…psychical research: Personismus (‘personism’, pertaining to phenomena appearing as if caused by discarnate spirits involving no supernormal information or effect, merely stemming from a medium’s or percipient’s intra-personal unconscious dramatization, as, for example, in most instances of automatic writing); Animismus (‘animism’, describing phenomena appearing as if caused by discarnate spirits,…
…joined the SPR in 1890 and later served as council member, secretary, treasurer and president. He helped create a research endowment fund and assisted in reorganising the American Society for Psychical Research. His major writings focused especially on Rosalie Thompson’s mental mediumship, trance controls and automatic writing. Life and Career…
…experimented with hypnosis, crystal-gazing, telepathy and automatic writing in his student years and later served as president of the Society for Psychical Research. His writings explored telepathy, mediumship and reports of supernormal phenomena in classical antiquity, bringing historical scholarship into dialogue with psychical research. He is perhaps best remembered for…
…aware of the crisis. Gurney’s and Myers’s guiding idea – complemented by findings from their simultaneous exploration of the psychology of automatic writing and hypnotically-induced hallucinations and dreams – was that, if veridical hallucinations did occur, they might be understood as recipients’ idiosyncratically dramatized expressions of telepathic impressions, received below…
…and to explore how such experiences can be conveyed and explained to a ‘scientifically-oriented’ audience, in such a way that they are not automatically dismissed without a fair hearing.35Young & Goulet (1994), 12. Drawing inspiration from Turner’s writings, Frank Salamone has highlighted the need for a return to holism in…
…footsteps, buzzing sounds, the clatter of hoof beats, the rustling noise of clothes as if someone was moving. Direct writing. Writing appeared on paper without human touch. Disembodied voices that spoke and sang (see below). Responsive xenoglossy. There were conversations between sitters and the disembodied voices in languages unknown to…
…on ‘Radiaesthesia’ in France (1936). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 29, 273-75. My experiments with J.F. Sambor (1937). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 30, 87-90. Two series of experiments in automatic writing (1938). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 30, 177-80. Witchcraft in the Belgian…
…as successful and 204 as complete failures, although the question of how one should think of the successes raises some rather complex issues.30Briefly touched on in Gauld (1982), 49. Cross-Correspondences Sidgwick was also involved with the ‘cross-correspondences’, the prolonged series of apparent interrelated automatisms (mostly but not entirely automatic writings)…
…writing. In in 1897, Til found himself writing a statement to the effect that his son Edward was about to be dismissed from his job, having been caught stealing cigarettes. When he checked with his son’s boss he discovered the assertion was false, and later the communicating ‘spirit’ admitted having…
