…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…
…he remained as a vice-president to the end of his life four decades later. He died on 17 February 1955. 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…
…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….
…Psychical Research 19, 680-89. The latest ‘Margery’ ‘exposure’ (1925). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 19, 717-29. Observations on the Moss Case (1926). Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 20, 41-54. ‘Margery’ the medium (1926). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 23, 140-41. The slate-writing…
…to him included the classroom door ‘banging open’ after Virginia had been sent out, shutting it behind her; an apple floating out of a fruit bowl and a shaving brush flying around the bathroom; displaced objects; coloured writing appearing briefly on the girls’ faces; and Virginia’s lips turning bright red….
