…join in the formation of a new organization, the American Psychical Society (APS), being created by members of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) who were frustrated by the fact that Richard Hodgson, its executive secretary, was keeping all the best cases for himself to investigate.Garland said he had…
…McDougall’s preference was for experimental study and he participated in telepathy experiments.14Berger (1988), 116. All information in this section is drawn from this source unless otherwise noted. He served on the council of the SPR, serving as president for two years. At Harvard, he reactivated the university’s neglected Richard Hodgson…
…idea. Nova Religio: Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 19/1, 87-97. Munves, J. (1997). Richard Hodgson, Mrs Piper and George Pelham: A centennial reassessment. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 62, 138-54. Parker, A. (2015a). The jungle of hypnotic psi: Part 1, Research on hypnosis relevant to psi. Journal…
…removed. Though he made no past-life-memory-based statements, he was considered to be the reincarnation of his paternal grandfather, Richard Peck, a renowned fisherman, since Richard had repeatedly said that he wanted to live his next life with only one hand, in order not to have to work so hard. This…
…in Britain such as Chris Roe and Richard Broughton are members of its governing Council. (See Society for Psychical Research) The Koestler Chair, Edinburgh University The catalyst for the exponential growth of parapsychology in the UK was the endowment in 1985 of the Koestler Chair for Parapsychology, funded by a…
…122-5. Standish, L., Kozak, L., Johnson, C., & Richards, T. (2004). Electroencephalographic evidence of correlated event-related signals between the brains of spatially and sensory isolated human subjects. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10, 307-14. Richards, T., Kozak, L., Johnson, C., & Standish, L. (2005). Replicable functional magnetic resonance imaging…
…the psi hypothesis, as well as the complementary line of research into ‘what’s not psychic but looks like it’. What’s Not Psychic But Looks Like It One relatively early project was by Richard Wiseman and Peter Lamont, both of whom have conjuring expertise. It concerned how eyewitness testimony for seemingly…
…current university afiliation (see list below for key). An asterisk indicates that the person no longer does parapsychology research. Generation One Generation Two Generation Three John Beloff EDIN Richard Broughton NH Deborah Delanoy NH Julie Milton* EDIN David Luke (SS) GREEN Paul Atkinson Erica Brostoff Goran Brusewitz (AP) Ross Friday…
…Sidgwick4Murphy (1961), xvi. and was also inspired by the work of the American philosopher and parapsychologist William James. In 1921, Murphy resumed graduate work at Columbia University while working as a psychology lecturer, and was awarded his doctorate in 1923. From 1922 to 1925, he served as the Hodgson Fellow…
