Author: Mrs. Blair
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Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: Alicia Puglionesi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503612783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science behind such phenomena. With new technologies like the telegraph collapsing the boundaries of time and space, an explanation seemed within reach. As Americans took up psychical experiments in their homes, the boundaries of the mind began to waver. Common Phantoms brings these experiments back to life while modeling a new approach to the history of psychology and the mind sciences. Drawing on previously untapped archives of participant-reported data, Alicia Puglionesi recounts how an eclectic group of investigators tried to capture the most elusive dimensions of human consciousness. A vast though flawed experiment in democratic science, psychical research gave participants valuable tools with which to study their experiences on their own terms. Academic psychology would ultimately disown this effort as both a scientific failure and a remnant of magical thinking, but its challenge to the limits of science, the mind, and the soul still reverberates today.

Author: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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List of members in v.1-19, 21, 24-

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Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Author: Mark Weiman
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Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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