…75 in the original GCP, and will incorporate concurrent recording of social and physical (electromagnetic-EM) metrics. Each node will generate multiple random sequences and will also record a channel of raw source data. Citizen scientists will be engaged to host the network nodes, manage local experiments and help develop research…
…Hodgson, an Australian-born Cambridge graduate to travel to India to investigate the events. His subsequent report claimed the phenomena was produced fraudulently.1Hodgson (1885), 201-400. Hodgson concluded: We regard her [Blavatsky] neither as the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar adventuress; we think that she has achieved a…
…Piper who convinced two of her investigators, the formerly recalcitrant Richard Hodgson and Oliver Lodge (among others), of the reality of postmortem survival. And it was Piper who William James declared to be the ‘white crow’ in his search for evidence of genuinely paranormal phenomena (although he did not consider…
…was occasionally allowed in some of the earlier experiments, the possibility of conscious and unconscious signalling was gradually excluded.15Cf. William Barrett, Gurney, & Myers (1882), Gurney, Myers, & Barrett (1882; 1883), Gurney, Myers, Frank Podmore & Barrett (1883), Barrett et al. (1883a, 1883b), Barrett, Gurney, Richard Hodgson, et al. (1883),…
…the American Branch of the Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), following the death of its head Richard Hodgson in 1905. At this time, Hyslop dropped the study of abnormal psychology in order to focus solely on psychical research. The ASPR was then reorganized and operated independently of the English SPR….
…Richard Hodgson, who had earlier exposed fraud by Helena Blavatsky over her claims of physical phenomena.6Hodgson (1886). However, some SPR members, including stage magicians, agreed that there were suspicious circumstances in Eglinton’s performance but doubted that his feats could have been achieved by conjuring.7Lewis (1886). Thomson was more interested in…
…members of the Sidgwick Group. In the course of time other interested persons were co-opted into the group on account of their abilities and dedication. They included Oliver Lodge, Richard Hodgson, Frank Podmore, Alice Johnson, Frederic Myers’s brother Arthur, and Margaret Verrall. Sidgwick’s influence on the activities and tone of…
…Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 21, 401-21. Richardson, M.W. (1925). Margery Harvard Veritas. Boston: Blanchard Printing Co. Richardson, M.W. (1926). The Margery mediumship: Evidence bearing upon materialization, more especially of hands. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 20/10 (October), 603-5. Richardson, M.W., Richardson, J.L., & Dudley, E.E….
…a single agent, there may be multiple percipients. (See Reciprocal Apparitions) Account Mr Wilmot corrected and approved the following account, written by a friend who then sent it to the American Branch of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in December 1889. The case was investigated by Richard Hodgson through…
