - Review of Graham Nicholls and Rupert Sheldrake's joint project, 2009
* [http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/sculpture+%2526+installation/art21889 Feeling Technoetic? See The Living Image] - Culture 24 review of the Living Image Project, 2004
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3721889.stm New expression for virtual city] - [[BBC]] Review of the Living Image Project, 2004


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Graham Nicholls
Born
Graham Nicholls

(1975-07-30) 30 July 1975 (age 49)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Author, speaker and artist
Years activeSince 1999
Known forHis exploration of the out-of-body experience, Installation art and writings on spirituality.
Websitewww.grahamnicholls.com

Graham Nicholls (born 30 July 1975) is a British author, installation artist and specialist on out of body experiences. He speaks widely on parapsychology, ethics and art at institutions ranging from the London Science Museum,[1] The Society for Psychical Research[2] to the Cambridge Union Society.[3]

Early life

[edit]

Graham Nicholls was born in the Paddington district of central London into a working-class family. He states that during his early life he was surrounded by crime and social problems, but that the influence of literature, art, science and spiritual philosophies helped him to look beyond the limitations of this environment.[4][5]

Art career

[edit]

Since the early 1990s Nicholls has developed artistic works that explore subjects such as sensory deprivation, hypnosis, and psi abilities.[5] Nicholls had his first solo show at a gallery run by James Fuentes in New York City in July 1999 and in 2004 developed many of his psychological ideas into an interactive virtual reality installation called The Living Image. The installation was a collaboration between Graham Nicholls, 3D designer Roma Patel, and site-specific artist Trudi Entwistle at London's Science Museum, much of which was based upon Nicholls's life and locations from his childhood. The project was the subject of an academic study into the impact of virtual reality and installation art, the details of which were later published in two books dealing with scenography and performance.[6][7] Technology and science, such as that used in The Living Image project, take a central role in his artistic output, his virtual web projects being considered internationally recognised by the Handbook of the economics of art and culture.[8]

Out-of-body experiences

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Nicholls claims to have had out of body experiences (OBEs) since the age of approximately twelve years old.[9] These experiences led him to study many aspects of parapsychology.[10] In 2009 Nicholls outlined his experiences and ideas relating to OBEs in an article that appeared in Kindred Spirit magazine. In the article he makes it clear that he believes mainstream science will eventually fully embrace psi, or psychical perceptions as natural, rather than supernatural or paranormal.

As part of his inquiry into psi and human consciousness, in 2009 he began working on a series of telepathy experiments in a joint project with controversial scientist Rupert Sheldrake. The resulting data formed part of Rupert Sheldrake's research as director of the Perrott-Warrick project, administered by Trinity College, Cambridge.[11]

Veridical cases

[edit]

Nicholls also claims to have had several veridical out-of-body experiences.[11] In his books, articles and in recent videos published he gives examples of his out-of-body experiences that have been witnessed and confirmed by others. The videos feature the witnesses describing what they saw and recorded in notes at the time of the OBEs supporting Nicholls version of events. He also outlines an example of a claimed objective OBE in his October 2011 article for the journal of The Institute of Noetic Sciences.[12] Skeptics would generally dispute such claims as unreliable and impossible by current understandings of science.

Skepticism

[edit]

In the October 2012 issue of The Psychologist, the journal of the British Psychological Society, a review of Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience by Graham Nicholls, criticised him for failing "to take into account psychometric properties (e.g. reliability and validity)" in the questionnaire section of the book. The reviewer went on to state that the book "does not meet the standards required by professional psychologists".[13]

Well known sceptic and critic of parapsychology James Randi also responded to an article about Nicholls that appeared in 2011 asking why those mentioned in the article, including Dean Radin, Rupert Sheldrake, Michael Persinger, and Graham Nicholls have not applied for the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. Nicholls penned a response to Randi expressing doubts towards Randi's honesty, scientific credibility, and the limits of a single test to explore issues such as the existence of OBEs.[11]

Activism

[edit]

In 2004 Nicholls founded an organisation called the Shahmai Network with a special focus on work towards relieving poverty, as well as human rights. The network were official members of the Make Poverty History campaign focused on campaigning for debt relief to countries in situations of extreme poverty, this culminated with protests aimed to influence the G8 conference, which took place in 2005.[14]

Beyond poverty he is also interested in the various social justice issues. According to a 2012 book on polyamory, Nicholls supports LGBT issues, polyamory, and feminism.[15] In 2009 he founded www.polyamory.org.uk, the United Kingdom's first website about polyamory; at the time he was in a polyamorous triad with two female partners.[16]

He is also an outspoken supporter of animal rights and veganism; in a recent interview he states that he has been vegetarian since 1992 and went vegan in 2005. He also states that "Veganism was the obvious next step in my ethical understanding and one that avoids supporting violent and exploitative practices."[17]

Books

[edit]
  • Avenues of the Human Spirit (2011) ISBN 978-1-84694-464-2
  • Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience: Radical New Techniques (2012) ISBN 978-0-7387-2761-5

References

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  1. ^ Twist, Jo (18 May 2004), New expression for virtual city, BBC, retrieved 12 January 2012
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