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mental psychological cerebral phrenic intellective intellectual psychic reasoning thinking brainy ideological imaginative rational subconscious subliminal thoughtful mindly cognitive spiritual emotional extrasensory paranormal supernatural telepathic clairvoyant unreal mysterious supersensory supernormal psychal unworldly with a sixth sense preternatural transcendental metaphysical mystical ethereal immaterial incorporeal bodiless insubstantial formless nonmaterial intangible unbodied nonphysical otherworldly unsubstantial mystic discarnate airy More
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physical bodily body fleshly nonmental real biological natural human corporal genetic somatic corporeal material substantial concrete mundane nonspiritual palpable tangible irreligious irreverent unspiritual

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Because the mess Harford has in mind is less physical than psychical.
The Daily Mirror called the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), who sent Grosse to investigate the case.
Julia and Tessa also share the lingering psychical scars of abuse, and the anxieties that accompany them.
To participate in Underground Lightsaber Fighters, "You don't have to be in amazing psychical shape," he said.
MT: I was initially quite taken aback by how intimately psychical research and early experimental psychology were intertwined.
During his visit, he gave a talk about the Premonitions Bureau to the American Society for Psychical Research, on West Seventy-third Street.
At least that's what Dr. Walter F. Prince, of the New York Society for Psychical Research, told The New York Times in 1922.
At a time when film comedy is mostly a verbal and psychical affair — the domain of writers and clowns — there is a dearth of funny directors with Mr. Aronofsky's sophisticated chops.
"If you can develop a reflexive reaction to psychical pain that causes you to reflect on it rather than avoid it, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving," Dalio writes.
"If you can develop a reflexive reaction to psychical pain that causes you to reflect on it rather than avoid it, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving," Dalio wrote in a 2018 Facebook post.
Such humiliations can easily be attributed to the transformation of domesticity into a modern psychical event: The suburban housewife with her Valium and her compulsive, doomed perfectionism has been the butt of a decades-long cultural joke.
Jennifer is effectively harassed for the sole reason that she is a young, beautiful, independent, intelligent career woman—and for this "crime" she is subjected to the most appalling degradation and destruction of her psychical and mental self by men who feel threatened by her.
Obviously digital sales differ massively from psychical sales, and the asking price for Rocket League is somewhat below the premium cost of a triple-A release, but still: that's an independently made multiplayer game at number one, a game untouched by a major publisher, ahead of FIFA 2110, Battlefield 22, Uncharted 4 and Destiny.
These were the days when you might read the other books written by Sherlock Holmes's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, a member of the London-based Society for Psychical Research who died insisting that he would rather be remembered for his paranormal works such as "The New Revelation" and "The Vital Message" than for his Sherlock Holmes detective stories.
Myers Myers was interested in psychical research and was one of the founding members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1883. He became the President in 1900.Society for Psychical Research:Past Presidents Myers psychical ideas and theory of a subliminal self did not impress contemporary psychologists. Psychologists who shared an interest in psychical research such as Théodore Flournoy and William James were influenced by Myers.
In 1921, Carrington founded the American Psychical Institute. It consisted of a laboratory that was one of the first to investigate psychical phenomena preceding the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.Rosemary Guiley. (1994). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits.
Search For Truth: My Life For Psychical Research. Collins. p. 203 In 1926, Price formed the National Laboratory of Psychical Research as a rival to the Society for Psychical Research.Rene Kollar. (2000). Searching for Raymond. Lexington Books. p. 79.
In 1939, Joad's publications on psychical research were severely criticised in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. It was discovered that Joad was not present at séances he had claimed to have attended.Salter, W. H. (1939). Adventures in Psychical Research by C. E. M. Joad.
Psychical researcher Hereward Carrington described the book as a "fair and impartial summary."Carrington, Hereward. (1919). What is the Best "Psychical" Literature?. The Bookman 49: 686–689.
The International Club for Psychical Research (ICPR) was a short-lived psychical organization that was formed in May 1911 by Annie Besant.Anonymous. (1911). A London Club For Ghosts: Accommodations for Spooks at the New Home of the International Club for Psychical Research. The Sun (New York). September 24, p.
Search for Harry Price. Gerald Duckworth and Company. pp. 212-216. The National Laboratory of Psychical Research was a rival to the Society for Psychical Research.Rene Kollar. (2000).
London, Watts & Co. p. 29 Marriott was friends with the psychical researchers Harry Price and Everard Feilding.Price, Harry. (1942). Search For Truth: My Life For Psychical Research. Collins. p.
The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States dedicated to parapsychology. It maintains offices and a library, in New York City, which are open to both members and the general public. The society has an open membership, anyone with an interest in psychical research is invited to join. It maintains a website; and publishes the quarterly Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Stratton held interest in parapsychology. He was the President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1953–1955.Haynes, Renee. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research 1882–1982: A History.
Alfred Douglas. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research. Overlook Press. p. 201. In 1933, Frank Decker was investigated by Price at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.
He edited the British Journal of Medical Psychology. He studied cases of hypnosis and somnambulism.Review: Psychology And Psychical Research. Reviewed Work: Medical Psychology And Psychical Research by T. W. Mitchell.
The psychical researcher Renée Haynes had noted that doubts were raised about the alleged poltergeist voice at the Second International Society for Psychical Research (SPR) Conference at Cambridge in 1978, where video cassettes from the case were examined.Haynes, Renée. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research 1882-1982: A History. MacDonald & Co. p. 112.
Goldney was once a member of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research and an associate of Harry Price.Wood, Robert. (1992). The Widow of Borley: A Psychical Investigation. Duckworth. p. 54 She was a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research and worked as secretary from 1949 to 1957.Shepard, Leslie. (1991).
Braude believes his wife, Gina, can produce astrological predictions. In 2014, he was awarded the Myers Memorial Medal by the Society for Psychical Research for his "significant contributions to psychical research".
In his book Psychical Research, Johnson endorsed psychical and spiritualist phenomena and cited reports by the Society for Psychical Research. In a review for The Quarterly Review of Biology M. Steinbach wrote that although Johnson was "quite earnest and certainly sincere in completely accepting the whole range of spiritualist phenomena", many of the cases he described could be easily explained by coincidence, delusion, hallucination, suggestion and that most of the mediums were exposed as fraudulent.M. Steinbach. (1957). Psychical Research.
Driesch developed a deep interest in Psychical Research and Parapsychology. In 1931, he published a methodology of parapsychological research (in German) and in 1933 he published a book on the topic titled Psychical Research: The Science of the Super-normal. From 1926-1927 he served as the president of the Society for Psychical Research.
Gauld's The Founders of Psychical Research (1968) documents early investigations into paranormal phenomena. The book received a mixed review by Robert Kent Donovan who praised the research but complained that Gauld was biased in support of the authenticity of the findings from the psychical researchers.Donovan, Robert Kent. The Founders of Psychical Research by Alan Gauld.
556-560 In 1933, Decker was investigated by the psychical researcher Harry Price at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.Tabori, Paul. (1966). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Living Books. p.
203 Price formed an organisation in 1926 called the National Laboratory of Psychical Research as a rival to the Society for Psychical Research.Rene Kollar. (2000). Searching for Raymond. Lexington Books. p. 79.
Artistic production and appreciation are two such situations.Bullough, "Psychical Distance," 90. > [Psychical Distance] has a negative, inhibitory aspect—the cutting-out of > the practical sides of things and of our practical attitude to them—and a > positive side—the elaboration of the experience on the new basis created by > the inhibitory action of Distance.Bullough, "Psychical Distance," 89.
Murphy, Gardner; Ballou, Robert O. (1960). William James on Psychical Research. Viking Press. p. 105 Psychical researchers were not impressed by the control and William James described the Phinuit communications as "tiresome twaddle".
In 1919 Tomczyk married the psychical researcher Everard Feilding, secretary of the Society for Psychical Research. Feilding's name is often misspelled 'Fielding', as here.Lewis Spence. (2003). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. p. 327.
Barrett held conference between 5–6 January 1882 in London. In February the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was formed.Oppenheim, Janet. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
Richard Hodgson a psychical researcher who became "obsessed" with Piper.
Jastrow was one of the founding members of the American Society for Psychical Research for study of the "mesmeric, psychical, and spiritual". The early members of the society were skeptical of paranormal phenomena; Jastrow took a psychological approach to psychical phenomena, believing that it was foolish to separate "... a class of problems from their natural habitat ...". By 1890 he had resigned from the society, and he became an outspoken critic of parapsychology. Psychical researchers were rarely trained psychologists, and Jastrow thought their research lacked credibility.
McDougall was a strong advocate of the scientific method and academic professionalisation in psychical research. He was instrumental in establishing parapsychology as a university discipline in the US in the early 1930s.Asprem, E. (2010), "A Nice Arrangement of Heterodoxies: William McDougall and the Professionalization of Psychical Research", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 46 (2):123–143. In 1920, McDougall served as president of the Society for Psychical Research, and in the subsequent year of its US counterpart, the American Society for Psychical Research.
Hyslop's first book on psychical research, Science and a Future Life, was published in 1905, and many more followed, including Enigmas of Psychic Research (1906), Borderland of Psychical Research (1906), Psychical Research and the Resurrection (1908), Psychical Research and Survival (1913), Life After Death (1918), and Contact with the Other World (1919). He wrote for the Journal and Proceedings of the ASPR and the SPR and for such publications as Mind, The Philosophical Review, and The Nation. He became convinced in the existence of an afterlife.
His early death at the age of fifty-four was due in part to his injury during World War I, and to overwork. The psychical researcher Renée Haynes described Carington as a "shy, dedicated retiring man, whose services to psychical research have never been fully recognized."Haynes, Renée. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research, 1882–1982: A History. Macdonald. p. 92.
Psychical Research: The Science of the Super-Normal. London: G. Bell & Sons. p. 34 An anonymous review in Nature described Bozzano as "one of the most prolific of Italian writers on psychical research." The reviewer suggested his book Dicarnate Influence in Human Life would not be taken seriously by skeptics but will "certainly be discussed at length by psychical researchers generally."Anonymous. (1938).
28-35 Andrew Lang of the Society for Psychical Research wrote that "the Drummer was suspected, but, consciously or not, the children were probably the agents."Lang, Andrew. (1893). Fairies and Psychical Research. In Robert Kirk.
Turner was interested in psychical research and identified as a spiritualist.Turner, Alfred Edward. (1912). Sixty Years of a Soldier's Life. London: Methuen. p. 334 He was a member of the International Club for Psychical Research.Anonymous. (1911).
Thomas Colley The psychical researcher Thomas Colley defended Monck. In 1906, Colley offered £1000 to anyone who could reproduce Colley's materialization by fraudulent methods.Oppenheim, Janet. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
Northcote Whitridge Thomas (1868–1936) was a British anthropologist and psychical researcher.
In his later life he became interested in psychical research and spiritualism.
Mechanics of Spiritualism. In Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green & Company.
James, William. (1986). Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 390.
In the 1920s Tillyard became interested in psychical research. On his visits to England he worked with Harry Price at his National Laboratory of Psychical Research. He became vice-president of the laboratory in 1926.Tabori, Paul. (1966).
In An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural. St. Martin's Griffin. Psychical researcher Renée Haynes described Price as "one of the most fascinating and storm-provoking figures in psychical research."Renée Haynes. (1982).
Hall was an ex-member and critic of the Society for Psychical Research and published a series of sceptical books on the paranormal and psychical research.Luckhurst, Roger. (2002). The Invention of Telepathy: 1870-1901. Oxford University Press. p. 2.
Hansel noted that when discussing spiritualist mediums such as the Fox sisters or Eusapia Palladino, Gauld failed to "report important observations that suggest physical rather than psychical explanations."Hansel, C. E. M. (1968). Psychical History. Nature 219: 986–87.
He was a member of the British National Association of Spiritualists and the first secretary of the Society for Psychical Research.Oppenheim, Janet. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 425. .
Eric John Dingwall (1890–1986) was a British anthropologist, psychical researcher and librarian.
Osty, Eugene. (1933). Supernormal Aspects of Energy and Matter. Society for Psychical Research.
Alan Gauld. (1968). The Founders of Psychical Research. Routledge & K. Paul.Janet Oppenheim. (1988).
Volume 9 (June, 1896). p. 280 He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research. Parsons authored a 561 page book The Nature and Purpose of the Universe on philosophy and psychical research, published in 1908.Lindsay, James. (1908).
Freer joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1888 with the support of F. W. H. Myers. After criticism of her work on the Ballechin House case in 1897, her work was repudiated by the SPR and she abandoned psychical research.
He was never worked with the Society for Psychical Research. However, O'Donnell once spent a night at St. Nicholas Church, Brockley Combe with Everard Feilding, an investigator from the Society for Psychical Research.Underwood, Peter. (1985). Ghosts of Somerset. p. 41.
Searchlight on Psychical Research. Rider and Company. pp. 273-277 Besinnet was also caught cheating by psychical researcher James Hewat McKenzie. In response, Besinnet claimed she was unconscious in her séances and had no knowledge of the events that took place.
Hadfield was also interested in psychical research. He was a believer in life after death and telepathy. He wrote the chapter "The Mind and the Brain" for the book Immortality: An Essay in Discovery Co-Ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research (London: Macmillan, 1917).Immortality: An Essay in Discovery Co-Ordinating Scientific, Psychical, and Biblical Research by Burnett H Streeter, A. Clutton-Brock, C. W. Emmet, J. A. Hadfield.
Minot, Charles Sedgwick. (1895). The Psychical Comedy. North American Review 160 (459): 217-230.
Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Kessinger Reprint Edition. p. 35 Price who had spent most of his life studying psychical phenomena wrote that "There is no good evidence that a spirit photograph has ever been produced"John Mulholland. (1975). Beware Familiar Spirits. p.
Some later authors have written about an alleged confession from Kluski. In his book Sixty Years of Psychical Research (1950), magician Joseph Rinn claimed that Kluski had confessed to fraud.Rinn, Joseph. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists.
West has studied and written on parapsychology. He was a research officer for the Society for Psychical Research, 1947–50 and a president in 1963. He carried out laboratory experiments in extrasensory perception. He wrote the book Psychical Research Today (1953, 1962).
121 He was a member of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.Valentine, Elizabeth R. Institutionalisation and the History of Psychical Research in Great Britain in the 20th Century. In Anna Lux, Sylvia Paletschek. (2016). Okkultismus im Gehäuse: Institutionalisierungen der Parapsychologie im 20.
Jahrhundert im internationalen Vergleich. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. p. 140. He was also a member of the Society for Psychical Research and contributed articles to the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. He wrote book reviews for the Revue Métapsychique (1921–1926).
Leonora Piper Hodgson was one of the very few psychical researchers that believed Leonora Piper's controls were spirits.Clark Bell, Thomson Jay Hudson. (1904). Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy: As Involved in the Case of Mrs. Leonora E. Piper and the Society for Psychical Research.
He bequeathed his collection of 1,951 volumes on psychical research to the University of London.
Prometheus Books.Ray Hyman. (1989). The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Prometheus Books.
Challenge of Psychical Research: A Primer of Parapsychology. World Perspectives Series. Volume 26. Greenwood Press. .
Oliver Gatty (5 November 1907 – 5 June 1940) was a British chemist and psychical researcher.
The relation between self and object remains a personal one (it is not like the impersonal relation in scientific observation, for example) and Bullough thinks that a "concordance" between them is necessary for aesthetic appreciation.Bullough, "Psychical Distance," 91-92. However this must not be such that psychical distance is lost: Bullough imagines a jealous husband watching a performance of Othello, who "will probably do anything but appreciate the play".Bullough, "Psychical Distance," 93.
The Evidence Given By Sir A. C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined. London: Watts & Co. pp. 59-60 Psychical researcher Helen de G. Verrall gave Barrett's book Psychical Research a positive review describing it as a "clear, careful account of some of main achievements of psychical research by one who has himself taken part in these achievements and speaks to a large extent from personal knowledge and observation."Verrall, Helen de G. (1913).
Given the lack of evidence of psychical phenomena, he believed psychologists should not prioritize disproving claimed psychical phenomenon. In his book The Psychology of Conviction (1918) he included an entire chapter exposing what he called Eusapia Palladino's tricks.Joseph Jastrow. (1918). The Psychology of Conviction.
This "antinomy of Distance"Bullough, "Psychical Distance," 92. leads Bullough to say that what is desirable in art, "both in appreciation and production", is "the utmost decrease of Distance without its disappearance".Bullough, "Psychical Distance," 94. In the source, the second quotation is mostly italicised.
The International Institute for Psychical Research (IIPR) was a short-lived psychical organization based in London that was formed in 1934. It was criticized by scientists for its spiritualist leanings and non-scientific approach to the subject.Blow to Psychic Research Body. Distinguished Men Resign.
Lyceum Library. She was the Secretary and Assistant Treasurer of the American Society for Psychical Research and Chairman of its Committee of Publications. In 1925 she founded the Boston Society for Psychical Research with Walter Franklin Prince and others."Allison, Lydia W(interhalter) (1880-1959)".
He was also an associate member of the Society for Psychical Research and a chartered engineer.
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 180.
Joseph Rinn. (1950). Sixty Years Of Psychical Research: Houdini And I Among The Spiritualists. Truth Seeker.
Thomas was a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), he was also interested in the occult and collaborated on psychical research with his friend Andrew Lang.Lyons. Andrew P; Lyons, Harriet. (2004). Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality. University of Nebraska Press. p. 149.
Lewis took interest in investigating paranormal claims. In 1886, he attended séances of the medium William Eglinton and detected him in fraud.Grattan-Guinness, Ivor. (1982). Psychical Research: A Guide to Its History, Principles and Practices: In Celebration of 100 Years of the Society for Psychical Research.
University of Chicago Press. pp. 96-98. Joseph Rinn from his book Sixty Years of Psychical Research.
Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 397 in William James. The Works of William James.
Harrison, V. (1979). Letter to the Editor. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 50: 45-46.
Haynes, Renée. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research 1882-1982: A History. London: MacDonald & Co. p. 189.
Anonymous (1912). A Study Of Psychical Research. British Medical Journal. Vol. 1, No. 2667. pp. 308-309.
Hyslop took interest in psychical research in the 1880s. After retiring from his teaching post due to ill health, Hyslop founded the American Institute for Scientific Research in 1904 to stir interest and raise funds for psychical research."American Institute for Scientific Research". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.
His books were criticized by the scientific community. The sociologist Guy Benton Johnson ridiculed Psychical Research, Science, and Religion in a review as an anti-scientific work and only "grand-reading if you have a sense of humor."Johnson, Guy B. (1927). Reviewed Work: Psychical Research, Science, and Religion.
Sally Patrick Johnson. (1962). Everyman's Ark: A Collection of True First-person Accounts of Relationships Between Animals and Men. Harper. p. 62 Palmer married Claudine Pattie Sapey, they had two sons. He was interested in psychical research and spiritualism, he was a friend of the psychical investigator Harry Price.
His books have been published in the United Kingdom, United States, France, Russia, Italy and India. The Hungaria asteroid 5806 Archieroy, discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell was named in his honor in 1994. In 2004 he was awarded the Myers Memorial Medal for outstanding contributions to psychical research by the Society for Psychical Research.Award given to Professor Archie E Roy, founder of the SSPR (2004) Scottish Society for Psychical ResearchJackie Jones-Hunt, Moses and Jesus: The Shamans, page 6 (O-Books, 2011).
Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Kessinger Publishing. (reprint) Holroyd, Stuart. (1976). Minds Without Boundaries. Aldus Books. p. 63.
Review of Modern Psychical Phenomena, Recent Researches and Speculations. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 14 (5): 361-362.
The History of Spiritualism. Volume 2. Arno Press. p. 206 However, Moore was heavily criticized by psychical researchers.
Lang, Andrew. (1893). Fairies and Psychical Research. In Robert Kirk. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies.
During these years, he continued his association with psychical research, including sitting on the council of the American Society for Psychical Research and serving as chair of its research committee; serving as an editor of the Journal of Parapsychology (1939–1941), speaking at professional symposia on psychical research; writing report, review and critical articles in general scientific, psychological as well as parapsychological journals. He also supported (through his own book royalties) experimental studies by J. G. Pratt at Columbia (1935–1937); authoring an introductory review to the field, The Challenge of Psychical Research (1961), as well as William James and Psychical Research (1973) (with R. Ballou) and a 20-page article on parapsychology for the Encyclopedia of Psychology (1946); editing an English-language publication of Warcollier's reports (1938) and writing forewords for several parapsychological monographs. Murphy died on 18 March 1979 in Washington, D.C.John Shook. (2005). Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers.
The psychical researcher Renée Haynes wrote that her books have "illuminated the subject matter of parapsychology for thousands of readers inside the Society and beyond."Haynes, Renée. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1982: A History. Macdonald. p. 207. It was alleged that Heywood experienced cases of extrasensory perception (ESP).
He became a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) on 13 May 1920 and finally retired in 1924. After retirement Chattock continued to publish about his research into poultry. He was a supporter of psychical research with an interest in telepathy. He was associated with the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).
Brath was a Christian and believed that both Christianity and spiritualism were compatible. Brath also translated a number of psychical research books into English. He translated Charles Richet's Thirty Years of Psychical Research (1923). He was the editor of Psychic Science a journal published by the British College of Psychic Science.
Abraham Wallace. Credit:Wellcome Library Arthur Conan Doyle was a notable member of the SSSP. The Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures (SSSP) was a short-lived psychical organization that formed in 1918 to investigate claims of spirit photography. It was established as a rival to the Society for Psychical Research.
Between 1927 and 1935 he was the investigating officer for the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). He wrote two books on Annie Besant and many works on psychical research. He was a critical researcher, he became skeptical of most of the paranormal phenomena reported in the SPR journal.Wokler, Robert. (1998).
Alan Gauld. (1968). Founders of Psychical Research. Schocken Books. pp. 361-363 The psychologist and psychical researcher James Hyslop dedicated his 1905 book Science and a Future Life, a study of the mediumship of Piper, to Hodgson, writing that Hodgson's research led him to the conclusions defended in the book.
Founders of Psychical Research. Schocken Books. Janet Oppenheim. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 429. Annie committed suicide in September 1876 by drowning.Raymond Buckland. (2005). The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channelling, and Spirit Communication. Visible Ink Press. p. 276.
152, which is also the view of most psychical researchers.Lewis Spence. (2011). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Kessinger Publishing.
The Rise and Fall of the Indian Rope Trick. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 65: 175-193.
Coleman, Michael. (1997). The Flying Bricks of Borley. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Volume. 61, No. 847.
Sudre was "strongly anti-spiritualistic".Ashby, Robert H. (1972). The Guidebook for the Study of Psychical Research. Rider. p.
Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 138.
During this time, Soal demonstrated a personal as well as scientific interest in psychical research, becoming a member of the Society for Psychical Research in October 1922. He was partly moved to make his first parapsychological studies following the death of one of his brothers in the First World War. Like many of the bereaved at the time, he made enquiries of mediums concerning communication with the departed; but conducted his observations with a scientific approach. His observations surprised conventional understanding even within psychical research.
The psychical researcher W. W. Baggally from the Society for Psychical Research interviewed witnesses and declared the phenomena genuine. However, skeptics were unconvinced noting that "as with most investigations of hauntings, you either believe the witnesses or you don't, for there is no other evidence."Cohen, Daniel. (1977). Ghostly Animals. Doubleday. p. 11.
Bloomsbury Paperbacks. p. 201. In 1918 Leonard began working with the Society for Psychical Research. The Society would often use proxies in place of grieving relatives in an attempt to minimise fraud. Their publication detailing the results of these sittings was praised by psychical researchers and resulted in even more publicity for Leonard.
Holzer's endorsement of psychics in ghost hunting was criticized in an article for the Journal for the Society for Psychical Research which "cast considerable doubt on the objectivity and reliability of his work as a whole."Berger, Arthur; Berger, Joyce. (1991). The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House. p.
Joseph Rinn. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists. Truth Seeker Company. pp. 272–356C.
Harry Price. Rudi Schneider: A Scientific Examination of His Mediumship. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 25: 125-126.
Penguin Books. Following the death of Hodgson in 1905 it achieved independence once more.Mauskopf, Seymour. (1982). Psychical Research in America.
Psychical researchers strongly suspected that Mellon's materializations were fraudulent. She was defended by the spiritualist William Thomas Stead.Carrington, Hereward. (1907).
Cambridge University Press. p. 123. Alfred Douglas. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research. Overlook Press. p. 201.
I do not wish to assert that all unfamiliar psychical states are necessarily evolutive or dissolutive in any assignable manner.
Alastair Heron described it as a "textbook for the interested and not-too-sophisticated reader who hopes to become more interested without becoming at the same time more sophisticated." In his book Challenge of Psychical Research (1961), Murphy documented research into clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis and telepathy."Challenge of Psychical Research by Gardner Murphy". Kirkus Reviews.
Red Wheel Weiser. p. 179. In 1927, Prince contributed to the book The Case For And Against Psychical Belief (1927) which contains essays by both believers and skeptics of psychical phenomena. Prince was a close friend with the parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine. He published and wrote the introduction for Rhine's book Extrasensory Perception (1934).
He also defended the fraudulent spirit photographer Wiliam Hope from charges of fraud from Harry Price. Thomas received criticism from psychical researchers for this and his statements about the Hope-Price case were rebutted by the SPR in 1924.See statements in Concerning the "Price-Hope" Case. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1924.
According to the psychical researcher Frank Podmore it would have been easy for the medium to move the table with their knees or other parts of the body but "Hare does not seem to have realized the possibility of fraud of this kind."Podmore, Frank. (1897). Studies in Psychical Research. G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp.
Prince was skeptical of paranormal claims and believed such experiences could be explained psychologically (see anomalistic psychology). He was an early member of the American Society for Psychical Research and a long-standing member of the Society for Psychical Research.Shea, Daniel. (2012). The Patience of Pearl: Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran.
He was a contributing member of The Society for Psychical Research. His main publication was the book Telepathy and the Subliminal Mind (1897), and his work focused on case studies and popularization. His chief contributions to the field are considered to be the latter, in the United States, particularly relating to the work of the Society for Psychical Research and the theories of Frederic William Henry Myers. Much of Mason's research and observations in psychical research would be applied in early ESP, Telepathy, Astral (OOBE) research, and in present-day remote Viewing.
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 245-246. He died at Exmouth.
Haynes, Renee. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research 1882–1982: A History. London: MacDonald & Co. p. 198. Lindsay, Robert Bruce. (1970).
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 45: 217-222. Price later suspended the operations of the Council.Hall, op. cit., pp.
Randall, John. (2000). Harry Price: The Case for the Defence. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (Vol. 64.3, No. 860).
In 1888 Pellew had attended a séance sitting with Piper.James, William. (1986). Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 420.
The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Prometheus Books. pp. 99-106Gordon Stein. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal.
Morselli was also interested in mediumship and psychical research. He studied the medium Eusapia Palladino and concluded that some of her phenomena was genuine, being evidence for an unknown bio-psychic force present in all humans.Brancaccio, Maria Teresa. (2014). Enrico Morselli's Psychology and "Spiritism": Psychiatry, psychology and psychical research in Italy in the decades around 1900.
Osty was known for his experiments in psychometry but his methods were criticized as non-scientific.Berger, Arthur S. (1988). Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1897. McFarland. p. 86. Osty was originally on friendly terms with the British psychical researcher Harry Price, even Vice-President for his National Laboratory of Psychical Research.
A predecessor to the International Institute for Psychical Research was the Survival League founded in 1929 by Catherine Amy Dawson Scott and Shaw Desmond.Nelson, G. K. (2013 edition). Spiritualism and Society (Routledge Revivals). Routledge. p. 160. After the Survival League dissolved, Desmond, Shaw and Arthur Findlay founded the International Institute for Psychical Research in 1934.Belton, Leslie. (1938).
Heuzé was a journalist for the weekly newspaper L'Opinion, during 1921–1923 he reported on his investigations into psychical research and spiritualismLachapelle, Sofie. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 97. His writings were published in the two volume Les Morts Vivent Ils?.
According to historians such as Roger Luckhurst and Janet Oppenheim the origin of the concept of telepathy in Western civilization can be tracked to the late 19th century and the formation of the Society for Psychical Research.Oppenheim, Janet. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 135-249.
Cultural Histories Old and New: Rereading the Work of Janet Oppenheim. Victorian Studies. Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 69-105. She was the author of the book The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 (1985) which received positive reviews.Cooter, Roger. (1986). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim.
However, it was destroyed during World War II and only photographs remain. The scientific reception to the experiments was not favourable. In 1928, Theodore Besterman from the Society for Psychical Research attended séances and concluded the phenomena was fraudulent. In 1935, Lajos Pap was investigated by the International Institute for Psychical Research in London by the psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor.
Next however, upon the hypothesis of Whately Carington, a fellow researcher within the Society for Psychical Research, Soal was able to report a significant displacement effect in his data for two of his earlier participants.Soal, S. G. (1940). Fresh light on card guessing: Some new effects. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 46, 152-198.
Parapsychology and out-of-the-body experiences. London: Transpersonal Books/Society for Psychical Research.Sheikh, Anees. (1983). Imagery: Current Theory, Research, and Application.
She twice reported seeing ghosts to the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.Vol. III. p. 20, and Vol. VI. p.76.
The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Prometheus Books. pp. 99-106. Stein, Gordon. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal.
John L. Randall. (2000). Harry Price: The Case for the Defence. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (Vol. 64.3, No. 860).
"Sidney H. Beard (1862-1938)". Order of the Golden Age. Retrieved August 10, 2019. The Order promoted psychical research, spiritualism and vegetarianism.
John Arthur Hill (4 December 1872 – 22 March 1951), best known as J. Arthur Hill, was a British psychical researcher and writer.
Edward Trusted Bennett (1 July 1831 – 16 November 1908), best known as Edward T. Bennett, was a British botanist and psychical researcher.
Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo (граф Михаил Михайлович Перовский-Петрово-Соловово; 1868-1954) was a Russian diplomat, psychical researcher and skeptic.
William Wortley Baggally (1848 – 14 March 1928), most well known as W. W. Baggally, was a British psychical researcher who investigated spiritualist mediums.
S.P.R. Vol. XLII. pp. 84–85. Also quoted in > Antony Flew. (1955). A New Approach To Psychical Research. Watts & Co. pp. > 90–92.
In the early 1890s he attended séances with the medium Leonora Piper.James, William. (1986). Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 427.
Enigmas of Psychical Research by James H. Hyslop. The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods. Vol. 3, No. 18. pp. 498-500.
In the 1890s, the German psychologist Max Dessoir and psychiatrist Albert Moll formed the "critical occultism" position. This viewpoint interpreted psychical phenomena naturalistically.
Stanley De Brath (10 October 1854 – 20 December 1937) was a British civil engineer, psychical researcher and spiritualist."Stanley De Brath, M.Inst.C.E." Geni.
The National Review 63: 1053.Anonymous. (1918). Books on Psychical Research. The American Review of Reviews 57: 442. Reviewers ridiculed this belief.Anonymous. (1920).
Studies in Psychical Research. New York: Putnam. p. 44 and conducted some of his own experiments in which similar results were obtained.Carrington, Hereward.
Oppenheim, Janet. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254–262. Hazelgrove, Jenny. (2000).
Marion (back right) being tested in a card experiment by the psychical researchers Samuel Soal (middle) and Harry Price (right). Marion was investigated by members of the Society for Psychical Research in the late 1930-1940s. He was tested by the parapsychologist Samuel Soal at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in a series of experiments who attributed his success not to paranormal power but to the expert ability of picking up subtle visual clues from his audience. Soal also claimed that members of The Magic Circle were able to duplicate Marion's feat of identifying playing cards.
Winifred Coombe Tennant, a medium involved in the cross-correspondences. The cross-correspondences refers to a series of automatic scripts and trance utterances from a group of automatic writers and mediums, involving members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). According to psychical researchers the correspondences when put together convey intelligible messages either from spirits of the dead or telepathy.Edmunds, Simeon. (1966).
Kessinger Publishing. Researchers have compared Kluski's mediumship to the medium Eva Carrière and have speculated that he introduced items in the séance room by fraud.Franklyn, Julian. (2003). A Survey of the Occult. p. 381. Kessinger Publishing. A psychical researcher sent a letter to Hereward Carrington claiming Kluski had been detected in fraud.Carrington, Hereward. (1988). Letters to Hereward Carrington from Famous Psychical Researchers.
In 1925 Edwards was reappointed President, and his support of the mediumistic claims of 'Margery' (Mina Crandon) led to the 'conservative' faction leaving and forming the rival Boston Society for Psychical Research in May, 1925. From this point on the ASPR remained highly sympathetic to Spiritualism until 1941, when the Boston Society for Psychical Research was reintegrated into the ASPR.
Due to the new report by the Norwegians which was negative and covered strongly by the Danish news media, the original report by the Danish Society for Psychical Research was seen as an embarrassment and several members resigned from the society. The psychical researcher Harry Price sat with Nielsen in Copenhagen with "unsatisfactory results."Chapter The Mechanics of Mediumship. In Harry Price. (1939).
He was also supported by the spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle. However, most psychical researchers dismissed Bailey as fraudulent. The psychologist John Edgar Coover held strong doubts about Bailey and noted he been exposed as a fraud several times, most notably by the Society for Psychical Research. He was notable for producing apports of ancient tablets and other antiquities during his séances.
Campaigning journalist William Thomas Stead had become increasingly interested in spiritualism in the 1890s. In 1893 he founded a spiritualist quarterly, called Borderland, in which he gave full play to his interest in psychical research. The focus of the publication was on spiritualism and psychical research, mainly from a supportive point of view. The magazine appeared quarterly, priced 1/6.
Later when Piper's "spirit contact" was claimed to be recently deceased Society for Psychical Research member Richard Hodgson, James wrote, "I remain uncertain and await more facts, facts which may not point clearly to a conclusion for fifty or a hundred years."Murphy, Gardner; Ballou, Robert O. (1960). William James on Psychical Research. Chapter 4 William James and Mrs. Piper.
Guzyk was born in the village of Rączna, near Kraków. He claimed to be able to materialize spirits, produce ectoplasm and levitate objects. Guzyk was endorsed by the psychical researcher Gustav Geley who attended his séances. However, the skeptical investigator Paul Heuzé and a professional illusionist known as Professor Dicksonn suspected that Geley and other psychical researchers had been duped by trickery.
Search for truth: My Life for Psychical Research. Collins p. 206 Price wrote that the photographs depicting the ectoplasm of the medium Eva Carrière taken with Schrenck-Notzing looked artificial and two-dimensional made from cardboard and newspaper portraits and that there were no scientific controls as both her hands were free. In 1920 Carrière was investigated by psychical researchers in London.
