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	Psychical Research - LoveToKnow 1911
		In the present indifference of government to psychical science no party is likely to institute such a census, and even if it were done, the frivolity of mankind would throw doubt on the statistics.
		These remarks apply to the researches of the society into alleged isolated phantasms of the dead, and into " haunted houses." As to the former cases, it is admitted on all hands that sane and sober people may have subjective hallucinations of the presence of living friends, not dying or in any other crisis.
		Psychical research encourages, or ought to encourage, the cool impartiality in examining, collecting and recording facts, which is usually absent, in greater or less degree, from the work even of eminent historians.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Psychical_Research (3812 words)

	PSYCHIC GROWTH
		Psychical research also investigates the survival of personality after death and deals with related topics such as trance mediumship, hauntings, apparitions, poltergeists (involuntary PK), and out-of-body experiences.
		The name of this field of investigation is taken from the Society of Psychical Research, founded in England in 1882 and in the U.S. in 1884; both groups continue to publish their findings today.
		The results obtained in many individual experiments and in the research as a whole, Rhine and his workers decided, could not reasonably be attributed to the fluctuations of chance.
	groups.msn.com /PSYCHICGROWTH/psychicalresearch.msnw (1005 words)

	Society for Psychical Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) is a non-profit organization in the United Kingdom whose purpose is to research and investigate supernatural, magical, paranormal, and occult phenomena in a scientific and unbiased manner.
		Its purpose was to encourage scientific research into psychic or paranormal phenomena in order to establish their truth.
		Research was initially aimed at six areas: telepathy, mesmerism and similar phenomena, mediums, apparitions, physical phenomena associated with séances and, finally, the history of all these phenomena.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Society_for_Psychical_Research (647 words)

	Psychical Research
		I have seen many such instances in studying pathological psychic influence, when the communicator may be totally unaware that he is producing physiological reflections of his own memories, or even that he has died and become a communicator.
		Every psychically endowed individual appears, on analysis, to be attended by one or more invisible helpers, "guides" whose function it is to lead the psychic to correct information from various possible supernormal sources, linking up the inquirers or "sitters" in our "living" world and communicators "alive" or "dead." Some guides name themselves.
		Light is often thrown on this aspect of our research by the communications we receive from those who are working on the other side of the screen with conditions and apparatus of which we are mainly ignorant.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /ebook/01/048/03.htm (3493 words)

	The Roots of Consciousness: Science, Evaluating Psi Research
		Psi researchers, by adopting the methods, procedures, and institutions of orthodox science, have been quietly attempting to gain the acceptance and approval of the scientific community, by increasing their rigorous adherence to scientific method and conducting new experiments that meet all published criticisms.
		The strategy of psi researchers is to obtain from their critics the most complete description possible of the methodological requirements that would suffice to prove psi's existence.
		Psi researchers seem to be closing in on this goal and, perhaps, with additional levels of funding, they will over the next several decades begin to attract the serious attention from mainstream science which they feel they deserve.
	www.williamjames.com /Science/EVALUATE.htm (1994 words)

	The Great Mare's Nest of the Psychical Research Society by Annie Besant
		Hodgson of the Psychical Research Society and of St. John’s College, Cambridge - should have exposed a person, and that person remain uninjured by the exposure, it may, perchance, be worth while to examine the portentous phenomenon, and seek therefor some explanation.
		When the Psychical Research Society started on its uninvited investigations, it was met with candour and courtesy, for members of the theosophical Society are always ready to answer inquirers, though not anxious to impress the curious by means of marvels.
		A Psychical Researcher can do no wrong, he cannot even make a mistake; if his opinion or his word comes into conflict with those of another person, no evidence is lacking that the opposing sinner is a deliberate impostor, a fraud, and a liar.
	www.blavatskyarchives.com /besantspr.htm (3101 words)

	Society for Psychical Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in 1882 by three dons of Trinity College, Cambridge.
		For a period of many years, before the ascendency of the German experimental approach of Wilhelm Wundt, psychology in the United States was equated with the efforts of psychical research.
		The Society was wracked by internal strife, a large part of the membership (the Spiritists) leaving as early as 1887 in opposition to the approach taken by the so-called intellectuals.
	ghosts.monstrous.com /society_for_psychical_research.htm (538 words)

	Psychical Research
		The latter theory of a purely spiritual communication is argued for by Mr Myers (Proceedings of tile Society for Psychical Research, xv.
		As to the former cases, it is admitted on all hands that sane and sober people may have subjective hallucinations of the presence of living friends, not dying or in any other crisis.
		The theory of alternating, or secondary, personalities is the key, as we have said, to a strange chapter in the history of human error.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /psychical_research.htm (5591 words)

