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	Society for Psychical Research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in 1882 by three dons of Trinity College, Cambridge, Edmund Gurney, Frederic William Henry Myers, and Henry Sidgwick, because of their interest in spiritualism.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Society_for_Psychical_Research (755 words)

	ISS: The Society for Psychical Research - Human Personality: William Barrett
		Secretaries of the Society - whose indefatigable labours and brilliant genius were devoted to laying the foundations of the Society, upon which the latter, ere his sudden death, had begun to build, and we may fain hope is still aiding to build, an enduring edifice.
		Psychical phenomena can neither be measured nor forecast, as in their case the influence of life and volition can neither be eliminated nor foreseen.
		Balfour, was President of the Psychical Research Society in 1893, and a Vice-President from the outset, while another Prime Minister, Mr.
	www.survivalafterdeath.org /articles/barrett/spr.htm (2381 words)

	American Society for Psychical Research
		Through its research and educational programs, the ASPR supports the efforts of both laypersons and professionals to use the study of psychical research to expand andimprove the full understanding of human nature and the broad scope of human abilities.
		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 functionned in Boston under the guidance of Richard Hodgson, formely 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.
	psiland.free.fr /savoirplus/associations/aspr.html (658 words)

	JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
		Back in the very first Proceedings of our Society in 1882, Barrett, Gurney and Myers said that if the phenomena they were investigating were real they would "necessitate a modification of that general view of the relation of mind to matter to which modern science has long been gravitating" (Barrett et al., 1882, p.34).
		It was around then, before the founding of psychical research, and probably had quite a strong influence on the origins of psychical research.
		Psychical research is therefore claiming something which to me just does not fit.
	www.susanblackmore.co.uk /Conferences/spr97.html (1140 words)

	THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH & OTHER EARLY INVESTIGATORS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The SPR is known today as the first large organization dedicated to the study of the paranormal, using scientific techniques to gather evidence.
		The early society was plagued with problems caused by the controversy of Spiritualism and by smear campaigns launched by scientists who were angry the group was started in the first place.
		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.
	www.prairieghosts.com /spr.html (3167 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.
		Investigators of the S.P.R. became so influenced by these attacks and were so eager to find favour in the eyes of their antagonists that they began to take over their condemning attitude.
		One of the reasons being given is that the advancement of rationalized society entails the marginalization or elimination of its adversary, the paranormal.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wichm/paraps.html (2743 words)

	Anomalies Article: Society for Psychical Research
		William James was so impressed with the early SPR, in fact, that he helped found an american version of the SPR in 1884-1885 (there is some disagreement in my sources as to the exact year) with the name of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR).
		By 1900, the SPR had produced over 11,000 pages of reports and articles, as well as a book that was written and published by members: Phantasms of the Living, by Gurney, Myers, and Frank Podmore (another founding member of the SPR), which was published in 1886 and dealt with reports of hallucinations, apparitions, and telepathy.
		Eleanor Sidgwick became president of the SPR in 1908-1909, was appointed honorary secretary from 1910-1931, and finally, in 1932, was appointed president d'honneur in 1932.
	www.anomalyinfo.com /articles/ga00006.shtml (702 words)

	The Spirit of Things - 9/07/00: Psychic or Psycho?
		They moved to London, they formed the Society in 1882, and one of their main interests was to provide a balanced and careful, if you can call it, scientific approach and view of what you’d call the Victorian interest in occultism.
		One side of the Society would say that there is a vast amount of evidence to show that you can’t pin everything down to the workings of the brain, and to the workings of physical matter.
		I mean the Society for Psychical Research was well-known for having been the body that exposed Madame Blavatsky for example, the co-founder of Theosophy.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/spirit/stories/s150033.htm (5508 words)

	ISS: The American Society for Psychical Research: Lydia W. Allison
		Recognizing the growing importance of psychical research, Professor Hyslop had in 1902 resigned as Professor of Logic and Ethics at Columbia University in order to devote his full energies to the investigation of psychical phenomena.
		Prince to Copenhagen as a member of the First International Congress of Psychical Research where he read a paper which compared certain characteristics of veridical mediumistic phenomena with those of phenomena generally conceded to be telepathic.
		The amalgamation was effected as of May 1, 1941, and since then two societies have functioned as one organization under the name of the American Society for Psychical Research with present headquarters at 880 Fifth Avenue, New York 21, N. With Dr. Hyslop and Dr. Murphy at the helm, a general reorganization followed.
	www.survivalafterdeath.org /articles/allison/aspr.htm (2437 words)