Psychical Research Today. Chapter Séance-Room Phenomena. Duckworth. p. 49 Back issues of the magazine also matched some of Carrière's ectoplasm faces.Georgess McHargue. (1972).
The Yorkshire Evening Post. June 28, 1934. p. 13.Huxley, Julian S; Schiller, F. C. S; Macbride, E. W. (1934). "Science and Psychical Research".
The two-dimensional face had been clipped from the French magazine Le Miroir.West, Donald. (1954). Psychical Research Today. Chapter Séance-Room Phenomena. Duckworth. p.
Beyond the Reach of Sense by Rosalind Heywood. Challenge of Psychical Research by Gardner Murphy. The American Scholar. Vol. 31, No. 1 pp. 152-154.
Leonard later worked with Radclyffe Hall and the results of those sessions were published in the Proceedings for the Society for Psychical Research in 1919.
Donald West. (1954). Psychical Research Today. Chapter Séance-Room Phenomena. Duckworth. p. 49 Back issues of the magazine also matched some of Carrière's ectoplasm faces.
However, Coover held strong doubts about Bailey and noted he been exposed as a fraud several times, most notably by the Society for Psychical Research.
Newcomb was the first president of the American Society for Psychical Research.Campbell, W. W. (1924). Simon Newcomb. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. p.
James, William. (1986). Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 395. Piper was a trance medium but in her later séances preferred automatic writing.
He took issue with James's support for psychical research.Kimble, Gregory A; Wertheimer, Michael; White, Charlotte. (2013). Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Psychology Press. p. 23.
He started a journalistic career and worked between 1928 and 1938 for The Evening Post of Wellington. He later moved from New Zealand to England where he became a columnist for Kemsley Newspapers. MacKenzie was a writer of detective stories. He was vice president of the Society for Psychical Research and has been described as a leading researcher in the field of psychical research in the 1970s.
The psychical researcher Walter Franklin Prince conducted an independent analysis of the results in 1932. He believed that telepathy had been demonstrated in Sinclair's data. Prince's analysis was published as "The Sinclair Experiments for Telepathy" in Part I of Bulletin XVI of the Boston Society for Psychical Research in April, 1932 and was included in the addendum for the book.Walter Franklin Prince. (1932). Mrs.
Mary Rose Barrington (January 1926 – 20 February 2020) was a British parapsychologist, barrister and charity administrator. She was President of the Oxford University Society for Psychical Research, and joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1957, becoming a Council member in 1962. She served on its Spontaneous Cases Committee since the beginning of the committee. In 1995 she was elected as Vice-President of the Society.
United Kingdom charity Paranormal Site Investigators (PSI) is dedicated to advancing education, research and heritage in the area of anomalous experience. The charity has a membership of around 1400. The charity patron is Peter Underwood. PSI publishes the Journal of Investigative Psychical Research free to subscribers since 2005; the journal is kept by the library of the Society for Psychical Research and the British Library.
A year after graduating, he went on to Oxford University, where he did parapsychology research for eight years. During this period, he was president of the Oxford University Society for Psychical Research. At Oxford, he wrote his thesis which earned him his Master of Letters degree, "Theory and Experiment in Psychical Research". His thesis was later published in the United States by Arno Press.
Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843 – 17 January 1901) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.William James. Frederic Myers's Service to Psychology The Popular Science Monthly, August 1901, pp. 380–389. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" were influential in his time, but have not been accepted by the scientific community.
Many of T. W. Stanford's donations to the university were earmarked for "psychical research", resulting in the publication of a 640-page volume called Experiments in Psychical Research at Leland Stanford Junior University, published in 1917. At the insistence of university lawyers, his later donations were earmarked for "psychical research and related phenomena", which was interpreted to mean the entire psychology department; for several years his grants supplied almost the entire budget for the department. He died 28 August 1918, at his home in East Melbourne, and left the bulk of his estate to Stanford University. His papers are housed in the university archives.
The psychical researcher Frederic Myers referred to the OBE as a "psychical excursion". An early study that described alleged cases of OBE was the two-volume Phantasms of the Living, published in 1886 by the psychical researchers Edmund Gurney, Myers, and Frank Podmore. The book was largely criticized by the scientific community because the anecdotal reports in almost every case lacked evidential substantiation. Robert Blair's poem The Grave, depicting the soul leaving the body The theosophist Arthur Powell (1927) was an early author to advocate the subtle body theory of OBEs. Sylvan Muldoon (1936) embraced the concept of an etheric body to explain the OBE experience.
Broad, C. D. (2011). Lectures on Psychical Research. Routledge Reprint Edition. p. 200. The psychologist Donald West had praised the tests that Carington performed with Leonard.
Spiritualism and a Mid-Victorian Crisis of Evidence. Historical Journal: 47: 897-920. He was a founding member of the Society for Psychical Research.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988).
The psychical researcher Frank Podmore suggested that some of the visions may have been hallucinations.Podmore, Frank. (2011 edition, originally published 1908). The Naturalisation of the Supernatural.
He developed a lifelong interest in psychical research.Wilson, Neil. (2000). Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1950. British Library. p. 334.
K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. pp. 380-383Polidoro, Massimo. (2003). The Lost Messiah: Secrets on Psychical Research Emerge form a Stack of Forgotten Documents. Skeptical Inquirer. Vol.
His career highlights included serving as president of the American Psychological Association, and of the British Society for Psychical Research."Gardner Murphy". Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology.
He later removed the incorrect statements from his book.Rinn, Joseph. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists. Truth Seeker Company. pp.
Mauskopf, Seymour H; McVaugh, Michael Rogers. (1980). The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 43. Other researchers were more skeptical.
Edmund Gurney (23 March 184723 June 1888) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist. At the time the term for research of paranormal activities was "psychical research".
Human skin hairs were found on the moulds which has indicated fraud.Michael Coleman. (1994). The Kluski moulds: a reply. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.
The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 36-38. Edmunds, Simeon. (1965). Miracles of the Mind: An Introduction to Parapsychology.
Podmore, Frank. (1897). Studies in Psychical Research. New York: Putnam. p. 47 The German astrophysicist Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner tested the medium Henry Slade in 1877.
The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena. Visible Ink Press. Another physician-psychical researcher, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, investigated Carrière and believed the ectoplasm she produced was genuine.
Francis Henry Everard Joseph Feilding (6 March 1867 – 8 February 1936) best known as Everard Feilding was an English barrister, naval intelligence officer and psychical researcher.
Iowa State University Press. p. 63 Psychical researcher Hereward Carrington described Irwin as a well-known "exposer of fraudulent mediums."Carrington, Hereward. (1913). Personal Experiences in Spiritualism.
Joire also investigated and documented, ESP (extra-sensory perception), levitation, automatic writing, "spirit rapping" (typtology), spirit photography, mediumship and materialisation phenomena etc.Joire, Psychical and supernormal phenomena, 1916.
Eric Dingwall. (1985). The Need for Responsibility in Parapsychology: My Sixty Years in Psychical Research. In Paul Kurtz. (1985). A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology. pp. 161–174.
Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 381. Other founding members were Alpheus Hyatt, N. D. C. Hodges, William James and Samuel Hubbard Scudder."Miscellaneous Intelligence".
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. Volume 114. Quoted in John Casey. (2009). After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. Oxford. pp. 373-374.
The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 22. Polidoro, Massimo. (2001). Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle.
Alice Johnson (7 July 1860 - 13 January 1940) was an English zoologist. She also edited the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research from 1899 to 1916.
He also became treasurer and secretary of the Society for Psychical Research."Radesthesia" To The Rescue Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1965, p23 He died in April 1974.
Farmer was a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 57.
Hamlin Garland, noted American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher lived on a farm in Hesper Township, near Burr Oak during the 1870s.
Oxford University Press. p. 46. He was a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
3 The latter hypothesis was put forward by the psychical researcher Harry Price, who examined her at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research (NLPR). Because of this accusation, she was persuaded by Harry Price to swallow a tablet of methylene blue before one of her séances to rule out any chance of this trick being performed. Contrary results of this experiment have been recorded. One account stated that no ectoplasm appeared.
Bozzano drew criticism from psychical researchers for being a credulous investigator. In a review of Hack's Psychic Mysteries, investigating officer Theodore Besterman from the Society for Psychical Research wrote that "Bozzano's claims are wholly unfounded, and that the Millesimo sittings have not the slightest vestige of scientific value." Hans Driesch wrote that Bozzano was an acute theoriser but "unfortunately far too slipshod in accepting alleged facts."Driesch, Hans. (1933).
The British College of Psychic Science was founded in April 1920 in London by McKenzie and his wife to study psychical phenomena, similar to the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris. In December 1938 the college merged with the International Institute for Psychical Research, becoming the Institute for Experimental Metaphysics. During World War II the institute closed, and in 1947 all of its library and records were destroyed.Shepard, Leslie. (1991).
In addition to his scientific research into fertility and pregnancy, Wiesner was intrigued by parapsychological phenomena, and in 1941, he met the psychologist and parapsychologist Robert Thouless who was President of the Society for Psychical Research in London from 1942 until 1944.Society for Psychical Research, 'List of Past Presidents'. Retrieved 20 May 2015. Together, Wiesner and Thouless collaborated on constructing a hypothetical model to explain parapsychological phenomena.
James Hervey Hyslop, Ph.D., LL.D, (August 18, 1854 - June 17, 1920) was a noted American psychical researcher, a Psychologist, and a professor of ethics and logic at Columbia University. He was one of the first American psychologists to connect psychology with psychic phenomena. In 1906 he helped reorganize the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in New York City and served as the secretary-treasurer for the organization until his death.
On May 1, 1915 both Friend and Pope set sail on the British passenger ship RMS Lusitania with plans of forming a new psychical organization with cooperation from the British Society for Psychical Research. On May 7, the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Three days after the loss of the ship, Hyslop held séance sittings with the medium Mrs. Chenoweth in an attempt to contact Friend.
Herbert B. Turner & Co. Chapter The Slade- Zöllner Investigation. pp. 19-47 In a review for the Journal of American Society for Psychical Research in 1917, Hyslop wrote that various occurrences of levitation could have been faked by trickery. He also reviewed the psychical researcher William Jackson Crawford's experiments with the medium Kathleen Goligher and suggested that reported physical phenomena in the séance room could be unreliable.Peter Aykroyd. (2009).
Volume 53. p. 460 The psychical researcher Hereward Carrington in his book Modern Psychical Phenomena (1919) wrote that many psychic photographs were revealed to be fraudulent produced by substitution and manipulation of the plates, double- printing, double-exposure and chemical screens. However, Carrington also stated he believed some of the photographs to be genuine. The term "thoughtography" was first introduced at the beginning of the twentieth century by Tomokichi Fukurai.
The Founders of the SPR. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 55: 341-367. He died at Rede Hall near Burstow in Surrey on 5 November 1914.
In 1921, Eleanor Sidgwick analysed these tests and found that only 36% were successful.Douglas, Alfred. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research. Overlook Press. p. 155.
Some Experiments with the Sthenometer. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 12: 335-339."Some Experiments with the Sthenometer: Evaluating Dr Joire’s Results". Retrieved 12 June 2017.
In opposition to Gregory the photographic expert Vernon Harrison testified that the photograph was genuine.Harrison, Vernon. (1979). Letter to the Editor. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.
Delanoy, D.L., Morris, R.L. and Watt, C.A. (in press). A study of free-response ESP performance and mental training techniques. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Nelson, Geoffrey K. (1969). Spiritualism and Society. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 162. Roberts refused for her mediumship to be tested or observed by any scientist or psychical researcher.
He was the first editor for the spiritualist journal Light.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 46.
Victorian Studies. Vol. 13, No. 2 (Dec., 1969), pp. 234–35. Psychologist C. E. M. Hansel has criticized The Founders of Psychical Research for ignoring certain historical sources.
Gerald Balfour. In Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology with Directory and Glossary 1946-1996. New York: Garrett Publications. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research (1906–1907).
The results revealed no evidence for telepathy.Mauskopf, Seymour H; McVaugh, Michael Rogers. (1980). The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 36-38.
Barrow, Logie. (1986). The Other World. Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim. History Workshop Journal, No. 21. pp. 189-190.Shortland, Michael. (1986).
Mary Rose Barrington. (1966). Swan on a Black Sea: How Much Could Miss Cummins Have Known?. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Volume 43. pp. 289–300.
Joad with the psychic researcher Harry Price in an alleged haunted bed. Joad was interested in the paranormal, and partnered Harry Price on a number of ghost-hunting expeditions, also joining the Ghost Club, of which Price became the president. He involved himself in psychical research, travelling to the Harz Mountains to help Price to test whether the 'Bloksberg Tryst' would turn a male goat into a handsome prince at the behest of a maiden pure in heart; it did not. In 1934 he became Chairman of the University of London Council for Psychical Investigation, an unofficial committee formed by Price as a successor body to his National Laboratory of Psychical Research.
The psychologist Amy Tanner examined the cross-correspondences in detail. Tanner noted that whilst the cross-correspondences were taking place, the SPR allowed Mrs Verrall and her daughter to frequent sittings with Mrs Piper and this was a possible source of sensory leakage. She concluded that the psychical researchers had not taken into account the association of ideas, ignored the similarity between English and Latin and had used any interpretation to make a meaning out of the words. The psychical researcher Eric Dingwall wrote that the Society for Psychical Research refused outside investigation with relation to the cross- correspondences and researchers not connected with the case could not examine the original documents.
"In 1962 Trevor H. Hall, a British jurist and psychical researcher, re- examined the Crooke's-Cook case and came to the sensational conclusion not that Crookes had been fooled (as many had believed) but that he was an active participant in the hoax, and that he had a sexual involvement with the attractive medium. Though all the figures in this case were long dead the charge stirred up furor in the very tradition-minded psychical research circles in England. The controversy reverberates to this day."Williams, William F. (2000). Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy. Routledge. p. 67. Hall drew upon Francis G. H. Anderson's statements to the Society for Psychical Research in 1922 and 1941.
Oliver Lodge's youngest son, Second Lieutenant Raymond Lodge, was killed in action in World War I. Oliver tried to contact Raymond in the afterlife In addition to his contributions to science, Lodge is remembered for his studies in psychical research and spiritualism. He began to study psychical phenomena (chiefly telepathy) in the late 1880s, was a member of The Ghost Club, and served as president of the London-based Society for Psychical Research from 1901 to 1903. After his son, Raymond, was killed in World War I in 1915, he visited several mediums and wrote about the experience in a number of books, including the best-selling Raymond or Life and Death (1916).Brown, Callum G. (2006).
Homina Publishing, p. 58. Accuracy and Replicability of After-Death Communication (HBO experiment) Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 2001, Vol. 65.1, Num. 862, pages 1-25- veritas.arizona.
Guinness Publishing. p. 40Lachapelle, Sofie. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 144-145.
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 45. Lavoie, Jeffrey D. (2012). The Theosophical Society: The History of a Spiritualist Movement.
An introductory study of hypnagogic phenomena. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 35, 289–409. Mavromatis, A. (1987). Hypnagogia: the Unique State of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and Sleep.
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim. The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 19, No. 2. pp. 219-221.
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. W. W. Norton. His career was covered extensively by the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research,Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research: (Dates, Author). 1925-12-01 (Thirring), 1926-01-01 (Price), 1926-03-01 (Kogelnik), 1926-05-01 (Gruber) and he took part in a number of notable experiments conducted by paranormal researchers/debunkers, including Harry Price, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Eric Dingwall.
He was also elected a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and the Humanities. He was a Patron of the Churches Fellowship (Scotland) for Psychical and Spiritual Studies and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network. Archie Roy conducted research in astrodynamics, celestial mechanics, archaeoastronomy, psychical research, and neural networks. In addition Roy has published 20 books, six of them novels, some 70 scientific papers and scores of articles.
Agreeing to do readings for other visitors in her home, she soon gained attention from members of the American Society for Psychical Research and later its British associate, the Society for Psychical Research. Among these were Minot Savage, Richard Hodgson and George B. Dorr. Later psychic investigators included Oliver Lodge, Frederic Myers, James Hyslop, and G. Stanley Hall and his assistant Amy Tanner.Amy Tanner with an introduction by G. Stanley Hall. (1910).
Mina Crandon was described as a very beautiful lady whom men found "too attractive for her own good." It was suggested that the psychical investigator J. Malcolm Bird actively conspired with the Crandons in stage-managing the séances in an attempt to have a sexual relationship with Mina. Reports, however, suggest that Mina found Bird repulsive. Instead she had amorous feelings for the psychical researcher Hereward Carrington, with whom she had an affair.
Prometheus Books. Lewis Spence in his book An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1960) wrote: > A very large part is played by fraud in spiritualistic practices, both in > the physical and psychical, or automatic, phenomena, but especially in the > former. The frequency with which mediums have been convicted of fraud has, > indeed, induced many people to abandon the study of psychical research, > judging the whole bulk of the phenomena to be fraudulently produced.Spence, > Lewis (2003).
McHargue, Georgess. (1972). Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement. Doubleday. p. 134. Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
The book Reincarnation and Biology has been reviewed in Omega 36(3):273-274, 1997-98 and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 92:286-291, 1999.
During a séance Evans was exposed as a fraud. He was caught masquerading as a spirit, in a white nightshirt.Price, Harry. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research: A Critical Survey.
Arthur Conan Doyle. (1922). The Case for Spirit Photography. In his book Fifty Years of Psychical Research, Price listed many spirit photographers who had been exposed as frauds.Harry Price. (2003).
Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement. Doubleday. pp. 90–92. Renée Haynes. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research 1882–1982: A History. MacDonald & Co. p. 144.
Gould on God: Can religion and science be happily reconciled? bostonreview.net In a 1955 broadcast on Science and Christianity, he said: Fisher was involved with the Society for Psychical Research.
Gauld, Alan. (1978). Review of Anita Gregory's Anatomy of a Fraud: Harry Price and the Medium Rudi Schneider. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (Vol. 49, pp. 828-835).
Everybody's Magazine. v. 20 (1909). Psychologists such as James McKeen Cattell and Edward B. Titchener took issue with James's support for psychical research and considered his statements unscientific.Lamont, Peter. (2013).
In 1966 he became a full-time author. He served as a member of the Society for Psychical Research, London (1976–81).Hasler, P. W. (1982). Obituary: Gordon Rattray Taylor.
Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 423. Before his death Myers had left a message in a sealed envelope; Piper's control did not reveal the message.McCabe, Joseph. (1920).
Sudre was a loyal friend of Harry Price. Price described him as "the leading psychist in France."Price, Harry. (1942). Search for Truth: My Life for Psychical Research. Collins. p.
Kessinger Publishing. p. 491; Moreira-Almeida, Alexander (2008). Allan Kardec and the development of a research program in psychic experiences. Proceedings of the Parapsychological Association & Society for Psychical Research Convention.
Hyman, Ray. (1989). The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Prometheus Books. p. 342. He investigated psychic surgery and discovered it was based on sleight of hand trickery.
Ford was tested only once by the American Society for Psychical Research. He attempted to identify through psychic means the owners of objects (psychometry). He failed the test.Andrew Neher. (2011).
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 25.Iremonger, L. (1957). The ghosts of Versailles: Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain and their Adventure: A critical study. London, UK: Faber & Faber.
Findlay in 1920 founded the Glasgow Society for Psychical Research.Drury, Nevill. (2002). The Dictionary of the Esoteric: Over 3000 Entries on the Mystical and Occult Traditions. Watkins Publishing. p. 105.
This spiritualist organization attempted to unite all religions to study psychical research. H. Dennis Bradley was its first chairman.Nelson, G. K. (2013 edition). Spiritualism and Society (Routledge Revivals). Routledge. p. 160.
Gustav Geley (13 April 1868 – 15 July 1924) was a French physician, psychical researcher and director of the Institute Metapsychique International from 1919 to 1924."Gustav Geley". Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology.
Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green & Co. Nielsen was also caught hiding his ectoplasm in his rectum.Brower, M. Brady. (2010). Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France.
Eugène Osty (16 May 1874 - 20 August 1938) was a French physician and psychical researcher."Eugène Osty". In Helene Pleasants. (1964) Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology with Directory and Glossary 1946-1996.
Vice admiral William Usborne Moore (March 8, 1849 – March 15, 1918) also known as W. Usborne Moore was a British naval commander, psychical researcher and spiritualist."Maria Gertrude". Usborne Family Tree.
Gatty was a member of the Society for Psychical Research. With Theodore Besterman, he investigated the medium Rudi Schneider in a series of experiments. The results were entirely negative.Franklyn, Julian (2003).
Allison was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1905, she married physician Edward Wood Allison. After the death of her husband in 1920 she became involved in psychical research."Lydia W. Allison".
Stuart Holroyd. (1976). Minds Without Boundaries. Aldus Books. p. 49 Price's psychical research continued with investigations into Karachi's Indian rope trick and the fire-walking abilities of Kuda Bux in 1935.
The Oxford Phasmatological Society was an organisation from Oxford that investigated paranormal phenomena. It lasted from 1879-1885.Oppenheim, Janet. The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
Cambridge University Press. p. 123. It is considered the oldest psychical society in existence.Haileybury Register, 1862-1887. Edited by L. S. Milford, M. A. Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1887. p.
Ullman was also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and was a president of both the Parapsychological Association and of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 – 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author. He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping.
In a letter to James he wrote that the "Society for Psychical Research is doing much to injure psychology".Goodwin, C. James. (2015). A History of Modern Psychology. Wiley. p. 154.
The British psychical researcher Harry Price, who studied Palladino's mediumship, wrote "Her tricks were usually childish: long hairs attached to small objects in order to produce 'telekinetic movements'; the gradual substitution of one hand for two when being controlled by sitters; the production of 'phenomena' with a foot which had been surreptitiously removed from its shoe and so on."Harry Price, Fifty Years of Psychical Research, chapter XI: The Mechanics of Spiritualism, F&W; Media International, Ltd, 2012.
Baggally joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1896 in the hope of finding evidence for life after death."William Wortley Baggally". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Baggally was an amateur conjuror and had studied the trick methods of mediums.Oppenheim, Janet (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 150–152. . In 1908, the SPR appointed a committee of three to examine the medium Eusapia Palladino in Naples.
In 1897 an investigation of the house was organized by John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute with the assistance of paranormal researchers from the Society for Psychical Research. Ballechin House was known as "The Most Haunted House in Scotland", with several similarities to the Borley Rectory haunting, including the alleged apparition of a ghostly nun. The team of investigators from the Society for Psychical Research included Colonel Lemesurier Taylor and the notorious Ada Goodrich Freer.Price, Harry. (1945).
Ada Goodrich Freer (born 15 May 1857 in Uppingham, Rutland, England, died in New York, 24 February 1931), was a medium, clairvoyant, psychical researcher and author. Much of her work was published under the pseudonym Miss X.Brake & Demoor (2009) p.231 Freer was investigated by the Society for Psychical Research and, under strong suspicion of fraud, she was disowned from the Society. She was later caught cheating at a séance and subsequently emigrated to JerusalemGrant, John. (2015).
In 1912 Cambridge's Edward Bullough wrote of it in a long paper entitled, Psychical Distance as a factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle which appeared in the British Journal of Psychology.Edward Bullough, Psychical Distance as a factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle, British Journal of Psychology: 5 (1912), p87-118. In this he set down in a reasonably complete manner the concept as it applied to the arts. Evidently, he successfully influenced thinkers 50 years later.
Renée Oriana Haynes (23 July 1906 - 1994), also known as Renée Tickell was a British novelist and psychical researcher."Renée Oriana Haynes". Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology.Huxley, Aldous, Smith, Grover Cleveland. (1969).
"Science and Psychical Research". Nature 134: 458. After attending séances, Huxley concluded that the phenomena could be explained "either by natural causes, or, more usually by fraud".Meckier, Jerome; Nugel, Bernfried. (2004).
Search for Truth: My Life for Psychical Research. Collins. p. 182 Price had proven through analysis of a sample of ectoplasm produced by Duncan that it was made of cheesecloth.Marina Warner. (2008).
Psychic Certainties. Kessinger Reprint Edition. pp. 125-126 and William Crookes, however a later psychical researcher Hereward Carrington pointed out that the fluid was hypothetical and has never been discovered.Hereward Carrington. (2003).
Coover carried out a psychical research programme at Stanford University (1912-1917).Asprem, Egil. (2014). The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939. Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 355-360.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 48 (1948) pp177-196.Thouless, R. H. and Wiesner, B. P., 'On the Nature of Psi Phenomena'. Journal of Parapsychology Vol 1. (1946) pp107-119.
Marcuse wrote that West had based his statements on ESP on faith rather than proven fact.Marcuse, Frederic. (1955). Review of Psychical Research Today by D. J. West. American Journal of Psychology. Vol.
The Mechanics of Spiritualism. In Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Kessinger Publishing. The spiritualist Maurice Barbanell, editor of Psychic News, defended Myers in a book and considered his phenomena to be genuine.
Leonard Thompson Troland (1889–1932) was an American physicist, psychologist and psychical researcher.Beebe-Center, J. G. (1932). Leonard Thompson Troland: 1889-1932. American Journal of Psychology 44: 817-820Roback, A. A. (1932).
University of Illinois Press. pp. 133-135. Lachapelle, Sofie. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 131.
In 1905, Duguid was exposed in Manchester when he was searched and small oil paintings were found in his trousers.Price, Harry. (1939). Chapter The Phenomena Investigated. In Fifty Years of Psychical Research.
During the séance Furness caught Piper with her eyes open, looking at some flowers which he had placed in the room.James, William. (1986). Essays in Psychical Research. Harvard University Press. p. 398.
The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critical Study Made with "Uncommon Sense". K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. pp. 321-395Rinn, Joseph. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists.
Already as early as 1882, with the founding of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), parapsychologists emerged to investigate spiritualist claims.Ray Hyman. (1985). A Critical Historical Overview of Parapsychology. In Paul Kurtz.
Paul Tabori. (1966). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Living books. p. 136 The ectoplasm of Duncan in another test was analyzed by psychical researchers to be made from egg white.
The result was a complete failure, she made many incorrect statements. Mello "left her office annoyed and disillusioned". Fraya duped the psychical researcher Eugéne Osty into believing she had genuine psychic powers.
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. Guinness Publishing. pp. 124-125 Psychical researchers suspected Cartheuser was fraudulent. In 1928, he conducted séances with the spiritualist Jenny O'Hara Pincock in Ontario, Canada.
Books in Brief: Psychical Miscellanea by J. Arthur Hill. The Nation 111: 49. Hill greatly admired the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1919, he wrote a book on the subject.Anonymous. (1919).
In a lecture for the London Spiritualist Alliance, Hopps supported biological evolution and spiritualism.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 270.
However, the physicists Heinrich Hertz and Max Planck expressed interest in Lodge's unorthodox investigations into mediumship and telepathy.Sommer, Andreas. (2014). "Oliver Lodge, Psychical Research and German Physicists: Heinrich Hertz and Max Planck".
He was an early council member of the Society for Psychical Research.McCorristine, Shane. (2010). Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920. Cambridge University Press. p. 110.
Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 221. He was a convinced spiritualist, in 1854 he met the medium Daniel Dunglas Home.
MacDonald supplied much material that was published by Ada Goodrich Freer who was commissioned to investigate second sight in the Scottish Highlands and Islands by the Society for Psychical Research in 1894-5.
Bozzano was born in Genoa. He did not receive formal education, he was self-taught. He was influenced by the philosophical ideas of Herbert Spencer and took interest in psychical research.Houran, James. (2004).
Harry Francis Prevost Battersby Harry Francis Prevost Battersby (1862-1949) most well known as H. F. P. Battersby was a poet, novelist journalist and psychical researcher, who published under the name Francis Prevost.
Prometheus Books. p. 245. The BSPR fell into obscurity following exposure of Mina Crandon, and was formally reincorporated into the American Society for Psychical Research in 1941.Thomas Tietze. (1973). Margery. Harper & Row.
London: Society for Psychical Research. Graham Reed (1974) suggested that the OBE is a stress reaction to a painful situation, such as the loss of love.Reed, Graham. (1974). The Psychology of Anomalous Experience.
Spiritualism: A Critical Survey. Aquarian Press. p. 72. In the 1960s, after a revival in spiritualism, the college associated itself with the Society for Psychical Research, collecting thousands of case files."Paul Beard".
In addition, Broad was President of the Aristotelian Society from 1927 to 1928, and again from 1954 to 1955. He was also President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1935 and 1958.
Manchester University Press. pp. 252-253 Woolley was a council member and the Honorary Research Officer of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).Johnson, George M. (2006). Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction.
Since 2001 the Biennale for Drawing in Israel has been held there.The Biennale for Drawing in Israel In May 2019, the Larva Society for Psychical Research relocated temporarily to the Jerusalem Artists House.
Vogeler, Albert R. (1986). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim. Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2. pp. 323-324.
The Haunted Mind: A Psychoanalyst Looks at the Supernatural. Helix Press. pp. 100-122 Other psychical researchers such Harry Price also considered Pap to be a fraud and his mediumship discredited.Price, Harry. (1939).
Tyrrell was a student of Guglielmo Marconi and a pioneer in the development of radio."George Nugent Merle Tyrrell". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. In 1908 he joined the Society for Psychical Research.
Famous supporters such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave her significant credibility. She became so popular that her prayers were read by the U.S. Army. The Scientific American prize committee consisted of William McDougall, professor of psychology at Harvard; Harry Houdini, the famous professional magician and escape artist; Walter Franklin Prince, American psychical researcher; Dr. Daniel Frost Comstock, who introduced Technicolor to film; and Hereward Carrington, amateur magician, psychical researcher, author, and manager for the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino. From left to right.
In 1894 Sidgwick was one of the first three women to serve on a royal commission, the Bryce commission on Secondary Education. As a young woman, Eleanor had helped Rayleigh improve the accuracy of experimental measurement of electrical resistance; she subsequently turned her careful experimental mind to the question of testing the veracity of claims for psychical phenomena. She was elected President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1908 and named President of Honour in 1932.Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. (1992).
William Fletcher Barrett, Spiritualism, and Psychical Research in Edwardian Dublin. Estudios Irlandeses. Journal of Irish Studies 6: 39-53. In the late 19th century the Creery Sisters (Mary, Alice, Maud, Kathleen, and Emily) were tested by Barrett and other members of the SPR who believed them to have genuine psychic ability, however, the sisters later confessed to fraud by describing their method of signal codes that they had utilized.Hyman, Ray. (1989). The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research.
A devoted churchman, Stewart was prominently identified with the Society for Psychical Research. It was in his 1875 review of The Unseen Universe, that William James first put forth his Will to Believe Doctrine.
Maby was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society."Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society". May 8, 1925. He was a member of the British Society of Dowsers and Society for Psychical Research.
Charles Sedgwick Minot (December 23, 1852 – November 19, 1914) was an American anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research.Lewis, Frederick T. (1914). Charles Sedgwick Minot — Dec. 23, 1852 — Nov.
Yesterday's Children, pp. 109-120Barrington, Mary Rose. 2002. The Case of Jenny Cockell: Towards a verification of an unusual 'past life' report. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. 66. pp. 106-12.
In 1933, Hope was discredited when the pair presented their case in depth against him in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.Edmunds, Simeon. (1966). Spiritualism: A Critical Survey. Aquarian Press. p. 116.
François Marie Gabriel Delanne (23 March 1857 – 15 February 1926) was a notable French spiritist, psychical researcher, writer, and electrical engineer. He is best known for his book, "Le Phénomène spirite" (The Spiritist phenomenon).
The Society for Psychical Research offered to test her abilities but she declined to be tested.Estelle Roberts (1889-1970). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Roberts claimed to materialize an Indian spirit guide called "Red Cloud".
Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy: As Involved in the Case of Mrs. Leonora E. Piper and the Society for Psychical Research. Medico-Legal Journal. Deborah Blum has written that Hodgson was personally obsessed with Piper.
Nature 134: 458.Valentine, Elizabeth R. Institutionalisation and the History of Psychical Research in Great Britain in the 20th Century. In Anna Lux, Sylvia Paletschek. (2016). Okkultismus im Gehäuse: Institutionalisierungen der Parapsychologie im 20.
Cambridge University Press. p. 57. Watts was member of the Society for Psychical Research. He resigned after some of its members such as Eleanor Sidgwick dismissed the medium William Eglinton as fraudulent.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988).
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 140. Watts was also a poet, publishing, jointly with his wife, a volume entitled Aurora: a volume of verse.
The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. p. 517. He duplicated the phenomena of the Bangs Sisters. In 1910, Marriott with the psychical researcher Everard Feilding investigated the Italian medium Eusapia Palladino in Naples.
Psychical Research Today. Chapter Séance-Room Phenomena. Duckworth. p. 49 Cut out faces that she used included Woodrow Wilson, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, French president Raymond Poincaré and the actress Mona Delza.Gordon Stein. (1996).
Paul Tabori. (1966). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Living books. p. 136 The ectoplasm of Duncan in another test was analysed by psychical researchers and reported to be made from egg white.
Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.
Raymond Buckland. (2006). The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication. Visible Ink Press. p. 177. Hodgson joined the American Society for Psychical Research in 1887 to serve as its secretary.
Discarnate Influence in Human Life. Nature 142: 376. C. E. M. Joad suggested in a review for Dicarnate Influence in Human Life that Bozzano had been carried away by his "speculative imagination.""On Psychical Research".
Xiong, Jesse Hong. (2010). The Outline of Parapsychology. University Press of America. p. 202. He co-wrote a paper with his wife on apparitions in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research in 1933.
Psychology Press. p. 23. Cattell in a letter to James wrote that the "Society for Psychical Research is doing much to injure psychology".Goodwin, C. James. (2015). A History of Modern Psychology. Wiley. p. 154.
Retrieved 10 June 2017. He was the Research Officer of the International Institute for Psychical Research for a few months but resigned in June, 1934.Anonymous. (1934). Blow to Psychic Research Body. Distinguished Men Resign.
Chapter The Mechanics of Spiritualism in > Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Kessinger Publishing. Valiantine did not collect the award as he had cheated and was pronounced a fraud by the Scientific American committee.Stein, Gordon. (1996).
Rinn, Joseph. (1950). Searchlight on Psychical Research. Rider and Company. pp. 104-106 Magician Henry Gordon has written that Piper "was exposed as a fraud" and she utilized the same methods as other mental mediums.
The ICPR was considered a rival organization to the Society for Psychical Research.Anonymous. (1911). Spooks Are Encouraged: London Club Invites Messages From the Spirit World. The Washington Post. June 11, p. 3Gaebelein, Arno C. (1914).
Hughes, Geoffrey. (2006). An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World. Routledge. pp. 158-159. Farmer took interest in psychical research and spiritualism.
Leaf was a member of the Society for Psychical Research. He translated Vsevolod Solovyov's A Modern Priestess of Isis (1895).Owen, Alex. (2004). The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern.