	Research at Liverpool Hope University - Dr Matthew Smith
		Dr Matthew Smith’s current research, funded by the Bial Foundation, is examining the role of experimenter variables in ganzfeld-ESP research.
		One of the aims of this research is to examine the extent to which findings from studies using this procedure are replicable.
		Research on the psychology of conjuring is examining a range of cognitive biases that are involved in how people observe and interpret magic tricks.
	www.hope.ac.uk /research/staff/matthewsmith.htm (591 words)

	phenomena finally
		This date was fifteen years before the organization of the Society for Psychical Research.
		Psychic research may now be regarded as having proved its right to a place among the investigations of science.
		When the fact is commonly recognized that psychic research is concerned not with a metaphysical theory, but with the collection of facts which may establish a great truth, the bias of the scientific world will be overcome.
	www.harvestfields.ca /ebook/01/050/04.htm (2930 words)

	PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - Online Information article about PSYCHICAL RESEARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These remarks apply to the researches of the society into alleged isolated phantasms of the dead, and into " haunted houses." As to the former cases, it is admitted on all hands that sane and sober people may have subjective hallucinations of the presence of living See also:
		The results of psychical research, after several years of work, are not really less than could be expected from toil in a field so difficult.
		English books may be recommended Phantasms of the Living, by Gurney, Podmore and Myers; Studies in Psychical Research, by Podmore, with his Apparitions and Thought-Transference; and Principles of Psychology, by Professor William James, of Harvard.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PRE_PYR/PSYCHICAL_RESEARCH.html (5360 words)

	Gertrude Schmeidler
		In 1942 I began a part-time job at Harvard (seven years after my doctorate there), saw a seminar on psychical research was offered, and listened in to find what could be said for this bizarre topic.
		This was inexplicable by the physical laws we knew; it implied unexplored processes in the universe, an exciting new field for research.
		To my regret, I could never think of a method that was both rigorous and practical for research on the most exciting possibilities suggested by ESP and PK: problems of the basic characteristics of consciousness or of the self.
	www.parapsych.org /members/g_schmeidler.html (1834 words)

	1948: Signals Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The American Society of Psychical Research was founded in 1885, by Dr. Richard Hodgson, of the Society for Psychical Research (London), and refounded after his death in 1905 by Dr. James H. Hyslop a Professor of Logic and Ethics at Columbia University, who also edited the Proceedings and monthly Journal of the Society.
		After his death in 1920, Professor William McDougall, the noted English psychologist and outstanding figure in psychical research who had come to America in 1920 as Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, accepted the Presidency of the A.S.P.R. Dr. Prince was appointed Principal Research Officer and Editor of Publications.
		It was desired to spread the influence of psychical research by popularizing the subject.
	www.1948-signals.org /rules_policies/rules_contacts_psychic.shtml (1535 words)

	THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH & OTHER EARLY INVESTIGATORS
		A group dedicated to the research of the paranormal cannot be aligned with only the skeptics nor with the “true believers”, but must remain grounded in the middle, gathering evidence which is based on facts and not pre-conceived notions.
		He believed that Home possessed a “psychic force” which emanated from his body and he wrote a paper on the subject, believing it to be of scientific importance.
		Along with his contributions to psychic research, Lodge was also responsible for advances in physics; early research into electricity; worked on a radio before Marconi; and even invented the spark plug.
	www.prairieghosts.com /spr.html (3167 words)

	Scientific Research
		Academy of Religion and Psychical Research: Encourages dialogue, exchange of ideas, education, and cooperation between clergy and academics of religion and philosophy and scientists, researchers and academics of all scientific and humanistic disciplines in the fields of psychical research and new disciplines as well as the historic sciences.
		ICRL: International Consciousness Research Laboratories was established in 1990 as an informal, multi-disciplinary consortium of accomplished scholars, all of whom are committed to collaborative scholarly exploration of the role of consciousness in physical reality.
		Society for Psychical Research (SPR): Based out of London, England, The purpose of the Society for Psychical Research is to advance the understanding of events and abilities commonly described as 'psychic' or 'paranormal', without prejudice and in a scientific manner.
	www.after-death.com /links/research.htm (2951 words)

	About the Society
		The American Society for Psychical Research is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States.
		The American Society for Psychical Research, first organized in 1885 with astronomer Simon Newcomb as president, later became a branch of the British Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882, and functioned in Boston under the guidance of Richard Hodgson, formerly of Cambridge University, until his death in 1905.
		The close relationship between psychic phenomena and important scientific and philosophical issues is evidenced by the fact that the investigation of such phenomena has enlisted the interest and active participation of a number of outstanding scientists and philosophers.
	www.aspr.com /who.htm (384 words)

