…some of Price’s conjectures but doubted whether the characteristics of apparitions could be accounted for within a non-physical theory; he suggested that apparitions have some objective existence in the material world, and that they might to some extent reflect light waves.44Johnson (1961), 213-17. GNM Tyrrell, writing in the 1940s, looked…
…marking substance usually is Sumi writing and drawing ink. This appears to be an old practice, mentioned as early as 1661. A mother marked the face of her deceased daughter with Sumi ink and her next child had a similar mark in the same place.23Ohkado (2017), 564. In a case…
…Gross’s dowsing activities largely ceased. Gross died in 1979. Bermuda Familiar with the Caribbean island of Bermuda from frequently writing his novels there, Roberts was aware that the island was thought to have no fresh groundwater for drinking, only brackish water; the only sources were rainwater, gathered mainly from the…
…writings of Hughlings Jackson, Henry James and cases of near-death experience. He further discusses the contribution of psychiatry to psychical research in a book published to mark the centenary of the founding of the SPR.3McHarg (1982b). Selected Works Articles Poltergeist and apparitional haunting phenomena affecting the family and associates of…
…Green’s writings on lucid dreaming and out-of-body experience became part of the modern conceptual vocabulary of those subjects. She founded the Institute of Psychophysical Research, giving unusual experiences a more durable research setting. Her work joins empirical collection with philosophical analysis rather than treating anomalous experience as merely anecdotal. Life…
…later edited the British Journal of Medical Psychology. Within the Society for Psychical Research, he concentrated on multiple personality, including a case from his own practice and the Doris Fisher case. His writings helped connect psychoanalysis, psychopathology and mediumistic trance within one continuing field of inquiry. Career Thomas Walker Mitchell…
…psychical research through historical and psychological interests rather than through specialist scientific training. From her position on the SPR Council, she helped expand the library and reported many lectures and discussions for the Society’s publications. Her writings linked psi with wider intellectual concerns, including religion, psychoanalysis and the critical assessment…
…most restless and open minds of his era’.2Gawlik & Furtak (2017). However, his professional prospects were adversely affected by his interest in hypnosis, which at the time was regarded with suspicion in Poland, and his many writings on the subject were largely ignored.3Weaver (2019), 70. In his later years he…
…vice-president to the end of his life. Psychical Research Writing on the subject of dreams, Jacks lamented that this was neglected by psychology, and that psychical researchers’ interest tended to be limited to veridical aspects indicative of psychic activity.2Jacks (1916). In an article published in 1919 in the Atlantic Monthly,…