	The Society for Psychical Research and the Theosophical Phenomena: The Report of the S.P.R. on Madame Blavatsky
		It was in such circumstances that the Society for Psychical Research was established early in 1882 by a number of well-known persons, among them Prof.
		By 1884 the Society had made numerous investigations, had begun the publication of the voluminous reports of its Proceedings, and was firmly established in the public confidence as a serious and scientific body engaged in the methodical and unbiased investigation of the disputed phenomena.
		But in fact the Committee was that of a rival society whose objects, methods and purposes in the investigation of "the unexplained laws in nature and the psychical powers latent in man" were diametrically opposed to the objects and principles proclaimed by H. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society for ten years preceding the investigation.
	www.blavatskyarchives.com /sprhpb.htm (7671 words)

	American Society for Psychical Research's Glossary
		This society, which was founded in 1884 in Boston, U.S.A., is dedicated to parasychological research.
		Society members have carried out a great deal of research into such areas as Extra Sensory Perception (ESP), Psycho kinesis (PK) and near-death experiences.
		William James (1842-1910) was one of the founders of the American Society for Psychical Research.
	www.zurichmansion.org /glossary.htm (2838 words)

	Blavatsky Net - Society for Psychical Research preface of retraction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Members of the Theosophical Society have, naturally, resented this slur on the good name of their founder and have repeatedly challenged the Report's conclusions.
		For many years, Walter A. Carrithers, not a member of the Theosophical Society but a long-standing member of the S.P.R., who has written extensively on the case some of which is published under the pen-name 'Adlai Waterman', has campaigned to get the S.P.R. Council to disown, publicly, the Report.
		Leslie Price, a member of the S.P.R. Library Committee and, since January 1985, editor of the new quarterly Theosophical History, gave one of the S.P.R. Lectures with the title 'Madame Blavatsky Unveiled?' (which is to be published early in 1986 by the Theosophical History Centre) in which he, too, criticizes Hodgson's methods and arguments.
	www.blavatsky.net /russian/gen/refute/preface.htm (437 words)

	American Society for Psychical Research, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Our primary purpose was to find indications of whether Savelli, through his martial art practice, has developed methods of activating his own psychic power to an unusual extent, demonstrable in the laboratory; time was also spent gathering and testing ideas concerning appropriate procedures and apparatus to utilize in research on the underlying psychic processes.
		First we worked on the idea that Savelli's martial art practice involves a discharge of psychic power which is not only felt by his student, but also could affect physical objects.
		Psychic interception of an invisible infrared beam passing in front of the sensor plate;
	www.worldkungfu.com /personal4.html (354 words)

	Leonora Piper Biography 1859-1950 - includes Bibliography, free ebooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hodgson's second report, which appeared in the Proceedings of the SPR in 1897, ended with the adoption of the spirit hypothesis.
		In October 1924, Dr. Gardner Murphy conducted a series of sittings, at the end of which the SPR agreed that Piper should sit with the newly formed Boston Society for Psychical Research during the season of 1926-27.
		Psychical research owes an enormous debt to her generous and sustained cooperation, often under difficult circumstances.
	www.spiritwritings.com /leonorapiper.html (3392 words)

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		In 1882 The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in London, England, for the purpose of examining impartially in a scientific spirit those paranormal faculties which are inexplicable by recognized norms.
		The odor of "fraud" is subtle and pervasive, and Henry Sidgwick, Frederic Myers, and their SPR colleagues soon got wind of the possibility that HPB might have engaged in trickery.
		Apparently it never occurred either to the SPR or to Hodgson how ill-equipped he was to undertake so delicate and significant a task as would be demanded of him.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/theos/th-sprgk.htm (1653 words)

	British Society for Psychical Research (BSPR)
		Parent organization of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), was founded in 1882 in London as an offshoot of the British National Association of Spiritualists, itself founded in 1873.
		In a comprehensively researched and passionately argued chapter, Place restores Smith to her rightful position as the genius behind the deck.
		Hapgood researched the Acambaro collection of clay figurines with Erle Stanley Gardner (author of the Perry Mason mysteries) in the mid-1960s.
	www.occultopedia.com /b/bspr.htm (3136 words)