	Research areas and interests
		Results of a survey on psychic, religious and folkloric experiences and beliefs in Iceland.
		Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 53, 145-158.
		Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 57, 53-148.
	www.hi.is /~erlendur/english/svid.htm (967 words)

	psychical research - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "psychical research" at HighBeam.
		"Of the greatest possible worth:" the research quarterly in historical contexts.
		Blind research: are the hard sciences immune from experimenter effects?
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-psychica.html (245 words)

	Psychical Research and the Future Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND THE FUTURE LIFE: Psychical research may be defined as the organized and scientific investigation The Field of certain outlying and hitherto unrec of Labor.
		Psychology deals with the operations of the mind under normal conditions; and many modern psychologists treat the subject from a materialistic point of view, i.e., the mind is not studied apart from organization and bodily structure.
		The interaction and interpenetration of mind and spirit and resultant phenomena, therefore, form the basic material for psychical investigation, which thus attempts to fill a gap in scientific re search.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc09/htm/ii.vii.htm (747 words)

	THE RELEVANCE OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH TO PHILOSOPHY
		Now psychical research is concerned with alleged events which seem prima facie to conflict with one or more of these principles.
		If that had been so, philosophy could afford to ignore psychical research; for it is no part of its duty to imitate the White Knight by carrying a mousetrap when it goes out riding, on the of chance that there might be mice in the saddle.
		Then, perhaps, the only relevance of psychical research to philosophy would be to show that philosophy is an even more trivial academic exercise than plain men had been inclined to suspect.
	www.ditext.com /broad/rprp.html (7581 words)

	The Legacy of Archaic Shamanism for Psychical Research
		It was believed that their apparent paranormal abilities empowered them to access knowledge of the past, present, future and of geographically distant locations (remote viewing) including communicating at will with discarnate beings and taking soul-journey excursions to the perceived non-physical realms.
		Anthropologists and psychical researchers have reported cases of apparently observing more contemporaneous shamans transmitting healing energies into their patients with reportedly remarkable healing effects.
		People throughout time appear to have the opportunity to grow spiritually and possibly psychically after experiencing suffering in some form which frequently develops their sensitivity and compassion, lessens their confidence or ego and helps them restructure their spiritual and material priorities in life.
	www.ufodigest.com /news/1206/shamanism.html (1775 words)

	Deception by Subjects in Psi Research by George P. Hansen
		The early Society for Psychical Research (SPR) instituted a policy of refusing to work with psychics and mediums who were known to have engaged in deceptive activity.
		The bulk of the research in parapsychology is done with unselected subjects, and thus the issue of subject fraud is usually of minor importance.
		Researchers should be warned not to become too complacent when considering the possible extremes a trickster might undertake.
	www.tricksterbook.com /ArticlesOnline/DeceptionBySubjects.html (17240 words)

	Henry S. Olcott's Deposition to the Society for Psychical Research, 1884
		He began the course of diet and life which is prescribed for the development of the higher psychic faculties, and with extraordinary rapidity has reached the point where he can at will project his inner self from the physical body.
		The body becomes reduced to a state of inertness as regards intelligence; the eyes lose their brightness and thoughtfulness; and the motions of the body, when any are made, are mechanical.
		To understand the present case, you must know that it is the rule in those Eastern schools of mystical research that the pupils are not permitted to seek intercourse with Teachers other than their own.
	www.blavatskyarchives.com /olcottdeposition.htm (9550 words)

	PARAPSYCHOLOGY AND SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH - PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - LIFE-AFTER-DEATH - SURVIVAL - HEREAFTER - APPARITIONS - ...
		When the Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R.) was founded in 1882 research into phenomena and experiences suggesting personal survival of man after death took a high priority.
		As to research into personal survival after death, although no absolute proof in a scientific sense has been established, there are strong convergent arguments in its favour.
		As a result of continuing research in the last decades more and more of these experiences could be recorded, compared and analysed.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wichm/paraps.html (2743 words)

	Careers in Paranormal Studies
		Some of the other research centers are at Princeton University, the University of Arizona, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Hertfordshire in England.
		The researchers at the University of Virginia's unit have a special interest in studying the evidence for survival after death.
		For more information about the psychical research being done at other research facilities throughout the world, please refer to the Index of Psychical Research Centers and to the Index of Psychical Societies and Associations conducting research of paranormal phenomena.
	www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/personalitystudies/careers.cfm (344 words)

	Writings by Sir William Crookes on Psychical Research, 1898
		But difficulties are things to be overcome even in the elusory branch of research known as experimental psychology.
		It has been characteristic of the leaders among the group of inquirers constituting the Society for Psychical Research to combine critical and negative work with work leading to positive discovery.
		Henry Sidgewick and of the late Edmund Gurney is largely due the establishment of canons of evidence in psychical research, which strengthen while they narrow the path of subsequent explorers.
	www.oneillselectronicmuseum.com /crookesnotes4.html (416 words)

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