…her mother.4Sidgwick (1916), 170-76. She played games with Frederic Myers, a founder member of the SPR, and also knew the SPR’s first president Henry Sidgwick, his wife Eleanor, and Richard Hodgson, one of the Society’s most active investigators of mediums. Margaret Verrall’s experiments included automatic writing, in which the hand…
…second category fall Cesare Lombroso and founding members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) such as Eleanor Sidgwick and Richard Hodgson, who took a lot of convincing by other researchers before they would endorse the validity of a phenomenon.11Gauld (1968). The people named here manifested their interest in psi…
…a lack of classical education. This suggested to her the likelihood that communications appearing to originate from the deceased Myers, and from Richard Hodgson (another recently deceased psychical researcher who was well-versed in classics), were genuine.17Verrall (1910). For more on after-death communications by Hodgson, see here. Cross-Correspondences Margaret Verrall’s automatic…
…BEAUTY.15Bean (2019). The second code, based on a book cipher, was solved in 2019 by Richard Bean, an IT expert at the University of Queensland, who used computers to scan all 37,000 English-language books in Project Gutenberg. After about five days this revealed the source text as the poem The…
…how to hold a pencil, scribbled ‘your Aunt Emma’, a tracing of which Richard Hodgson described as ‘resembling the planchette-writing of an adult rather than the first effort of a child’.28Myers (1903), vol. 2, 486. This case, too, is not thoroughly described. It may be that the child had never…
…2, xvii-xviii by such authors as Ercole Chiaia, Xavier Dariex, Albert de Rochas, Richard Hodgson, Oliver Lodge, Cesare Lombroso, Julian Ochorowicz, Manuel Otero Acevedo, Charles Richet, and Arnaldo Vassallo. Critical and sceptical publications are also included. Reception Reviews of the book were published by Cesar de Vesme41de Vesme (1908). and…
…Research Hyslop’s Influence James Hervey Hyslop, the industrious psychologist and parapsychologist who took over directorship of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) after the sudden death of Richard Hodgson in 1905, became aware of the Emmanuel Movement soon after its inception and was a regular visitor at Worcester’s church…
…way of demonstrating the independent action of soul, and therefore, to put it at the lowest, the possibility of its existence apart from bodily organs… Myers, Gurney and Hodgson [all deceased SPR investigators who had reportedly communicated to the living after death] are messengers of truth from the Beyond as…
Richard Sheargold (1911–1988) was an English psychical researcher whose engagement moved from ESP card-guessing and precognition tests to electronic voice phenomena, arguing that anomalous recordings deserved serious attention while remaining cautious about whether the voices were truly those of discarnate beings. His experimental card-guessing results were mostly non-significant, and his…
