…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…
…use automatic writing to predict the sinking of the Lusitania with loss of 1,200 lives and a profound effect to follow, which he gathered meant the entry of the US in the war. Doyle held that psychical research and spiritualism were profoundly relevant to conventional religion, a theme he pressed…
…him vulnerable to criticism. 9Thouless (1968). Critique by Vernon Harrison In 1986 Dr Vernon Harrison, a senior SPR member and expert in photography and handwriting, published a powerful critique of the handwriting evidence in the Hodgson report. Having examined in the British Library all the Mahatma Letters received by Sinnett…
…inorganic matter.2Driesch, 1899). During the following years, he turned increasingly to writing about biological questions from an analytical and theoretical perspective. As a result of his published treatises he was invited to hold the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 1907 and 1908. These lectures were published in…
