…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…
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…However, an investigation led by 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…
…explanation for 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 Hervey Hyslop, an American psychical researcher. I had received the explanation of the case from Dr. [Richard] Hodgson, who showed that 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…
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…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…
…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 not given much thought to…
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