Phantasms of the living, Volume 1 / by Edmund Gurney, Frederic W.H. Myers, and Frank Podmore
1886, First Edition. London : Rooms of the Society for Psychical Research : Trübner and Co. Very good library copy rebacked in gilt-blocked cloth. Minor library marks remain. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #445778
Physical description; 1 of 2 volumes, lxxi, 573 pages : illustrations. Notes; "A large part of the material used in this book was sent to the authors as representatives of the Society for Psychical Research; and the book is published with the sanction of the council of that Society ... Mr. Myers is solely responsible for the Introduction, and for the Note on a suggested mode of psychical interaction ... Mr. Gurney is solely responsible for the remainder of the book ... the collection, examination, and appraisal of the evidence--has been a joint labour, of which Mr. Podmore has borne ... a share ..."--Preface. Contents; Introduction I -- Introduction II. -- I. Preliminary remarks: grounds of caution -- II. The experimental basis: thought-transference -- III. The transition from experimental to spontaneous telepathy -- IV. General criticism of the evidence for spontaneous telepathy -- V. Specimens of the various types of spontaneous telepathy -- VI. Transference of ideas and mental pictures -- VII. Emotional and motor effects -- VIII. Dreams: Part I. The relation of dreams to the argument for telepathy ; Part II. Examples of dreams which may be reasonably regarded as telepathic -- IX. "Borderland" cases -- X. Hallucinations: general sketch -- XI. Transient hallucinations of the sane: ambiguous cases -- XII. The development of telepathic hallucinations -- XIII. The theory of chance-coincidence -- XIV. Further visual cases occurring to a single percipient -- XV. Further auditory cases occurring to a single percipient -- XVI. Tactile cases and cases affecting more than one of the percipient's senses -- XVII. Reciprocal cases -- XVIII. Collective cases -- Conclusion -- Note (by Mr. Myers) on a suggested mode of psychical interaction -- Supplement. Introduction -- Supplement Chapter I. Further examples of thought-transference, principally in hypnotic cases -- Supplement Chapter II. Ideal, emotional, and motor cases -- Supplement Chapter III. Dreams -- Supplement Chapter IV. "Borderland" cases -- Supplement Chapter V. Visual cases -- Supplement Chapter VI. Auditory and tactile cases -- Supplement Chapter VII. Cases affecting more than one of the percipient's senses -- Supplement Chapter VIII. Reciprocal cases -- Supplement Chapter IX. Collective cases -- Supplement. Additional chapter of cases received too late for insertion in their proper places. Subjects; Parapsychology Investigation. Parapsychology.
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