By Brian Inglis
Technology and Parascience is a background of parapsychology (psychical study) and is a sequel to the author’s ordinary and Supernatural, which lined the interval as much as 1914. This ebook brings the heritage as much as 1939. Inglis says he "tried to give the proof approximately, instead of for, paranormal phenomena, because it accrued among 1914 and 1939". He reveals the proof overwhelming, and in a Postscript offers with its loss of recognition. In providing the historic info, Inglis covers the phenomena of mediumship, spontaneous circumstances, and experimental investigations. British, Continental, and American examine are all lined. besides Sir Oliver inn, Inglis concludes that "psychical examine had taken a improper turning, in looking educational acceptance, if it intended wasting touch with most of the people; an comprehensible yet disastrous mistakes of technique which vitiated a lot of the dear study undertaken among the wars, and unfairly destroyed the reputations of a few of the main devoted researchers. If i've got performed not anything else, i'm hoping i've got performed anything to rehabilitate them, not less than within the eyes in their successors".
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And what were the medium's sensations, during sessions? When the table was being levitated, Crawford had found, almost all of its weight was added to the weight of the medium. ' In his early experiments, the medium's muscles had reacted, as she sat in her chair, as if she were applying physical force — as it might be to her chair, holding herself down. But gradually this muscular effort had diminished; she told him that `she experiences now no sensation whatever during the occurrence of phenomena' — though the phenomena themselves had not changed.
Crawford's new findings, if he had been able to have them confirmed, as his earlier studies had been, by members of the SPR, would have compelled a radical revision of ideas about, and attitudes to, physical mediumship in the society. But Crawford, trying to catch up with his university commitments, had a nervous breakdown; and in the summer of 1920 he committed suicide. In a letter to Gow, the editor of Light, he explained that his collapse was due to overwork, and had nothing to do with the Goligher circle.
He was dressed in his full flying clothes but wearing his naval cap, there being nothing unusual in his appearance. His cap was pushed back on his head and he was smiling, as he always was when he came into the rooms and greeted us. In reply to his `Hello 74 Post War Britain - boy' I remarked `Hello! ' He replied, `Yes. ' I am not positively sure of the exact words he used, but he said `Had a good trip' or `Had a fine trip' or words to that effect. I was looking at him the whole time he was speaking.