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Contact with the Other World – James H. Hyslop
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 ...
Crookes and the spirit world: A collection of writings by or concerning the work of Sir William Crookes
A collection of material relating to the most important of Crookes' investigations. It is divided into three sections: "Researches into the Phenomena of Spiritualism", "Sittings with Daniel Dunglas Home", & "Crookes and Survival". Read Online : THIS CONTENT IS SHOWN ONLY TO AUTHORIZED MEMBERS. IT IS HIDDEN FROM EVERYONE ELSE. Click Here to Read : Crookes and the spirit world;: A collection of writings by or concerning the work of Sir William Crookes END OF ...
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Deathbed Visions – Sir William Barrett
During his 50 years of psychical research, Sir William Fletcher Barrett (February 10, 1884 – May 26, 1925) observed many types of phenomena. In his reminiscences, read at a private meeting of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) on June 17, 1924, less than a year before his death, Barrett said: “I am personally convinced that the evidence we have published decidedly demonstrates (1) the existence of a spiritual world, (2) survival after death, and ...
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Etheric Studies
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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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof of Life after Death – Deborah Blum
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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Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death – F. W. H. Myers
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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Phantasms of the Living – Gurney, Edmund, Frederic W. H. Meyers and Frank Podmore.
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 ...
Psychical Research and Survival – James H. Hyslop
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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The Coming Science – Hereward Carrington
Even today, in the 21st century, much controversy rages over the existence of ‘psychic’ phenomena. This is a worthy and scholarly defence of establishing a Science of tomorrow, relating to all things ‘Psychic’. “THIS book is intended to constitute a "primer of psychical research" — an Introduction to the subject, for those who have not as yet read extensively upon it. I have endeavored to make clear why it is that the study of this ...
The Gateway of Understanding – Carl Wickland
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The Stepchildren of Science – Heather Wolffram
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 ...
These Mysterious People -Nandor Fodor
THE TWENTYFIVE articles published in this book were originally written for Northcliffe Newspapers, Ltd. They first appeared in the "Bristol Evening World" in April and May, 1934. Their claim on the interest of the bookreading public lies in the fact that they fill a gap. Although Psychical Research and Spiritualism has a vast literature no single book has yet presented, in the form of short narratives, the stories of famous mediums of the past and ...
Thirty Years Among the Dead – Carl Wickland
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 ...
