PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - 1942-1945, Volume 47
Book Details + Condition: Society for Psychical Research (London). First Edition, 1945. Four (4) original softcover volumes comprising Volume 47: July 1942 (Part 166); December 1943 (Part 167); July 1944 (Part 168); May 1945 (Part 169). Total pagination: 276 pp. Illustrated. Contents of this volume include: Present Position of Experimental Research into Telepathy and Related Phenomena; Precognitive Telepathy; Paranormal Cognition of Drawings; PSI Phenomena and Poltergeists; and much more. Please see our other listings for more first editions of THE SOCIETY OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, as well as information about the organization below. Light wear to original softcovers, with a bit of fading / discoloration to extremities; text is clean and free of markings.
The Society for Psychical Research was created in 1882, with Henry Sidgwick serving as its first president. Its stated purpose was to apply scientific methods to the investigation of psychic phenomena and the paranormal. Areas of study included hypnotism, dissociation, thought-transference, mediumship, spirit possession, apparitions and haunted houses and the physical phenomena associated with séances. The SPR were the first to introduce a number of neologisms which have entered the English language, such as 'telepathy', which was coined by Frederic Myers. Much of the early work involved investigating, exposing and in some cases duplicating fake phenomena. Among its most renowned members were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Price, and William T. Stead.
