…and other personality traits that went beyond what Carington’s model allowed. On his first Asian trip, he had not fully appreciated this and so had not emphasized these aspects in Twenty Cases, but he intended to remedy this deficiency in forthcoming writings.10Stevenson (1973). The influence of Carington’s psychon theory is…
…Wolf (1993). Examples of some of this other work are his writings Soeur Marthe (as Epheyre, 1889), Les Guerres et la Paix (1899), Circé (1903; with R. Brund), Abregé d’Histoire Générale (1919), La Selection Humaine (1919) and L’Aviation Triomphante (1926). Richet saw psychology as an extension of physiology. In his…
…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…
…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…
…return very soon: he then told her also the reason why he had been unable to write. The woman went home pretty much at ease. What the solitary had told her was minutely fulfilled, her husband returned, and the reasons of his delay and his not writing were just the…
…the result. In each case the three girls were correct, giving male in red, Zhou in red, and see (colour not mentioned) (see Fig 1: second line). The boy, who was unable to identify the writing in his package became upset at having failed the test. Following this demonstration, more…
…write in German. The letters were separate, unlike Dolores’s usual cursive handwriting. Figure 1: Gretchen’s German writing, and the normal handwriting of Dolores Jay Fig. 1: Gretchen’s German script, and a sample of Dolores Jay’s handwriting made during her normal waking state.4Reproduced in Stevenson (1984), 43. Criticism and Controversy Stevenson…