Price suspended the operations of the Council in 1938.Valentine, E. R. (2012). Spooks and Spoofs: Relations Between Psychical Research and Academic Psychology in Britain in the inter-war period. History of the Human Sciences.
Speer was born in Cheltenham, he was the son of physician Stanhope Templeman Speer. During the 1870s, William Stainton Moses tutored Speer.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
A Magician Among the Spirits. Cambridge University Press. p. 66. In the late 19th century, the fraudulent methods of spirit photographers such as David Duguid and Edward Wyllie were revealed by psychical researchers.Joe Nickell. (2001).
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology."J. Arthur Hill". The Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. In 1914, Hill wrote an article Is the Earth Alive? which was later expanded into a chapter in his Psychical Miscellanea (1920).
He was a founding vice- president of the Society for Psychical Research.W. C. Lubenow (2007). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. Cambridge University Press. p. 229.
Nickell, Joe. (2002). "Psychic Pets and Pet Psychics". Csicop.org. Retrieved 2014-10-11. The psychical researcher J. B. Rhine investigated the horse and concluded that there was evidence for extrasensory perception between human and horse.
Price joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1920, and used his knowledge of stage magic to debunk fraudulent mediums.Paul Tabori. (1974). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Sphere Books. pp. 43-48.
On the other hand, his treatment of spiritualism and the paranormal was regarded as "too sympathetic" by some within the Catholic community.Mary Heimann, "Thurston, Herbert Henry Charles (1856–1939)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2009 , accessed 29 March 2010 Father Thurston joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1919, and he was a friend of psychical researcher Everard Feilding.Kripnal, Jeffrey John; Shuck, Glenn W. (2005). On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture.
McDougall was critical of spiritualism, he believed that some of its proponents such as Arthur Conan Doyle misunderstood psychical research and "devote themselves to propaganda". In 1926, McDougall concluded "I have taken part in a considerable number of investigations of alleged supernormal phenomena; but hitherto have failed to find convincing evidence in any case, but have found rather much evidence of fraud and trickery."Valentine, Elizabeth R. (2011). Spooks and Spoofs: Relations Between Psychical Research and Academic Psychology in Britain in the Inter-War Period.
Professor Archie Edmiston Roy, was educated at Hillhead High School and the University of Glasgow. He was married to Frances with three sons; Dr. Archie W N Roy, Ian Roy and Dr. David Roy; and two grandchildren David and Fraser. Professor Roy was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the British Interplanetary Society. He was also a Member and past President of the Society for Psychical Research and Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research.
Rinn became disillusioned with the American Society for Psychical Research as he believed they had failed to expose cases of psychic fraud so in 1905 he formed a skeptical group known as the Metropolitan Psychical Society. Notable skeptical members who were also magicians included Winfield S. Davis and James L. Kellogg. In January, 1910 a series of séance sittings were held in the physics laboratory at Columbia University with the medium Eusapia Palladino. Scientists such as Robert W. Wood and Edmund Beecher Wilson attended.
Huxley took interest in investigating the claims of parapsychology and spiritualism. He joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1928. After investigation he found the field to be unscientific and full of charlatans.Ross, William T. (2002).
Renée Haynes. (1982). The Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1982: A History. Macdonald. p. 144. "The most usual material for 'ectoplasm' however, seemed to be butter muslin or cheesecloth, probably swallowed and regurgitated."Rosemary Guiley. (1994).
C. D. Broad. (2011). Lectures on Psychical Research. Reprint Edition. p. 304 The photographs taken by Thomas Glendenning Hamilton of ectoplasm reveal the substance to be made of tissue paper and magazine cut- outs of people.
Kessinger Publishing. pp. 130-132. In 1925, the British psychical researcher Harry Price investigated Silbet and caught her using her feet and toes to move objects in the séance room.Lewis Spence. (1991). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology.
Edmunds was a research secretary for the College of Psychic Science and member of the Society for Psychical Research. He was the associate editor of the Tomorrow magazine."Simeon Edmunds". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001.
Parapsychology in the twenty-first century: essays on the future of psychical research McFarland, p. 382. He was first cousin twice removed on his mother's side of Supreme Court of South Australia judge George Coutts Ligertwood.
There have been eyewitness accounts by séance sitters describing conjuring methods and fraud that Home may have employed.Frederick Merrifield. (1903). A Sitting With D. D. Home. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 11: 76–80.
1901, reprinted in Clark Bell, Thomson Jay Hudson. (1904). Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy as Involved in the Case of Mrs Leonora E. Piper and the Society for Psychical Research. Medico-Legal Journal. p. 141Edward Clodd. (1917).
55 Mrs Everitt has been described as one of the earliest British spiritualist mediums and the first medium in 1867 to practice 'direct-voice' mediumship.Gauld, Alan. (1968). The Founders of Psychical Research. Routledge & K. Paul. p.
Thomas graduated from Richmond Theological College and was a minister at Wesleyan Methodist Church. He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) and a convinced spiritualist."Obituary: The Rev. C. Drayton Thomas". ProQuest.
Lamont, Peter. (2013). Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem. Cambridge University Press. pp. 225-228. He was investigated by psychical researchers who attributed his abilities to detecting subtle visual clues from his audience.
Frederick Tansley Munnings with trumpet. In 1920s and early 1930s Price investigated the medium Rudi Schneider in a number of experiments conducted at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.Lewis Spence. (2003). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.
In the 1920s and early 1930s Price investigated the medium Rudi Schneider in a number of experiments conducted at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.Lewis Spence. (2003). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Kessinger Reprint Edition. p.
Psychical Research and the Physician. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 182: 610–612. Joseph McCabe wrote a skeptical book on the Spiritualist beliefs of Lodge entitled The Religion of Sir Oliver Lodge (1914).McCabe, Joseph. (1914).
He failed to see anything, but three days after he struck camp and left, the drosoulites were reported to have appeared in unusual splendour; see The "drosoulites", the display of Sfakia, Angelos Tanagras, Psychic Researches, January 1929, Athenian Society of Psychical Research. He wrote extensively on the subject, and was regularly interviewed by the BBC.The Future of Psychical Research – Part I, Room for Ghosts in the Field of Science, & Part II, Modern Science Tends to Clear the Path for It, E.N. Bennett, The Century Magazine, October & November 1926; Apollonius or the Future of Psychical Research, E.N. Bennett, Kegan Paul, London, 1927; Apparitions and Haunted Houses, a Survey of Evidence, Sir Ernest Bennett, Faber & Faber, 1939; Inquiry into the Unknown, (BBC recordings, 1934), Besterman (editor), Methuen, 1934; Things I Cannot Explain, (BBC recordings, 1937), Listener Magazine, October 1937 – January 1938.
In Michael Shermer. The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience. ABC-CLIO. pp. 220-226. The Society for Psychical Research investigations into mediumship exposed many fraudulent mediums which contributed to the decline of interest in physical mediumship.Rosemary Guiley. (1994).
Some of the manuscript was later reprinted by the American Society for Psychical Research and Schrenck- Notzing was charged of being a credulous investigator.Paul Tabori. (1974). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Sphere Books. p. 163.
Report of the committee appointed to investigate phenomena connected with the Theosophical Society, commonly called the Hodgson Report was an 1885 report by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) on Helena Blavatsky and purportedly apported Mahatma Letters.
Charles Carleton Massey (1838-1905) most well known as C. C. Massey was a British barrister, Christian mystic and psychical researcher.Brock, William Hodson. (2008). William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science. Ashgate Publishing. p. 208.
The American psychologist Morton Prince who knew Hodgson well commented that the mediumship of Piper had "wrecked" his mind.Oppenheim, Janet. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 376.
Herbert B. Turner & Co. pp. 235-236 Charles Richet has written that all the wonders attributed to Madame D’Esperance must be "eliminated, for with them there was evident fraud."Richet, Charles. (1923). Thirty Years of Psychical Research.
Twixt Two Worlds: A Narrative of the Life and Work of William Eglinton. The Psychological Press, London. Eglinton performed slate writing mediumship and his leading critics were the psychical researchers Eleanor Sidgwick and Richard Hodgson.Ronald Pearsall. (1972).
In Fifty Years of Psychical Research. London: Longman, Green & Company. Paranormal researcher Hilary Evans noted that unlike most spiritualists, Cummins did not accept the phenomena at face value and questioned the source of the material.Hilary Evans. (1987).
Gladys Osborne Leonard Gladys Osborne Leonard (28 May 1882 – 19 March 1968) "Leonard, Gladys Osborne", in The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication, by Raymond Buckland (Visible Ink Press, 2005) pp225-226 was a British trance medium, renowned for her work with the Society for Psychical Research. Although psychical researchers such as Oliver Lodge were convinced she had communicated with spirits, skeptical researchers concluded that Leonard's trance control was a case of dissociative identity disorder.Brandon, Ruth. (1983). The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Her first marriage was to Clive Barry and they had three sons all of whom died young and a daughter, Eileen Coly who took interest in parapsychology.Rosemary Guiley. (1994). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 132–133. Garrett worked at a hostel for wounded soldiers during World War I. In 1931 she was invited to the United States by the American Society for Psychical Research and performed experiments for various psychical researchers in both America and Europe until the 1950s.Helene Pleasants. (1964).
He became a member of the American Society for Psychical Research and the Society for Psychical Research, founding two fields of study he termed Conscienciologia ("Conscientiology") and Projeciologia ("Projectiology"). He published his first book on the subject in 1979, with several other publications until his death in 2015. His books were translated into English, Spanish, Italian, German and Chinese.Simone de La Tour e Kevin de La Tour; Paradiplomacia com Características Chinesas; (...) edição especial do tratado Projeciologia, de Waldo Vieira, com tradução parcial para o chinês.... Revista Conscientia, 2006, 10(4), p. 361-370.
Hodgson had claimed Professor Fiske from his séance with Piper was "absolutely convinced" Piper's control was the real George Pellew, however, when Pellew's brother contacted Fiske about it, he replied it was "a lie" as Piper had been "silent or entirely wrong" on all his questions. However, Alan Gauld has disputed this, commenting that Hodgson in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research acknowledged the negative attitude of Fiske and did not personally find "the communications as having evidential value".Gauld, Alan. (1968). The Founders of Psychical Research.
Cambridge University Press. pp. 137-372. Barrett was a Christian and spiritualist member of the SPR. Although he had founded the society, Barrett was only truly active for a year, and in 1884 founded the American Society for Psychical Research. He became president of the society in 1904 and continued to submit articles to their journal. From 1908–14 Barrett was active in the Dublin Section of the Society for Psychical Research, a group which attracted many important members including Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, T.W. Rolleston, Sir Archibald Geikie, and Lady Augusta Gregory.McCorristine, Shane. (2011).
58 He was skeptical about claims of the paranormal and psychical research, which he wrote were the result of superstition and the outcome of ignorance.Luckhurst, Roger. (2002). The Invention of Telepathy, 1870–1901. Oxford University Press. p. 163.
The early death of his son and his religious convictions are said to have influenced his psychical writings and his belief in life after death.Guiley, Rosemary. (1994). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. Guinness Publishing. p. 159.
It was considered a debunking work of psychical research by the psychologist Edward B. Titchener. Coover had criticized the "metapsychism" of parapsychologists as it did adhere to the scientific method.Kurtz, Paul. (2001). Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm.
Retrieved 16 May 2020. In his dissertation, "Animal Education",Watson, John B. 1903. "Animal Education: An Experimental Study on the Psychical Development of the White Rat, Correlated with the Growth of its Nervous System" (dissertation). University of Chicago.
Goligher with muslin Crawford's experiments were criticized by scientists for their inadequate controls and lack of precaution against fraud.Prince, Morton. (1919). Review of Experiments in Psychical Science, by W. J. Crawford. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 14: 355-361.
He was born in June 1924 in Liverpool, England, and studied medicine at Liverpool University. He did postgraduate work at London University and Cambridge University.Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. (1991). The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research.
Xiong, Jesse Hong. (2010). The Outline of Parapsychology (Rev. ed.). Lanham: University Press of America. p. 126. He was tested by psychical researchers such as Eugéne Osty and Charles Richet who were convinced he had genuine paranormal powers.
The remaining members such as vice-president Edmund Rogers, one of Moses's loyal supporters tried to reconstruct the society.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 55-57.
Massey was born at Hackwood Park, Basingstoke. He was the first president of the British Theosophical Society and a founding member of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882.Luckhurst, Roger. (2002). The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901.
Rinn's book Searchlight on Psychical Research (1954) was described in a review as the "death knell of spiritualism" as it exposed the fraud and tricks involved in spiritualist activities.The Month. (1954). Volume 11. Simpkin, Marshall, and Company. p.
Although discredited, the photograph is considered to be the first ever taken of the trick.Lamont, Peter; Wiseman, Richard. (2001). The Rise and Fall of the Indian Rope Trick. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 65: 175-193.
Haynes was an atheist.Clark, Ronald William. (1968). The Huxleys. McGraw-Hill. p. 244 He was also a rationalist, his book The Belief in Personal Immortality (1913) was skeptical of the claims of psychical research and life after death.
Arthur Berger. (1988). Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1987. McFarland & Company. p. 95. The psychical researcher Paul Tabori has written that it was established beyond doubt that Guzyk had cheated at his séances.
Conflict and Crisis in the Religious Life of Late Victorian England. Transaction Publishers. p. 271. Similar to the later formed Society for Psychical Research it collected and investigated reports of ghosts, hauntings and psychic phenomena.Hearnshaw, Leslie Spencer. (1964).
Browne, E. Janet. (2003). Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Volume 2. Princeton University Press. p. 404. Wedgwood was a member of the British National Association of Spiritualists and a vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research.
From 1882 to 1902 he worked as an assistant secretary for the Society.Crabtree. Adam. (1988). Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766-1925: An Annotated Bibliography. Kraus International Publications. p. 349. He died in Port Isaac, Cornwall.
Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians: A Comparative Study of the Encounter Experience. Aquarian Press. p. 103. According to the psychical researcher Eric Dingwall information published in Cummins' scripts allegedly from Mrs Willet were discovered to be erroneous.Eric Dingwall. (1985).
Foreclosure (also known as "foreclusion"; ) is the English translation of a term that the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan introduced into psychoanalysis to identify a specific psychical cause for psychosis.Dylan Evans, Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Routledge 1996) p. 65.
A relationship between eroticism and Myer's interest in psychical research was examined by Professor of Philosophy Jeffrey J. Kripal.Kripnal, Jeffrey J.. (2010). Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. University of Chicago Press. pp. 81–91.
The "Brother Doli" case: Investigation of apparent poltergeist-type manifestations in North Wales. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 66.4, No. 869, 193-221. Reprinted in R. Wiseman & C. Watt (eds.) (2005). Parapsychology (The International Library of Psychology).
Wyndham was a spiritualist who took interest in parapsychology. He was a friend of the medium Stainton Moses and a member of the London Spiritualist Alliance.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
Cambridge University Press. pp. 53-57. Wyndham was an early member of the Society for Psychical Research. In 1884, he attended a séance with the medium William Eglinton and was impressed by his slate-writing phenomena.Pennell, Henry C. (1884).
121 Ernst was Jewish. He was a member of many organizations including the American Bar Association, New York County Lawyers' Association, Phi Delta Theta, National Vaudeville Artists Association, American Society for Psychical Research and the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
From Shaman to Scientist: Essays on Humanity's Search for Spirits. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 132-133. He wrote more than 60 books and 200 papers on psychical matters. He became known as a popular sympathizer of spiritism in Italy.
The psychical researcher Simeon Edmunds wrote that "John Beattie, a professional photographer of note, demonstrated conclusively that his spirits were faked by a simple process of double exposure."Edmunds, Simeon (1966). Spiritualism: A Critical Survey. Aquarian Press, p. 114.
"Charles Sedgwick Minot". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. "For a few years he was active in the American Society for Psychical Research, from which he withdrew when finally convinced of its unscientific outlook."Derby, George; White, James Terry. (1929).
The complete studies were reviewed by PrattPratt, J. G. (1973). A decade of research with a selected subject: An overview and reappraisal of the work with Pavel Štěpánek. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 30, 1-78.
Sinclair was interested in parapsychology and spiritualism, she was a member of the Society for Psychical Research from 1914.Boll, Theophilus Ernest Martin. (1973). Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Associated University Presses, Inc. p. 105.
He is most well known for his skeptical books on spiritualism. His 1965 booklet Spirit Photography was published by the Society for Psychical Research. It exposed the fraudulent methods involved in producing spirit photographs.British Journal of Photography, Volume 113.
32 He became a direct-voice medium who had utilized trumpets in his séances. He was investigated by members of the American Society for Psychical Research. In 1927, he held a séance with Nandor Fodor in New York.Guiley, Rosemary.
"Frederic Charles Dommeyer". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. He was a member of the American Society for Psychical Research and contributed articles to the Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Philosophical Review and The Journal of Philosophy."Frederic Charles Dommeyer".
He took interest in parapsychology and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.Kripnal, Jeffrey John; Shuck, Glenn W. (2005). On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture. Indiana University Press. p. 85.
Thomas Walker Mitchell Thomas Walker Mitchell (1869-1944) most commonly referred to as T. W. Mitchell was a British physician and psychical researcher.Wright, Maurice B. (1945). Thomas Walker Mitchell, 1869–1944. British Journal of Medical Psychology 20: 203-206.
It was well received by parapsychologists and spiritualists, being described as "the Bible of British psychical researchers".McCorristine, Shane. (2010). Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920. Cambridge University Press. p. 183.
Strange To Relate. Colin Smythe. p. 74. To investigate this the psychical researchers Theodore Besterman and Gerald Heard tested with microphones the amount of displacement from the medium's mouth. A voice was heard on occasion but no displacement was detected.
The identity of some of the mediums was kept secret and the public was only permitted to know who Mrs. Willett was after she had died.Dingwall, Eric. (1985). The Need for Responsibility in Parapsychology: My Sixty Years in Psychical Research.
In his controversial book The Spiritualists (1962), Hall stated that the famous medium Florence Cook was a fraud who had an affair with the chemist and psychical researcher William Crookes.Cohen, Daniel. (1971). Masters of the Occult. Dodd, Mead & Company. p. 111.
Harvey J. Irwin, Caroline Watt An Introduction to Parapsychology 2007, p. 188 The psychologists Donald Hebb (1960) and Cyril Burt (1968) wrote on the psychological interpretation of the OBE involving body image and visual imagery.Burt, C. (1968). Psychology and Psychical Research.
She and her husband settled in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the nearby University of Virginia was the only American university with a Division of Parapsychology. Naomi was a member of the American Society of Psychical Research. She died on November 16, 1997.
In 1990, Dr. Gordon Stein found a levitation photograph of Mirabelli in the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) collection at the Cambridge University Library. It was inscribed by Mirabelli to Besterman from his visit in 1934.Stein, Gordon. (1996). Carlos Mirabelli.
90 Bailey was endorsed by Thomas Welton Stanford a wealthy spiritualist who had help fund the psychical research programme at Stanford University.Asprem, Egil. (2014). The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939. Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 355-360.
Fraser-Harris was interested in parapsychology. He was associated with the National Laboratory of Psychical Research and attended séances with spiritualist mediums such as Helen Duncan and Rudi Schneider."D. F. Fraser- Harris (1867-1937)". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.
Maurice Leonard. (2011). People from the Other Side: The Enigmatic Fox Sisters and the History of American Spiritualism. The History Press. Psychical researcher Hereward Carrington noted that the room was so dark that trickery would have been easy to perform.
Arthur Findlay was Chairman and D. F. Fraser-Harris was Research Officer.Anonymous. (1934). "Science and Psychical Research". Nature 133: 18-19. Fraser-Harris, Huxley, MacBride, Smith and other members such as Ernest Bennett and William Brown had resigned by June, 1934.
Helen Duncan with a roll of cheesecloth. In 1931, the National Laboratory of Psychical Research took on its most illustrious case. £50 was paid to the medium Helen Duncan so that she could be examined under scientific conditions.Simeon Edmunds. (1966).
The committee concluded that he had freed one of his legs to perform the phenomena. When tighter controls were introduced, nothing happened.Lachapelle, Sofie. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931.
Helen Duncan with a roll of cheesecloth. In 1931, the National Laboratory of Psychical Research took on its most illustrious case. £50 was paid to the medium Helen Duncan so that she could be examined under scientific conditions.Simeon Edmunds. (1966).
Search for Truth: My Life for Psychical Research. Collins p. 206 Price also noted that Guzyk impersonated a "spirit" animal during a séance by placing his hand in a stocking to stimulate the illusion of a snapping jaw.Paul Tabori. (1974).
The Salem Seer. Lovell, Gestefeld & Company. However, psychical researcher Hereward Carrington commented that most of the feats described in the book could easily be the "result of trickery... That Foster was an impostor there can be no doubt."Carrington, Hereward. (1907).
Rasmussen was alleged to have produced psychokinetic phenomena, such as moving pendulums in sealed glass cases.Anderson, Rodger. (2006). Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland. p. 118. She was endorsed as genuine by the psychical researcher Harry Price.
Tabori, Paul. (1966). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Living Books. p. 219 (Republished in 1974 by Sphere Books) Christian Winther (1873-1968) of the Danish Society for Psychical Research investigated her mediumship, producing a favourable report in 1930.
Paul Tabori. (1966). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Living Books. p. 125 In 1933, Frank Decker was investigated by Price at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research.Paul Tabori. (1966). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Living Books. p.
Imoda, Enrico. (1912). Fotografie di Fantasmi. Fratelli Bocca. French psychical researcher Guillaume de Fontenay in an afterword for the book cast doubt on the authenticity of the photographs, noting that the materializations looked dubious and two-dimensional with suspicious shadows.
Arthur Conan Doyle published an article in a Boston Newspaper claiming "J. B. Rhine is an Ass." There was a significant split in the history of American psychical research: the American Society for Psychical Research had become dominated by those sympathetic to Spiritualism; the Boston Society favored a naturalistic explanation (such as telepathy; yet telepathy within the laws of undiscovered physics) for purported mediumship and was critical of the purported mediumship of Mina Crandon in particular. Under President Walter Franklin Prince it organised the investigation of Mina during the Scientific American Prize dispute, and Harry Houdini worked with the group.
However, his unorthodox views on dieting, fasting and nutrition have been criticized by medical health experts. Henry Gilroy wrote that Carrington "went on to the end of his life as a true pioneer and an indefatigable searcher for truth. I was proud to be his friend", he noted however that Carrington was a "half-assed amateur magician —a pretty bad one but most persistent. One night we threw a spook-show to raise money for the American Psychical Institute and it was really pathetic... He was a great psychical researcher but a godawful magician, fumbling almost every trick he tried."Paul Tabori. (1972).
During the 20th century, Borley became well known for the 'Borley Rectory Affair', involving the supposed haunting of a Victorian rectory (now demolished). Beginning in 1929, psychical researcher Harry Price generated a story that captured the attention of the nation and convinced many of the proof of the permanence of the spirit after death. His supposed activities were reported widely by the press of that time, and Price published several popular books on the subject that brought him considerable fame. After Price's death, the story began to unravel under the scrutiny of experts from the Society for Psychical Research.
The ASSAP was founded on 10 June 1981 by council members of the Society for Psychical Research who were modernisers;Fraser, J. (2010) Ghost Hunting: A Survivors Guide its current president is Lionel Fanthorpe. The previous president was Michael Bentine who had a long-term interest in the subject of the paranormal.Obituary for Michael Bentine, The Independent Founding members included well-known authors Hilary Evans and Jenny Randles as well as Fortean Times editor Bob Rickard, Vernon Harrison and Hugh Pincott (previously secretary and treasurer of the Society for Psychical Research).Hope, V. & Townsend, M. (1999) The Paranormal Investigator's Handbook.
In England, America, France and Germany, Palladino had been caught utilizing tricks. Psychical researchers such as Hereward Carrington who believed some of her phenomena to be genuine, accepted that she would resort to trickery on occasion.Hereward Carrington. (1909). Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena.
In 1936 psychical researcher Nandor Fodor offered money to Duncan if she would be filmed with an infrared camera during a séance; she refused.Ruth Paley, Simon Fowler. (2005). Family Skeletons: Exploring the Lives of our Disreputable Ancestors. The National Archives. p. 220.
Joseph Cecil Maby (1902-1971) was a British biophysicist, dowser and psychical researcher. Maby was born in Natal, South Africa and moved to England as a child. He lived near Cheltenham. He alleged that he had experienced paranormal events at his family's home.
Zuckerman, Solly. (1979). From Apes to Warlords: The Autobiography (1904-1946) of Solly Zuckerman. Hamilton. p. 49. William Howard Livens on 15 November 1932 attended a séance with Schneider and no paranormal phenomenon was observed.Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. 1932.
New Scientist. 16 June. pp. 783–786.Brian Inglis. (1983). Supernormal. New Scientist. 30 June. p. 971.Ruth Brandon. (1983). Prestidigitations. New Scientist. 14 July. p. 139. Inglis described psychical research between the two world wars in his book Science and Parascience (1984).
In Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Psychical Research: A Guide to Its History, Principles & Practices. Aquarian Press. In 1906, James H. Hyslop took up the position as secretary of the recreated organization, with the work being done at his residence in New York City.
Science, technology, and Culture, 1700–1945. Ashgate Publishing. p. 124. Smith did not choose to write widely about spiritualism as he believed it might damage his scientific reputation. He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research from 1882 to 1884.
The oldest spiritualist journal in Britain is known as Light. It was formed in January 1881 by Edmund Rogers and became affiliated with the BNAS and its successor organisations.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
In August 1873, the British National Association of Spiritualists (BNAS) was formed by Thomas Everitt, Edmund Rogers and others at a meeting in Liverpool.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 53.
The Institut Métapsychique International (IMI) is a French parapsychological organization that studies paranormal phenomena. It was created in 1919 by Jean Meyer, Gustav Geley and Professor Rocco Santoliquido.Mauskopf, Seymour H; McVaugh, Michael Rogers. (1980). The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research.
An Examination of the Borley Report. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 55: 66–175. Price's literary executor Paul Tabori and Peter Underwood have also defended Price against accusations of fraud. A similar approach was made by Ivan Banks in 1996.
In 1906, Hyslop criticized the famous experiments of Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner with the medium Henry Slade and pointed out eleven possible sources of error. Psychical researcher Hereward Carrington described Hyslop's criticisms as "very fine".Hereward Carrington. (1907). The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism.
Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle. Prometheus Books. p. 111. His sister, Bridgette, was a Catholic nun. He was a former one year member of the American Society for Psychical Research and a lifelong inquirer into psychic matters.
Henry Slade with Zöllner In 1853, the chemist Robert Hare conducted experiments with mediums and reported positive results. Other researchers such as Frank Podmore highlighted flaws in his experiments, such as lack of controls to prevent trickery.Podmore, Frank. (1897). Studies in Psychical Research.
MacFarland never published another article in the Journal of Parapsychology after the fraud was discovered. Some instances of fraud amongst spiritualist mediums were exposed by early psychical researchers such as Richard Hodgson and Harry Price.Mary Roach. (2010). Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.
The book describes how she developed her psychic Abilities, the experiments she performed with psychical researchers, and her circle. Her last mediumistic séance was held on 1 May 1919, in (Østerbro) Copenhagen, Denmark. She died shortly after that, on 20 July 1919.
Piper about 1910 cost $20.00.Tanner, Amy. (1994). Studies in Spiritism Prometheus Books. Originally published by D. Appleton, 1910 Piper made a fortune from her séances whilst being tested by psychical researchers, she was receiving around $1000 a year for her mediumship services.
This was similar to muscle readers such as Washington Irving Bishop, however he did not need physical contact with his audience. Unlike other mentalists of his era such as The Piddingtons, he claimed genuine psychic abilities.Thouless, Robert Henry. (1963). Experimental Psychical Research.
New Holland Publishers. p. 79. Duncan was later tested by Harry Price at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research; photographs revealed Duncan's ectoplasm to be made from cheesecloth, rubber gloves, and cut-out heads from magazine covers.Simeon Edmunds. (1966). Spiritualism: A Critical Survey.
Harry Price. (1931). Regurgitation and the Duncan Mediumship. (Bulletin I of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 120pp with 44 illustrations.) Price had proven through analysis of a sample of ectoplasm produced by Duncan, that it was made of cheesecloth.Marina Warner. (2008).
By 1925 due to the investigation of Crandon the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) had been taken over by a spiritualist faction. The ASPR championed Crandon and suppressed any reports unfavorable to her.Chéroux, Clément. (2005). The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult.
Dearden was skeptical of claims of psychical phenomena and spiritualism. In his book Devilish But True: The Doctor Looks at Spiritualism (1936), he compared cases of witchcraft to spiritualist mediums. He noted the similarity of hysterical behaviour and hallucinations.Anonymous. (1936). Notes on Books.
Illusionists, such as Joseph Rinn have staged fake séances in which the sitters have claimed to have observed genuine supernatural phenomena.Joseph Rinn. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research. New York: Truth Seeker. pp. 200–05 Albert Moll studied the psychology of séance sitters.
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism. Dover. p. 172. Henry Slade. In Britain, the Society for Psychical Research has investigated mediumship phenomena. Critical SPR investigations into purported mediums and the exposure of fake mediums has led to a number of resignations by Spiritualist members.
Addington Bruce also wrote books. His most successful work was in American history and in popularizing modern psychology and psychical research. Bruce has been described as a publicist for psychology. His books were known to discuss the subconscious and power of suggestion.
The Society for Psychical Research 1882–1982: A History. London: MacDonald & Co. p. 146. Science writer Mary Roach in her book Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2010) favourably mentioned Price's methods and research in debunking the fraudulent medium Helen Duncan.Mary Roach. (2010).
Letter to the Editor. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 50: 45–46. SPR member John L. Randall reviewed the Price and Schneider case and came to the conclusion that the photograph was genuine and that Price had caught Schneider in fraud.
Harry Price. (1931). Regurgitation and the Duncan Mediumship. (Bulletin I of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 120pp with 44 illustrations.) Price had proven through analysis of a sample of ectoplasm produced by Duncan, that it was made of cheesecloth.Marina Warner. (2008).
Sofie Lachapelle. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 131. In 1923 he was exposed as a fraud in a series of séances in Sorbonne in Paris.
Herr Edmund Parish (1861–1916) was a German psychologist and hallucination researcher. Parish is known for producing a dissociation model of hallucinations. Parish was skeptical of parapsychology. He disputed the claims of telepathy made by the members of the Society for Psychical Research.
Weiss narrowed consciousness down to three elements: sensations, images, and feelings. These elements had psychical properties that were able to attribute to physical properties. The elements of physical properties were quality, intensity, extent and duration. Very few psychologists agreed with Weiss' physical elements.
Rigidity was particularly explored in Lewin's views regarding the degree of differentiation among children. He posited that a mentally retarded child can be distinguished from the normal child due to the smaller capacity for dynamic rearrangement in terms of his psychical systems.
Science 9 (205): 18–20. Some scholars, however, criticised Phantasms of the Living for its lack of written testimony and the time elapsed between the occurrence and the report of it being made.Douglas, Alfred. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research.
Psychical Research by W. F. Barrett. International Journal of Ethics. Volume 23, No 2. pp. 239-240. However, in the British Medical Journal the book was criticized for ignoring critical work on the subject and being "a negative assault on scientific method generally".
"Stanhope Templeman Speer". Ancestry. Speer was a spiritualist and friend of the medium William Stainton Moses. In the 1870s, Moses resided with Speer and his wife and tutored their son. Speer was an early member of The Ghost Club and the Society for Psychical Research.
Raymond Lodge (1889–1915) Researchers such as Clodd (1917), Culpin (1920), Hansel (1966) and Moore (1981) who investigated Leonard's mediumship from psychical reports were not convinced she had communicated with spirits.Clodd, Edward. (1917). The Question: A Brief History and Examination of Modern Spiritualism. Chapter Mrs.
Arthur Prince Chattock Obituary. (1934). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 28: 278-279. He died at home in Clifton Bristol in 1934 with Obituaries appearing in the Journal of Institution of Electrical Engineers, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, and Nature.
Wadsworth Publishing Company. p. 28. He became interested in paranormal phenomena in 1921 and served from 1922 to 1927 as a research officer for the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).Raymond Buckland. (2005). The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication.
New Scientist. 10 August. pp. 392–394. Inglis responded claiming Emsley's suggestion was a smear story and that Crookes's mind being affected by thallium poisoning was not true because at the same time as his psychical research he was conducting valuable scientific work.Brian Inglis. (1978).
Kessinger Publishing. p. 652. He was originally investigated by the Danish Society for Psychical Research who produced a favourable report of his mediumship. However, the report was disputed by other researchers. Norwegian investigators suspected Nielsen to be a fraud and investigated him in 1922.
Goligher was born in Belfast. She held séances in her own home with seven of her family members. The psychical researcher and engineer William Jackson Crawford (1881–1920) investigated the mediumship of Goligher and claimed she had levitated the table and produced ectoplasm.Buckland, Raymond. (2005).
He published a scale to assess the kundalini experience with the world-renowned expert on panic attacks, Bronwyn Fox.Thalbourne, M.A., & Fox, B. (1999). Paranormal and mystical experience: The role of panic attacks and Kundalini. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 93, 99-115.
Knowledge of the psychical apparatus was acquired through the study of the development of human beings. Id was the name given to the venerable of these tangible domains. In this domain we find that everything has been inherited, everything that was present at birth.
In 1895, the house was investigated for paranormal activity by the Marquess of Bute and Ada Goodrich Freer on behalf of the Society for Psychical Research. During World War I, the Onslow family created and managed a hospital in Clandon House for the war injured.
A photograph of Carrière taken from the back of the ectoplasm face revealed it to be made from a magazine cut out with the letters "Le Miro". The two- dimensional face had been clipped from the French magazine Le Miroir.Donald West. (1954). Psychical Research Today.
Blackburn's Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed appeared in The Daily News and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 1911. It was re- printed in A Skeptics Handbook of Parapsychology, 1985.Blackburn, Douglas. Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed.
Guinness World Records Limited. p. 57. It operated for only two years, but he later reconstituted it in 1933 in New York City with the assistance of his wife Marie Carrington.Seymour H. Mauskopf, Michael Rogers McVaugh. (1980). The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research.
The International Institute for Psychical Research utilized a séance room for testing spiritualist mediums. In 1935, Lajos Pap a medium famous for producing apports was investigated by Nandor Fodor. He reported that the phenomena was fraudulent and not evidence for the paranormal.Gyimesi, Júlia. (2014).
SPR member John L. Randall reviewed the Price and Schneider case and came to the conclusion the photograph was genuine, Price had caught Rudi in fraud.John L. Randall. (2000). Harry Price: The Case for the Defence. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (Vol.
The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini. Secker & Warburg. p. 265. Magician Fred Keating who had observed Crandon at her house suggested Carrington pretended some of her phenomena baffled him in an attempt to get financial backing for his own psychical laboratory.Christopher, Milbourne. (1975).
