LIBERAL CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF STUDIES Unit 18 THE LIBERAL CATHOLIC CHURCH : LITURGY Paper 1 PARAPSYCHOLOGY: A BRIEF REVIEW by the Rev Richard W. Brooks APPENDIX by the Rev Dr Brian Harding 180.001. Printed in Australia UNIT 18 PAPER 001 PART I LIBERAL CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF STUDIES UNIT 18 PSYCHOLOGY by the Rev Richard W. Brooks APENDIX by the Rev Dr Brian Harding CONTENT FOREWORD ............................................................................................................................................ 6 General Bibliography ......................................................................................................................... 7 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Recommended Reading ..................................................................................................................... 8 CLASSIFICATION OF PHENOMENA ................................................................................................... 10 CHAPTER 1: PRELUDE AND BEGINNINGS ............................................................................................. 11 Recommended Reading ................................................................................................................... 11 The Ancient World ....................................................................................................................... 11 Psi and Christianity ...................................................................................................................... 11 Mesmerism .................................................................................................................................. 13 Spiritualism .................................................................................................................................. 14 D. 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Home ................................................................................................................................... 16 THE EDDY FAMILY ........................................................................................................................ 16 The Founding of the Theosophical Society .................................................................................. 18 C W Leadbeater ........................................................................................................................... 18 Clairvoyance and Science ............................................................................................................. 19 CHAPTER 2: THE EARLY HISTORY OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH ............................................................... 20 Recommended Reading ................................................................................................................... 20 018.001-I PARAPSYCHOLOGY Page 2 UNIT 18 PAPER 001 PART I LIBERAL CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF STUDIES The Rise of Materialistic Science ...................................................................................................... 20 The Society for Psychical Research .............................................................................................. 21 The Hodgson Report ..................................................................................................................... 22 Apparitions ................................................................................................................................... 24 Physical Mediums ......................................................................................................................... 26 Mental Mediums .......................................................................................................................... 27 Cross Correspondences ................................................................................................................ 28 The American Society for Psychical Research .............................................................................. 28 Other Psychical Research Organizations ...................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER 3: THE AGE OF STATISTICS .................................................................................................... 30 Recommended Reading ................................................................................................................... 30 EARLY WORK .................................................................................................................................... 30 J B Rhine ....................................................................................................................................... 31 J G Pratt ........................................................................................................................................ 33 The Critics ..................................................................................................................................... 33 Developments Elsewhere During the 1930s ................................................................................ 35 The Search for Correlates of Psi ................................................................................................... 38 PSI IN ANIMALS ............................................................................................................................ 39 PK and ESP .................................................................................................................................... 40 The Beginning of Further Growth ................................................................................................ 41 CHAPTER 4: THE AGE OF EXPANSION................................................................................................... 42 Recommended Reading ................................................................................................................... 42 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................ 42 PSI and the ASC ................................................................................................................................ 42 Tracking the Poltergeist................................................................................................................ 44 PK on Static Objects...................................................................................................................... 45 018.001-I PARAPSYCHOLOGY Page 3 UNIT 18 PAPER 001 PART I LIBERAL CATHOLIC INSTITUTE OF STUDIES Thoughtography .......................................................................................................................... 46 PK and Plants: the Backster Effect ............................................................................................... 46 ESP and the Plethysmograph ....................................................................................................... 47 Psi and Healing ............................................................................................................................. 47 Seeing with the Fingers? .............................................................................................................. 49 Psi in the Electronic Age .............................................................................................................. 49 Remote Viewing ........................................................................................................................... 50 Survival Again ............................................................................................................................... 51 The Out-of-the-Body Experience ................................................................................................. 52 EPILOGUE ............................................................................................................................................. 54 Recommended Reading ................................................................................................................... 54 APPENDIX ............................................................................................................................................. 56 DEVELOPMENTS IN PARAPSYCHOLOGY, 1981 - 1986 ..................................................................... 56 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................. 56 1. INTRODUCTION - PSI IN THE 80s ............................................................................................. 57 2. MAGICIANS AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY ...................................................................................... 58 3. PSYCHOLOGY OF PSI ................................................................................................................ 58 4. ESP/PK ...................................................................................................................................... 59 5. HEALING ................................................................................................................................... 61 6. SURVIVAL-RELATED PHENOMENA ........................................................................................... 62 Out-of-body experience ..............................................................................................................