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not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to
weigh and consider. Sir
Francis Bacon
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W.
W. Baggally |
Telepathy:
Genuine and Fraudulent |
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Baggally was something of an amateur conjurer and made a point of trying
to expose trickery. This book gives both cases in which fraud was
discovered and successful cases in which no deceit could be found. Sir
Oliver Lodge said of this book, "I heartily commend [this] book to the
public as the record of a careful, conscientious, and exceptionally
skilled and critical investigator. It would be difficult to find anyone
more competent by training and capacity to examine into the genuineness
of these subtle and elusive phenomena."
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William Barrett |
Death-Bed
Visions - The Psychical Experiences of the Dying |
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Unfortunately,
Barrett died whilst complying this volume, which, consequently, had to
be published in an unfinished state one year after his death in 1926.
Nevertheless, it contains many fascinating cases of death-bed visions
and their bearing on the question of survival. A small but classic work
on the psychical experiences of the dying.
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Stanley
de Brath |
Psychical
Research, Science and Religion |
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"This
book is a synthesis of facts severally established by men of high
standing in science, and an inference from that synthesis... "
"There
is now a wide-spread demand to know what the facts are; and being
familiar with these matters since 1889, having the privilege of
friendship with most of the distinguished men from whose works I have
quoted, and having seen nearly all the phenomena myself under strict
conditions, I may be able to give a summary to serve as an introduction
to more extended reading on facts which have a close bearing on personal
life and conduct for every man and woman, and are pregnant with great
changes in scientific and religious ideas," writes Stanley De Brath
in the Preface.
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William
Crookes |
Researches
into the Phenomena of Modern Spiritualism |
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This small volume is a milestone in the history of psychical research and rightly earns its title as a masterpiece.
Included are Crookes' famous accounts of D. D. Home's and Florence
Cook's extraordinary array of psychic phenomena.
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Arthur Conan
Doyle |
The
Vital Message |
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In
"The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has
been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen
higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations
with the Unseen may be.
This,
one of Doyle's most read volumes, contains a wealth of information
relating to survival research, its prominent figures and how this
exciting and ground-breaking research affects religion. |
C. J. Ducasse |
A Critical Examination of the Belief in Life
After Death |
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This book "attempts to set forth, as adequately as possible, the various
questions which, on reflection, arise on the subject; to purge them both
of ambiguity and of vagueness; to point out what connection the subject
does, and does not, have with religion; to examine without prejudice the
merits of the considerations - theological or scientific, empirical or
theoretical - which have been alleged variously to make certain, or
probable, or possible, or impossible, that the human personality
survives bodily death; to state what kind of evidence would, if we
should have it, conclusively prove that a human personality, or some
specified component of it, has survived after death; and to consider the
variety of forms which a life after death, if any, could with any
plausibility be conceived to take."
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Nandor Fodor |
These
Mysterious People |
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The
twenty-five articles published in this book were originally written for
Northcliffe Newpapers, Ltd. They first appeared in the Bristol
Evening World in April and May, 1934.
"I wish to stress that these narratives were written for the general public. It was my purpose to show that there are true stories which vie in fascination with the most popular thrillers. Also that it is time enough to know of the existence of such mysteries and the attempts at their unveiling by men of science", states Dr.
Fodor.
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Glen
Hamilton |
Intention
and Survival |
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This book is a report of the highlights of nearly fourteen years of intensive research and study of various kinds of psychic phenomena - telekinesis, deep-trance, automatic writings, and materialized forms. This research was conducted by the late Dr. T. Glen Hamilton of Winnipeg, Canada, aided by a devoted group of friends. He was contemplating a book which was to have been based on his original notes and papers, and was to have included many of the photographs, when he died suddenly at age 61, in 1935. His widow, Lillian, and his younger son, James Drummond Hamilton completed the
manuscript.
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James
Hyslop |
Psychical
Research and Survival |
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"There has been a great deal of
a priori criticism of the work," writes Hyslop in the Preface, "which has been as bad as much of the credulity or hasty speculation on the other side, and this summary endeavours to fix the bars for scepticism quite as definitely as for belief. The destructive critic has had his own way for a long while, and it is now time to do some constructive
work. This small volume tries only to point out the direction in which this can be done."
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The
Borderland of Psychical Research |
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"The present volume",
said Hyslop "is not intended for the scientific student of psychology, but for the layman who wishes to understand the difficulties that attend the conversion of the more educated world to the more recondite problems of psychical research. I have here written on the more conservative side of the general question, and so have taken pains to show why it is necessary to be cautious about admitting supernormal phenomena. The book is devoted mainly to normal and abnormal psychology, with philosophic reflections bearing upon the problems of both."
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Oliver
Lodge |
Survival
of Man |
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The author's conviction of man's survival of bodily death - a conviction based on a large range of natural facts -
was well known.
This volume includes Lodge's investigation into telepathy, clairvoyance, automatic writing, trance speech, cross-correspondence and his sittings with the famous American medium Leonora Piper.
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Raymond
or Life and Death |
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This
book, written 7 years after "Survival of Man", details the author's
search for evidence of his son's existence after his death in World War
I.
Part
1 covers Raymond's short life, Part 2 deals with the evidence of
Raymond's continued existence through
numerous
automatic-writings and trance mediums and then in Part 3 Lodge discusses
various topics such as death and decay, the interaction of mind and
matter, life and consciousness and much more. |
Why
I Believe in Personal Immortality |
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"My
whole contention", writes Lodge in the foreword, "rests on a basis of experience, and on acceptance of a class
of facts which can be verified at first hand by others if they take the
trouble. I know how weighty the word "fact" is in science, and I say
without hesitation that individual personal continuance is to me a
demonstrated fact."
"This conviction has been reached through a study of obscure
human faculty not yet recognized by orthodox science, and apparently not
approved as a rule by Theologians." |
W.
H. Salter |
Zoar,
or; The Evidence of Psychical Research Concerning Survival |
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After a chapter defining
the nature of psychical
research, its scope and methods, there
follows chapters concerned with the evidence "sometimes claimed to support the
opinion that after the death of the body of flesh and blood men and women live on in a body having some, but not all, of the properties we associate with ordinary matter."
In these chapters
apparitions,
poltergeists, and the so-called
"physical
phenomena" of the séance-room
are discussed. The succeeding chapters deal with evidence, derived from
trance-mediumship
and
automatic writing, that does not raise the question of survival in a quasi-material form. This section
opens with a discussion of various psychological states, such as
Ecstasy,
Inspiration and
Dissociation,
which, though not in themselves mediumistic, throw light on mediumistic trance and the Controls that emerge in it, and will proceed to consider how far communications purporting to come from the spirits of the dead can be attributed to the faculties, normal or paranormal, of the living.
Chapter
13 and
Chapter 14
are devoted to the famous cross-correspondences. Salter then attempts to construct a theory that covers all the evidence set out in the previous chapters.
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Charles Drayton Thomas |
An Amazing
Experiment |
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This book relates a remarkable incident in psychical research, showing how a number of convincing messages from their deceased child were transmitted to
distant strangers.
The account was first published in the Proceedings of the Society for
Psychical Research, and was subject to the keen examination of
critics. "The whole case forms a strikingly forceful argument for
the reality of communication from the Beyond", said Charles Drayton
Thomas.
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Precognition
and Human Survival |
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From
the inside cover: "Here is an entirely fresh approach to the
supreme question, 'If a man die shall he live again?' It is the outcome
of thirty years intensive study of trance mediumship with the gifted
sensitive Mrs. Osborne Leonard and the co-operation of the author's
father who spared no effort to provide satisfactory evidence of many
kinds.
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