Mediums, Mystics & the Occult. Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 189-190. The psychical researcher Hereward Carrington introduced Pecoraro to the spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle in America. Pecoraro who was tied up during a séance by Carrington, managed to impress Doyle by making musical instruments play.
She was also investigated in 1922 and the result of the tests were negative.Harry Price. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green & Co. In 1925, Price investigated Maria Silbert and caught her using her feet and toes to move objects in the séance room.
In 1933 he co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research that cast doubt on the subject and demonstrated fraudulent methods that William Hope and other photographers had utilized.Edmunds, Simeon. (1966). Spiritualism: A Critical Survey. Aquarian Press. p. 116.
With the psychical researcher Hereward Carrington Fodor co-authored Haunted People: Story of the Poltergeist down the Centuries (1951), the book which received positive reviews.Derleth, August. (1952). Haunted People: Story of the Poltergeist Down the Centuries. Western Folklore. Volume. 11, No. 4. pp. 296-297.
Law nº 12.065, de 29/10/2009 - Brazil In 2010, his centenary has been marked by numerous celebrations in Brazil, like two feature films and a special postage stamp.Society for Psychical Research (online). Chico Xavier: Medium of the Century . Visited page in 17/12/1014.
Portrait of Thursby with her Mynah bird. Thursby also became well known for her Mynah bird which was alleged to have sung in five languages English, French, German, Malay, and Chinese.Rinn, Joseph. (1950). Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists.
The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism. Herbert B. Turner & Co. pp. 231-234 Mellon claimed that Frederic W. H. Myers, Sidgwick and other members from the Society for Psychical Research had endorsed her mediumship as genuine. On investigation this claim turned out to be false.
He had initially planned one section of it to be devoted to the study of abnormal psychology and another section to psychic research, believing, as he said, that "at certain points the two fields tend to merge and at others they are widely separated". He became an active member of the Society for Psychical Research and of its American branch, working closely with the secretary of the American group, Richard Hodgson, and with William James. However, the year following Richard Hodgson's death in 1905, the American Society for Psychical Research was dissolved. Hyslop revived ASPR as a section of his institute, and it soon absorbed and replaced the institute altogether.
Another famous thought reader was the magician Stuart Cumberland. He was famous for performing blindfolded feats such as identifying a hidden object in a room that a person had picked out or asking someone to imagine a murder scene and then attempt to read the subject's thoughts and identify the victim and reenact the crime. Cumberland claimed to possess no genuine psychic ability and his thought reading performances could only be demonstrated by holding the hand of his subject to read their muscular movements. He came into dispute with psychical researchers associated with the Society for Psychical Research who were searching for genuine cases of telepathy.
Psychical researcher Eric Dingwall wrote that before attending séances with Palladino in 1908, Baggally "had studied trick methods, performed them himself" and was "almost totally sceptical as to the reality of any supernormal physical phenomena whatsoever."Dingwall, Eric (1962). Very Peculiar People. University Books. p. 201.
Sofie Lachapelle. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 144–145. Lambert who had studied Geley's files on Eva Carrière discovered photographs depicting fraudulent ectoplasm taken by her companion Juliette Bisson.
Graham Nicholls (born 30 July 1975 in London, England) is an 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, The Society for Psychical Research to the Cambridge Union Society.
Joire, Psychical and supernormal phenomena, 1916, pp. 416-418. The nervous force was disputed by other researchers. In 1907, F. J. M. Stratton tested the device and concluded the results were due to the influence of the hands body heat.Stratton F. J. M; Phillips, P. (1906).
"In Rudi's home in Braunau, Vinton found that any of the phenomena were possible because of the cooperation of confederates both in the circle and in the cabinet, combined with the use of reaching rods."Douglas, Alfred. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research.
Rodale Books. p. 62. Harry Price wrote the photographs of her ectoplasm taken with Schrenck-Notzing look artificial and two-dimensional made from cardboard and newspaper portraits and that there were no scientific controls as both her hands were free.Harry Price. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research.
385 However, Kraus had been endorsed by Schrenck-Notzing as genuine. Kraus would later write a manuscript about his mediumship. He admitted that he had set out to deceive Schrenck-Notzing to reveal the inefficiency of psychical research. In 1928 Harry Price obtained the Kraus manuscript.
His cousin once removed, George Richards Minot (1885–1950), named for his great-grandfather George Richards Minot (1758–1802), shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934. Minot was a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research. He later resigned due to its unscientific outlook.
On May 6, 1916 Theodate married 52-year-old John Wallace Riddle, a former American diplomat. Theodate took interest in parapsychology and was a member of the American Society for Psychical Research. She fell out with James H. Hyslop and resigned in 1915.Berger, Arthur. (1988).
Volume 220. p. 505 He had a deep interest in magic and mystery. Hall was a student in psychical research at Trinity College, Cambridge (1954–56). His knowledge of conjuring and magic helped him discover the tricks of mediums, many of whom had been caught in fraud.
A later study, in 1990, failed to indicate any ability to identify events at a level greater than chance.Kappers, J., Akkerman, A. E., Van der Sijde, P. C., & Bierman, J. (1990). Resuming work with Pavel Stepanek. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 56, 138-147.
John Edgar Coover (March 16, 1872 - February 19, 1938), also known as J. E. Coover was an American psychologist and parapsychologist known for his experiments into extrasensory perception.Ogden, R. M. (1919). Review of Experiments in Psychical Research at Leland Stanford University. Psychological Bulletin 16 (10): 363-368.
The Case For And Against Psychical Belief. Clark University p. 307 Joseph McCabe suggested that Goligher had used her feet and toes to levitate the table and move objects in the séance room and compared her fraudulent mediumship to Eusapia Palladino who performed similar tricks.McCabe, Joseph. (1920).
Kerner recorded alleged instances of clairvoyance and prophetic dreams. However, psychical researcher Frank Podmore noted that the "evidence is in all cases inconclusive, and sometimes indicative of collusion with members of the Seeress's family."Podmore, Frank. (1909). Mesmerism and Christian Science: A Short History of Mental Healing.
Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs. pp. 214-217 Psychical researcher Addington Bruce who researched the case suggested that Kerner was a biased witness and easily duped by the paranormal claims of Hauffe.Bruce, Addington. (1908). Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company. pp. 138-142.
Boole was interested in parapsychology and the occult, and was a convinced spiritualist. She was the first female member of the Society for Psychical Research which she joined in 1882. However, being the only female member at the time, she resigned after six months.Haynes, Renee. (1982).
The Society for Psychical Research's Honorary Research Officer V. J. Woolley noted that Bird was an inaccurate reporter, he had made factual errors about a séance sitting in 1923.Polidoro, Massimo. (2001). Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle. Prometheus Books. p. 135.
In 1908, Prince joined the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). In 1915 he left the clergy and became an assistant for his friend James H. Hyslop. When Hyslop died in 1920, he became the research officer and editor for the ASPR Journal and Proceedings.Litvag, Irving. (1972).
HarperCollins Publishers. p. 436 According to the psychical researcher Robert Ashby "[Prince] remained highly skeptical of PK and other physical phenomena, but felt that there was no doubt at all of telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition."Ashby, Robert. (1987). The Ashby Guidebook for Study of the Paranormal.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 45, 307–343.K. Ramakrishna Rao, V. Gowri Rammohan New frontiers of human science: a festschrift for K. Ramakrishna Rao 2002, p. 54Dr. Mehra Shrikhande Paranormal Experiences 2009, p. 90Carroll B. Nash Parapsychology, the science of psiology 1986, p.
A photograph of Carrière taken from the back of the ectoplasm face revealed it was made from a magazine cut out, complete with the letters "Le Miro". The two-dimensional face had been clipped from the French magazine Le Miroir.Donald J. West. (1954). Psychical Research Today.
M. F. Cleugh; Time: And its Importance in Modern Thought, Methuen, 1937.G. N. M. Tyrrell; Science and Psychical Phenomena, New York: Harper, 1938. While some accepted his dream observations and the general thrust of his arguments, the majority rejected his infinite regress as logically flawed.
In 1898, Myers was invited to a series of séances in Paris with Richet. In contrast to the previous séances in which he had observed fraud he claimed to have observed convincing phenomena.Oppenheim, Janet (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914.
The experience is said to have caused her hysteria and mental dissociation.Anderson, Rodger. Psychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies. McFarland. p. 174 In Great Britain, between 2 June and 13 July 1914, Tomczyk was tested in eleven sittings by the Society for Psychical Research.
Signature of Theodore BestermanTheodore Deodatus Nathaniel Besterman (22 November 1904 – 10 November 1976) was a psychical researcher, bibliographer, biographer, and translator. In 1945 he became the first editor of the Journal of Documentation. From the 1950s he devoted himself to studies of the works of Voltaire.
Miller produced 'spirit' materializations in and outside his cabinet during séances. He managed to convince several psychical researchers such as Willie Reichel that the manifestations were genuine. Reichel in his book An Occultist's Travels (1908) described witnessing paranormal phenomena at many séances with Miller.Reichel, Willy. (1908).
Pioneers of the Unseen. Souvenir Press. p. 157. In 1913, Stanisława was investigated by the psychical researcher Albert von Schrenck- Notzing. During the séances a number of flashlight photographs were taken, he published a book on the subject of materializations and declared her ectoplasm to be genuine.
Soal moved to a more statistical and controlled approach, firstly by conducting an experiment in which up to a few hundred persons participated at one time.Soal, S. G. (1932). Experiments in supernormal perception at a distance. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 40, 165-362.
"Grant, John. (2015). Spooky Science: Debunking the Pseudoscience of the Afterlife. Sterling Publishing. pp. 46–49. Biographer Bart Schultz wrote that "Myers was suspected of all manner of sexual quirks and it was alleged that he looked upon psychical research as giving him opportunities for voyeurism.
Barrett helped to publish Frederick Bligh Bond's book Gate of Remembrance (1918) which was based on alleged psychical excavations at Glastonbury Abbey. Barrett endorsed the claims of the book and testified to Bond's sincerity.Asprem, Egil. (2014). The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939.
He studied the medium Leonora Piper, and collaborating with French chemist and psychical researcher René Warcollier in a transatlantic telepathy experiment. From 1921-1925, he served as lecturer in psychology at Columbia University. In 1925, Clark University hosted a symposium on psychical research, and, together with Harvard psychologist William McDougall, Murphy argued for the respect of the field as an academic discipline, while recognizing the difficulties of scientific acceptance and experimentation. From 1925-1929, he continued at Columbia University in the capacity of instructor and assistant professor in psychology. He was re-appointed as Hodgson Fellow at Harvard in 1937. From 1940-1942 he was professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at City College in New York. From 1952, he worked as director of research for the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. He was elected to the presidency of the American Psychological Association in 1944. He subsequently served as the President of the British Society for Psychical Research in 1949 (which he had joined in 1917), and was Director of the Parapsychology Foundation in 1951.
Price made a formal offer to the University of London to equip and endow a Department of Psychical Research, and to loan the equipment of the National Laboratory and its library. The University of London Board of Studies in Psychology responded positively to this proposal. In 1934, the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, which held Price's collection, was reconstituted as the University of London Council for Psychical Investigation with C. E. M. Joad as chairman and with Price as Honorary Secretary and editor, although it was not an official body of the University.Hall (1978) p. 169 In the meantime, in 1927 Price joined the Ghost Club, of which he remained a member until it (temporarily) closed in 1936. In 1927, Price claimed that he had come into possession of Joanna Southcott's box, and arranged to have it opened in the presence of one reluctant prelate (the Bishop of Grantham, not a diocesan bishop but a suffragan of the diocese of Lincoln): it was found to contain only a few oddments and unimportant papers, among them a lottery ticket and a horse-pistol.
The philosopher Antony Flew wrote the verdict seemed to go against Carington's hypothesis because it "commits him to saying that the various sub-laws of association (those of Recency, Repetition, etc.) will apply to telepathic association also."Flew, Antony. (1953). A New Approach To Psychical Research. Watts & Co. p.
He help to organize a spiritualists defense fund to cover Slade's legal costs. Because of this he received great criticism from the medical community. Wyld was a vice-president for the British National Association of Spiritualists and an early member of the Society for Psychical Research.McCorristine, Shane. (2010).
In 1898, Myers was invited to a series of séances in Paris with Charles Richet. In contrast to the previous séances in which he had observed fraud, he now claimed to have observed convincing phenomena.Janet Oppenheim. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914.
His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, Sir James Dewar, John Hutton Balfour and Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan. In 1882 he was further elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Weldon was interested in parapsychology, and was a spiritualist and a member of the Society for Psychical Research.
"An investigation by Harry Price and other members of the Society for Psychical Research, to which he belonged at the time, showed that she certainly did use cheesecloth on occasion."Ruth Paley, Simon Fowler. (2005). Family Skeletons: Exploring the Lives of our Disreputable Ancestors. The National Archives. p. 220.
When he was 13, he was educated at St. Charles' College. When he left school to become a clerk he wrote verse in his spare time. In 1863 Waite's mother converted to Catholicism. The death of his sister Frederika Waite in 1874 soon attracted him into psychical research.
Psychologist Ray Hyman has noted that despite how one may consider the allegations, "there is no question that Hall has unearthed much material that throws strong suspicions on Crookes's handling of this investigation."Hyman, Ray. (1989). The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Prometheus Books. p. 209.
Officers for the SPR (1884–1885) It was William Fletcher Barrett's visit to America that ultimately led to the formation of the American Society for Psychical Research in December, 1884.Fichman, Martin. (2004). An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace. University of Chicago Press. p. 111.
Sherman's novel The Green Man was published in the magazine Amazing Stories during 1946. One of Sherman's relatively few mysteries, "The Up And Up", was the cover story for the August 1947 issue of Mammoth Detective. Harold Morrow Sherman (1898-1987) was an American author, lecturer and psychical researcher.
Kripal's 2011 book traces the history of psychic phenomena over the last two centuries. The book profiles four writers: the British psychical researcher F. W. H. Myers, the American anomalist writer and humorist Charles Fort, the astronomer, computer scientist, and ufologist Jacques Vallee, and the French philosopher Bertrand Méheust.
Chenoweth founded the Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a member of the Society for Psychical Research in London. She was author of Stories of the Saints (1880), Child Life in China (1882) and Colonel John Hazeltine, an Undistinguished Citizen (1900).
Price invented and used a piece of apparatus known as a voice control recorder and proved that all the voices were those of Munnings. Munnings admitted fraud and sold his confessions to a Sunday newspaper.Price, Harry. (1939). Chapter The Mechanics of Spiritualism in Fifty Years of Psychical Research.
Evans, Henry R. (1906). The Old and New Magic. The Open Court Publishing Company. p. 24 Psychical researcher Hereward Carrington in his book The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism (1907) revealed fraudulent methods (with diagrams of the rope tricks) that Slade may have utilized in the experiments.Carrington, Hereward. (1907).
The term psychic apparatus (also psychical apparatus, mental apparatus) denotes a central, theoretic construct of Freudian metapsychology, wherein an implicit intake and processing of information takes place, and thereby acts on said information in pursuit of pleasure by way of resolving tension through the reactional discharge of “instinctual impulses”.
Troland took interest in psychical research and had carried out experiments in telepathy at Harvard University which were reported in 1917.Christopher, Milbourne. (1971). ESP, Seers & Psychics. Crowell. p. 19. Berger, Arthur S. (1988). Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1897. McFarland. p. 66.
He served as President of the Society for Psychical Research from 1942 to 1944. Thouless identified as a "Christian psychologist". He questioned the alleged visions of Jesus Christ that the mystic Julian of Norwich reported to have experienced and concluded they were the result of hallucinations.Metzger, David. (1998).
Bird, J(ames) Malcolm (1886-1964). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, Gale Group, 2001. His experiences are mentioned in his book My Psychic Adventures (1924). Bird has drawn criticism from magician Harry Houdini and the psychical researcher Walter Franklin Prince for his conduct in the investigation of Mina Crandon.
Walter Franklin Prince (22 April 1863 – 7 August 1934) was an American parapsychologist and founder of the Boston Society for Psychical Research in Boston.Berger, Arthur S. (1988). Walter Franklin Prince: A Portrait. In Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1987. McFarland. pp. 75-108.
By 1925 due to the investigation of Mina Crandon the American Society for Psychical Research had been taken over by a spiritualist faction. The ASPR championed Crandon and suppressed any reports unfavourable to her.Chéroux, Clément. (2005). The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult. Yale University Press. p. 219.
Fred P. Evans Fred P. Evans (born 1862) was a British spiritualist medium. He was born in Liverpool on 9 June 1862. His great grandfather was the Welsh social reformer Robert Owen. As a young man, Evans worked as a sailor and claimed to have experienced strange psychical events.
In the 1880s, the Society investigated apparitional experiences and hallucinations in the sane. Among the first important works was the two-volume publication in 1886, Phantasms of the Living which was largely criticized by scholars.Douglas, Alfred. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research. Overlook Press. p. 76.
Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Gale Research Company. p. 436. For example, a sitter Edward Trusted Bennett from the Society for Psychical Research noted that "the seances at Mr. Everitt's were conducted in an exclusively religious tone, and afforded no opportunity for obtaining scientific evidence."Bennett, Edward T. (1907).
Rodale Books. p. 59. In 1909, Béraud changed her name to Eva Carrière (Eva C) to hide the fraud of her past and began a new career as a psychic.Sofie Lachapelle. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931.
The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, C. 1870-1939. Rodopi. pp. 192-193. He was the author of Die Besessenheit (1921), a book on demonic possession. It was translated into English in 1966. William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, was influenced by the book.
Mina "Margery" Crandon (1888–November 1, 1941) was a well known psychical medium who claimed that she channeled her dead brother, Walter Stinson. Investigators who studied Crandon concluded that she had no genuine paranormal ability, and others detected in her outright deception.Edmunds, Simeon. (1966). Spiritualism: A Critical Survey.
Kessinger Publishing. p. 114. In 1876, Eglinton was exposed as a fraud when the psychical researcher Thomas Colley seized the "spirit" materialization known as "Abdullah" and cut off a portion of its cloak. It was discovered that the cut piece matched a cloth found in Eglinton's suitcase.Joseph McCabe. (1920).
Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British psychic researcher and author, who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and his exposing fraudulent spiritualist mediums. He is best known for his well-publicized investigation of the purportedly haunted Borley Rectory in Essex, England.
Hall (1978) pp. 136–153 In 1923, Price exposed the medium Jan Guzyk, according to Price the "man was clever, especially with his feet, which were almost as useful to him as his hands in producing phenomena."Harry Price. (1942). Search for truth: My Life for Psychical Research.
The History of Spiritualism Vol II Bayfield was interested in parapsychology and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research. He was a friend of William F. Barrett and proofread his book On the Threshold of the Unseen.Barrett, William F. (1917). On the Threshold of the Unseen.
The Thought Reader Craze: Victorian Science at the Enchanted Boundary. McFarland. pp. 139–140. Psychical researcher Thomas Walker Mitchell commented that "the chief aim of [the] book was to produce a cumulative quasi-statistical proof of telepathy."Mitchell, Thomas Walker. (1923). Phantasms of the Living. Nature 111: 211–212.
He dismissed objections to alleged inadequacies in their representation of the historical background of the debate by saying that "this material was intended only to provide general background for readers who may need it, such as students, and not as an in-depth discussion of the history of psychology or the philosophy of mind." He further said that the critics' "offhand, often sarcastic dismissal cannot nullify thousands of experimental and case studies published in peer-reviewed journals" in psychical research but also added that "the empirical inadequacies of physicalism are evident whether one takes the evidence from psychical research seriously or not."Edward F. Kelly. Yes, Irreducible. American Journal of Psychology, Volume 124, Number 1, Spring 2011, pp.
Stuard C. Cumberland (1896) Stuart Cumberland (1857-1922) was an English mentalist known for his demonstrations of "thought reading". Cumberland was famous for performing blindfolded feats such as identifying a hidden object in a room that a person had picked out or asking someone to imagine a murder scene and then attempt to read the subject's thoughts and identify the victim and re-enact the crime. Cumberland claimed to possess no genuine psychic ability and his thought reading performances could only be demonstrated by holding the hand of his subject to read their muscular movements. He came into dispute with psychical researchers associated with the Society for Psychical Research who were searching for genuine cases of telepathy.
As a teenager, Feilding worked as a midshipman for the Royal Navy during the Egyptian campaign in 1882. He was educated at Oscott College and attended Trinity College, Cambridge in 1887, he obtained his bachelors of law degree in 1890.Kaczynski, Richard. (2010). Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley. North Atlantic Books. pp. 187–188. Feilding was a Catholic, he began his interest in psychical research from his visit to Lourdes in 1892."Francis Henry Everard Feilding (1867–1936)". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. He was secretary of the Society for Psychical Research from 1903 to 1920. His father was Rudolph Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh and his brother Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh.
36, 92Joire, Paul. Psychical and supernormal phenomena: their observation and experimentation (New York : Frederick A. Stokes, 1916) p. 14 ff. He investigated other "magnetic" phenomena such as the transference of disease from one organism to another,See, for example, Augusta, Lady Gregory's Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland p.
He also wrote 3 books The Cheltenham Ghost, The Whole Case for Survival and Death is Not the End. In 1938 psychical researcher Nandor Fodor was attacked in the Psychic News newspaper for his skeptical evaluation of the Thornton Heath poltergeist case. Fodor sued the newspaper for libel.Guiley, Rosemary. (1994).
Psychical researcher Harry Price exposed medium Helen Duncan's fraudulent techniques by proving, through analysis of a sample of ectoplasm produced by Duncan, that it was cheesecloth that she had swallowed and regurgitated.Marina Warner. (2006). Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press. p. 299.
He argued that Warcollier's method was sub-optimal as the targets were not sufficiently selected at random, and correspondences between targets and responses were identified without formal and objective limitations.Soal, S. G. (1932). Experiments in supernormal perception at a distance. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 40, 165-362.
Rushton held an interest in parapsychology. From 1969–1971 he was the President of the Society for Psychical Research. He was known for suggesting natural explanations for alleged paranormal phenomena. He revealed how the device of Ted Serios known as a "gizmo" could have been utilized to produce fraudulent psychic photographs.
Dodd, Mead and Company. p. 211. In 1934 Garrett voluntarily submitted herself to an analysis by the psychologist William Brown and by word-association tests by the psychical researcher Whately Carington. The tests had proven that her controls were secondary personalities from her subconscious, organised around repressed material.Hornell Hart. (1959).
Transaction Publishers. p. 53. "The American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), which James helped found in 1884, was initially populated by a number of early psychologists. These included James's student G. Stanley Hall, as well as James Mark Baldwin, Joseph Jastrow, and Christine Ladd-Franklin."Pickren, Wade; Rutherford, Alexandra. (2010).
Ducasse wrote on parapsychology. He joined the American Society for Psychical Research in 1951 and served a term as vice president beginning in 1966. His book A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death is a philosophical attempt to examine the idea of life after death.Flew, Antony. (1962).
Needs can be objective and physical, such as the need for food, or psychical and subjective, such as the need for self-esteem. Needs and wants are a matter of interest in, and form a common substrate for, the fields of philosophy, biology, psychology, social science, economics, marketing and politics.
Journal of Religion and Psychical Research, Volume 18, Number 3:141–48. 1995. The manifestos do not elaborate extensively on the matter, but clearly combine references to Kabbalah, Hermeticism, alchemy, and Christian mysticism.Martin, Pierre. Lodges, Orders and the Rosicross: Rosicrucianism in Lodges, Orders and Initiating Societies since the early 16th century.
Price wrote down every word that was attributed to Arditi and they were found to be word-for-word matches in an Italian phrase-book.Price, Harry. (1942). Search For Truth: My Life For Psychical Research. Collins. p. 203 Price also discovered that Valiantine had studied the telephone directory to obtain information.
But he still gets facts wrong in this book, for instance attributing the origin of the idea for the movie Ghostbusters to Harold Ramis, when it was Dan Aykroyd who wrote the original script, inspired by an article he read in The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
In 1968, Tart conducted an Out-of-body experience (OBE) experiment with a subject known as Miss Z for four nights in his sleep laboratory.Charles Tart. (1968). A Psychophysiological Study of Out- of-the-Body Experiences in a Selected Subject. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 62: 3-27.
All apparent cases were attributed to fraud, suggestion, unconscious cues or psychological factors.Wolffram, Heather. (2009). The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, C. 1870-1939. Rodopi. pp. 83-130. Moll wrote that practices such as Christian Science, Spiritualism and occultism were the result of fraud and hypnotic suggestion.
He defended the Bangs Sisters and even stated that the psychical investigator Hereward Carrington had never visited their house or exposed their tricks. After Carrington gave incontrovertible evidence that he had visited their house and caught them in fraud, Moore had to retract his charges.Tabori, Paul. (1972). Pioneers of the Unseen.
111 The psychical distance construct has been used as an intercultural theme by the arts in the study of creative detachment between East and West.Odin 2001 Despite such cameo appearances in other fields, the concept has been essentially "operationalised" by business with the marketing function acting as the chief curator.
Gauld was born in Portland, Dorset. In the late 1950s, he attended Harvard University. He obtained an M.S. in 1958 and a PhD in 1962 from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He taught psychology at the University of Nottingham and was the President of the Society for Psychical Research from 1989 to 1992.
Marriott became known for publicising a rare private catalogue of fake spiritualist medium equipment titled Gambols with the Ghosts: Mind Reading, Spiritualistic Effects, Mental and Psychical Phenomena and Horoscopy, issued by Ralph E. Sylvestre in 1901. It was designed for private circulation amongst fraudulent mediums.Haining, Peter. (1974). Ghosts: The Illustrated History.
Yale University Press. In response, Walter Franklin Prince who was the Society's research officer resigned to establish the Boston Society for Psychical Research. Prince was accused by supporters of Crandon of being biased against paranormal phenomena. Crandon's husband was known for displaying nude photographs of her in her mediumship sessions.
Anatomy of a Seance: A History of Spirit Communication in Central Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 129-160. Pincock originally endorsed Cartheuser as a genuine medium but later broke connections, suggesting that he had turned his mediumship into a financial scheme. Cartheuser was investigated by the psychical researcher Hereward Carrington.
He wrote seven editions of the highly influential textbook, Psycho-Therapeutics: Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion. He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research from 1889 to 1922, investigated hypnotic phenomena as chair of the organisation's Hypnotism committee and sat on the council from 1897 till his retirement.
Du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Seuil. p. 135 He became well known as an exposer of fraudulent mediums and psychics. Heuzé and a professional illusionist known as Professor Dicksonn suspected that the Polish medium Jan Guzyk was fraudulent and had duped psychical researchers such as Gustav Geley.Brower, M. Brady. (2010).
Transactions of the Fourth International Congress for Psychical Research. Athens, 1930. Feilding took a blood sample and this time the results showed it was human blood. He did not come to any definite conclusion but because of the evidence suggestive of fraud, sceptics have dismissed the case as a hoax.
A study of dreams. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 26, Part 47, pp. 431-461. who studied his own dreams of this type. The word ‘lucid’ refers to the fact that the subject has achieved insight into his or her condition, rather than the perceptual quality of the experience.
Bird, J. Malcolm. (1924). My Psychic Adventures. New York: Scientific American Publishing Company. pp. 271-272 James H. Hyslop of the American Society for Psychical Research concluded after attending 70 sittings that Besinnet was responsible for the all phenomena during the séances but her trance control was a "secondary personality".
Prometheus Books. pp. 137-144. In 1925, his report about these séances was published in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. However, it was discovered that fraud was involved with the case. Davis was alive and Soal altered the records of the sittings after checking out the house.
H. G. Wells's World Reborn: The Outline of History and Its Companions. Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corp. pp. 24-25. In 1934, he joined the International Institute for Psychical Research but resigned after a few months due to its members' spiritualist bias and non- scientific approach to the subject.Blow to Psychic Research Body.
The club was revived on All Saints Day 1882 by the medium Stainton Moses and Alaric Alfred Watts. initially claiming to be the original founders, without acknowledging its origins. In 1882, the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), with whom there was an initial overlap, was founded at a similar time.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988).
Crystal gazing has been an active topic of research. Organisations like the Society for Psychical Research has published research on the topic. While there is no doubt that many people see visions in crystal balls, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that visions have any clairvoyant content.De Camp, Lyon Sprague. (1980).
The Widow of Borley: A Psychical Investigation. Duckworth. p. 54. "Eric J. Dingwall, an academic in charge of the restricted collection (dirty books) at the British Library who rejoiced in the nickname Dirty Ding."Jo Manning. (2005). My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Royal Courtesan.
From September 2005 until 2010, Sheldrake was director of the Perrott–Warrick Project for psychical research for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. As of 2014, he was a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California and a fellow of Schumacher College in Devon, England.
In 1934 the BSPR published Extrasensory PerceptionJoseph Banks Rhine. (1934) Extra-Sensory Perception. Boston: Boston Society for Psychic Research. by their member Joseph Banks Rhine, who introduced the term ESP to English, and the methodology of modern parapsychology, with its quantitative research and laboratory based approach, as distinct from the older psychical research.
William James on Psychical Research. Viking Press. p. 41 However, James did not believe that Piper was in contact with spirits. After evaluating sixty-nine reports of Piper's mediumship he considered the hypothesis of telepathy as well as Piper obtaining information about her sitters by natural means such as her memory recalling information.
In 1969 the association became formally affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The work of the association is reported in the Journal of Parapsychology and the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. The current president of the PA is American clinical psychologist James C. Carpenter.
In 1964 Barbara Mertz, reflecting the views of the scientific establishment, reported another term for pyramidologists: The Toronto Society for Psychical Research organized a research team consisting of Allan Alter (B.Sc. Phm) and Dale Simmons (Dip. Engr. Tech) to explore claims made in Pyramid Power literature that pyramids could better preserve organic matter.
Houdini: A Pictorial Biography, Including More Than 250 Illustrations. Random House Value Publishing. p. 127. Psychical researcher Harry Price described the test séance: > At the final sitting, in complete darkness, on May 26, 1923, special > apparatus was installed. This was an electrical circuit which included the > chair on which the medium sat.
According to the psychical researcher J. Malcolm Bird, during a meeting Houdini and Carrington's differences emerged and they argued "well into the night". Historian Ruth Brandon has described Carrington and Houdini as "old enemies", noting their differences of opinion on the Crandon case.Ruth Brandon. (1993). The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini.
Freer was involved in the investigation of Ballechin House by the Society for Psychical Research, her report being published jointly by herself and the Marquess of Bute. Her work was strongly criticised by J. Callendar Ross in The Times in 1897, and led to a controversy over the bona fides of the investigators.
International Journal of Ethics. Vol. 14, No. 2. pp. 220-227.Leuba, James H. (1904). Rejoinder to Prof. Hyslop. International Journal of Ethics. Vol. 14, No. 2. pp. 227-229. Richard Hodgson was one of the very few psychical researchers that believed Piper was in contact with spirits.Bell, Clark; Hudson, Thomson Jay. (1904).
Also in 1954, Rudolf Lambert, an SPR member, published details of fraud which had been covered up by many early members of the Institute Metapsychique International (IMI).Sofie Lachapelle. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 144-145.
Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena. Munn & Company. pp. 105–06 Eva Carrière with cardboard cut out figure King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The British medium Francis Ward Monck was investigated by psychical researchers and discovered to be a fraud. On November 3, 1876 during the séance a sitter demanded that Monck be searched.
A Memorial for National Prohibition: With the Names of One Thousand Signers. Pilgrim Press, 1917. p. 23The New Department of Psychology. Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 20, 1919. p. 414 McComas was a member of the American Society for Psychical Research, and took interest in exposing the fraud and trickery of mediums.Polidoro, Massimo. (2001).
806 Schneider claimed he could levitate objects but according to Price a photograph taken on 28 April 1932 showed that Schneider had managed to free his arm to move a handkerchief from the table. After this, many scientists considered Schneider to be exposed as a fraud.Harry Price. (2003). Fifty Years of Psychical Research.
Hill was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Thornton Grammar School. He worked as a business manager until he suffered ill health. He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research (1927–1935) and was known for his writings on parapsychology and spiritualism."John Arthur Hill (1872-1951)".
Gilbert Murray conducted early telepathy experiments. In the late 19th century the Creery Sisters (Mary, Alice, Maud, Kathleen, and Emily) were tested by the Society for Psychical Research and believed to have genuine psychic ability. However, during a later experiment they were caught utilizing signal codes and they confessed to fraud.Ray Hyman. (1989).
Alfred Douglas. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research. Overlook Press. p. 201. In his book The Riddle of Spiritualism (1927) Palmer came to the conclusion that most mediumship and phenomena observed in the séance is the result of fraud, however, he believed telepathy to explain some cases of mental mediumship.
In The Personality Of Man. Penguin Books. p. 217 Tyrrell created the term out-of-body experience in his book Apparitions. A review in Nature for Science and Psychical Phenomena praised Tyrrell for his "obvious sincerity" but suggested the book was "full of flaws" which aroused suspicion of Tyrrell's critical faculties.Anonymous. (1939).
He was an original member of the Metaphysical Society (1869). He was an anti-vivisectionist, and a member of the Royal Commission (1875) on that subject, which led to the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876. Hutton took interest in parapsychology. He was the vice present of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882.
Their animals are still inside, so what do they do now? They attempt to get inside the school, but fail. They find out that the school is being used for the "Study of Psychical Philosophy" group. The leader of the group goes down to the cellar, hearing the parrot, believing it is an apparition.
Spiritualism and the New Psychology: An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge. Edward Arnold, London. pp. 143–149 Laura Finch, editor of the Annals of Psychical Science, wrote in 1909 that Palladino had "erotic tendencies" and some of her male séance sitters were deluded or "glamoured" by her presence.
It is very difficult to reconcile these findings with a > Spiritualistic interpretation.West, Donald. (1954). Psychical Research > Today. Duckworth. p. 60 Although Lodge was convinced that Leonard's spirit control had communicated with his son, he admitted a good deal of the information was nonsense and suggested that Feda picked it up from a séance sitter.
The same year, a study by the Boston Society for Psychical Research concluded that Chaplin was "an American obsession". The actress Minnie Maddern Fiske wrote that "a constantly increasing body of cultured, artistic people are beginning to regard the young English buffoon, Charles Chaplin, as an extraordinary artist, as well as a comic genius".
He became increasingly interested in parapsychology and became connected with the Society for Psychical Research in London."Raynor Carey Johnson", Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Johnson's religious background led to work in Australia, where he was master of the Methodist Queen's College at the University of Melbourne from 1934 to 1964."Former Heads of Colleges" .
Aunt Emily is interested in psychical research, and another aunt, Mrs. Pigott, owns a cat in Maiden Eggesford; this cat plays a major role in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Jeeves occasionally references an aunt without naming her, including an aunt who read Oliver Wendell Holmes to him when he was young.Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 131.
