Phantasms of the Living - Volume II.

Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers, Frank Podmore

• Publisher: Obscure Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781528767750
• Print ISBN:
  9781528709552

This book contains the second of two volumes of "Phantasms of the Living", an 1886 work on the subject of spiritualism by leading members of the Society for Psychical Research Edmund Gurney (1847 – 1888), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843 – 1901), and Frank Podmore (1856 – 1910).Within it, the authors have documented more than 700 cases of ghost sightings which they believe are evidence of psychic ability. This volume contains an introduction by Myers as well as an outline of their analytical methods, while the rest is dedicated to telepathy, hallucinations, dreams, etc. "Phantasms of the Living" constitutes a pioneering study that provides a vivid insight into the Victorian fascination with the occult and the supernatural, not to be missed by those with an interest in the subject. Contents include: "Preliminary Remarks: Grounds of Caution", "The Experimental Basis: Thought-Transference", "The Transition From Experimental to Spontaneous Telepathy", "General Criticism of the Evidence for Spontaneous Telepathy", "Note on Witchcraft", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Additions and Corrections
• Chapter XIII. The Theory of Chance-Coincidence
• Chapter XIV. Further Visual Cases Occurring to a Single Percipient
• Chapter XV. Further Auditory Cases Occurring to a Single Percipient
• Chapter XVI. Tactile Cases, And Cases Affecting More Than One of the Percipient’s Senses
• Chapter XVII. Reciprocal Cases
• Chapter XVIII. Collective Cases
• Conclusion
• Note (By Mr. Myers) on a Suggested Mode of Psychical Interaction
• Supplement. Introduction
• Chapter I. Further Examples of Thought-Transference, Principally in Hypnotic Cases
• Chapter II. Ideal, Emotional, and Motor Cases
• Chapter III. Dreams
• Chapter IV. “Borderland” Cases
• Chapter V. Visual Cases
• Chapter VI. Auditory And Tactile Cases
• Chapter VII. Cases Affecting More Than One of the Percipient’s Senses
• Chapter VIII. Reciprocal Cases
• Chapter IX. Collective Cases
• Additional Chapter. Of Cases Received Too Late for Insertion in Their Proper Places
• Table of Numbered Cases
• Analysis of the Table
• Index