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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Psychical Research"”.
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A modern mecca of psychic forces: the Psychical Science Congress and the culture of progressive occultism in fin-de-siecle Chicago, 1885-1900
The Psychical Science Congress (PSC), held from August 21-25, 1893, was a division of the Science and Philosophy congresses of the World’s Congress Auxiliary held in conjunction with Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition. The first international congress devoted solely to psychical research, the PSC …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… intersection of spiritualism, Theosophy, and psychical research, with particular emphasis on Hermetic traditions. The historical analysis centers on a fine-grained evaluation of the evolutionary thought of Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, and a comparison of her system …
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The reading of MacKenzie King
… reveal King to be a man who seriously explored psychical research. Reading was an important part of King’s life; it informed his politics and it shaped his religion.
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Telepathy and the Visual in the Late Novels of Henry James
… Bowl (1904). It acknowledges that significant research has been done into telepathy (Thurschwell 2001; Luckhurst 2002) and the visual (Crary 1990; 1999) in fin de siècle studies, but also that further insight can be accessed by bringing the two areas of enquiry together and considering their …
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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
… the final chapter turns to the Society for Psychical Research, and examines the way secrets took on evidentiary value in what I argue was an intimate science. Overall, this thesis argues that confession was not only the site of broader cultural anxieties about gender and sexuality, but that …
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Spontaneous Post-Death Experiences and the Cognition of Hope:An Examination of Bereavement and Recovery
Although psychical research identified through structured research the commonality of anomalous experiences for the bereaved from as early as the 1880s, it wasn’t until the 1970s with the publication of a medical doctorate on such phenomena that medical communities and social science began to …
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Colour and Colour Vision in Late Nineteenth Century British Sciences
… use of spinning discs as an experimental research technology, promoted by Brewster and Maxwell, combined with the mainstream acceptance of Maxwell’s theoretical model of ‘coterminal response curves’, generated conflicts between competing understandings of perception, vision, and colour in …