…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…
…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 the threshold of conscious awareness. The project…
…a scholarship at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Gardner decided to become a writer and worked briefly as a reporter in Tulsa. He then returned to the University of Chicago to work in its press relations office, mostly writing science research press releases. He also edited Comment, the university’s literary magazine,…
…complete a psychological questionnaire, and performed a Rorschacht test on Sumitra herself; he also had a handwriting analysis performed on three letters, two written by Shiva and another said to have been written by Sumitra following the transformation.5Dayal (1988), 60-61. See Annexure on page 77 for the handwriting analysis. Two…
…order’71Medhurst et al .(1972), 233, but added that he had obtained no evidence that such agency accounted for the phenomena observed. In an 1870 diary entry he seemed to have been convinced that he had been in contact with the departed. But later writings contradicted this. Writing to a lady…
…experiences; (3) 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…
…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)…