Trevor. H. Hall Trevor Henry Hall (1910–1991) was a British author, surveyor, and sceptic of paranormal phenomena.Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Hall made controversial claims regarding early members of the Society for Psychical Research. His books caused a heated controversy within the parapsychology community.Hövelmann. Gerd H; Truzzi, Marcello; Hoebens, Piet Hein. (1985).
Honorton believed that by reducing the ordinary sensory input, psi conductive states may be enhanced and psi-mediated information could be transmitted. Since the first full experiment was published by Honorton and Sharon Harper in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1974, the Ganzfeld has remained a mainstay of parapsychological research.
He contributed to The North American Review and was a member of the American Philosophical Association, American Psychology Society and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Hoffman's Psychology and Common Life (1903) received mixed reviews, a criticism was its overemphasise on psychical research.Pillsbury, W. B. (1904). Reviewed Work: Psychology and Common Life by Frank Sargent Hoffman.
"The 'unhaunted' Ballechin House". Perthshire Diary. The SPR later removed material from a volume of their Proceedings on the investigation and denounced Freer. Psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers who was originally supportive of the investigation wrote in a letter to The Times he "greatly doubt[ed] whether there was anything supernormal" at the house.
She was also investigated in 1922 and the result of the tests were negative.Harry Price. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green & Co. In 1954, Donald West wrote that Carrière's ectoplasm was made of cut-out paper faces from newspapers and magazines, on which fold marks could sometimes be seen from the photographs.
The Rise of Victorian Spiritualism. Routledge. p. 16 In 1876, William Eglinton was exposed as a fraud when the psychical researcher Thomas Colley seized a "spirit" materialization in his séance and cut off a portion of its cloak. It was discovered that the cut piece matched a cloth found in Eglinton's suitcase.Joseph McCabe. (1920).
She authored Leonard and Soule Experiments (1929). Gardner Murphy commented that "Her combination of unfailing enthusiasm for the highest quality research and solid skepticism regarding unsound methods made her a precious collaborator." Psychical researcher G. N. M. Tyrrell wrote that Allison was a "very experienced and scientifically cautious investigator."Tyrrell, G. N. M. (1961).
In the séance Valiantine claimed to have contacted the "spirit" of the composer Luigi Arditi , speaking in Italian. Price wrote down every word that was attributed to Arditi and they were found to be word-for-word matches in an Italian phrase-book.Harry Price. (1942). Search For Truth: My Life For Psychical Research. Collins. p.
Guzyk would use his elbows and legs to move objects around the room and touch the sitters. He was caught cheating by the psychical researcher Harry Price. According to Price the "man was clever, especially with his feet, which were almost as useful to him as his hands in producing phenomena."Harry Price. (1942).
Between 1882 and 1902, he published a series of volumes known as La Bibliothèque Diabolique, in these he re-evaluated historical cases of possession and witchcraft in favour for pathological explanations.Lachapelle. Sofie (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 62.
Later, Hayami became president of Keijō Imperial University. Tomokichi Fukurai, another of Motora's students, attained short- lived recognition in the field but is mostly known for his discredited work in parapsychology. Fukurai was hired to teach abnormal psychology at Tokyo Imperial University. Gradually, he became more interested in studying psychical phenomena such as clairvoyance.
After a short illness he died at 25 Suffolk Street, Haymarket, London, on 10 Dec. 1871, aged 77. His book On the Phenomena of Dreams, and Other Transient Illusions (1832), was an early work that attempted to find medical explanations for dreams and psychical experiences."On the Phenomena of Dreams, and Other Transient Illusions".
Feilding was a friend of the neurologist Henry Head who he attempted to get involved with psychical research.Jacyna, L. S. (2016). Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Henry Head. Routledge. pp. 57–58. He invited Head to a "ghost hunt" at an alleged haunted house known as "Pickpocket Hall" on his brother's estate in Pantasaph.
Besinnet was known for materializing 'phantom' faces, producing voices and 'psychic' lights in her séances. Psychical researchers were convinced that all her phenomena were fraudulent but some suggested she may have been in a dissociated state. Researchers found the phantom faces suspicious, commenting that they had a strong resemblance to her own face.Polidoro, Massimo. (2001).
He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained an M.D. in 1906. Mitchell wrote on medical psychology and psychopathology. He was a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Psycho-Medical Society. He was also member of the Society for Psychical Research and was elected as President for the year 1922.
Because he was skeptical of the case, Fodor was heavily criticized by spiritualists and was dismissed from his post at the International Institute for Psychical Research. Findlay, the founder of the Institute, did not approve of his research and resigned. Fodor was attacked in the Spiritualist newspaper, Psychic News which he sued for libel.
The researcher Trevor H. Hall argued that Myers had an affair with the medium Ada Goodrich Freer.Trevor H. Hall. (1980). The Strange Story of Ada Goodrich Freer. Duckworth. pp. 35–37. However, Trevor Hamilton dismissed this and suggested that Freer was simply using her acquaintance with Myers to gain status in the psychical research movement.
210 In 1907, Palladino was found using a strand of her hair to move an object toward herself and it was noted by investigators that the objects were not outside of her easy reach.Sofie Lachapelle. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 82.
Heywood was born in Gibraltar, the daughter of Coote Hedley and his wife Anna, and attended the University of London. In 1938, Heywood joined the Society for Psychical Research. She is most well known for her book The Sixth Sense (1959) and her autobiography, The Infinite Hive (1964). Heywood would later become the Vice- President of the SPR.
The philosopher Antony Flew commented that Leonard's references to books and pages were imprecise.Flew, Antony. (1953). A New Approach To Psychical Research. Watts & Co. p. 47 Charles Richet who studied the alleged communications in Raymond concluded that autosuggestion was the likeliest explanation for the information gathered by Leonard and her spirit control "Feda" was a secondary personality.
Hearne's EOG experiment was formally recognized through publication in the journal for The Society for Psychical Research. Lucid dreaming was subsequently researched by asking dreamers to perform pre-determined physical responses while experiencing a dream, including eye movement signals. In 1980, Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University developed such techniques as part of his doctoral dissertation.Laberge, S. (1980).
During the séance Truesdell observed Slade using his foot to move objects under the table, and writing on a slate.Carl Murchison. (1927). The Case For And Against Psychical Belief. Clark University. p. 242 In a séance Stanley LeFevre Krebs employed a secret mirror and caught Slade swapping slates and hiding them in the back of his chair.Gordon Stein. (1996).
A Study Of Psychical Research. British Medical Journal 1 (2667): 308-309. It was also positively reviewed in The Lancet which concluded "It is decidedly a book to be read by all who are interested in human psychology; and every practitioner of medicine ought to place himself in this category."Anonymous. The Evidence for the Supernatural.
The Search for Psychic Power: ESP and Parapsychology Revisited. Prometheus Books. p. 245. The psychical researchers Eric Dingwall and Harry Price re- published an anonymous work written by a former medium entitled Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922) which exposed the tricks of mediumship and the fraudulent methods of producing "spirit hands".Eric Dingwall, Harry Price. (1922).
Siegel, R. K., & Hirschman, A. E. (1983). Bozzano and the First Classification of Deathbed Visions: A Historical Note and Translation. Anabiosis 3: 195-201. Bozzano defended the medium William Stainton Moses from allegations of fraud by Frank Podmore in a paper A Defence of the Memory of William Stainton Moses (The Annals of Psychical Science, 1905).
Longmans, Green & Co. In 1920 Carrière was investigated by the Society for Psychical Research in London. An analysis of her ectoplasm revealed it to be made of chewed paper. She was also investigated in 1922 and the results of the tests were negative. Schrenck-Notzing admitted that on several occasions Carrière deceptively smuggled pins into the séance room.
In 1954, the SPR member Rudolf Lambert published a report revealing details about a case of fraud that was covered up by many early members of the Institute Metapsychique International (IMI).Sofie Lachapelle. (2011). Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853–1931. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 144–145.
"Rawcliffe, Donovan. (1988). Occult and Supernatural Phenomena. Dover Publications. p. 313. "Rudi, and his brother Willi, had been repeatedly and comprehensively exposed as fraudulent tricksters, yet such is the faith of those imbued with a penchant for the mysterious that both spiritualists and psychical researchers alike continued to believe in the possibility of their supernatural powers.
After failing his army entrance exam, he was sent to a private crammer in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which he never sat. During his two years in London he came into contact with people interested in the study of psychical phenomena.H.d.R. [Memoir of Haggard]. In: Haggard, H. Rider (1957) Ayesha.
However, many critics did not take it seriously on the grounds of the implausibilities and inconsistencies that it contained. A review of the book by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research suggested that the women had misinterpreted normal events that they had experienced.The review is reprinted in .Goodman, Dena; Kaiser, Thomas E. (2003).
He published a work on people who enter trance states (Trance: A Natural History of Altered States of Mind) and his last work, written as a tribute to Koestler dealt with the subject of synchronicity. It was entitled Coincidence: A Matter of Chance or Synchronicity?. Inglis was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.Arne Hessenbruch. (2000).
Cambridge University Press. pp. 305–306 Garrett elicited controversy after the R101 crash, when she held a series of séances at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research claiming to be in contact with victims of the disaster. John Booth, and others, investigated her claims, and found them to be valueless, easily explainable, or the result of fraud.John Booth. (1986).
Hand mould from a Kluski seance. Kluski was born in Warsaw. According to French psychical researcher Gustav Geley, Kluski's claimed psychic powers manifested themselves during childhood and after undergoing a psychological change he became Franek Kluski. Kluski's powers during séances were said to include physical manifestation of human limbs and various animals.Geley, Gustav; Brath, Stanley De. (2003).
In his book The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney (1964), Hall made the claim that Edmund Gurney committed suicide after discovering the frauds of Douglas Blackburn and George Albert Smith. This has been strongly contested by biographer Trevor Hamilton and the psychical researcher Alan Gauld.Hayward, Rhodri. (2007). Resisting History: Religious Transcendence and the Invention of the Unconscious.
In 1889, Fullerton, James and Josiah Royce were Vice-Presidents and Samuel Pierpont Langley served as President. In 1889, a financial crisis forced the ASPR to become a branch of the Society for Psychical Research, and Simon Newcomb and others left.Deborah Blum. (2006). Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death.
The Boston Society for Psychical Research (BSPR) was founded in April 1925 by former research officer Walter Franklin Prince of the ASPR. Other founding members were William McDougall, Lydia W. Allison and Elwood Worcester. They were alarmed by the ASPR support for the purported medium Margery (Mina Crandon) and suppressing any reports unfavourable to her.Williams, William F. (2000).
He received a reply signed by Jane from the sisters. Psychical researcher Paul Tabori noted that Carrington "also analysed their way of producing 'spirit paintings' or 'portraits'. The ladies simply substituted one canvas for another, under the cover of their voluminous dress, the table or window-curtains." The Bangs sisters were defended by the spiritualist writer William Usborne Moore.
Three-experimenter ESP tests of Štěpánek during his 1968 visit to Charlottesville. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 64, 18-39. however, the effect completely disappeared when the envelopes were put inside a rigid box, and Štěpánek was never prevented from handling the objects, which critics claim as evidence that tactile stimuli were creeping through.
Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists. Truth Seeker Company. pp. 134-142 Science writer Martin Gardner wrote that Reese was an expert mentalist no different from stage magicians of the period such as Joseph Dunninger but managed to fool a number of people into believing he was a genuine psychic.Gardner, Martin. (1957).
Samuel Soal wrote that Forthuny's work was "not always above suspicion." During an anonymous sitting in 1929, Forthuny had pretended to obtain his name by automatic writing but it was discovered that he previously attended lunch with psychical researchers Eleanor Sidgwick and V. J. Woolley who told him the afternoon sitter was Soal.Soal, Samuel. Spiritualism. In Julian Franklyn.
She died in Bray, on 17 April 1917. In its glowing obituary (18 April, 1917) The Irish Times reported nothing of her health, nor a cause of death. Barlow was a member of the Society for Psychical Research for more than 25 years. Shortly before her death, she was elected to its Committee of Reference and Publication.
Sinel was also interested in psychical research. He wrote the book The Sixth Sense (1927), which described his own experiments in telepathy. Sinel stated that he believed psychic phenomena to be result of the pineal body. A review in The Quarterly Review of Biology described it as "an entertaining little book... [but] very weak in spots."Anonymous. (1928).
In 1957, Osis became the director of the Parapsychology Foundation in New York, being elected as president in 1961. In 1962, he began working with the American Society for Psychical Research, work which continued for many years. In 1971, he and Haraldsson co-authored the book At the Hour of Death, describing the results of their research.
14 Although skeptical of extrasensory perception and alleged paranormal phenomena he believed the subject was worthy of investigation. By 1889 his investigations were negative and his skepticism increased. Biographer Albert E. Moyer has noted that Newcomb "convinced and hoped to convince others that, on methodological grounds, psychical research was a scientific dead end."Moyer, Albert E. (1998).
The Society for Psychical Research 1882-1982: A History. London: MacDonald & Co. p. 5. Boole was the author of the book The Message of Psychic Science for Mothers and Nurses. She revealed the manuscript to Frederick Denison Maurice who objected to its controversial ideas and this resulted in her losing her job as librarian at Queens College.
He joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1890, and served on its Council from 1904 to 1920. In 1903 he helped to found the Independent Review. Edward Jenks was editor, and members of its editorial board included Dickinson, F. W. Hirst, C. F. G. Masterman, G. M. Trevelyan, and Nathaniel Wedd. Fry designed the front cover.
Gurney began at what he later saw was the wrong end by studying, with Myers, the séances of professed spiritualistic mediums (1874–1878). Little but detection of imposture came of this. In 1882 the Society for Psychical Research was founded. Paid mediums were discarded, at least for the time, and experiments were made in thought-transference and hypnotism.
Prince was a member of the Scientific American Committee to examine paranormal claims. He became one of its editors for articles on parapsychological phenomena. He was the only American, other than William James, who occupied the position of President of the Society for Psychical Research in London, which he did for two years 1930 and 1931.
He later attended a sitting with Hope. Hope produced a "spirit" extra which was exactly the same as the photograph he had sent Hope and on it were the words "Dear friend Wood". The psychical researcher Whately Carington wrote regarding the exposure "any reasonable person will say that Mr Bush had proved his case."Edmunds, Simeon. (1966).
Price wrote that apparitions are actually memories from people and that under the right conditions they can be seen as hallucinations. Price believed that the dreamlike world of the afterlife exists in the psychic ether.Price, H. H. (1939). Haunting and the psychic ether hypothesis; with some preliminary reflections on the present condition and possible future of psychical research.
Husk also claimed to have the psychic ability to push his entire arm through an iron ring with a size that did not allow its passage over the hand, however, it was discovered that he performed the trick by using a local anesthetic on his hand.Price, Harry. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Kessinger Publishing. p. 203.
Carrington became a member of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1907 and worked as an assistant to James Hyslop until 1908, during which time he established his reputation as an ASPR investigator. However his connection with the ASPR ceased due to lack of funds.Arthur Berger. (1988). Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1987.
245Roberge (2020), p. 118 His interest in extra-sensory perception led him to join the Society for Psychical Research in the early 1930s.Roberge (2020), p. 119 His occult interests also led to a 20-year friendship with Bernard Bromage (1899–1957), an English writer on mysticism and a member of the secret order Fraternity of Inner Light.Roberge (2020), p.
Some Interpretations of the Supernatural. Le divin experience et hypothèse by Marcel Hébert; L'infinité divine depuis Philon le Juif jusqu'à Plotin by Henri Guyot; Science and a Future Life by James H. Hyslop; Borderland of Psychical Research by James H. Hyslop; The Spirit World by Joseph Hamilton. The American Journal of Theology. Vol. 11, No. 2. pp. 358-362.
Both social systems and psychical or personal systems (see below for an explanation of this distinction) operate by processing meaning. The third strand of CCO was first acknowledged by Taylor (1995)Putnam, L. L., Phillips, N., & Chapman, P. (1996). Metaphors of communication and organizations. In S. R. Clegg, & W. R. Nord (Eds.), Handbook of organization studies (pp. 375-408).
The game is a Point-and-click adventure game seen form a First-person point of view. To interact with physical objects the player uses the power of telekinesis. During the game the player learns other psychical abilities that help him solve multiple puzzles. There are also arcade-style mini games like smashing rats with bricks.
He felt the inadequacy of formal orthodox science in dealing with the deeper problems of human life and destiny. Convinced by the principles of evolution, he believed that these principles may be capable of being applied in psychical research and he proposed to use it to explain obscure phenomena such as hypnotism, clairvoyance and telepathy.Marble, C. C. (1900).
Poortman studied at the universities of Hamburg, Geneva, the Sorbonne in Paris and at Vienna. From 1932 to 1938 he was member of the Council of the Dutch Society for Psychical Research. From 1958 to 1966 he was a Professor of metaphysics at the University of Leiden. After he retired his chair was successively occupied by Prof.
Hundreds of books were written on the subject between 1766 and 1925, but it is almost entirely forgotten today.Adam Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766–1925 – An Annotated Bibliography Mesmerism is still practised as a form of alternative medicine in some countries, but magnetic practices are not recognized as part of medical science.
Janette Ranken and Ernest Thesiger In the 1920s, Ranken was President of the West London Branch of the Theosophical Society. She was also Editor of the magazine Theosophy in the British Isles. She gave lectures like "The Web of Life" and "Some Problems of the Present". She was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.
Finally, the Harvard committee also pronounced Crandon as fraudulent. On 30 June 1925, one of the Harvard investigators saw Crandon draw three objects from her lap. One object was shaped like a glove or flat hand, one resembled a baby's hand, and the third was described but not identified. The American Society for Psychical Research wanted further investigation.
The psychologist and psychical researcher Stanley LeFevre Krebs had exposed the Bangs Sisters as frauds. During a séance he employed a hidden mirror and caught them tampering with a letter in an envelope and writing a reply in it under the table which they would pretend a spirit had written.Joe Nickell. (2001). Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal.
Bruce who took interest in psychical research, was a believer in telepathy and Frederic W. H. Myers' concept of a subliminal self. He dedicated his book The Riddle Of Personality (1908) to William James. Philosopher William Pepperell Montague took issue with his statements about telepathy, noting that he did not address the known objections.Montague Montague, W. P. (1909).
William Hope showing Price with a "spirit" Price joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1920 and because of his knowledge in conjuring had debunked fraudulent mediums but in direct contrast to other magicians, Price endorsed some mediums that he believed were genuine.Paul Tabori. (1974). Harry Price: The Biography of a Ghosthunter. Sphere Books. pp. 43-48.
Price's first major success in psychical research came in 1922 when he exposed the 'spirit' photographer William Hope.Leaves from a Psychist's Case Book by Harry Price, Page 213.Hall (1978) p. 222 In the same year he travelled to Germany together with Eric Dingwall and investigated Willi Schneider at the home of Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing in Munich.
A Companion to the Folklore, Myths & Customs of Britain. Sutton. p. 56. In May, 1920 the organization reported that they had obtained evidence for paranormally produced photographs under test conditions. This opinion was rejected by other psychical researchers and in 1923 the organization dissolved. Barlow was originally supportive of spirit photography but later reversed his opinion.
Varthamana (2018) is a Kannada Language film written and directed by Umesh Amshi, and produced by Ultimate Movies by Manu Bellimane and Hemavathi T.siga. Varthamana stars Sanchari Vijay and Sanjana Prakash . The cinematography was done by Govind and Venkatachala and music was composed by Sarvanaa. It revolves around the Emotional and Psychical aspects of a protagonist named Ananth.
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits. Guinness World Records Limited. p. 125. p. 334. Because he was skeptical of the case, Fodor was heavily criticized by spiritualists and was dismissed from his post at the International Institute for Psychical Research. The spiritualist Arthur Findlay, who founded the institute, did not approve of his research and resigned.
London: Mental Culture Enterprise. Francis Jones in the American Journal of Psychology in a review for Lodge's The Survival of Man wrote that his psychical claims are not scientific and the book is one-sided as it does not contain research from experimental psychology.Jones, Francis. (1910). The Survival of Man: A Study in Unrecognized Human Faculty by Oliver Lodge.
It is alleged by biographers that he was a friend of the occultist Aleister Crowley. Psychical researcher Eric Dingwall wrote that Feilding was a "member of one of the most distinguished Catholic families in England" and was "one of the most acute investigators of alleged supernormal phenomena that this country has ever produced."Dingwall, Eric. (1962). Very Peculiar People.
Lajos Pap was originally investigated by the psychical researcher Chengery Pap in the 1920s in a series of experimental séances. He was alleged to have produced apport and psychokinetic phenomena. Various dead and living animals were discovered after his séances such as frogs, lizards, mice and snakes. Chengery Pap stored many of these specimens in a museum.
On one occasion a chair was found hanging from the mediums arm even though his hand was allegedly held by a séance sitter. Solovovo later discovered that this sitter had intentionally released Sambor's hand and was likely to have worked as an accomplice for the medium on other occasions.Richet, Charles. (1923). Thirty Years of Psychical Research.
In 1932 he helped the Society for Psychical Research to conduct a more formal experiment, but he and the Society's lead researcher Theodore Besterman failed to agree on the significance of the results.Brian Inglis; The Paranormal: An Encyclopedia of Psychic Phenomena. Paladin (Grafton), 1986, p.92.Dunne (1927), 3rd Edition, Faber, 1934, Appendix III: The new experiment.
The academic Suzanne Riordan examined a variety of these New Age channeled messages, noting that they typically "echoed each other in tone and content", offering an analysis of the human condition and giving instructions or advice for how humanity can discover its true destiny. For many New Agers, these channeled messages rival the scriptures of the main world religions as sources of spiritual authority, although often New Agers describe historical religious revelations as forms of "channeling" as well, thus attempting to legitimate and authenticate their own contemporary practices. Although the concept of channeling from discarnate spirit entities has links to Spiritualism and psychical research, the New Age does not feature Spiritualism's emphasis on proving the existence of life after death, nor psychical research's focus of testing mediums for consistency.
'Two Months in Socotra', Ernest N. Bennett, Longman's Magazine, September 1897; and 'The Island of Socotra', J. Theodore Bent, Nineteenth Century, June 1897; also see 'The Isle of Bliss', Sir Ernest Bennett, The Living Age, August 1938, the title being the translation of the Sanskrit name for the island (Dvipa Sukhadhara). The Bents’ full account of their visit to Socotra with Bennett is recorded in Chapters 29-34 of their 1900 monograph, Southern Arabia. Bennett's other more unconventional interest was in ghosts. He was a member of the Council of the Society for Psychical Research, and spent much time investigating haunted houses.Bennett supported a private members' Bill in 1930 to exempt spiritualism and psychical research from the still extant Witchcraft and Vagrancy Act, under which offences carried a mandatory one year prison sentence.
170–173 Joad opposed the spiritualist hypothesis of mediumship. He debated the psychical researcher Shaw Desmond on spiritualism. He argued against immortality and spirit communication, preferring his "mindlet" hypothesis which held that bundle of ideas which were formerly regarded as the mind of the dead person may survive death for a temporal period of time.Desmond, Shawl; Joad, C. E. M. (1946). Spiritualism.
Tuckett became known as an exposer of the false claims of spiritualists. He is best known for his book The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critical Study Made with "Uncommon Sense" (1911). The book exposed the tricks of fraudulent mediums and is a criticism of the claims of psychical research. It received a positive review in the British Medical Journal.Anonymous. (1912).
Spooks and Spoofs: Relations Between Psychical Research and Academic Psychology in Britain in the Inter-War Period. History of the Human Sciences 25: 67-90. Following the report written by Price, Duncan's former maid Mary McGinlay confessed in detail to having aided Duncan in her mediumship tricks, and Duncan's husband admitted that the ectoplasm materializations were the result of regurgitation.
Helen Duncan was well known for using dolls and other props as ectoplasm in her séances. Ectoplasm (from the Greek ektos, meaning "outside", and plasma, meaning "something formed or molded") is a term used in spiritualism to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums. It was coined in 1894 by psychical researcher Charles Richet.Blom, Jan Dirk. (2010).
Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena. Kessinger Reprint Edition. p. 267 The psychical investigator W. J. Crawford (1881–1920) had claimed that a fluid substance was responsible for levitation of objects after witnessing the medium Kathleen Goligher. Crawford, after witnessing a number of her séances, claimed to have obtained flashlight photographs of the substance; he later described the substance as "plasma".
Ehrenwald studied medicine at the University of Prague. He taught psychiatry at the University of Vienna (1927-1931), University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital (1948-1950) and State University of New York (1950-1953). He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research and was a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine."Jan Ehrenwald".
Kessinger Reprint Edition. p. 805 Whilst Prince did not detect any concrete evidence of fraud he found the red light too dim to observe the medium and suspected that Schneider's spirit guide "Olga" insisted the sitters talk loudly to act as a distraction and possible cover for an accomplice in the room.Douglas, Alfred. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research.
Journal of the Unitarian Society for Psychical Studies. No. 38, Winter. SPR member John L. Randall who reviewed the Price and Schneider case also came to the conclusion the photograph was genuine. However, Randall disagreed with Harrison that Schneider's movement was accidental and wrote the photograph was evidence for Price's claim that Schneider had freed his hand with fraudulent intent.
Volume 41. Between October 1933 and March 1934 Schneider was investigated by the Society for Psychical Research in fifty-five sittings and not a single paranormal phenomenon was observed. Infrared ray apparatus was installed by Oliver Gatty working with Theodore Besterman. The experiments proved negative, no telekinetic phenomena of any kind were observed or any absorption of the infrared rays.
The University of Melbourne. By this time he was married with two young daughters; his wife Mary held a master of science from the University of London. Johnson published several books on mysticism and psychical research during the 1950s and 1960s. His beliefs and writings eventually created concern within the Methodist Church and he retired from his university position in 1964.
Temple Smith. p. 83. . The events of his childhood and later investigations by George Owen of the Cambridge Psychical Research Society Entry for Matthew Manning. Mentions separate lab experiments with Owen and Braud; automatic drawing, metal bending, and healing. were published in a 1974 book entitled The Link, which was translated into 16 languages and eventually sold more than a million copies.
Katharina Rutschky (25 January 1941, Berlin - 14 January 2010, Berlin) was a German educationalist and author. She coined the term Schwarze Pädagogik (literally black pedagogy) in her eponymous book from 1977, describing physical and psychical violence as part of education (a notion elaborated upon some years later by Alice Miller). Until her death, Rutschky lived with her husband Michael Rutschky in Berlin.
Transaction Publishers. p. 50. He was highly critical of mediumship which he considered the result of credulity and deception. This led to a dispute with Thomas Welton Stanford a wealthy spiritualist who had help fund the psychical research programme at Stanford University. Stanford had endorsed the fraudulent medium Charles Bailey as genuine and requested for Coover to test the medium.
Bibliographers Frederick Burkhardt and Fredson Bowers who compiled the works of James wrote "It is thus possible that Mrs. Piper's knowledge of the James family was acquired from the gossip of servants and that the whole mystery rests on the failure of the people upstairs to realize that servants [downstairs] also have ears."Frederick Burkhardt and Fredson Bowers. (1986). Essays in Psychical Research.
The more > intellectual someone is, the greater will be the doubt component of the > transformed forces. Doubt becomes pleasure sublimated as intellectual > achievement.Wilhelm Stekel, "The Doubt", Compulsion and Doubt (London: Peter > Nevill, 1950), p. 92. Stekel wrote one of a set of three early "Psychoanalytic studies of psychical impotence" referred to approvingly by Freud: "Freud had written a preface to Stekel's book".
The details of this theology are highly imaginative. He says, for instance, that there is a spirit of the world and a spirit of nature; the latter gives birth to a physical and psychical spirit, and the physical spirit to the animal and vegetable spirits. His theories may well be compared with the arbitrary mysticism of van Helmont and the Gnostics.
Kessinger Publishing. In February 1926 a public warning against Munnings was issued in the press by Arthur Conan Doyle, Abraham Wallace, R. H. Saunders, and H. D. Bradley.Frederick Tansley Munnings The psychical researcher Harry Price also exposed his fraudulent mediumship. Munnings claimed to produce the independent "spirit" voices of Julius Caesar, Dan Leno, Hawley Harvey Crippen and King Henry VIII.
Gale Research Company. p. 1143. The psychical researcher Simeon Edmunds wrote that Myers "was detected in fraud by Lord Donegall, whose report, published in the Sunday Dispatch, brought the career of the medium- photographer to an abrupt conclusion." According to Harry Price, in 1935 Myers was accused of fraud by J. B. McIndoe, president of the Spiritualists' National Union.Harry Price. (1939).
Tennant was the third daughter of Charles Tennant (1796-1873) and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier (1819–1918). Her sister was the artist, Dorothy Tennant. She married the classicist and psychical researcher Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) in 1880. They had two sons, the elder the novelist Leopold Hamilton Myers (1881–1944), and a daughter, the author Silvia Myers Blennerhassett.
In Japan, spirit mediums are called Reibai. Although the primary religion of Japan, Shintoism is essentially animistic, relating to Kami, or spirits, psychical research typical of the West was introduced to Japan by Wasaburou Asano (1874–1937). Wasaburou established the Society for Spiritual Science Research in Japan and is recognized as creating modern Japanese Spiritualism. His successor Takeo Waki further developing the movement.
The Thought Reader Craze: Victorian Science at the Enchanted Boundary. McFarland. p. 30. It was reported by sitters and Crookes that Home's accordion played only two pieces, Home Sweet Home and The Last Rose of Summer. Both contain only one- octave. The psychical researcher Hereward Carrington and spiritualism expert Herbert Thurston have claimed the accordion experiment was not the result of deliberate fraud.
The National Reformer, September 20th. The psychical researcher Eric Dingwall who catalogued Home's collection on its arrival at the SPR did not record the presence of the mouth organs, and Lamont speculates that it is unlikely Dingwall would have missed these or not made them public.Lamont, 2005 p. 302 The accordion in the SPR collection is not the actual one Home used.
The New York Times article from 11 March 1907 Before MacDougall was able to publish the results of his experiments, The New York Times broke the story in an article titled "Soul has Weight, Physician Thinks". MacDougall's results were published in April of the same year in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, and the medical journal American Medicine.
According to Lambert "Osty also told me that he wanted to publish his discovery. As, however, Richet and Schrenk-Notzing protested energetically against it, and M. Jean Meyer, a militant spiritualist who financed the Institut Metapsychique, also forcibly demanded the concealment of the scandal, Osty had to give up the idea of publishing his discovery."Omez, Réginald. (1958). Psychical Phenomena.
He then studied medicine with no intention of practising, devoting himself to physics, chemistry and physiology. In 1880 he passed the second M.B. Cambridge (medical science). In 1881 he began the study of law at Lincoln's Inn. In relation to psychical research, he asked whether there is an unexplored region of human faculty transcending the normal limitations of sensible knowledge.
Man is a synthesis of the psychical and the physical; however, a synthesis is unthinkable if the two are not united in a third. This third is spirit. In innocence, man is not merely animal, for if he were at any moment of his life merely animal, he would never become man. So spirit is present, but is immediate, as dreaming.
Norman C. McClelland Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma 2010, p. 32 The psychical researcher F. W. H. Myers proposed the existence of a “metetherial world”, which he wrote to be a world of images lying beyond the physical world. He wrote that apparitions have a real existence in the metetherial world which he described as a dream-like world.Myers, F. H. W. (1903).
Henry W. Wright. (1907). Some Interpretations of the Supernatural. Le divin experience et hypothèse by Marcel Hébert; L'infinité divine depuis Philon le Juif jusqu'à Plotin by Henri Guyot; Science and a Future Life by James H. Hyslop; Borderland of Psychical Research by James H. Hyslop; The Spirit World by Joseph Hamilton. The American Journal of Theology. Vol. 11, No. 2. pp. 358-362.
During 1882-1883, Blackburn with George Albert Smith took part in a series of experiments that were claimed to be genuine evidence for telepathy by members of the Society for Psychical Research. Blackburn later made a public confession of fraud, stating that the results had been obtained by use of a code.Polidoro, Massimo. (2003). Secrets of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims.
Mason was also deeply interested in metaphysical speculation and theory. His input would help in the early pioneer development of parapsychology and psychical research. These subjects were published in many books, magazines, and newspaper articles. He is accredited as "An Early Father-Pioneer of Parapsychology" and advance-supporter of the study of applied therapeutic uses of what is known today as Hypnotherapy.
The amphibian, in this story, symbolizes the sun."‘Cupid, Psyche, and the “Sun-Frog”’, Custom and Myth: (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884)." In The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume 1: Anthropology, Fairy Tale, Folklore, The Origins of Religion, Psychical Research, edited by Teverson Andrew, Warwick Alexandra, and Wilson Leigh, 66-78. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
Ford joined the Leeds Socialist League. Together with her sisters and Scatcherd she supported strikes of women weavers and the tailoresses in 1888 and 1889 with practical assistance and contributions towards the strike fund. In the early 1880s Ford became interested in spiritualism and joined the Society for Psychical Research. Ford's religious convictions, feminism and social politics underwent profound change.
Psychical researcher Frank Podmore proposed the 'naughty little girl' theory for poltergeist cases (many of which have seemed to centre on an adolescent, usually a girl).Dingwall, John; Hall, Trevor H. (1958). Four Modern Ghosts. Duckworth. pp. 13-14 He found that the centre of the disturbance was often a child who was throwing objects around to fool or scare people for attention.
Leonora Piper (née Leonora Evelina Simonds; 27 June 1857 – 3 June 1950) was a famous American trance medium in the area of Spiritualism. Piper was the subject of intense interest and investigation by American and British psychic research associations during the early 20th century, most notably William James and the Society for Psychical Research.Gardner, Martin. (1996). The Night Is Large.
Thus because "being a man" is a wider class than ones men, women and children, being a man is also equivalent to being a woman and a child. In this fourth and rather deep stratum, a number of the features of the Freudian unconscious are also characteristic. There is an absence of contradiction, also an identity of psychical and external reality.Rayner/Tuckett, p.
He was investigated by Harry Price who concluded his abilities were the result of hyperesthesia, not the paranormal. Marion was tested by the psychical researchers R. H. Thouless and Bertold Wiesner who rejected Soal's conclusions. From their experiments they claimed to be convinced that he possessed psychic powers. Their views were summarized in the foreword to Marion's autobiography In My Mind's Eye (1950).
In a presidential address to the Society for Psychical Research in October 1923 Flammarion summarized his views after 60 years into investigating paranormal phenomena. He wrote that he believed in telepathy, etheric doubles, the stone tape theory and "exceptionally and rarely the dead do manifest" in hauntings.Raymond Buckland. (2005). The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication.
