First published in 1938, Science and Psychical Phenomena presents a comprehensive overview of diverse field of phenomena which is included under the heading of psychical research. Psychical research does not deal in Spiritualism or ‘Spooks’. It is the scientific investigation of the hidden faculties of Man, and it constitutes the main pathway to the understanding of the Human Individual. Since second half of nineteenth century, unknown to the general public, careful work with new methods has been going on, and the results when properly understood, are as startling as they are important. The present volume summarizes the work and discusses the far-reaching conclusion to which it points. This book is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of religion, psychology, philosophy of mind and psychic studies.
Preface Introduction Part I: Spontaneous Extra- Sensory Perception 1. The Nature of Spontaneous Evidence 2. Examples of Spontaneous Evidence: Telepathy 3. Examples of Spontaneous Evidence: Clairvoyance 4. Examples of Spontaneous Evidence: Precognition: Object- Reading Part II: Experimental Extra- Sensory Perception 5. The History of the Subject 6. The Method of Collective Experiment: Experiments in Telepathy and Clairvoyance 7. Laboratory Work 8. Further Laboratory Work Part III: Significance of the Evidence 9. The Theoretical Aspect of Extra- Sensory Perception 10. The Problems of Sense-Perception 11. The Prevailing Attitude towards Psychical Phenomena Part IV: The Mediumistic Trance 12. The Piper Case 13. The ‘A.V.B.’ Case 14. The Evaluation of Chance in Mediumistic Material 15. The Quantitative Study of Trance- Personalities 16. Book-Tests 17. Cross-Correspondences Part V: Theoretical Aspect of The Mediumistic Trance 18. The Modus Operandi of the Mediumistic Trance 19. Sense -Imagery 20. Trance-Personalities 21. Nature of the Communicators- Antecedent Probability of Survival 22. The Physical type of Mediumship 23. Psychical Research and Spiritualism 24. Psychical Research and Religion 25. Conclusion Appendix Index
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G. N. M. Tyrrell
