…Spiritualists, the London Dialectical Society and the Psychological Society. He was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research and member of its council from 1882 to 1886, resigning over controversies regarding the medium William Eglinton.5Gauld (1968), 138; Lavoie (2014), 22-23. In 1885 he collaborated with Richard Hodgson in exposing…
…he read extensively on psychical research, notably books and papers by William Crookes, Oliver Lodge, FWH Myers and Richard Hodgson. Hill joined the Society for Psychical Research and was member of its governing council between 1927 and 1935. He chronicled researches on telepathy, clairvoyance, mediumship, survival of death, and other…
…with Helen Salter, who had known individuals involved in the founding of the SPR such as Frederic Myers and Richard Hodgson. During these times the CUSPR organized experiments and investigations. In November 1952, its secretary Trevor White arranged for Gauld and three others to spend a night in the reputedly…
…The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World. New York: Basic Books. Miranker, W. (2005). The Hebbian synapse: Progenitor of consciousness. Mind and Matter 3/2, 87-102. Myers, F.W.H. (1903). Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. London: Longmans. Stapp, H.P. (2005). Commentary on Hodgson. Journal of Consciousness Studies…
…Richard Hodgson in 1895 in Cambridge found only weak phenomena and concluded that she cheated. Pressure for a new attempt led in 1908 to an investigation of Palladino in Naples by Feilding, Hereward Carrington and William Baggally, described by Feilding in a subsequent report that bears his name.3Feilding (1909). All…
…the detail of Hornby not being married, one that did not alter the paranormality of the case, is suggested by the following comment made by James Hyslop, an American psychical researcher. I had received the explanation of the case from Dr. [Richard] Hodgson, who showed that the discrepancy in the…
…page study of the psychology of Piper’s trance mediumship published in 1915.26Sidgwick, E.M. (1915); it was preceded in 1900 by a much shorter paper of similar purport, Sidgwick, E.M. (1900).A principal aim was to criticize Richard Hodgson’s view that the ‘spirits’ ostensibly communicating through Piper were (as they claimed to…
…98-100. Historical background to 1959 report on enquiry into spontaneous cases (1960). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 53, 83-93. The Palm Sunday Case – A note on interpreting automatic writings (1960). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 40, 275-85. Our pioneers VIII. Richard Hodgson (1960). Journal of…
…number of PhD students both at the university and externally.35Including Richard Wiseman, Chris Roe, Paul Stevens and Melvyn Willin. He published extensively in the field and gave lectures in universities and conferences around the world. He was active in the SPR, receiving its prestigious Myers Memorial Medal in 2002. He…