Spiritualism and British Society Between the Wars. Manchester University Press. p. 206. In 1934 the Laboratory was replaced by the University of London Council for Psychical Investigation (not an official body of the University) under the Chairmanship of C. E. M. Joad with Harry Price as Hon. Secretary. John Flügel, Cyril Burt, Cecil Alec Mace and Francis Aveling were members of the Council.
This was confirmed when psychical researchers who tested Tomczyk occasionally observed the thread. William Marriott (right), who duplicated by natural means Tomczyk's trick of levitating a glass beaker On one occasion Ochorowicz saw a black thread between her hands, and in numerous photographs taken by him and later investigators a thread was sometimes visible.Benjamin B. Wolman. (1977). Handbook of Parapsychology.
In 1889, he co- authored (with Henry Sidgwick and Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick) the paper, Experiments in Thought Transference, for the society's journal.Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 6 (1889-90), pp. 128—70. Blackburn publicly admitted fraud in 1908 and again in 1911,The Daily News, 5 September 1911, cited in Hall (1964), p. 123. although Smith consistently denied it.
Théodore Flournoy (15 August 1854 – 5 November 1920) was a Swiss professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and author of books on parapsychology and spiritism. He studied a wide variety of subjects before he devoted his life to psychology. Flournoy had an interest in a very skeptical area of psychology. He did extensive observations on a participant to investigate psychical phenomena.
Fodor was the London correspondent for the American Society for Psychical Research (1935-1939). He worked as an editor for the Psychoanalytic Review and was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Fodor in the 1930s embraced paranormal phenomena but by the 1940s took a break from his previous work and advocated a psychoanalytic approach to psychic phenomena.Hazelgrove, Jenny. (2000).
After the death of her husband in 1913, she became interested in spiritualism and was a member, and President from 1933 to 1934, of the council of the Society for Psychical Research. Spiritualism heavily influenced her works, The Faculty of Communion (1925), Our Superconscious Mind (1931), and Some Cases of Prediction (1937), as well her biography of Florence Upton (1926).
During World War I, he was a member of the Admiralty Board of Invention and Research. He joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1914. He was knighted in the 1916 Birthday Honours. In 1877, he married Emma Clarke Newnham, usually referred to as Lady Bailey, who was a great supporter of women's organisations, particularly in practical ways behind the scenes.
The psychical researcher Charles Richet with Oliver Lodge, Frederic W. H. Myers and Julian Ochorowicz investigated the medium Eusapia Palladino in the summer of 1894 at his house in the Ile Roubaud in the Mediterranean. Richet claimed furniture moved during the séance and that some of the phenomena was the result of a supernatural agency.Walter Mann. (1919). The Follies and Frauds of Spiritualism.
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 150-151. Sidgwick reminded Myers of Palladino's trickery in the previous investigations as "overwhelming" but Myers did not change his position. This enraged Hodgson, then editor of SPR publications to ban Myers from publishing anything on his recent sittings with Palladino in the SPR journal.
He is best known for his work in developing the 5-point Likert Scale, a form of self-reported questionnaire. Gardner Murphy (1895 – 1979) was an American psychologist and past president of SPSSI. He specialized in social and personality psychology, and parapsychology. His career highlights included serving as president of both the American Psychological Association and the British Society for Psychical Research.
Spiritualists have claimed the scripts are evidence for survival. However, the psychical researcher Simeon Edmunds noted that Fawcett before his disappearance had written articles for the Occult Review. Cummins also contributed articles to the same review and Edmunds suggested it is likely she had read the work of Fawcett. Edmunds concluded the scripts were a case of subliminal memory and unconscious dramatization.
He was also exposed by the psychical researcher Walter Franklin Prince who made comparisons of the 'spirit' messages to the handwriting of the deceased, to discover they were inaccurate.Berger, Arthur S. (1988). Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology: A Biographical History, 1850-1987. McFarland. pp. 85-86 Keeler was once arrested in New York City for giving fake materialization séances.
An analysis of her ectoplasm revealed it to be made of chewed paper. She was also investigated in 1922 and the result of the tests were negative.Harry Price. (1939). Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green & Co. In 1925, Price investigated Maria Silbert and caught her using her feet and toes to move objects in the séance room.Lewis Spence. (1991).
He conducted numerous experiments in telepathy and was interested in apparitional experiences. He attempted to explain ghosts by a psychological theory. Tyrrell proposed that ghosts are a hallucination of the subconscious mind of a person, to explain collective hallucinations for more than one person, he proposed it as a telepathic mechanism. Tyrrell was the president of the Society for Psychical Research 1945-1946.
The fourth child and youngest son of James Paton Bramwell (1824–1890), chief consulting surgeon at the Perth Royal Infirmary and Eleanor Bramwell, née Oliver (1821–1901), John Milne Bramwell was born in Perth, Scotland on 11 May 1852. One of his sisters, Elizabeth Ida Bramwell (1858–1940), become famous in Canada as the suffragette Ida Douglas- Fearn. A second sister, Eleanor Oliver Bramwell (1861–1923), married Frank Podmore (1855–1910), psychical researcher, member of the Society for Psychical Research and founding member of the Fabian Society. He married Mary Harriet Reynolds (c. 1851 – 27 May 1913) — the eldest surviving daughter of Captain Charles Sheppard Reynolds (1818–1853), formerly of the 49th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry, and Assistant-Commissioner of the Assam Provinces, and Jessie Bramwell, née Blanch (1825–?), who had been born in Assam, India — at St.
Wyld became interested in homeopathy in 1851 after discovering the work of Samuel Hahnemann whilst a medical student at Edinburgh. After he obtained his M. D. with the thesis 'The liver: the hydrogenator in animals' he moved to London where he taught homeopathy and in 1876 became president of the British Homeopathic Society.Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914.
Haynes was born in London and attended St Hugh's College, Oxford receiving a BA and majors in law and history. Haynes worked with the British Council as a director of book reviews. She joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1946 and edited the society's journal from 1970 to 1981. She was the daughter of E. S. P. Haynes and Oriana Huxley Waller.
In the New Scientist, John Cohen wrote that although Heywood was "entirely convinced" from the results of card-guessing experiments "Heywood fails to detect the vulnerability of these studies... she has failed to see the shortcomings of the experimental procedure itself." Cohen wrote the objection to Heywood's psychical claims is that no adequate evidence had been presented.Cohen, John (1959). The Inharmonious Choir of Psi.
He was also exposed as a fraud in 1885 by the Seybert Commission as it was discovered that the slates had prepared messages on them.Carl Murchison. (1927). The Case For And Against Psychical Belief. Clark University. pp. 242-243 The magician David Abbott in his book Behind the Scenes with the Mediums (1908) revealed that Slade would also use his toes for writing messages on slates.
Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science, University of Chicago Press. . Chap. 8, Two Men of Science, pp. 177-181, namely Harlow Shapley and Kallen. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Western Philosophical Society, the Society for Psychical Research, the Zionist Organization of America, the Palestine Development Council, and the National Council of the League of Nations Association.
A local radio station was offering a $5,000 prize for evidence of a genuinely haunted house. The New England Society of Psychical Research (NESPR) a group closely affiliated with the Warrens, were also on hand. The home owner "Mary" claimed to have been visited by various ghosts her whole life. Photographs were taken, which were later revealed to be black photos taken in a dark room.
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 343. "A plaque on the wall in the library of the Belgrave Square headquarters of the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain bears the inscription: 'This Library is named after Sir William Crookes, FRS, Eminent Scientist and Spiritualist.'" The SAGB's current headquarters is at the Victoria Charity Centre at 11 Belgrave Road, London.
According to Haraldur Níelsson's account to the Second International Congress for Psychical Research, Jón was thought to be a recent suicide.Herbert Thurston, Ghosts and Poltergeists, London: Burns Oates, 1953, OCLC 566927, pp. 8-10 Proponents dismissed accusations of fraud against Indriði as not coming from first-hand witnesses. Believers included Guðmundur Hannesson, founder of the Icelandic Scientific Society and twice president of the University of Iceland.
The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism. Herbert B. Turner & Co. In the early 20th century the psychical researcher Albert von Schrenck-Notzing investigated the medium Eva Carrière and claimed her ectoplasm "materializations" were not from spirits but the result of "ideoplasty" in which the medium could form images onto ectoplasm from her mind.M. Brady Brower. (2010). Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France.
The Ghost Research Society began investigations in the late 1970s and has looked into many famous cases including those at Bachelor's Grove Cemetery. Dale Kaczmarek, the current president, assumed his position in 1982. From the outset of its investigations the society has endeavored to use technology. In 1994, the organization collaborated with the American Society for Psychical Research to produce the National Directory of Haunted Places.
The wind is controlled by an old lady called Szélanya (Wind Mother) or Szélkirály (Wind King). The Sárkány (dragon) is a frightening beast: he is the enemy of many heroes in fairy tales, symbolising the psychical inner struggle of the hero. The Sárkány usually has 1-7 heads. The lidérc is a ghostly, mysterious creature with several different appearances, its works are always malicious.
The Guidebook for the Study of Psychical Research. p. 83. He owned a property called "Santiniketan" ("abode of peace") at Ferny Creek in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne. There he hosted regular meetings of a religious and philosophical discussion group led by the yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne. This group became known as "The Family",Supreme Court of Victoria 1999 Judgement in Kibby v.
Barrett was invited by several members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He persuaded intellectuals such as Edward Charles Pickering, Simon Newcomb, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Pickering Bowditch and William James that the claims of psychical phenomena should be investigated scientifically. The first meetings of the society were held in the rooms of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Ferrari, Michel.
In 1934 Theodore Besterman, a research officer for the Society for Psychical Research, visited Brazil to investigate Mirabelli. He discovered that some of the witness reports from the Academia de Estudos Psychicos Cesare Lombroso were unreliable and it was not an independent organization but one that was associated with Mirabelli and his personal friends. Whilst investigating the séances, Besterman claimed to have detected trickery.
His heart failed on August 26, 1910, at his home in Chocorua, New Hampshire. He was buried in the family plot in Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was one of the strongest proponents of the school of functionalism in psychology and of pragmatism in philosophy. He was a founder of the American Society for Psychical Research, as well as a champion of alternative approaches to healing.
Bertold Paul Wiesner FRSE (1901–1972) was an Austrian Jewish physiologist noted firstly for coining the term 'Psi' to denote parapsychological phenomena;Rhine, J. B., 'Psi Phenomena and Psychiatry'. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 43 (11) (1950) pp804–814.Thouless, R. H. and Wiesner, B. P., 'The Psi Processes in Normal and Paranormal Psychology'. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 48 (1948) pp177-196.
Adalbert Evian supported Silbert and wrote the book The Mediumship of Maria Silbert (1936). The psychical researcher Eric Dingwall in a review wrote "As a work of scientific interest it is worthless, but as illustrating the minds of those over whom Frau Silbert cast her influence it is by no means without value."Trevor H. Hall. (1984). The Enigma of Daniel Home: Medium Or Fraud?.
Pleasants, Helene. (1964). Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology with Directory and Glossary 1946-1996. NY: Garrett Publications. In a review of the book the psychologist Frederic Marcuse wrote that it "will be criticised both by firm believers in psychical phenomena and by skeptics" as West was critical of physical mediumship and took a psychological approach to some paranormal phenomena but accepted extrasensory perception as proven.
Moses was president and members included John Stephen Farmer, Massey, Rogers, Stanhope Templeman Speer, Alaric Alfred Watts and Percy Wyndham. After Moses died in 1892, Rogers became the president. The LSA obtained a wider membership under the leadership of Rogers including notable figures such as Alfred Russel Wallace. In 1886, Eleanor Sidgwick from the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) claimed that the medium William Eglinton was fraudulent.
Notes, page 95 Their psychical state is declined, suffering a lot of nervous tensions and depression. For them every thing around them is strange, culture, language, people, norms, customs, traditions, etc. These feelings are deepened with the lack of friends, family members or even acquaintances, adding the factor of unemployment. All these factors have affected the stability of family life of some Twelver Shiite Muslims.
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Walker Publishing Company. p. 105. . In 1916, Hyslop wrote that the whole case for Pearl Curran's mediumship was based on fraud. Hyslop in the Journal for the American Society for Psychical Research claimed that Curran had known people from the Ozarks who spoke a dialect reminiscent of Patience Worth and Curran's husband had studied Chaucer and educated her on the subject.
He was also known for his automatic drawings and paintings, which impressed the psychical researcher Edward Trusted Bennett.Bennett, Edward T. (1908). The Direct Phenomena of Spiritualism: Speaking, Writing, Drawing, Music, & Painting: A Study. William Rider & Son. pp. 7-9 However, in 1878, Frank Podmore attended a séance of Duguid and strongly suspected that he had cheated by using a card that had already been painted.Podmore, Frank. (1902).
Historian Trevor H. Hall has argued that Freer was having an affair with F.W.H. Myers at the time that he introduced her to psychic research and the SPR.Hall (1980) pp.35–37 Trevor Hamilton dismisses this and suggests that Freer was simply using her acquaintance with Myers to gain status in the psychical research movement.Hamilton (2009) p.231 Myers supported her socially and possibly financially.
Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green & Co. "V. J. Woolley, who resigned from the S.P.R. in 1932 on account of friction with certain of the officers." In February 1927, with the co-operation of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Woolley who was at the time the Research Officer for the SPR, arranged a telepathy experiment in which radio listeners were asked to take part.
In Yasnitsky, A. (Ed.) Questioning Vygotsky's Legacy: Scientific Psychology or Heroic Cult. New York & London: Routledge "cultural-historical theory", "cultural-historical school", "higher psychical/mental functions", "internalization", "zone of proximal development", etc. in fact, either occupy not more than just a few dozen pages within the six-volume collection of Vygotsky's works,Tudge, J. 1999. Discovering Vygotsky: A Historical and Developmental Approach to His Theory.
The Cheltenham Ghost was an apparition said to haunt a house in Cheltenham in western England. The building was the home of the Despard family whose daughter Rosina saw the ghost of a veiled woman on several occasions in the 1880s. The Society for Psychical Research in London is the oldest institute of its kind in the world. Its members are dedicated to research paranormal phenomena.
"The Fire-Spook of Caledonia Mills". The Town of Antigonish. Mary-Ellen's biological parents were John and Annie (Duggan) MacDonald and she was later adopted by Alexander and Janet MacDonald of Caledonia Mills. Walter Franklin Prince, research officer for the American Society for Psychical Research in 1922 investigated and concluded that the mysterious fires and alleged poltergeist phenomena were caused by Mary-Ellen in a dissociated state.
Facts, Frauds, and Phantasms: A Survey of the Spiritualist Movement. Doubleday. p. 113. In 1875, he was caught pretending to be a spirit during a séance in Liverpool and was found "clothed in about two yards of stiffened muslin, wound round his head and hanging down as far as his thigh."Janet Oppenheim. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914.
Rosalie in Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Longmans, Green and Company. During the séance Price claimed a small girl emerged, she spoke and he took her pulse. Price was suspicious that the supposed spirit of the child was no different than a human being but after the séance had finished the starch powder was undisturbed and none of the seals had been removed on the window.
Collins p. 206 Price wrote that the photographs depicting the ectoplasm of the medium Eva Carrière taken with Schrenck-Notzing looked artificial and two-dimensional made from cardboard and newspaper portraits and that there were no scientific controls as both her hands were free. In 1920 Carrière was investigated by psychical researchers in London. An analysis of her ectoplasm revealed it to be made of chewed paper.
Portrait of Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick painted by Sir James Jebusa Shannon, 1889 Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, (née Balfour; 11 March 1845 – 10 February 1936), known as Nora to her family and friends, was a physics researcher assisting Lord Rayleigh, an activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.
He had a long and engaged battle of wits with Ian Stevenson who studied reincarnation across South East Asia and published a lot of cases favoring the phenomenon. CTK was skeptical, and questioned Dr. Stevenson's research in the Journal for American Society of Psychical Research. He similarly discussed the research and views of Dr. B. V. Raman, who was the founder of the Indian Astrological magazine.
Dowden claimed to communicate via various spirit guides, "Peter" (an Irish-American rogue), "Eyen" (an ancient Egyptian priest), "Astor" (also another medium's guide), "Shamar" (a Hindu), and finally "Johannes." The last was an ancient Jewish neo-Platonist who lived 200 years before Jesus. She was closely associated with William Fletcher Barrett, the psychical researcher. She was also responsible for introducing Geraldine Cummins to mediumship.
Frail of body, she had an ardent and energetic spirit, and with better health she would have taken an even more distinguished place among the classical scholars of her period. Gilbert Murray's obituary of her in The Times described her as "the most remarkable member of a most remarkable family". Stawell was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.Woolf, Virginia; Bell, Anne Olivier.
1898 may have brought about the > end of Spanish rule, but it was also the logical culmination of over three > hundred years of it. What followed, on the other hand, was a fundamental > psychical disruption. The sense of the hierarchical, the numinous, the > ceremonious, and the patrician—common to Asia and Europe alike—has no place > in the Republic of Mob Rule and Pursuit of Profit.
Price made a formal offer to the University of London to equip and endow a Department of Psychical Research, and to loan the equipment of the National Laboratory and its library. The University of London Board of Studies in Psychology responded positively to this proposal. Price had a number of public disputes with the SPR, most notably regarding professed medium Rudi Schneider.James Houran. (2004).
A key feature of creative synthesis is that mental capacities are more than the sum of their parts. In all psychical combinations, the product is more than the sum of their different parts that are combined; what occurs is a new creation altogether. By this, it is meant that they are generative (creative) in every aspect. There is a real novelty and creativity in higher cognitive operations.
The Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) consist of fifty-two treatises in mathematics, natural sciences, psychology (psychical sciences) and theology. The first part, which is on mathematics, groups fourteen epistles that include treatises in arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, geography, and music, along with tracts in elementary logic, inclusive of: the Isagoge, the Categories, De Interpretatione, the Prior Analytics and the Posterior Analytics. The second part, which is on natural sciences, gathers seventeen epistles on matter and form, generation and corruption, metallurgy, meteorology, a study of the essence of nature, the classes of plants and animals, including a fable. The third part, which is on psychology, comprises ten epistles on the psychical and intellective sciences, dealing with the nature of the intellect and the intelligible, the symbolism of temporal cycles, the mystical essence of love, resurrection, causes and effects, definitions and descriptions.
Exeter: Imprint Academic. Daniels is the author of two books and more than 30 journal articles and book chapters on observational methods, self-actualization theory, moral development, the psychology of the shadow and evil, Jungian psychology, transpersonal theory, mystical experience, parapsychology and poltergeists. He is also the developer of the Watchword Technique of Jungian self-analysis, of the parapsychology and psychical research website psychicscience.org, the transpersonal studies website transpersonalscience.
He is remembered for his research in the field of parapsychology. He published numerous books and articles on topics such as telepathy, spiritualism, telekinesis, etc. He was inspired by the British Society for Psychical Research, and with philosopher Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880-1949) tried to establish a similar institute in Germany. With Albert von Schrenck- Notzing (1862-1929), he fought for the recognition of parapsychology as a serious subject of study.
At this time he devised some innovative methods for the mathematical assessment of feelings, which proved useful in his later work. He investigated the mediums Kathleen Goligher and Gladys Osborne Leonard and he set about studying psychical research in more detail. Between 1934 and 1936 Carington tested the trance mediumship of Eileen Garrett, Gladys Osborne Leonard and Rudi Schneider with psychogalvanic reflex and word association tests.Mauskopf, Seymour; McVaugh, Michael. (1980).
Joint reviews of Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect and Reincarnation and Biology have also appeared in several journals.Joint reviews of Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect and Reincarnation and Biology have also appeared in: Anthropology of Consciousness 9:65-68, 1998; Journal of Scientific Exploration 12:631-636, 1998; Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 62(852):463-464, 1998; and the Scientific and Medical Network's NETWORK, December 1997.
Extrasensory Perception is a 1934 book written by parapsychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, which discusses his research work at Duke University. Extrasensory perception is the ability to acquire information shielded from the senses, and the book was "of such a scope and of such promise as to revolutionize psychical research and to make its title literally a household phrase".Craighead, E. D; Nemeroff, C. B. (2001). Rhine, Joseph Banks.
One of the later spirit photographers was William Hope (1863–1933). The psychical researcher Harry Price revealed that the photographs of Hope were frauds. Price secretly marked Hope's photographic plates, and provided him with a packet of additional plates that had been covertly etched with the brand image of the Imperial Dry Plate Co. Ltd. in the knowledge that the logo would be transferred to any images created with them.
James Kidd (1879–1949) was an American prospector who disappeared in 1949, only to have his will discovered eighteen years later by the Estate Tax Commissioner of Arizona. His request that his estate be gifted to "a research or some scientific proof of a soul of the human body which leaves at death" sparked a number of court cases and set a precedent for the seriousness of psychical organisations.
67 The physicist and psychical researcher Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe later investigated the medium Kathleen Goligher at many sittings and arrived at the opposite conclusions to Crawford; according to D'Albe, no paranormal phenomena such as levitation had occurred with Goligher and stated he had found evidence of fraud. D'Albe claimed the substance in the photographs of Crawford was ordinary muslin.Julian Franklyn. (2005). A Survey of the Occult. p.
He later described it as a "slum", though this has been refuted by family members, who considered it a "respectable working class area". There, he lived through the Blitz. Some of his family emigrated to Australia, while he went to art school, living a bohemian lifestyle. His aunt would later claim that he first took an interest in occultism after attending a talk of the Society for Psychical Research in Kensington.
In The Psychology of the Psychic Marks coined the term "Koestler's Fallacy" as the assumption that odd matches of random events cannot arise by chance. Marks illustrates the fact that such odd matches do regularly occur with examples from his own experience. John Beloff gave the book a mixed review, describing it as "a typical Koestlerian performance" but noting that some of his claims about psychical research were inaccurate.Beloff, John. (1972).
Michael McVaugh positively reviewed Inglis's book Natural and Supernatural (1977) describing it as a "thoroughly serious study" and the reader "will acquire an excellent understanding of the frame of mind of the informed psychical researcher in the early twentieth century."Michael McVaugh. (1980). Natural and Supernatural: A History of the Paranormal from Earliest Times to 1914 by Brian Inglis. The British Journal for the History of Science 13: 180–181.
David Ray Griffin Parapsychology, philosophy, and spirituality: a postmodern exploration 1997, p. 139William McDougall Body and mind: a history and a defense of animism Methuen, 1911 As a parapsychologist he also claimed telepathy had been scientifically proven, he used evidence from psychic research as well as from biology and psychology to defend his theory of animism.Janet Oppenheim The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914 1988, pp.
Since retiring Aspin has written over a thousand light verses, published by Royd Publications and Carnegie Scotforth. As well as his writings on local and textile history and heritage, Aspin has written a number of short books for children and young people. During his later years he has also has written booklets of ghosts and hauntings (typically taking place within Rossendale), and is a member of the Society for Psychical Research.
The authorship of the book is diverse, with representatives from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. The book is interdisciplinary in that the authors also come from various fields of psychology, science studies, and psychical research. Lead author Edward F. Kelly is Professor of Research in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.Edward Francis Kelly, Ph.D. Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia.
The Enigma of Survival. Rider. p. 138 The psychical researcher Hereward Carrington with his colleagues also examined the trance controls in many séance sittings. They utilised instruments to measure everything from galvanic skin response to blood pressure and concluded from the results that the controls were nothing more than secondary personalities of Garrett and there was no spirits or telepathy involved.Peter H. Aykroyd, Angela Narth and Dan Aykroyd. (2009).
The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. J. T. White Company. p. 112. "He was actively instrumental in founding the American Society for Psychical Research, and for several years was prominent in its work; but having become convinced of the fallacy of many theories advanced by the parent society in London, he withdrew from active participation." He was highly critical of Alfred Percy Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism and the claims of Theosophy.
Psychoanalysts have made ample use of hermeneutics since Sigmund Freud first gave birth to their discipline. In 1900 Freud wrote that the title he chose for The Interpretation of Dreams 'makes plain which of the traditional approaches to the problem of dreams I am inclined to follow...[i.e.] "interpreting" a dream implies assigning a "meaning" to it.' The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan later extended Freudian hermeneutics into other psychical realms.
James was a founding member and vice president of the American Society for Psychical Research.Eugene Taylor. (2009). The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories. Springer. p. 30. The lending of his name made Leonora Piper a famous medium. In 1885, the year after the death of his young son, James had his first sitting with Piper at the suggestion of his mother-in-law.Deborah Blum. (2007).
Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850-1939. Boydell Press. pp. 60-62. According to psychical researcher Simeon Edmunds by 1955 when the LSA had changed name to the College of Psychic Science there was "no doubt that from that time onwards the society was no longer a spiritualist one" as it was accepting non-spiritualist members and held no corporate opinion on the question of survival.Edmunds, Simeon. (1966).
In 1954, Rudolf Lambert in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research claimed that Osty had shown him some suspicious photographs of the medium Eva Carrière depicting fraudulent materializations that were artificially attached to her hair by wires. Osty and other members of the Institut Métapsychique had known about the photographs but had chosen not to publish them.Guiley, Rosemary. (1994). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits.
Prince's research and writings were influential amongst parapsychologists. He has been described as one of the "great masters" in the history of parapsychology. Prince drew criticism from both skeptics and spiritualists. Those in the spiritualist community considered him an opponent of spiritualism, whilst skeptics such as psychologist Joseph Jastrow accused Prince of being naïve and not applying the same level of skepticism he had towards other psychical phenomena.
Sixty Years of Psychical Research: Houdini and I Among the Spiritualists. Truth Seeker Company. pp. 421-422. For some time after his death his research assistant and longtime secretary, Gertrude O. Tubby, received what she believed were communications from Hyslop through many mediums in the United States, France and Britain. "I find it difficult to assume that I am dead," he allegedly said to Gertrude, through the medium, Mrs Chenoweth (1920).
Janet Oppenheim, The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914, 1988, p. 270 The biologist and spiritualist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) believed that qualitative novelties could arise through the process of spiritual evolution, in particular, the phenomena of life and mind. Wallace attributed these novelties to a supernatural agency.Debora Hammond, The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory, 2003, p.
In his capacity as an Anglican priest he was a lecturer, personal counsellor and organiser of religious retreats. He also exercised a healing ministry, conducted exorcisms and was president of both the Guild of Health (1983–1990) and the Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies (1983–1998). He claimed to have regular contact with spirits of the dead (mediumship) and believed in the possibility of reincarnation.Israel, Martin.
Hereward Carrington (17 October 1880 – 26 December 1958) was a well-known British-born American investigator of psychic phenomena and author. His subjects included several of the most high-profile cases of apparent psychic ability of his times, and he wrote over 100 books on subjects including the paranormal and psychical research, conjuring and stage magic, and alternative medicine. Carrington promoted fruitarianism and held pseudoscientific views about dieting.
Macmillan of Canada. p. 13. "The history of parapsychology, of psychic phenomena, has been studded with fraud and experimental error." In the late 19th century the Creery Sisters (Mary, Alice, Maud, Kathleen, and Emily) were tested by the Society for Psychical Research and believed them to have genuine psychic ability; however, during a later experiment they were caught utilizing signal codes and they confessed to fraud.Hyman, Ray. (1989).
Collins and his wife, a spiritual medium, were actively involved with psychic phenomena during the 1930s. Their circle of friends included W.H. Salter, Theodore Besterman and Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, all of whom were affiliated with the Society for Psychical Research in London. Today Collins is remembered primarily as a fascist editor and publisher who detested both capitalism and communism and counted many pre-War writers as his friends or colleagues.
A middle-aged Camille Flammarion Flammarion approached spiritism, psychical research and reincarnation from the viewpoint of the scientific method, writing, "It is by the scientific method alone that we may make progress in the search for truth. Religious belief must not take the place of impartial analysis. We must be constantly on our guard against illusions." He was very close to the French author Allan Kardec, who founded Spiritism.
During séances, Eric Dingwall told Crandon to take off her clothes and sit in the nude. Crandon would also sometimes sprinkle luminous powder on her breasts and because of such activities William McDougall and other psychical researchers criticized Dingwall for having improper relations with Crandon. Historian Ruth Brandon has noted that as Bird, Carrington and Dingwall were all personally involved with Crandon, they were biased and unreliable witnesses.Brandon, Ruth. (1993).
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company. pp. 52–53 The trance medium Leonora Piper was investigated by psychical researchers and psychologists in the late 19th and early 20th century. In an experiment to test if Piper's "spirit" controls were purely fictitious the psychologist G. Stanley Hall invented a niece called Bessie Beals and asked Piper's 'control' to get in touch with it. Bessie appeared, answered questions and accepted Hall as her uncle.
Reviewed Work: The Riddle of Personality by H. Addington Bruce. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 6 (15): 415-416. His book Historic Ghosts and Ghost- Hunters (1909) is generally skeptical of poltergeist cases, concluding they are best explained by fraud and psychological factors such as hallucination or suggestion. He was a trustee of the American Society for Psychical Research and contributed articles to the Tomorrow magazine.
Flournoy is most known for his research on psychical phenomena. This was the study of mediumship, apparitions, clairvoyance, healings, poltergeists, premonitions, and thought transference. Flournoy knew when he began his research that he was going to receive criticism from other psychologists, as the research he was conducting seemed bizarre at the time. However, as he began his research it seemed that interest in the subject began to expand in other countries.
Prometheus Books. pp. 64–65. Price later re- published the Society's experiment in a pamphlet of his own called Cold Light on Spiritualistic "Phenomena" – An Experiment with the Crewe Circle. Due to the exposure of Hope and other fraudulent spiritualists, Arthur Conan Doyle led a mass resignation of eighty-four members of the Society for Psychical Research, as they believed the Society was opposed to spiritualism.G. K. Nelson. (2013).
Following the model of sympathy and empathy. is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference.Glossary of Parapsychological terms - Telepathy — Parapsychological Association.
The Newer Spiritualism. Henry Holt and Company. pp. 114–44 Although the investigators caught Palladino cheating during the séances, they were convinced Palladino had produced genuine paranormal phenomena such as levitations of the table, movement of the curtains, movement of objects from behind the curtain and touches from hands. In 1909, all three investigators wrote a report on the medium in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.
Hodgson was born in Melbourne, Australia on 24 September 1855 to Mr. R. Hodgson, leather merchant of Melbourne. He received a doctor of law degree in 1878 from the University of Melbourne. In the 1880s he moved to England to study poetry at St John's College, Cambridge. Hodgson met Henry Sidgwick his professor at Cambridge and became a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1882.
In 1948 she had a message from Fawcett's spirit reporting his death.Heywood, Rosalind, "Notes on the Mediumship of Geraldine Cummins", Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 45, 746, December 1970. Her last book was an account of her conversations with the spirit of Mrs Willett (the spiritualist name of Winifred Coombe Tennant): Swan on a Black Sea; a Study in Automatic Writing; the Cummins-Willett Scripts (1965).
He also became an honorary member of both the American Foundation for Psychical Research, Edinburgh Psychic College and the honorary president of both the Institute of Psychic Writers and Artists and the Spiritualists' National Union. In his will, he left Stansted Hall to the Spiritualists' National Union as a college for the advancement of Psychic Science, which was named the Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Science after him.
Parapsychology Review, 21-24. In 1944, he was awarded the D.Sc. from Queen Mary College, where he continued to lecture in mathematics until his retirement in 1954. In 1947, he presented the Ninth Myers Memorial Lecture to the Society for Psychical Research, largely on the topic of the card-guessing experiments he had been recently conducting. He served as president of the Society for the years 1950-1952.
Mikhail Petrovo-Solovovo, a scion of an ancient aristocratic family that owned a Neoclassical palace on Nevsky Avenue, inherited the comital title from his maternal grandfather, General Boris Perovsky, in 1907. He held the rank of chamberlain at the imperial court and, for some time, was the first secretary of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Empire. Solovovo joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1890."Count Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo".
Philosophy and Psychical Research, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1976, pp. 81–96. He suggested also that dream precognition did not reference any kind of future event, but specifically the future experiences of the dreamer. He was led to this idea when he found that a dream of a volcanic eruption appeared to foresee not the disaster itself but his subsequent misreading of an inaccurate account in a newspaper.
The rapid expansion of the noosphere requires a new domain of psychical expansion, which "is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it".The Phenomenon of Man, Harper Torchbooks, The Cloister Library, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961, p. 253. In Teilhard’s view, evolution will culminate in the Omega Point, a sort of supreme consciousness. Layers of consciousness will converge in Omega, fusing and consuming them in itself.
Enrico "Henry" Agostino Morselli (17 July 1852 - 18 February 1929) was an Italian physician and psychical researcher. Morselli was professor at the University of Turin. He is best known for the publication of his influential book, Suicide: An Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics (1881) claiming that suicide was primarily the result of the struggle for life and nature's evolutionary process.Stark, Rodney; Bainbridge, William Sims. (1996). Religion, Deviance and Social Control. Routledge. p. 32.
Nicholls claims to have had out of body experiences (OBEs) since the age of approximately twelve years old. These experiences led him to study many aspects of parapsychology. 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.
Von Szalay and Raymond Bayless' work was published by the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1959. Bayless later went on to co-author the 1979 book, Phone Calls From the Dead. In 1959, Swedish painter and film producer Friedrich Jürgenson was recording bird songs. Upon playing the tape later, he heard what he interpreted to be his dead father's voice and then the spirit of his deceased wife calling his name.
He is the nephew of artist Robert Smithson who introduced Coffin to the study of plant consciousness before Smithson died July 20, 1973 when Coffin was just a year old. In 2010, Coffin developed a library cataloguing system for the Library of the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City utilizing the colors cast on the library's shelves by the natural light passing through the library's Tiffany Stained Glass windows.
Their work was not independently verified.Blavatsky H. P. "ISIS UNVEILED: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology", Theosophical University Press Other psychical researchers who studied mediumship speculated that within the human body an unidentified fluid termed the "psychode", "psychic force" or "ecteneic force" existed and was capable of being released to influence matter.Hamlin Garland. (1936). Forty years of psychic research: a plain narrative of fact. pp.
Rudi Schneider (left) with Harry Price (right). In 1929, Schneider took part in a number of experiments conducted by notable investigator/debunker Harry Price at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research. Price conducted a series of experiments in which Schneider was connected to a series of pressure switches that would alert observers if he moved his hands, feet or limbs in any significant way. Schneider was also physically restrained during some of the experiments.
Savelli has been a research subject at Duke University, the Psychical Research Institute, and the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Positive results of his work have been published in Research in Parapsychology,1985, Scarecrow Press the Journal of Parapsychology,1986 and 1987 as well as by the Parapsychology Department of JFK University. Savelli has also authored an introductory text on the Spiritual, Mental, and Physical Teachings of Chinese Kung-Fu.
Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism. State University of New York Press. pp. 43-44. In 1964, psychical researchers R. G. Medhurst and K. M. Goldney cast considerable doubt on the reliability of Anderson's testimony and dismissed Hall's allegations. Biographer William Hodson Brock who has praised Hall's book also doubted the claims of an affair.Brock, William Hodson. (2008). William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science.
Richard Hodgson, a member of the SPR and a research worker of paranormal phenomena, was sent to India. Hodgson's task was to examine if the mode of appearance attributed to the Mahatma Letters represented genuine psychical phenomena. In December 1884 Hodgson arrived in Adyar. He eventually concluded that the evidence supported Emma Coulomb, and that various inconsistencies, misrepresentations, and provable falsehoods in sworn statements by certain Theosophical Society members destroyed their credibility.
The psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano (1938) had also supported a similar view describing the phenomena of the OBE experience in terms of bilocation in which an "etheric body" can release itself from the physical body in rare circumstances. The subtle body theory was also supported by occult writers such as Ralph Shirley (1938), Benjamin Walker (1977), and Douglas Baker (1979). James Baker (1954) wrote that a mental body enters an "intercosmic region" during the OBE.
The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. pp. 150-151. Crawford held a deep fixation on underwear, for example psychical researcher Theodore Besterman noted that before his suicide he "spent all his money (consequently leaving nothing) on a stack of woollen underwear for his family, sufficient to last for several years." In 1988, Susan Blackmore claimed that she had communicated with Dingwall about the case.
Researchers at the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee continue to develop Geddesian approaches to questions of city and regional planning and questions of social and psychical well-being in the built environment. In late 2015 the University staged an exhibition of Geddes' work in the Lamb Gallery, drawn from the Archives of the Universities of Dundee, Strathclyde, and Edinburgh, to mark the centenary of the publication of Cities in Evolution.
A disembodied spirit entity with a strange appearance and bulging eyes named "Ek" takes over the body of a meek psychical researcher, Professor Ezra Botts (Rogers), during an out-of-body experiment and proceeds to live it up while the researcher watches from limbo and tries to get back into his physical body and resume his life. Botts waits until the spirit collapses from exhaustion, then takes the opportunity to reinhabit his own body.
Due to the exposure of Hope and other fraudulent spiritualists, Arthur Conan Doyle led a mass resignation of eighty-four members of the Society for Psychical Research, as they believed the Society was opposed to spiritualism.Nelson, G. K. (2013). Spiritualism and Society. Routledge. p. 159. Doyle threatened to have Price evicted from his laboratory and claimed if he persisted to write "sewage" about spiritualists, he would meet the same fate as Harry Houdini.
Some researchers have attempted to update the afterlife hypothesis of Price. Michael Grosso (1979) in an extension of Price's theory suggested that the "ego may become fragmented in the afterlife state and when ones wish's and desires are played out may experience a transpersonal state akin to those experienced by the mystics".Grosso, M. (1979). The survival of personality in a mind-dependent world. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 73, 367–380.
The 50th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, September 2007, acclaimed him as an early pioneer in parapsychology and psychical research. He was married first in New York City to Marian Isabelle Goodwin in July 1871, and married second to Charlotte Louise Quick in 1886. After his death the latter used her inheritance to become a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance.Cary D. Wintz & Paul Finkelman, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Taylor & Francis, 2004, .
British biologist Alfred Russel Wallace who attended a séance with Evans in 1887 was convinced the slate-writing phenomena was genuine evidence for spirit communication and reported that there were five different coloured messages.Wallace, Alfred Russel. (1908). My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions London: Chapman & Hall. pp. 352-354 Slate- writing was popular in the late-nineteenth century but was discredited as fraudulent after investigations from magicians and psychical researchers.
Upon visiting an elderly blind man who claimed he could contact spirits that could aid in healing, she said she heard voices that resulted in her ability to deliver a message by automatic writing to a local judge who claimed the words came from his recently deceased son. Before Piper was investigated by psychical researchers she worked as a paid medium at a dollar for each sitting.The Independent. Volume 53, Issues 2757-2769.
Harry Houdini. (2011). A Magician among the Spirits (Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge). Cambridge University Press. The physician-psychical researcher Gustav Geley investigated Carrière and wrote she was a genuine psychic but never-published photographs were discovered after Geley's death which revealed fraudulent activity from the psychic's companion, Juliette Bisson, such as wires seen running from Carrière's head supporting fake ectoplasm.See the entry for ectoplasm in J. Gordon Melton. (2007).
Spiritualism taught that after death spirits progressed to spiritual states in new spheres of existence. According to Spiritualists evolution occurred in the spirit world "at a rate more rapid and under conditions more favourable to growth" than encountered on earth.Janet Oppenheim, The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914, 1988, p. 270 In a talk at the London Spiritualist Alliance, John Page Hopps (1834–1911) supported both evolution and Spiritualism.
"Telefonoscope" from La Fin du Monde, 1894 Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy- sur-Orge, France.
Hillyer maintained that he was then permanently sensitive to sunlight and burned easily. He developed keratoses, a pre-cancerous condition of the skin. He related his experience to experts, among them Professor Corneliu Barbulescu of the Romanic Folkloric Institute in Bucharest, Florescu, McNally, Dr. Devandra Varma -a vampirologist from India- and several psychical researchers in Southern California. From them, Hillyer pieced together theories about what had happened to him at Dracula’s Castle.
June gives Jorjie permission to stay until a violent storm passes. Gryffen has been working on the Space-Time Manipulator and a bolt of energy starts up the machine and brings spectres from Gryffen's past materialising in the mansion causing mayhem. K-9 sees the ghosts for what they really are and the group have to convince Gryffen before the youngsters life forces are drained away so that the alien beings can take psychical form.
Fifty Years of Psychical Research. Kessinger Publishing. (reprint) Price wrote that the findings of the other experiments should be revised due to the evidence showing how Rudi could free himself from the controls. After Price had exposed Rudi, various scientists such Karl Przibram and the magician Henry Evans wrote to Price telling him that they agreed that Rudi would evade control during his séances and congratulated Price on the success of unmasking the fraud.
Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), are generally credited with coining the term "remote viewing" to distinguish it from the closely related concept of clairvoyance,Kendrick Frazier. Science Confronts the Paranormal. Prometheus Books, Publishers; . p. 94–. although according to Targ, the term was first suggested by Ingo Swann in December 1971 during an experiment at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City.
In early 1969, he was named director of athletic and psychical education at United States International University. In addition to his bachelor's degree from Missouri Valley College, Patterson earned a master's degree from the University of Kansas City—now known as the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a doctorate in education from Columbia University. Patterson died at the age of 82, on May 10, 2000, at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Missouri.
The super-ego ()Laplanche, Jean; Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand (2018) [1973]. "Super-Ego". reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly taught by parents applying their guidance and influence. Freud developed his concept of the super-ego from an earlier combination of the ego ideal and the "special psychical agency which performs the task of seeing that narcissistic satisfaction from the ego ideal is ensured...what we call our 'conscience'."Freud, On Metapsychology pp. 89-90.
Sphere Books. pp. 41-42. His expertise in sleight-of-hand and magic tricks stood him in good stead for what would become his all consuming passion, the investigation of paranormal phenomena. The psychical researcher Eric Dingwall and Price re-published an anonymous work written by a former medium entitled Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922) which exposed the tricks of mediumship and the fraudulent methods of producing "spirit hands".Eric Dingwall, Harry Price. (1922).
In 1874, Huxley argued, in the Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, that animals are conscious automata. Huxley proposed that psychical changes are collateral products of physical changes. He termed the stream of consciousness an "epiphenomenon;" like the bell of a clock that has no role in keeping the time, consciousness has no role in determining behavior. Huxley defended automatism by testing reflex actions, originally supported by Descartes.
Methuen & Company Limited. Barrett was a Christian spiritualist and believed the visions were evidence for spirit communication.Oppenheim, Janet. (1985). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 365. In a study conducted between 1959 and 1973 by the parapsychologists Karlis Osis and Erlendur Haraldsson, they reported that 50% of the tens of thousands of individuals they studied in the United States and India had experienced deathbed visions.
The automatic writing and alleged channeled material from Cummins have been examined and have been described by some psychical researchers to be the product of her own subconscious. For example, Harry Price who studied various mental mediums including Cummins wrote that "there is no question that most of the automatic writing which has been published is the product of the subconscious."Harry Price. (1939). Miracles of the Mind: Some Famous Mental Mediums.
Auerbach was a columnist for Fate magazine from 1991 through 2004. He was the Public Information and Media Consultant to the American Society for Psychical Research in 1982-83, on the Core Faculty of the Graduate Parapsychology Program at John F. Kennedy University, and the Advisory Board of the Rhine Research Center. Auerbach runs his own ghost hunting business called The Office of Paranormal Investigations. He also teaches one online course at Atlantic University.
Arthur Findlay MBE JP (May 16, 1883 - July 24, 1964) was a writer, accountant, stockbroker and Essex magistrate, as well as a significant figure in the history of the religion of Spiritualism, being a partial founder of the newspaper Psychic News and also a founder of the International Institute for Psychical Research. In his will he left his home, Stansted Hall, to the Spiritualists' National Union.Briggs, Constance Victoria. (2010). Encyclopedia of the Unseen World.
In 1923 he took part in the Church of Scotland's enquiry into psychic phenomena. In the same year, he retired from his profession and purchased Stansted Hall in Stansted, England, a manor house built in 1871. In 1932, he became a founding member of Psychic News, a Spiritualist newspaper, along with Hannen Swaffer and Maurice Barbanell. He helped to found the International Institute for Psychical Research, of which he became the chairman.
159 Apart from his political career Selborne served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1910 and 1933, as his father had done before him, in 1875. In 1916 he was elected a member of the Society for Psychical Research. He was also Warden of Winchester College between 1920 and 1925 and High Steward of Winchester between 1929 and 1942. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1909.
In response to Hurkos's claim that he located the stolen "Stone of Scone," Home Secretary Chuter Ede declared: > The gentleman in question whose activities have been publicized (though not > by the police) was among a number of persons authorized to come to > Westminster Abbey to examine the scene of the crime. He was not invited by > the police, his expenses have not been refunded by the Government, and he > did not obtain any result whatsoever.Réginald Omez. (1958). Psychical > Phenomena.
Sidgwick had a lifelong interest in the paranormal. This interest, combined with his personal struggles with religious belief, motivated his gathering of young colleagues interested in assessing the empirical evidence for paranormal or miraculous phenomena. This gathering would be known as the "Sidgwick Group", and would be a predecessor of the Society for Psychical Research, which would count Sidgwick as founder and first president. Sidgwick would connect his concerns with parapsychology to his research in ethics.
He also joined the Folk-Lore Society, being elected to their council in 1946, and that same year giving a talk on "Art Magic and Talismans". Nevertheless, many fellows – including Katherine Briggs – were dismissive of Gardner's ideas and his fraudulent academic credentials. In 1946 he also joined the Society for Psychical Research. On May Day 1947, Gardner's friend Arnold Crowther introduced him to Aleister Crowley, the ceremonial magician who had founded the religion of Thelema in 1904.
Membership was small (82 members over 54 years) and women were not allowed but during this period it attracted some of the most original and controversial minds in psychical research. These included Sir William Crookes Sir Oliver Lodge, Nandor Fodor and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The archives of the Club reveal that the names of members, both living and dead, were solemnly recited each November 2. Each individual, living or dead, was recognized a member of the Club.
On more than one occasion deceased members were believed to have made their presence felt. Also involved were the poet W. B. Yeats (joined 1911) and Frederick Bligh Bond (joined 1925), who became infamous with his investigations into spiritualism at Glastonbury. Bligh Bond later left the country and became active in the American Society for Psychical Research. He was ordained into the Old Catholic Church and rejoined the Ghost Club on his return to Britain in 1935.
Another important aspect of body culture is spatial. Bodily display and movement always create space – physical space as socio-psychical space and vice versa. Bodily activities have during history changed between indoor or outdoor milieus, between non-specialized environment, specialized facilities (→sports facilities) and bodily opposition against existing standardized facilities or what was called "sport scape". In movement, straight lines and the culture of the streamline were confronted by mazes and labyrinthine structures, by patterns of fractal geometry.
The Karika defines Prakriti as "that nature which evolves", and asserts to be the material cause of the empirically observed world. Prakriti, according to the text, both physical and psychical, is that which is manifested as the matrix of all modifications. Prakriti is not primal matter, nor the metaphysical universal, rather it is the basis of all objective existence, matter, life and mind. Prakriti has two dimensions, that which is Vyakta (manifest), and that which is Avyakta (unmanifest).
When the report was published in English, it was challenged by various psychical researchers. In 1928, the German scientist Hans Driesch investigated Mirabelli and found that some objects had been moved in the séance room but that there was no evidence for his supposed abilities of materialization or apportation. Mirabelli later began giving public mediumship demonstrations which were described as theatrical displays. Throughout his life Mirabelli had been involved with 15 lawsuits for the illegal practice of witchcraft.
Michael Anthony Thalbourne, PhD (24 March 1955 – 4 May 2010, Adelaide, South Australia) was an Australian psychologist who worked in the field of parapsychology. He was educated at the University of Adelaide and the University of Edinburgh. His books include: A glossary of terms used in parapsychology (2003), The common thread between ESP and PK (2004), and Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the future of Psychical Research (2005).Michael A. Thalbourne and Lance Storm (2005).
Johnson retired from the Deanery of Canterbury in 1963, the year of his 89th birthday, but settled in the town, where he lived at the Red House in New Street. While maintaining his interest in Communist world developments, he engaged in psychical research and completed before his death his autobiography, Searching for Light (posthumously published in 1968). He died, at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 1966 aged 92, and was buried in the Cloister Garth at Canterbury Cathedral.
Journal of the Society For Psychical Research, vol 70, no.4, 246-48 Elizabeth and William were married when he was 19 years old, and found employment at the Balerno paper mill. The Homes moved into one of small houses built in the mill for the workforce, in Currie (six miles south-west of Edinburgh).Lamont 2005 p6 William was described as a "bitter, morose and unhappy man" who drank, and was often aggressive towards his wife.
See also "The Strange Case of Daniel Dunglas Home". Andrew Lang, Chapter 8 of [Historical Mysteries] (1904) Writing in the journal for the Society for Psychical Research, Count Perovsky-Petrovo-Solovovo described a letter by Dr. Barthez, a physician in the court of Empress Eugenie, which claimed a sitter Morio de l'lle caught Home using his foot to fake supposed spirit effects during a séance in Biarritz in 1857.Barthez, E. The Empress Eugenie and Her Circle .
"Hope was finally and completely discredited in 1933 in a famous paper in the Proceedings of the SPR by Fred Barlow and W. Rampling-Rose. Both photographic experts, they not only proved conclusively that Hope was fraudulent, but illustrated the methods by which he had faked his spirit pictures. Added weight was given to this exposure by the fact that Barlow was a former believer in spirit photography." The psychical researcher Eric Dingwall also noted another exposure.
Oakeshott, "Edward Bullough," 3. Bullough also had an interest in parapsychology, and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.Oakeshott, "Edward Bullough," 3. In 1908 Bullough married Enrichetta Angelica Marchetti (daughter of the actor Eleonora Duse), with whom he would have a son and a daughter."Professor Bullough, Italian Studies at Cambridge," The Times, 18 September 1934. He was elected to a Drosier Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College in 1912,Trayes, Biographical History of Caius, 132.
From 1889–91 he worked as a tutor in philosophy, ethics and psychology. From 1891–95 he worked as an instructor in ethics and from 1895–1902 as the professor of logic and ethics in Columbia University. During his years at Columbia University Hyslop wrote several textbooks, including The Elements of Logic (1892), Elements of Ethics (1895), and Problems of Philosophy (1905), and also became deeply involved with psychical research. In 1902 he received an honorary degree (LL.
At the outset, he noted that the current state of mind (primacy of science, developing technology, searching for interstellar communication) is just one of many possibilities and in the future it can be replaced by other interests. Moreover, according to him, the progress of science and technology on Earth was driven by two factors – the struggle for domination and the desire for an easy life. The former leads to complete destruction, the latter to biological or psychical degeneration.
The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife. Its members continue to conduct scientific research on the paranormal to this day. Some of the earliest attempts to apply scientific methods to the study of phenomena relating to an afterlife were conducted by this organization. Its earliest members included noted scientists like William Crookes, and philosophers such as Henry Sidgwick and William James.
The term parapsychology was coined in 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir as the German "parapsychologie." It was adopted by J. B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research in order to indicate a significant shift toward experimental methodology and academic discipline. The term originates from the meaning "alongside", and psychology. In parapsychology, psi is the unknown factor in extrasensory perception and psychokinesis experiences that is not explained by known physical or biological mechanisms.
Her interests were primarily artistic and she was for a time a court dressmaker. Riviere married Evelyn Riviere in 1907 and had a child, but suffered a breakdown on the death of her father around that time. She took an interest in divorce reform and the suffragette movement. Her uncle, Arthur Woollgar Verrall organised meetings of the Society for Psychical Research where she discovered the work of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, and this stimulated her interest in psychoanalysis.
Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Between 1979 and 1981, the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University reported a series of experiments they named Project Alpha, in which two teenaged male subjects had demonstrated psychokinesis phenomena, including metal-bending and causing images to appear on film, under less than stringent laboratory conditions. James Randi eventually revealed that the subjects were two of his associates, amateur conjurers Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards.
Sugden continued his interest in music and became a member of the Leeds Festival Chorus, and he also did some experimental work in psychical research and particularly in thought reading. Sugden married Mary Florence, née Brooke, at Stockport, Cheshire, England, on 22 August 1878; Mary died in childbirth in 1883.On 27 October 1886 Sugden married Ruth Hannah Thompson (d. 1932) at Bradford, Yorkshire, England; Sugden later described her as"my incomparable helpmate in every part of my work".
Paranormal research dates back to the 18th century, with organisations such as the Society for Psychical Research investigating spiritual matters. Psychic researcher Harry Price published his Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter in 1936. Ghost hunting was popularised in the 2000s by television series such as Most Haunted and Ghost Hunters, combined with the increasing availability of high- tech equipment. The Atlantic Paranormal Society reported a doubling in their membership in the late 2000s, attributing this to the television programs.
Jung had an apparent interest in the paranormal and occult. For decades he attended seances and claimed to have witnessed "parapsychic phenomena". Initially he attributed these to psychological causes, even delivering a 1919 lecture in England for the Society for Psychical Research on "The Psychological Foundations for the belief in spirits". However, he began to "doubt whether an exclusively psychological approach can do justice to the phenomena in question" and stated that "the spirit hypothesis yields better results".
For relevant works by James, see; William James, Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine (the Ingersoll Lecture, 1897), The Will to Believe, Human Immortality (1956) Dover Publications, , The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), , Essays in Radical Empiricism (1912) Dover Publications 2003, James was influential in the founding of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) in New York City in 1885, three years after the British Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was inaugurated in London, leading to systematic, critical investigation of paranormal phenomena. Famous World War II American General George Patton was a strong believer in reincarnation, believing, among other things, he was a reincarnation of the Carthaginian General Hannibal. At this time popular awareness of the idea of reincarnation was boosted by the Theosophical Society's dissemination of systematised and universalised Indian concepts and also by the influence of magical societies like The Golden Dawn. Notable personalities like Annie Besant, W. B. Yeats and Dion Fortune made the subject almost as familiar an element of the popular culture of the west as of the east.
The hypnopompic state (or hypnopompia) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers. Its mirror is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real-world stolidity. They have a different phenomenological character.
He was a Christian and member of the Christian Evidence Society. He was an original council member of the Society for Psychical Research and took interest in metaphysics. On 27 and 28 April 1876 he debated the atheist Charles Bradlaugh at Victoria Hall, Leeds on the topic of miracles. His book The Inspiration of the New Testament (1880) was endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He translated the second edition of Rudolf Clausius’ German physics textbook The Mechanical Theory of Heat in 1879.
Scott wrote that "Many members of my family had [...] seen phantasms, and auras, had had prophetic dreams and so on." (ibid., p. 22). Her venture into spiritualism resulted, in addition of the aforementioned book describing her four "visions", including that of her dead husband, in her involvement in an organization called the International Institute for Psychical Research formed in 1934 "for the purpose of investigating psychic phenomena on strictly scientific lines" and on whose Executive Committee she served as Organising Secretary.
He earned a Ph.D in zoology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1929, but as he could not find an academic position in zoology, he switched to chemistry. During the 1920s and 1930s he did some research on a medium, Matylda, for the Polish Society for Psychical Research. He published a report in 1932 in a German journal called Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie, but all of the unpublished notes and photos from the research were lost during World War II.
He concluded: "While we did replicate EVP in the weak sense of finding voices on audio tapes, none of the phenomena found in our study was clearly anomalous, let alone attributable to discarnate beings. Hence we have failed to replicate EVP in the strong sense." The findings were published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 2001, and include a literature review. In 2005, the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research published a report by paranormal investigator Alexander MacRae.
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 138. "Moses became one of the first vice-presidents and council members of the SPR" While the SPR was a body devoted to scientific study, the Ghost Club remained a selective and secretive organization of convinced believers for whom psychic phenomena were an established fact. Stainton Moses resigned from the vice presidency of the SPR in 1886 and thereafter devoted himself to the Ghost Club.
On 13 December 1904, Oliver Lodge arranged a meeting for members for the Society for Psychical Research. The contents of the envelope were made known to those present. A report was published by the Society's journal in 1905 which stated, "It has, then, to be reported that this one experiment has completely failed and it cannot be denied that the failure is disappointing." Other mediums involved in cross-correspondences have included Mina Crandon, Leonora Piper and George Valiantine."Cross-Correspondences".
He conducted approximately 10, 000 experiments with 100 subjects to test for extrasensory perception (ESP). He concluded after four years of research that "statistical treatments of the data fail to reveal any cause beyond chance". He also conducted 1,000 experiments with psychics and it was revealed that they had no advantage of any supposed psychic ability over normal subjects. His book Experiments in Psychical Research (1917) was well received by the scientific community for its methodology, rigorous statistics and use of experimental controls.
In Freud's psychoanalytical theory, erotic energy is allowed a limited amount of expression, owing to the constraints of human society and civilization itself. It therefore requires other outlets, especially if an individual is to remain psychologically balanced. Sublimation () is the process of transforming libido into "socially useful" achievements, including artistic, cultural, and intellectual pursuits. Freud considered this psychical operation to be fairly salutary compared to the others that he identified, such as repression, displacement, denial, reaction formation, intellectualisation, and projection.
In 1930–1932, she was appointed President of their London Branch, and from thence she continued to fight for female doctors' concerns on behalf of the British Medical Association. Fairfield was interested in parapsychology, and was a member of the Society for Psychical Research."Josephine Letitia Denny Fairfield (1885–1978): Pushing the Boundaries of Medicine", Journal of Medical Biography; accessed 25 July 2020. Despite many differences, Fairfield and her sister Cissy remained on the same political page throughout their lives.
Thalbourne obtained his B.A. (Hons) at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1976, and his PhD in parapsychology at Edinburgh University in 1981. From 1980 through 1987 when it closed Thalbourne researched at the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Thalbourne was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide from 1992 until 2007, and was President of the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research. He was editor of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.
Personal evidence as to uninduced hallucinations was also collected. The first results are embodied in the volumes of Phantasms of the Living, a vast collection (Frank Podmore, Myers and Gurney), and in Gurney's essay, Hallucinations. Evidence for the process called telepathy was supposed to be established by the experiments chronicled in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, and it was argued that similar experiences occurred spontaneously, as, for example, in the many recorded instances of deathbed wraiths.Tylor, Primitive Culture, i.
Scientific American. pp. 224–225, p. 286 Fred Barlow, a former friend and supporter of Hope's work and also the former Secretary of the Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures, along with Major W. Rampling-Rose, gave a joint lecture to the Society for Psychical Research to present findings gleaned from an extensive series of tests on the methods Hope used to produce his spirit photographs. They concluded that the spirits that appeared in Hope's photographs were produced fraudulently.
The story concerns a meeting of the 'local Psychical Society' at which guest speaker, Major Weaver, claims to have 'proof positive' that 'the spirit does not die when the body dies'. The Major appears ill and carries a handkerchief with an overpoweringly sweet odor. As he speaks his words become increasingly disjointed until finally it degenerates into an 'odd jangling note' as he collapses back into his chair. A doctor from the audience rushes onstage, discards the handkerchief and pronounces him dead.
Since 1995 Fischer has been managing the Cologne Help for Victims Project (KOM-Project). In the autumn of 1998 the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia decided that the project would be implemented countrywide. As a part of the project the Center for Psychotraumatology was established in the Alexianer Hospital Krefeld in the summer of 2004 as the teaching and research department of the IKPPD. Fischer developed a method of etiology orientated treatment of psychical disorders, the Psychodynamic-dialectic Psychotherapy (PdP).
Shortly after, the family reported a variety of incidents including the sounds of servant bells ringing despite their being disconnected, lights appearing in windows and unexplained footsteps. In addition, Smith's wife believed she saw a horse-drawn carriage at night. The Smiths contacted the Daily Mirror asking to be put in touch with the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). On 10 June 1929 the newspaper sent a reporter, who promptly wrote the first in a series of articles detailing the mysteries of Borley.
According to Price, the dream world will not follow the laws of physics just as ordinary dreams do not. In addition, he wrote that each person will experience a world of their own, though he also wrote that the dream world doesn't necessarily have to be solipsistic as different selves may be able to communicate with each other by dream telepathy.Price, H. H., 1953. "Survival and the Idea of ' Another World'," Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 50 (182): 1–25.
K. Ramakrishna Rao, V. Gowri Rammohan New Frontiers of Human Science: A Festschrift for K. Ramakrishna Rao 2002, p. 54 The psychical researcher Ralph Noyes (1998) published an article discussing the theories of Price and attempted to update them with recent finds in parapsychology. Noyes proposed that the mental world of Price is a "psychosphere" which he defined as a "vast and complex cauldron of ideas, memories, volitions, desires and all the other furniture of conscious experience and unconscious mental functioning".
The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology. Checkmark Books. p. 69. . In 1913, Edwin William Friend was employed by Hyslop as his assistant and with help of Theodate Pope became the editor for the Journal of American Society for Psychical Research. Friend was sent articles that were to be published in the journal but instead decided to write his own articles. In response, Hyslop repossessed the editorship of the journal and both Friend and Pope resigned from the ASPR in 1915.
I and II. London: Trubner and Co..Sidgwick, Eleanor; Johnson, Alice; and others (1894). Report on the Census of Hallucinations, London: Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. X. which suggested approximately 10% of the population had experienced at least one hallucinatory episode in the course of their life. More recent studies have validated these findings; the precise incidence found varies with the nature of the episode and the criteria of "hallucination" adopted, but the basic finding is now well-supported.
In 1884, she published the first paper by a woman to appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. She also published a study on the development of cranial nerves in the newt embryo with Lilian Sheldon, then a student at Newnham College. In 1890, she became private secretary to Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research. Johnson was secretary for the Society from 1903 to 1907 and was its research officer from 1907 to 1916.
Description page at a stock photo agency representing the Mary Evans Picture Library, where the date is also given as 1909. She visited the researcher in 1908 and 1909; hence, the exact year is uncertain and reported as 1908 elsewhere. Scientists suspected Tomczyk performed her feats by the use of a fine thread or hair, running between her hands to lift and suspend the objects in the air. This was confirmed when psychical researchers who tested Tomczyk occasionally observed the thread.
Indeed, he possesses the characteristics of the animals: he is brave like a lion, timid like a hare, patient like a lamb, and cunning like a fox. From the physical, Joseph passes on to deal with the psychical man. Man, he says, is made up of three souls, vegetative, animal, and rational. Of these the rational soul is the highest in quality: it is of a spiritual substance; and its accidents are equally spiritual, as, for instance, conception, justice, benevolence, etc.
Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson conducted much of his research into reincarnation during the 1970s, and the second edition of his Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation was published in 1974. Psychologist Thelma Moss devoted time to the study of Kirlian photography at UCLA's parapsychology laboratory. The influx of spiritual teachers from Asia, and their claims of abilities produced by meditation, led to research on altered states of consciousness. American Society for Psychical Research Director of Research, Karlis Osis, conducted experiments in out of body experiences.
Another photograph revealed ectoplasm in the shape of a deflated and disembodied penis. According to historian Ruth Brandon, Juliette Bisson and Carrière were in a sexual relationship together, and they worked in collaboration with each other to fake the ectoplasm and eroticize their male audience.Ruth Brandon. (1983). The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. pp. 152-160. In 1920, anthropologist Eric Dingwall and physician-psychical researcher V. J. Woolley tested Carrière in London.
Britzman was hired as an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University. Seven years after she began teaching at Binghamton, she moved to Canada to teach at York University in Toronto, where she has been since 1992. Britzman’s book Freud and Education, published in 2011 by Routledge Press explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach. It defines how fundamental Freudian concepts such as the psychical apparatus, the drives, the unconscious, and the development of morality are related to the field of education.
Sir Walter Leaf (26 November 1852, Upper Norwood – 8 March 1927, Torquay) was an English banker, classical scholar and psychical researcher. He published a benchmark edition of Homer's Iliad and was a director of Westminster Bank for many years, eventually becoming its chairman. He was a co-founder and later president of the International Chamber of Commerce, and served as president of the Institute of Bankers, the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association. He married Charlotte Symonds, daughter of John Addington Symonds.
Bheki (Sanskrit: भेकि) is the name given to a frog that symbolises the sun on the horizon in Sanskrit legend. Related myths can be found in Germanic and Celtic culture."'Cupid, Psyche, and the "Sun-Frog"’, Custom and Myth: (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884)." In The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume 1: Anthropology, Fairy Tale, Folklore, The Origins of Religion, Psychical Research, edited by Teverson Andrew, Warwick Alexandra, and Wilson Leigh, 66–78.
Crandon's reputation was also damaged when a fingerprint left on wax ostensibly by her channeled spirit, her deceased brother, Walter, was discovered to belong to her dentist Frederick Caldwell by a member of the Boston Society for Psychical Research. Her dentist divulged that he had taught her how to make these prints. In 1934, Walter Franklin Prince described the Crandon case as "the most ingenious, persistent, and fantastic complex of fraud in the history of psychic research."Hansel, C. E. M. (1989).
Grattan-Guinness took an interest in the phenomenon of coincidence and has written on it for the Society for Psychical Research. He claimed to have a recurrent affinity with one particular number, namely the square of 15 (225), even recounting one occasion when a car was in front of him with the number plate IGG225, i.e. his very initials and that number. He died of heart failure on 12 December 2014, aged 73, survived by his wife Enid Grattan-Guinness.
For example, this is the > salient position of Slavoj Zizek, Alenka Zupancic, Bruce Fink, Lorenzo > Chiesa, Joan Copjec, and many others. It is also frequently the position of > Jacques Lacan. [...] One must, as a consequence of holding this position, > bracket questions pertaining to things outside of the symbolic and imaginary > psychical systems. Careful study exposes the extent to which this position > has influenced each of the major fields of research inspired by Jacques > Lacan: clinical psychoanalysis, radical political theory, and mathematical > topology.
Historian Janet Oppenheim has noted that Lodge's interest in spiritualism "prompted some of his fellow scientists to wonder if his mind, too, had not been wrecked."Oppenheim, Janet. (1988). The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 376. In 1913 the biologist Ray Lankester criticized the Spiritualist views of Lodge as unscientific and misleading the public.Bowler, Peter J. (2001). Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early- Twentieth-Century Britain. University Of Chicago Press. p. 64.
Roberts took interest in psychical research and spiritualism but approached these subjects from mostly a skeptical position. He was the author of The Mysterious Madame: A Life of Madame Blavatsky (1931), a highly critical biography of Helena Blavatsky. In his book The Truth about Spiritualism (1932) he came to the conclusion that there is no evidence for the spirit hypothesis in mediumship. According to the research of Roberts all séance and spiritualist phenomena can be explained by "telepathy, self- deception, fraud or neurosis".
I and II. London: Trubner and Co..Sidgwick, Eleanor; Johnson, Alice; and others (1894). Report on the Census of Hallucinations, London: Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. X. which suggested approximately 10% of the population had experienced at least one hallucinatory episode in the course of their life. More recent studies have validated these findings; the precise incidence found varies with the nature of the episode and the criteria of "hallucination" adopted, but the basic finding is now well-supported.
' Thus when I gave the order 'Choose a yellow ball from this bag' the word 'yellow' might have brought up a yellow image, or a feeling of recognition when the person's eye fell on the yellow ball. The drill of teaching could in this case be said to have built up a psychical mechanism. This, however, would only be a hypothesis or else a metaphor. We could compare teaching with installing an electric connection between a switch and a bulb.
He also became an expert in statistical methods. In 2007 Hyman received an honorary doctorate from the Simon Fraser University for his "intellect and discipline who inspire others to follow in his footsteps... (and) for his courageous advocacy of unfettered skeptical inquiry". In 1982, Hyman held the "Spook Chair" for one year at Stanford University during a sabbatical from the University of Oregon. What the Stanford University psychologists informally call the "Spook" chair is officially known as The Thomas Welton Stanford Chair for Psychical Research.
Her trip to the Berkshires with the other ladies takes a turn for the worse when she receives a phone call about a family emergency. Back in New York, Wainstein adjust to her life without a nanny. Wainstein suffers an injury on her vagina and meets with her plastic surgeon about the possible psychical damages. Despite their bonding, a tension build up between Frankel and Wainstein result in Wainstein giving Frankel her frank opinion after listening to Frankel and the wives talk badly about de Lesseps.
Henry Sidgwick (; 31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was the Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1883 until his death, and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research and a member of the Metaphysical Society and promoted the higher education of women. His work in economics has also had a lasting influence.
Balta plays as a tall defender. He is notable for his psychical attributes, possessing great athletic abilities including great running power and a high leap. He played his junior years and early AFL matches as a swingman, rotating between roles as a key defender, key forward and ruck. During his breakout 2020 season, Balta drew persistent comparisons to former teammate and multi-time All-Australian fullback Alex Rance, including when All-Australian selector Glen Jakovich called Balta better than Rance at the same age.
Prometheus Books. The skeptic Gordon Stein dedicated the book The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal to Dingwall.Gordon Stein. (1996). The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. According to authors William Kalush and Larry Sloman when investigating the medium Mina Crandon; Dingwall told her to take off her clothes and sit in the nude. Crandon would also sometimes sprinkle luminous powder on her breasts and because of such activities William McDougall and other psychical researchers criticised Dingwall for having improper relations with Crandon.William Kalush, Larry Sloman. (2006).
In the 1970s, James Smith McDonnell, board chairman of McDonnell Douglas and believer in the paranormal, approached Washington University in St. Louis with plans to set up a permanent PSI research facility. Eventually, physicist Peter Phillips, who was also interested in the field, agreed to lead a parapsychology lab at the school. Phillips had degrees in physics from both Cambridge University and Stanford University. In 1979, McDonnell arranged a 500,000 USD grant for the establishment and five years operation of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research (MacLab).
