…6. 27 Hodgson (1892), 60. 28 Hodgson (1892), 21. 29 Hodgson (1892), 127. 30 Hodgson (1892), 127-8. 31 Hodgson (1892), 129. 32 Hodgson (1892), 122. 33 Hodgson (1892), 123. 34 Hodgson (1892), 159. 35 Hodgson (1892), 295. 36 Hodgson (1892), 296-99. 37 James (1909), 3. 38 Piper (1901). 39 Anonymous…
…that Hodgson had once given Jessie, also the fact that he had heard about her death from Jessie’s sister – all confirmed as true by Hodgson. Although much impressed, and convinced that Piper was not a charlatan, Hodgson, like James, first favoured telepathy as the explanation for these feats. As…
…Hodgson report of 1885. Pasadena, California, USA: Theosophical University Press. Harrison, V. (1986). J’Accuse: An examination of the Hodgson Report of 1885. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 53, 286-310. Hodgson, R. (1894). The defence of the Theosophists. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 9, 129-59. Hodgson, R.,…
…terrorist attack. Growing the Network Software development and hardware construction began in 1997. In August the following year, the GCP began collecting data with three nodes running. The number quickly increased as the network grew toward its goal to cover the whole world, with enough independent nodes to apply sophisticated…
The ‘Junot’ sittings occurred during the later stages of the trance mediumship of Leonora Piper, which was closely observed between 1888 and 1905 by Richard Hodgson on behalf of the Society for Psychical Research. The sittings were initiated by the father of a seventeen-year old boy who had recently drowned…
…in other respects was a typical little boy. Mrs Hodgson’s brother John Burcombe, a hospital worker, lived nearby at 272 Green Street with his wife Sylvia and two children Paul and Denise. The two families appeared to be close, and John was supportive towards the Hodgsons. The Hodgsons’ next door…
…in 1887, reached out to Richard Hodgson, who had made a name for himself with his investigation of Theosophist Helena Blavatsky in India. At first Hodgson declined to accept the position of ASPR Secretary, but under the urging of the SPR’s Henry Sidgwick, he accepted, initially for one year only.12Berger…
…be made unconsciously better, yet all the while consciously to lie awake o’ nights, as I still do?40H. James (1920), vol. 1, 261. In correspondence to his wife James mentioned some experiences he had in New York together with Richard Hodgson. One reads as follows: In bed at 11.30, after…
…Adyar, Madras. She died there in 1933. Hodgson Report In 1884, the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) appointed a committee to investigate claims of séance-type phenomena by affiliates of the TS, notably those that concerned Blavatsky. The SPR commissioned Richard Hodgson, an Australian-born Cambridge graduate to travel to India to…
