…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 to psychology to…
…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 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 roofs…
…pseudo psi phenomena that might arise from ‘pre-existing psychotic, psychoneurotic, or physiological pathologies’. Here he mentions the writings of Hughlings Jackson, Henry James and near-death experiences. He further discusses the contribution of psychiatry to psychical research in a book published to mark the centenary of the founding of the SPR.4McHarg…
…Green’s writings on lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences 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. Life and Career Thomas…
…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…
…the 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 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…
