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Dr Hereward Carrington
by zerdini on Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:30 pm
Dr Hereward Carrington
At the beginning of the 20th century another great investigator entered the field of Psychical Research. Carrington, an American, at the age of nineteen joined the S.P.R. in 1900, and from then on devoted the rest of his life to psychical investigation.
When the new independent American Society for Psychical Research was formed in 1906 under Prof. Hyslop’s leadership, he became his assistant. His researches, recorded in many books, are a substantial contribution to the subject, but for many years he kept an open mind regarding the Spiritualistic hypothesis.
After investigating Eusapia Palladino in company with Baggally and Feilding he stated: "My own sittings convinced me finally and conclusively that genuine phenomena do occur, and, that being the case, the question of their interpretation naturally looms before me. I think that not only is the Spiritualistic hypothesis justified as a working theory, but it is, in fact, the only one capable of rationally explaining the facts."
In 1933, however, during a visit to the American Psychical Institute by Mrs. Eileen Garrett, he subjected this medium to psychoanalytic association tests, combined with electrical recording apparatus, in order to discover whether the communicators were personalities distinct from the medium.
His conclusion was as follows: ‘‘I can now say that our experiments seem to have shown the existence of mental entities independent of the control of the medium, and separate and apart from the conscious or subconscious mind of the medium.’’
At the beginning of the 20th century another great investigator entered the field of Psychical Research. Carrington, an American, at the age of nineteen joined the S.P.R. in 1900, and from then on devoted the rest of his life to psychical investigation.
When the new independent American Society for Psychical Research was formed in 1906 under Prof. Hyslop’s leadership, he became his assistant. His researches, recorded in many books, are a substantial contribution to the subject, but for many years he kept an open mind regarding the Spiritualistic hypothesis.
After investigating Eusapia Palladino in company with Baggally and Feilding he stated: "My own sittings convinced me finally and conclusively that genuine phenomena do occur, and, that being the case, the question of their interpretation naturally looms before me. I think that not only is the Spiritualistic hypothesis justified as a working theory, but it is, in fact, the only one capable of rationally explaining the facts."
In 1933, however, during a visit to the American Psychical Institute by Mrs. Eileen Garrett, he subjected this medium to psychoanalytic association tests, combined with electrical recording apparatus, in order to discover whether the communicators were personalities distinct from the medium.
His conclusion was as follows: ‘‘I can now say that our experiments seem to have shown the existence of mental entities independent of the control of the medium, and separate and apart from the conscious or subconscious mind of the medium.’’
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