	About the Society
		The American Society for Psychical Research is the oldest psychical research organization in the United States.
		The ASPR was founded in 1885 by a distinguished group of scholars who shared the courage and vision to explore the uncharted realms of human consciousness, among them renowned Harvard psychologist and Professor of Philosophy, William James.
		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.
	www.aspr.com /who.htm (384 words)

	SUBLIMINAL SELF - LoveToKnow Article on SUBLIMINAL SELF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The phrase subliminal self, which is one that has figured largely of recent years in discussions of the problems of Psychical Research, owes its wide currency to the writings of F. Myers, especially to his posthumous work Human Personality and its survival of Bodily Death.
		The conception of a Umen (threshold) of consciousness, separating subconscious or subliminal psychical process from supraliminal or conscious psychical process, figured prominently in the works of G. Fechner, the father of psycho-physics, and by him was made widely familiar.
		Alithe mrious research whose results Myers has sought to harmonize means of his conception of the subliminal self has been lit PAiNTED IN tiated and sustained by the desire of proving the continued stence of the human personality after the death of the body.
	www.1911ency.org /S/SU/SUBLIMINAL_SELF.htm (1324 words)

	H. P. Blavatsky and the SPR, by Vernon Harrison (Hodgson Report)
		Her demonstrations of supernormal phenomena were declared fraudulent by the London Society for Psychical Research (1885).
		In 1957 he was appointed Director of Research of PATRA and was responsible for the administration of a staff which by then had grown to around 120.
		Grateful acknowledgment goes to the Society for Psychical Research for permission to reproduce "J'Accuse" as Part 1 of the present study; and to the British Library for permission to reproduce full color photographs of the Mahatma Letters (Additional MSS 45284, 45285, 45286).
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/hpb-spr/hpbspr-h.htm (2740 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)

	1885 American Society for Psychical Research
		At a meeting held in Boston, Sept. 23, 1884, to consider the advisability of the formation of a society for psychical research in America, the whole matter was placed in the hands of a committee of nine, consisting of Dr. G.
		The first meeting of the society was held in Boston on the 18th of December, at which much of the necessary work of organization was accomplished; and at an adjourned meeting, held in Boston Jan. 8, 1885, the organization of the society was completed.
		The Council of the American society feel that the evidence published by the English society is of a nature not to be ignored by scientific men, especially where the alleged facts would, if real, permit verification, and the conditions allow control.
	www.spirithistory.com /85aspr.html (1558 words)

	Society for Psychical Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Founded in 1882 by a distinguished group of Cambridge scholars, the Society for Psychical Research was the first of its kind to examine allegedly paranormal phenomena in a scientific and unbiased way.
		Today the Society continues with its aim of understanding events and abilities commonly described as 'psychic' or 'paranormal' by promoting and supporting important research in this area.
		Through the publication of scholarly reports and the organisation of educational activities, it acts as a forum for debate and promotes the dissemination of information about current developments in the field.
	www.spr.ac.uk (135 words)

	CSICOP and the Skeptics: An Overview by George P. Hansen
		One of the most prolific detractors of early psychic research was Joseph McCabe, a Catholic priest who became an atheist (Stein, 1985).
		The International Society of Cryptozoology, the Society for Scientific Exploration, and the Parapsychological Association (PA) are perhaps the only three professional scientific societies that could be said to investigate a few of these areas.
		A number of participants in the psychic boom were then in their early and mid-twenties.
	www.tricksterbook.com /ArticlesOnline/CSICOPoverview.htm (15104 words)

	Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Here you will find news of upcoming events the Society is organizing, lists of the Society's publications, contact information for prospective members and other useful stuff.
		The website is possibly a little bare and basic considering the extent of the Society's activities, and might benefit from some expansion, for example more online links to its own publications might be desirable.
		A brief outline of the beginning, aims and commitments of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882.
	www.lookingforlewiscarroll.com /links.html (1928 words)

	SPR Research Directory
		This section presents brief details of current research being conducted by individuals or research groups who are affiliated to a UK university.
		It does not include university student societies who may be conducting research (see Non-University Research).
		Areas: Psychological and parapsychological aspects of psychic readings; Experimental PK via motivating tasks; Clairvoyance in the Ganzfeld; Anomalous experience and the hypnagogic/hypnopompic states; Psychology of belief in the paranormal; DMILS
	www.spr.ac.uk /resdir_UniUK.html (526 words)

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