PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - 1949-1951, Volume 49
Book Details + Condition: Society for Psychical Research (London). First Edition, 1951. Four (4) original softcover volumes comprising Volume 49: November 1949 (Part 177); July 1950 (Part 178); February 1951 (Part 179); April 1951 (Part 180). Total pagination: 153 pp. Contents of this volume include: Experimental Object-Reading; Experimental Evidence for PK and Precognition; Immanuel Kant and Psychical Research; Experiment in Psycho-Kinesis with Dice; Some Aspects of Extrasensory Perception; and more. Please see our other listings for more first editions of THE SOCIETY OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, as well as information about the organization below. Minimal 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.
