Psychical Research

1919. This volume endeavors to treat every aspect of the problem regarding a future life and especially emphasizes a large mass of facts that ought to have cumulative weight in deciding the issue. The facts consist of both spontaneous and experimental experiences, the latter designed not only to add to the force of the evidence, but to suggest more problems than the mere fact of survival. The work as a whole makes an effort to ...
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Read Online : This content is shown only to authorized members. It is hidden from everyone else. Crookes and the spirit world;: A collection of writings by or concerning the work of Sir William Crookes End of Hidden Content You may be also interested in : ...
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etheric studies Field of research that includes Electronic Voice Phenomena and Instrumental TranscommunicationS, as well as other forms of after-death communications. Etheric studies involve mind-to-mind etheric connection between the human etheric self and nonphysical people and beings. The living actually are the mechanism by which the nonphysical can manifest in the physical world. Accordingly, etheric studies can be seen as evolved from Mediumship. High-technology equipment combined with subtle energies are involved in etheric studies research ...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into unexplainable incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of ...
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This work, first published in the 19th century, was the culmination of more than 20 years of research into the survival of consciousness after death. Declaring the soul able to survive the death of the body was extremely daring at a time when the scientific community's leaning toward materialism made it risky to even express the belief that man possesses a soul. The author's fascination with spiritualism and mediumship led him to examine mediumistic communications ...
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A large part of the material used in this book was sent to the authors as representatives of the Society for Psychical Research; and the book is published with the sanction of the Council of that Society. The division of authorship has been as follows. As regards the writing and the views expressed, - Mr. Myers is solely responsible for the Introduction, and for the "Note on a Suggested Mode of Psychical Interaction," which immediately ...
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Psychical research has to proceed on scientific lines. The chief of the many problems that confront it is concerned with phenomena purporting to establish the fact of the survival of human personality after bodily death. This title describes the genesis and the work of psychical research with special reference to this central problem, and deals with its scientific, philosophic, religious and moral implications. Read Online : This content is shown only to authorized members. It ...
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Leading the reader through the darkened séance rooms and laboratories of Imperial and inter-war Germany, The Stepchildren of Science casts light on the emergence of psychical research and parapsychology in the German context. It looks, in particular, at the role of the psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing - a figure who fashioned himself as both propagandist and Grand Seignior of German parapsychology - in shaping these nascent disciplines. In contrast to other recent studies in which ...
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Carl August Wickland (February 14, 1861 - November 13, 1945) was a psychiatrist, a paranormal researcher and a non-fiction author. Wickland was born in 1861 at Liden, Norland Province, Sweden. His father taught him cabinet making in his youth. Later he studied watchmaking. In 1881 he arrived in St. Paul, Minn. after having emigrated from Sweden the year before. He married Anna W. Anderson in 1896 and they moved to Chicago so that he could ...
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