Stead with his family, 1900s In the 1890s, Stead became increasingly interested in spiritualism. In 1893, he founded a spiritualist quarterly, Borderland, in which he gave full play to his interest in psychical research. Stead was editor, and he employed Ada Goodrich Freer as assistant editor; she was also a substantial contributor under the pseudonym "Miss X". Stead claimed that he was in the habit of communicating with Freer by telepathy and automatic writing.Borderland, volume I, 1893, p 6\. Quoted in Hall (1980) p. 50.
"I am certain that Reese was neither a medium nor a fake. I saw him several times and on each occasion I wrote something on a piece of paper when Reese was not near or when he was in another room. In no single case was one of these papers handled by Reese, and some of them he never saw, yet he recited correctly the contents of each paper." Psychical researcher Eric Dingwall who observed Reese in New York City claimed to have discovered his cheating methods.
Kerry exercised an influence not just within the circle of Brentano, especially on (for the concept "psychical labor"), Edmund Husserl (in the Philosophy of Arithmetic), and Kazimierz Twardowski,Maria van der Schaar 2015, p. 53. but also on Gottlob Frege. In fact, Frege conceived his paper "Concept and Object" as a reply to Kerry's criticisms. Furthermore he was in close contact with Georg Cantor and it is thanks to his review of the Mannigfaltigkeitslehre that Bertrand Russell came to know of the work of Cantor.
Ivor Lloyd Tuckett argued that Home did this to provide "a rough sketch of the picture which he aimed at producing".Ivor Lloyd Tuckett. (1911). The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critical Study Made with "Uncommon Sense". Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company. p. 34 Another possible natural explanation for Home's famous levitation was proposed by the psychical researcher Guy William Lambert who suggested he had attached a rope to the chimneys on the roof of the building, and hung the rope down unseen to the third floor.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 80. Skeptic James Randi stated that Home was caught cheating on a few occasions, but the episodes were never made public, and that the accordion feat was a one-octave mouth organ that Home concealed under his large moustache. Randi writes that one-octave mouth organs were found in Home's belongings after his death. According to Randi, "around 1960", William Lindsay Gresham told Randi he had seen these mouth organs in the Home collection at the Society for Psychical Research.
From 1921 to 1968 the house functioned as a home to various German and cultural organizations. In January 1968, James Romano, his wife, and six children settled in the home. The Romano family reported several encounters with ghosts in their new home, and attempted exorcisms and even had a now-defunct ghost-hunting group (the Northeast Ohio Psychical Research Society) investigate the castle. By 1974, the Romanos decided to leave the house, and sold it to Sam Muscatello, who planned to turn the castle into a church.
This fact is confirmed his "polemic against materialism, positivism and scepticism, the references to spiritism and psychical research as proofs of the approaching spiritual synthesis of science, religion and art." Rose-Carol Washton-Long wrote that Theosophy convinced Kandinsky that "hidden imagery could be a powerful method" of conveying the spiritual ideas. In his lexicon, Leadbeater's concept of vibration was fixed for life. He used it in his "most famous image" of creativity: > Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel Horrorstör. Hendrix lives in Manhattan and was one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival. Hendrix worked in the library of the American Society for Psychical Research before turning to professional writing. Alongside his novels, he has written for numerous media outlets, including Playboy Magazine, The New York Post, and, prior to its closure in 2008, as a film critic for The New York Sun.
The Works of William James: Essays in Psychical Research by F. Burkhardt; F. Bowers; The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science by Stephen E. Braude. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Vol. 49, No. 2. pp. 353–357. Wendy Grossman in New Scientist wrote that Braude's book The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science (1986) relied on anecdotal evidence and eyewitness testimony of séances with physical mediums, in particular, Eusapia Palladino and Daniel Dunglas Home, to prove that psi exists.
In Imperial Russia a prominent developer of the field was Aleksandr Nechayev (Александр Петрович Нечаев) in St. Petersburg, who in 1901 created the laboratory of experimental pedagogical psychology. Soviet pedology is traditionally thought to be founded by the efforts of Vladimir Bekhterev; in particular, in 1918 he founded the Institute of Pedology as part of psychological institutions united into the Institute for Study of Brain and Psychical Activity. This science was intensively pursued in 1920s-1930s in the Soviet Union. A journal Pedologiya ("Педология") was issued.
Edward Bullough (28 March 1880 – 17 September 1934) was an English aesthetician and scholar of modern languages, who worked at the University of Cambridge. He did experimental work on the perception of colours, and in his theoretical work introduced the concept of psychical distance: that which "appears to lie between our own self and its affections" in aesthetic experience. In languages, Bullough was a dedicated teacher who published little. He came to concentrate on Italian, and was elected to the Chair of Italian at Cambridge in 1933.
Anomalous experiences, such as so-called benign hallucinations, may occur in a person in a state of good mental and physical health, even in the apparent absence of a transient trigger factor such as fatigue, intoxication or sensory deprivation. The evidence for this statement has been accumulating for more than a century. Studies of benign hallucinatory experiences go back to 1886 and the early work of the Society for Psychical Research,Gurney, E., Myers, F.W.H. and Podmore, F. (1886). Phantasms of the Living, Vols.
Medicine in Manitoba: The Story of Its Early Beginnings. Winnipeg: Stovel-Advocate Press, Ltd., 1955 He was an elder of King Memorial church for 28 years.Hamilton, Is Survival a Fact, 3 T.G. served on the Public School Board for nine years from 1906 to 1915, one year as chairman. – University of Manitoba Archives, “Hamilton Family fonds” T.G. was the first president of the University of Manitoba Alumni Association in 1921 and became the first president of the Winnipeg Society for Psychical Research in 1931.
On October 7, 1930 it was claimed by spiritualists that Eileen J. Garrett made contact with the spirit of Herbert Carmichael Irwin at a séance held with Price at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research two days after the R101 disaster, while attempting to contact the then recently deceased Arthur Conan Doyle, and discussed possible causes of the accident.Melvin Harris. (2003). Investigating the Unexplained: Psychic Detectives, the Amityville Horror- mongers, Jack the Ripper, and Other Mysteries of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. pp. 171-182.
In the 1950s, Jenkins joined the Tyneside Humanists Group, later to become North East Humanists, becoming President at an early stage of his membership. Neil was an active member of the association, making regular contributions to their monthly meetings. In addition to his scientific publications, Neil was joint author, with Alfred Hobson, of the book "Modern Humanism". Neil also gave funeral orations for those who requested non-religious ceremonies, and was an active member of the Friends of Jesmond Dene and the Society for Psychical Research.
The psychical researcher Thomson Jay Hudson in The Law of Psychic Phenomena (1892) and Théodore Flournoy in his book Spiritism and Psychology (1911) wrote that all kinds of mediumship could be explained by suggestion and telepathy from the medium and that there was no evidence for the spirit hypothesis. The idea of mediumship being explained by telepathy was later merged into the "super-ESP" hypothesis of mediumship which is currently advocated by some parapsychologists.Harvey J. Irwin, Caroline Watt. (2007). An Introduction to Parapsychology. McFarland. pp. 138–44.
On 7 October 1930 it was claimed by spiritualists that Eileen J. Garrett made contact with the spirit of Herbert Carmichael Irwin at a séance held with Price at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research two days after the R101 disaster, while attempting to contact the then recently deceased Arthur Conan Doyle, and discussed possible causes of the accident.Melvin Harris. (2003). Investigating the Unexplained: Psychic Detectives, the Amityville Horror-mongers, Jack the Ripper, and Other Mysteries of the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. pp. 171–182.
Science writer Martin Gardner suggested that the possibility of sensory leakage during the experiment had not been ruled out: Frederick Marion who was investigated by the Society for Psychical Research in the late 1930-1940s. The Turner-Ownbey long distance telepathy experiment was discovered to contain flaws. May Frances Turner positioned herself in the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory whilst Sara Ownbey claimed to receive transmissions 250 miles away. For the experiment Turner would think of a symbol and write it down whilst Ownbey would write her guesses.
Carrière with fake ectoplasm made from the French magazine Le Miroir. In the early 20th century the psychical researcher Albert von Schrenck-Notzing investigated the medium Eva Carrière and claimed her ectoplasm "materializations" were the result of "ideoplasty" in which the medium could form images onto ectoplasm from her mind. Schrenck-Notzing published the book Phenomena of Materialisation (1923) which included photographs of the ectoplasm. Critics pointed out the photographs of the ectoplasm revealed marks of magazine cut-outs, pins and a piece of string.
The report became known as the "Feilding report" and has been a source of debate between psychical researchers and sceptics. Frank Podmore in his book The Newer Spiritualism (1910) wrote a comprehensive critique of their report. Podmore said that the report provided insufficient information for crucial moments and the investigators representation of the witness accounts contained contradictions and inconsistencies as to who was holding Palladino's feet and hands. Podmore found that the accounts among the investigators conflicted as to who they claimed to have observed the incident.
Anomalous experiences, such as so-called benign hallucinations, may occur in a person in a state of good mental and physical health, even in the apparent absence of a transient trigger factor such as fatigue, intoxication or sensory deprivation. The evidence for this statement has been accumulating for more than a century. Studies of benign hallucinatory experiences go back to 1886 and the early work of the Society for Psychical Research,Gurney, E., Myers, F.W.H. and Podmore, F. (1886). Phantasms of the Living, Vols.
Hansel noted that there was a history of "trickery" in psychical research and reached the conclusion that although trickery was not necessarily the cause of the results, as long as it could not be ruled out ESP could not be claimed to have been conclusively demonstrated. In his revised edition, Hansel (1980) points out that "after 100 years of research, not a single individual has been found who can demonstrate ESP to the satisfaction of independent investigators. For this reason alone it is unlikely that ESP exists".
There are multiple programs designed to support military families. FAP was developed to support the specific needs of military families and currently provides several programs designed to reduce IPV. These programs include new parent support, individual counseling, couples counseling, workshops, and seminars. Strength at Home-Men’s Program (SAH-M), a 12-week cognitive- behavioral and trauma-informed group intervention designed to reduce IPV, has been shown to help individuals limit psychical and psychological IPV, and improve emotional processing, which has been associated with violence.
Harry Price (17 January 1881 – 29 March 1948) was a British parapsychologist, psychic researcher and author who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and his exposing of fraudulent spiritualist mediums. He is best known for his well-publicized investigation of the purportedly haunted Borley Rectory in Essex, England. Price's exploits were given wide exposure in a 1950 book, Harry Price, Biography of a Ghost Hunter by Paul Tabori. He was also a longstanding member of the Ghost Club based in London.
Army List, various dates. He married first Louisa Pennant, great granddaughter of the Welsh naturalist and travel writer Thomas Pennant. She died of consumption in 1853, and he then married Mary Berkeley of Spetchley, Worcestershire, and had, among others, a son and successor Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh (1859-1939); his second son Everard Feilding (1867-1936), Hon. Sec. of the Society for Psychical Research; and a daughter Lady Winefride Mary Elizabeth (24 September 1868 - 24 February 1959), who married Gervase Elwes on 11 May 1889.
Tandy went on to recreate his experience, and with the assistance of Dr. Tony Lawrence, he was able to publish his findings in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.. Their research led them to conclude that infrasound at or around a frequency of 19 Hz, has a range of physiological effects, including feelings of fear and shivering. Though this had been known for many years, Tandy and Lawrence were the first people to link it to ghostly sightings. Tandy also appeared in the "Ghosts on the London Underground" documentary.
He retained a critical faculty in dealing with occult subjects, believing that there is a good deal of fraud or self- deception in Spiritualism and psychical research. Clive-Ross was the founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of Studies in Comparative Religion; the earliest English-language journal of traditional studies, founded in Britain in 1963 and continuing until its publication was interrupted in 1987. The journal focused on the spiritual practices and religious symbolism of the world's religions. The journal was notable for the number of prominent Perennialists who contributed to it.
Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena (New York: B.W. Dodge & Co., 1909) p. 57. He carried out research into hypnosis, and documented the phenomenon of "externalisation of sensibility" whereby hypnotised subjects acquire a physical sensitivity to stimuli at a distance; for example, the subject can be made to feel pain if a certain spot is pinched or pricked away from the body and can even be made to feel the sensations of the hypnotist.Boirac, Émile. Psychic science, an introduction and contribution to the experimental study of psychical phenomena (London, Rider, 1918) pp.
Freud was to become interested in such mistakes from 1897 onwards, developing an interpretation of slips in terms of their unconscious meaning.Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for our Time (1989) p. 125 Subsequently followers of his like Ernest Jones developed the theme of lapsus in connection with writing, typing, and misprints.D. C. Greetham, Theories of the Text (1999) p. 249-252 According to Freud's early psychoanalytic theory, a lapsus represents a bungled act that hides an unconscious desire: “the phenomena can be traced back to incompletely suppressed psychical material...pushed away by consciousness”.
In 1888, the Everard Baths, a Turkish bath, was opened, and would gain a growth in reputation among homosexual men. In 1895 a group of self-described androgynes in New York organized a club called the Cercle Hermaphroditos, based on their wish "to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution". The group included Jennie June (born in 1874 as Earl Lind), who described herself as a "fairie" or "androgyne", which to her meant an individual, as she said, "with male genitals", but whose "psychical constitution" and sexual life "approach the female type".
The 20th century's move from séance room investigation to laboratory-based research meant the Ghost Club fell out of touch with contemporary psychic research. Harry Price, famous for his investigation into Borley Rectory, joined as a member in 1927 as did psychologist Nandor Fodor who represented the changing approach to psychical research taking place. With attendance falling, the club closed in 1936 after 485 meetings. The Ghost Club records were deposited in the British Museum under the proviso that they would remain closed until 1962 out of respect for confidentiality.
Hillman, James. (1975). p. 31. In the technique of embodied imagination, for each of these "selves" or "states" representing various perspectives, the dreamer then feels, identifies, and locates the feelings and sensations in his or her body. At the conclusion of the dreamwork session, the dreamer simultaneously holds in conscious awareness these differentiated and complex states of embodied feeling and sensation. The act of holding these multiple disparate states at the same time creates a psychical tension from which a completely new image or feeling state spontaneously emerges from the dreamer's psyche.
Eva Carrière and supposed ectoplasm (1912) The idea of ectoplasm was merged into the notion of an "ectenic force" by some early psychical researchers who were seeking a physical explanation for reports of psychokinesis in séances. Its existence was initially hypothesized by Count Agenor de Gasparin, to explain the phenomena of table turning and tapping during séances. Ectenic force was named by de Gasparin's colleague M. Thury, a professor of natural history at the Academy of Geneva. Between them, de Gasparin and Thury conducted a number of experiments in ectenic force, and claimed some success.
Some psychical researchers such as Thomson Jay Hudson have claimed no spirits are involved in automatic writing and the subconscious mind is the explanation. Automatic writing as a spiritual practice was reported by Hyppolyte Taine in the preface to the third edition of his De l'intelligence, published in 1878. Besides "ethereal visions" or "magnetic auras", Fernando Pessoa claimed to have experienced automatic writing. He said he felt "owned by something else", sometimes feeling a sensation in the right arm he claimed was lifted into the air without his will.
Robert Cochrane (26 January 1931 – 3 July 1966), who was born as Roy Bowers, was an English occultist who founded the tradition of Pagan Witchcraft known as Cochrane's Craft. Born in a working-class family in West London, he became interested in occultism after attending a Society for Psychical Research lecture, taking a particular interest in witchcraft. He founded one coven, but it soon collapsed. He began to claim to have been born to a hereditary family of witches whose practices stretched back to at least the 17th century; these statements have later been dismissed.
He was an assistant lecturer of physics at the University of Birmingham starting in 1910, and in October 1914 he went to teach at the University of the Punjab in Lahore. He retired in 1927 after a stroke that left him with a paralyzed hand, but he continued to write in his chosen fields. Fournier d'Albe was the inventor of the optophone and worked as an assistant to the physicist Oliver Lodge. He worked for three years as the secretary at the Dublin section of the Society for Psychical Research.
Previously employed at Liverpool Hope University, lecturing in psychology with a parapsychology component, O'Keeffe is a member of the Society for Psychical Research and a senior advisor to The Ghost Club. According to his own website, he completed his PhD at the University of Hertfordshire under the supervision of Richard Wiseman and Julia Buckroyd.About me section at theparapsychologist.com (accessed 2012 April 11)According to the British Library Electronic Theses Online Service, O'Keeffe's October 2004 PhD thesis has the title: "Assessing the content of advice from practitioners claiminggjjg paranormal ability".
Reformational philosophy has always been concerned that philosophy be fruitful for the special sciences; the theory of irreducible modal aspects has had the greatest influence in this respect. Although accounts differ, it is customary to distinguish fifteen modal aspects which evince the ways or modes we experience reality. These are: numerical, spatial, kinematic, physical, organic, psychical, logical, historical, linguistic, social, economic, aesthetic, legal, moral and mystical. Each mode expresses itself in all the other modes through analogies within the mode that either "anticipate" later modes or “retrocipate” earlier modes.
Allochiria represents a psychical affection and the occurrence of any form of allochiria should be regarded as a positive indication of the presence of hysteria. Recognition of the allochiria may throw light upon a number of symptoms that would otherwise be misinterpreted as paresis, aboulia, and defective sensibility. This enables a correct analysis to be made of the precise defects present and serve as a guide toward the original focus of the whole affection and proving an important step in the exact psychological diagnosis that is an essential preliminary to the scientific treatment of hysteria.
The terms spirit, prana, the Polynesian mana, the Hebrew ruach and the psyche in psychology are related to the concept of breath.psych-, psycho-, -psyche, -psychic, -psychical, -psychically + (Greek: mind, spirit, consciousness; mental processes; the human soul; breath of life) In T'ai chi, aerobic exercise is combined with breathing exercises to strengthen the diaphragm muscles, improve posture and make better use of the body's Qi, (energy). Different forms of meditation, and yoga advocate various breathing methods. A form of Buddhist meditation called anapanasati meaning mindfulness of breath was first introduced by Buddha.
She expresses an interest in joining the Psychical Society to help her understand the ghost. Mrs. Otis is given Wilde's highest praise when he says: "Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English...." The most colorful character in the story is undoubtedly the ghost himself, Sir Simon, who goes about his duties with theatrical panache and flair. He assumes a series of dramatic roles in his failed attempts to impress and terrify the Otis family, making it easy to imagine him as a comical character in a stage play.
If he had written it quickly, it would have been the first English-language textbook on the topic. It was twelve years, however, before his two-volume The Principles of Psychology would be published. In the meantime textbooks were published by George Trumbull Ladd of Yale (1887) and James Mark Baldwin then of Lake Forest College (1889). William James was one of the founders of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1885, which studied psychic phenomena (parapsychology), before the creation of the American Psychological Association in 1892.
Carpet, cork, sheet vinyl flooring are some of the flooring options which can be used for bedrooms, kitchen and bathrooms used by elders. Tiles can be extremely slippery when they are wet which increases the risk of accidents. Also, they are very hard and cold on feet which makes it difficult to walk barefoot during winters. Interior design can positively influence the psychical and psychological well being of elderly, and if each area in house is designed according to requirements of elderly, it can make an older adult live their life safely, comfortably and happily.
Later Hiroyoshi Kuwahara created Neo Spiritualism which combined Japanese Spiritualism with the content of British spirit messages. Japan Psychic Science Association (JPSA) was started in December 1946 promotes spiritualism and conducts psychical research. It provides members with the opportunities for psychic readings and healings and promotes scientific research by a team of scientists and engineers. Recently widespread popular interest was inspired by Hiroyuki Ehara, a self-professed spiritual counselor who hosts a weekly television show Aura no Izumi where he looks into celebrities' past lives and reads their "auras".
Retrieved 3 May 2015. Some members of the Society for Psychical Research such as inventor Maurice Grosse and writer Guy Lyon Playfair believed the haunting to be genuine, while others such as Anita Gregory and John Beloff were "unconvinced" and found evidence the girls had faked incidents for the benefit of journalists. Members of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, including stage magicians such as Milbourne Christopher and Joe Nickell, criticised paranormal investigators for being credulous whilst also identifying features of the case as being indicative of a hoax.Couttie, Bob. (1988).
"Anita Gregory, of the Society for Psychical Research, who had spent just a short time at the Hodgson home, said the mysterious men's voices were simply the result of Janet and Margaret putting bed sheets to their mouths. In addition, Gregory said that a video camera had caught Janet attempting to bend spoons and an iron bar by force and "practicing" levitation by bouncing up and down on her bed." Grosse had observed Janet banging a broom handle on the ceiling and hiding his tape- recorder.Couttie, Bob. (1988).
As a result, the Army changed its policy to allow the service of transgender people if a medical examination determines that they are "in good physical and psychical health, sufficiently resistant to stress, resilient and able to be subordinate", and it established a diversity office. Since 2019, the draft form has allowed draftees to indicate their gender identity separately from their assigned sex, a change proposed by LGBT rights organizations. However, transsexuality or gender dysphoria remain reasons for dismissal according to Army regulations. Army medical officials said that about 18 draftees were so diagnosed annually.
In The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud refers to religion as an illusion which is "perhaps the most important item in the psychical inventory of a civilization". In his estimation, religion provides for defense against "the crushingly superior force of nature" and "the urge to rectify the shortcomings of civilization which made themselves painfully felt". He concludes that all religious beliefs are "illusions and insusceptible of proof". Freud then examines the issue of whether, without religion, people will feel "exempt from all obligation to obey the precepts of civilization".
Gage became a Theosophist, and the last two years of her life, her thoughts were concentrated upon metaphysical subjects, and the phenomena and philosophy of Spiritualism and Theosophical studies. During her critical illness in 1896, she experienced some illuminations that intensified her interest in psychical research. She had great interest in the occult mysteries of Theosophy and other Eastern speculations as to reincarnation and the illimitable creative power of man. Like many other suffragists, Gage considered abortion a regrettable tragedy, although her views on the subject were more complex than simple opposition.
In February 1922, the Society for Psychical Research and the paranormal investigator Harry Price with James Seymour, Eric Dingwall and William Marriott demonstrated that Hope was fraudulent during tests at the British College of Psychic Science. Price wrote in his report "William Hope has been found guilty of deliberately substituting his own plates for those of a sitter... It implies that the medium brings to the sitting a duplicate slide and faked plates for fraudulent purposes."Polidoro, Massimo. (2011). "Photos of Ghosts: The Burden of Believing the Unbelievable". Csicop.org. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
Puruşārthasiddhyupāya deals extensively with the Jaina concept of ahimsa (non-injury) particularly in reference to its observance as a minor vow (anuvrata) by the Śrāvaka. In "Verse 43" deliberate himsa (injury) is defined as “acting under the influence of passions, an injury caused to physical or psychical vitalities” (verse 43). Acharya Amritchandra then elaborates on the observances that help the householder in abiding by his minor vow of ahimsa. Eleven verses (79-89), cautions the householder regarding certain misconstrued notions that people put forward to justify their acts of himsa.
Voices were heard in the séances of Valiantine and he always used a trumpet but denied that he had spoken through it. Psychical researcher Ernest Palmer had investigated the trumpet after a séance and discovered "a good deal of moisture" inside the mouth piece, which indicated that it been spoken into by an ordinary human and not a spirit.Palmer, E. Clephan. (2003). Riddle of Spiritualism. Kessinger Publishing. p. 78. Valiantine entered for the Scientific American prize of $2,500, to be awarded to any medium producing spiritualist phenomenon under test conditions.
Then he cleaned his skis and put them in the cupboard. He hid Trevelyan's ski boots in the chimney to prevent the police seeing them, and thus possibly realising how quickly a person on skis could have travelled between Sittaford and Exhampton. Major Burnaby hoped that the second pair of skis, of a different size, would pass unnoticed. Mr Rycroft, who is a member of the Psychical Research Society, reassembles five of the six original participants for a second séance at Sittaford House, the absent Mr Duke being replaced by Brian Pearson.
After graduation, Katz held several research positions. He worked for the Brain Research Laboratories (New York University) developing neurometric systems based on the multivariate statistical analysis of electroencephalographic signals (EEG). He later worked for HeartMap, a biomedical company, where he headed the design, hardware prototyping, software development and testing of a 64-channel cardiac monitor with special analytic capabilities, including neural network pattern recognition and the ability to generate 3-D images of the electrical potentials across the surface of the heart. He also worked for the American Society for Psychical Research.
1–10 Furthermore, many with disabilities, intellectual and (or) psychical, finding a stable workforce poses many challenges. According to a study conducted by JARID (Journal of Applied Research and Intellectual Disability, indicates that although finding a job may be difficult for an intellectually disabled individual, stabilizing a job is even harder. This is largely due to two main factors: production skills and effective social skills. This idea is supported by Chadsey-Rusch, who claims that securing employment for the intellectually disabled, requires adequate production skills and effective social skills.
The Guidebook for the Study of Psychical Research. Rider. pp. 162–179 According to Richet: > It seems to me prudent not to give credence to the spiritistic hypothesis... > it appears to me still (at the present time, at all events) improbable, for > it contradicts (at least apparently) the most precise and definite data of > physiology, whereas the hypothesis of the sixth sense is a new physiological > notion which contradicts nothing that we learn from physiology. > Consequently, although in certain rare cases spiritism supplies an > apparently simpler explanation, I cannot bring myself to accept it.
George Albert Smith (4 January 1864 - 17 May 1959) was an English stage hypnotist, psychic, magic lantern lecturer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, inventor and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul. He is best known for his controversial work with Edmund Gurney at the Society for Psychical Research, his short films from 1897 to 1903, which pioneered film editing and close-ups, and his development of the first successful colour film process, Kinemacolor.
On June 13, 1858, the steamboat's boiler exploded; Henry succumbed to his wounds on June 21. Twain claimed to have foreseen this death in a dream a month earlier, which inspired his interest in parapsychology; he was an early member of the Society for Psychical Research.For a further account of Twain's involvement with parapsychology, see Blum, Deborah, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (Penguin Press, 2006). Twain was guilt-stricken and held himself responsible for the rest of his life.
Luis Ruiz-Noguez believes that the most likely explanation for the visual effect of the Bélmez images is Jordán's suggestion of the use of an oxidizing chemical agent. For example, nitric, sulfuric, muriatic, acetic acid, and others, could be used to obtain such an effect. Another explanation might be the use of agents sensitive to light (which was not mentioned in either Jordán's or Perera's repertoire of forgery hypotheses): silver nitrate which, when subjected to ultraviolet sunlight, darkens.Tort, Cesar in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (op.
A correlation has been found between paranormal belief and irrational thinking. In an experiment Wierzbicki (1985) reported a significant correlation between paranormal belief and the number of errors made on a syllogistic reasoning task, suggesting that believers in the paranormal have lower cognitive ability. A relationship between narcissistic personality and paranormal belief was discovered in a study involving the Australian Sheep-Goat Scale. De Boer and Bierman wrote: A psychological study involving 174 members of the Society for Psychical Research completed a delusional ideation questionnaire and a deductive reasoning task.
Retrocognition (also known as postcognition or hindsight ), from the Latin retro meaning "backward, behind" and cognition meaning "knowing," describes "knowledge of a past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means."Dale, L. A., & White, R. A. (1977), or in other words someone gets knowledge about the past life of someone else without the known or ordinary sources but with some kind of power of the brain. It is also considered sixth sense by some people. Glossary of terms can be found in the literature of psychical research and parapsychology.
Price was convinced no one had entered the room via door or window during the séance. Price's Fifty Years of Psychical Research (1939) describes his experiences at the sitting and includes a diagram of the séance room. Eric Dingwall and Trevor Hall wrote the Rosalie séance was fictitious and Price had lied about the whole affair but had based some of the details on the description of the house from a sitting he attended at a much earlier time in Brockley, South London where he used to live.Eric Dingwall, Trevor Hall. (1958).
Its themes included votes for women, women's education, and "radical" attitudes towards vivisection, dress reform, women's control of their sexuality, child care, and vegetarianism. It published literary criticism, including works about Shakespearean characters, feminist poetry, and book recommendations for young women. Sibthorp was a member of the Theosophical Society, which was reflected in Shafts extensive coverage of occult and psychical topics. As noted by Claudia Nelson in her book Invisible Men, Shafts "offered little factual reportage" and instead largely consisted of opinion pieces, correspondence columns, short stories and poetry.
Thomson Jay Hudson Thomson Jay Hudson (February 22, 1834 in Windham, Ohio – May 26, 1903 in Detroit, Michigan), was a chief examiner of the US Patent Office and a psychical researcher, known for his three laws of psychic phenomena, which were first published in 1893.Great Minds of New Thought: Thomson Jay Hudson. Refusing his father's wish to become a minister of religion, Hudson funded his own study of law at college. He began a law practice in Port Huron, Michigan but, in 1860, he began a journalistic career instead.
This book was a guide to both past and present philosophy at the time, and a basic text for German university students of not just general philosophy, but psychology, logic, ethics, and aesthetics as well. In the book, Külpe also looks at the relations of the body and the mind, and in doing so, takes a dualistic position. Külpe also gives a clearly describes the relationship between physical and psychical, or in other words natural science and psychology. He identifies the possibility of what he refers to as a mind substance.
Shinn is well known in the Psychology community for her published Doctoral Dissertation "Notes on the Development of a Child (1898)." Additionally, Shinn's personal observational work prior to her doctorate program, "The First Two Years of the Child" was considered the first of its kind. Her research focused specifically on observing the emotional and psychical health of her niece and her progression over the first two years of her life. This was the first extensive documentation of a child's upbringing and was thought to be incredibly valuable to the field of child psychology.
Beatrice Fry Hyslop was born at home in New York on 10 April 1899 to James H. Hyslop, professor of philosophy and ethics at Columbia College and founder of the American Society for Psychical Research. Her mother, Mary Fry (Hall) Hyslop, daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, was a pianist. She died when Beatrice was 18 months old. Beatrice attended the Barnard School for Girls (founded in 1889) from 1912 to 1915, before graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1919 as a Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in history and art.
Spiritism () is an 1885 book by German philosopher Eduard von Hartmann, the author of the famous treatise Philosophy of the Unconscious. In professor Corinna Treitel's opinion, publication of this book became one of the "key events" in history of the "German occult movement." This book was "one of the first works to attempt a complete psychological explanation of all occult phenomena." According to Charles Massey, one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research, publication of this book made the "most brutal blow" out of all ones that were ever directed against Spiritualism.
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 35, 471-594. This suggested, in line with earlier speculations, that the statements of mediums had nothing to do with "spirits of the departed," but only knowledge gained - by telepathy, if need be - from the sitters themselves. What was particularly surprising was that this information was yet to be learned by Soal himself. Soal himself practised automatic writing at this time, and pseudonymously authored a much-discussed paper on the scripts he produced, which purported to be authored by the deceased Oscar Wilde.
Hadron Dalla is a psychical researcher and has been married to Verkan Vall twice. On the home timeline, she is a member of Rhogom Memorial Foundation of Psychic Science in Dhergabar. Dalla traveled to the Akor-Neb sector to continue research, where she discovered evidence that human consciousness survives the body and reincarnation is a scientific fact; this research led to a major upset of Akor-Neb politics and societal structure, and forced Verkan Vall to retrieve her lest the Paratime Secret be disclosed (see Last Enemy). Dalla remarries Vall.
During a poke night at Davidson's home, Glanville feels the need to protect he close friend Kim from her sister Kyle after they accuse her of displaying erratic behavior. In the attempts to remove Kim from the property, Glanville gets into a psychical altercation with Kyle. Following the aftermath of the poke night at Rinna's jewelry party Glanville is called out by the other ladies on her recent behavior. Glanville visits Kim after her release from hospital, and is affirmed that her actions at poker night were okay and that her and Kim are still friends.
Another indication of his lifelong interest in the supernatural is his longstanding membership of the Society for Psychical Research and The Ghost Club. He remarked in a letter to Mike Ashley, "What impact such things have had on me, and the sources of my inspiration, are simply too much for a letter. If you wish to pursue such topics, I shall be pleased to have a talk." Unfortunately that talk never took place, but Ashley points out that Aickman's early life, including some supernatural episodes, will be found detailed in his autobiography, The Attempted Rescue (Gollancz, 1966).
Director Ivan Reitman (shown here in 2013) contributed ideas to the Ghostbusters script and helped secure its funding. Ghostbusters was inspired by Dan Aykroyd's fascination with and belief in the paranormal. This was inherited from his father (who wrote the book A History of Ghosts), his mother (who claimed she had seen ghosts), a grandfather (who experimented with using radios to contact the dead), and a great-grandfather (a renowned spiritualist). In 1981, he read an article on quantum physics and parapsychology in The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, which gave him the idea of trapping ghosts.
Naphthali ben Levi (Henri) van Praag (September 12, 1916 in AmsterdamNovember 3, 1988 in Hilversum) was a Jewish-Dutch educator, philosopher and theologian (or religious historian) who also became known as a (ortho) educational therapist and writer and as a publicist at the psychological and parapsychological field. The last field he was in 1978, succeeding Prof. WHC Tenhaeff, Professor behalf of the Students for Psychical Research (SPR). He described the scope of this assignment as anthropological parapsychology, in contrast with the experimental parapsychology, by his fellow professor, the Swede Martin Johnson, at the same University of Utrecht was taught.
Although hypnosis was the main focus of Barber's research, his other interests included investigator bias, psychical phenomena, and comparative psychology, as reflected in his book The Human Nature of Birds (1993). His later unpublished work focused on the mind–body problem and is purported to advance a type of panpsychism. At a meeting of the executive council of CSI in Denver, Colorado, in April 2011, Barber was selected for inclusion in CSI's Pantheon of Skeptics. The Pantheon of Skeptics was created by CSI to remember the legacy of deceased fellows of CSI and their contributions to the cause of scientific skepticism.
Teilhard views evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity. From the cell to the thinking animal, a process of psychical concentration leads to greater consciousness.The Phenomenon of Man, Harper Torchbooks, The Cloister Library, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961, p. 169. The emergence of Homo sapiens marks the beginning of a new age, as the power acquired by consciousness to turn in upon itself raises mankind to a new sphere.The Phenomenon of Man, Harper Torchbooks, The Cloister Library, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1961, p. 165. Borrowing Huxley’s expression, Teilhard describes humankind as evolution becoming conscious of itself.
As a philosopher, Balfour formulated the basis for the evolutionary argument against naturalism. Balfour argued the Darwinian premise of selection for reproductive fitness cast doubt on scientific naturalism, because human cognitive facilities that would accurately perceive truth could be less advantageous than adaptation for evolutionarily useful illusions. As he says: He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research, a society studying psychic and paranormal phenomena, and was its president from 1892 to 1894. In 1914, he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow, which formed the basis for his book Theism and Humanism (1915).

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