…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, 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 of…
…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,…
…so said she had known her in her previous life. Swarnlata’s father began writing down her statements in September 1958 when she was ten, providing a written record of her memories prior to contact with the former family. The two families never lived in communities less than a hundred miles…
…Britain while writing widely on dreams, consciousness and survival. As SPR president and chair of its Survival Research Committee, he took an active role in field investigations, including the Scole sittings. He regretted the neglect of fieldwork and collaboration with mediums in favour of an exclusively laboratory-centred approach. Life and…
…published his book How to Contact Space People, he had begun trying to document his actions by announcing them in writing to other people beforehand and having witnesses write out and sign affidavits. It is only through seeing this documentation, Mishlove writes, that he was able to put any credence…
…own experiments, he believed that ESP had been scientifically demonstrated. He maintained this view throughout his life, writing in 2012 that ‘sufficient positive results have been obtained in innumerable well-conducted tests by so many different experimenters at widely separate academic centres, that belief in ‘psi’ effects is justified’.3West (2012), 218….
