…Jung married Emma Rauschenbach, whose family wealth relieved him of financial concerns. In 1905, Jung was employed as lecturer in the medical faculty of the University of Zurich. He resigned a few years later in order to dedicate himself to research, writing, and private practice as a psychiatrist.3Wehr (1987). In…
…became acquainted with theosophical literature of Annie Bessant, Henry S Olcott, and other leaders of Helena Blavatsky’s movement. Following his return to Mexico in 1903, Madero began to experiment systematically as a scribe medium receiving communications in writing, guided by Kardec’s Book of Mediums. According to the memoir he wrote…
…visual history of ghosts, art and science. Objects on display included ectoplasm photographs, spirit trumpets, slate-writing tablets, materialised hand casts and spirit photographs. A section on CG Jung connected mediumship and ghostly phenomena with his theory of externalised unconscious processes. The Exhibition The exhibition Geister. Dem Übernatürlichen auf der Spur…
…people’s minds. Because of the danger that denying the supernatural might lead to disbelief in key tenets of Christian doctrine, Glanvill saw his writings on the subject as: necessary for our Age, in which Atheism is begun in Sadducism. And those that dare not bluntly say, There is NO GOD,…
…think about giving up the chairmanship of his department so that he could engage full time in research and writing. Parapsychology Foundation grants helped to compensate for income from his clinical practice and allowed him to stop seeing patients, but he was still spending a good deal of time on…
…that refuse normal explanation. Louisa Rhine helped devise early experimental methods, but her distinctive legacy lay in collecting and analysing spontaneous psi reports. She accepted broad testimony for pattern-finding rather than case-proof, seeking clues for future laboratory research. Her writings proposed a two-stage psi process and explored dreams, intuitions, crisis…
…five years as honorary secretary. Gregory (writing as Kohsen) translated Russian researcher LL Vasiliev’s writings into English for publication under the title Experiments in Distant Influence in 1963.2Grattan-Guinness (1985), 61. She also edited the writings of Cyril Burt, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1975. Investigations and Experiments Rudi Schneider…
…and parapsychology. The effort has involved the creation or major rewriting more than 630 articles, which ‘has empirically improved verifiability on pseudoscience entries by increasing the proportion of citations from credible scientific literature’.11Matsakis (2018). About Time In 2018, Gerbic founded About Time, a non-profit organisation that manages her various sceptical initiatives….
Cyril Burt (1883–1971), one of Britain’s most influential psychologists, took a serious interest in parapsychology, arguing that claims of extra-sensory perception and other psychic phenomena merited scientific attention. His writings on psi, produced after retirement, approached these disputed phenomena with caution, curiosity and rational scrutiny. After retiring from academic psychology,…
