…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…
…Psychical Research 40, 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…
…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…
…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 the ‘dark side…
…serving as president for two years. At Harvard, he reactivated the university’s neglected Richard Hodgson Memorial Fund for parapsychological research, to the benefit of fellow psychologist Gardner Murphy, who used its resources to study telepathy. McDougall was elected president of the ASPR in 1920, but was dismissed three years later…
…Mikles, N.L,. & Laycock, J.P. (2015). Tracking the tulpa. Exploring the ‘”Tibetan” origins of a contemporary paranormal 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….
…with a shortened right arm and rudimentary digits which were later surgically 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…
…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 bequest from author Arthur Koestler. Situated in…
