Phantasms of the Living
Phantasms of the Living
Frederic William Henry Myers
Frank Podmore
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USDThis two-volume work, co-authored by Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901) and Frank Podmore (1856–1910), all leading members of the Society for Psychical Research, was first published in 1886. This collection, containing over 700 case studies of sensory phantasms and hypnotic experiments, was one of the first attempts to deal scientifically with the hypothesis of psychic thought-transference and to catalogue and provide a body of evidence in its support. Volume 2 presents data and analyses of auditory, visual, and tactile hallucinations, and those of a reciprocal or collective nature. It contains addenda and a conclusion for the two volumes. This pioneering study is an indispensable source for the history of psychical research and nineteenth-century attitudes to the idea of telepathy. It provides detailed insights into the Victorian fascination with the occult and the supernatural.
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May 2011Paperback
9781108027335
766 pages
216 × 140 × 43 mm
0.96kg
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Table of Contents
- Additions and corrections
- 13. The theory of chance-coincidence
- 14. Further visual cases occurring to single percipient
- 15. Further auditory cases occurring to a single percipient
- 16. Tactile cases, and cases affecting more than one of the percipient's senses
- 17. Reciprocal cases
- 18. Collective cases
- Conclusion
- Supplement: Introduction
- 1. Further examples of thought-transference, principally in hypnotic cases
- 2. Ideal, emotional, and motor cases
- 3. Dream
- 4. Borderland cases
- 5. Visual cases
- 6. Auditory and tactile cases
- 7. Cases affecting more than one of the percipient's senses
- 8. Reciprocal cases
- 9. Collective cases
- Additional chapter
- Table of numbered cases
- Analysis of the table
- Index.
