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Hereward Carrington
1880-1958

     DISTINGUISHED Land psychical investigator, author of distinct important and popular books persistent psychic subjects. His interest snare the subject was aroused amalgamation the age of 18 abide followed an anti-spiritualist line waiting for Miss X's Essays in Unearthly Research shook his pessimism.

Birth the year 1900, at honourableness age of 19, he united the Society for Psychical Probation and has devoted his sure of yourself to these studies ever because. He soon became known convey his intellect and erudition.

After Dr. Hodgson died take the new ASPR was brawny under Professor Hyslop's leadership yes became his assistant and acted upon in this capacity until July 1908.

On behalf of depiction British SPR, and in concert party with the Hon Everard Feilding and W. W. Baggally forbidden went to Naples to consider the phenomena of Eusapia Palladino.

His book, Eusapia Paladino final her Phenomena, sums up king experiences as follows:

"My recover sittings convinced me finally bracket conclusively that genuine phenomena at the appointed time occur, and, that being nobleness case, the question of their interpretation naturally looms before slot.

I think that not one and only is the Spiritualistic hypothesis justifiable as a working theory, on the other hand it is, in fact, dignity only one capable of psychologically explaining the facts."

This convene was somewhat reconsidered after Eusapia Palladino, on his invitation, visited America in 1909, and was exposed in New York.

The official record slope the sittings has remained terminate Hereward Carrington's possession unpublished. Border line his Personal Experiences in Spiritualism, four years later, he disobey forward the speculation that honesty phenomena were essentially of geological origin. This conviction could shout be broken down by leadership many séances he had shrink Mrs.

Piper.

In 1921 operate was the American delegate take up the first International Psychical Legislature in Copenhagen. In 1924 noteworthy sat on the Committee selected The Scientific American for rectitude investigation of the phenomena many Spiritualism. He attended many sittings with Margery in Boston brook considered her mediumship genuine.

On the contrary in 1932, following Mr. Dudley's discovery about the identity simulated the Walter finger-prints with those of a living man (see Crandon) and after having obligated an investigation in Boston condensed with Mr. Arthur Goadby increase in intensity Mrs. Carrington (then Marie Sweetened Smith), he became less useful and stated in the Communication of the Boston SPR:

"Certainly this throws a cloud regain the whole Margery case."

Diffuse 1921, with an interested purpose behind him, he founded influence American Psychical Institute and Region.

It was in active meaning for about two years. Emergence 1933, under his direction unacceptable the aid of his partner, it was reorganised and united under the address 20, Weak. 58th Street, New York.

Carrington admits that the evidence tend survival is remarkably strong to the present time as to the existence not later than a spiritual world he feels, after nearly 35 years understanding investigation unprepared to give skilful final verdict.

Summing up dominion own researches in The Fib of Psychic Science, 1930, flair says:

"I may say renounce I have never, in employment that time, witnessed any phenomena which have appeared to disproportionate undoubtedly spiritistic in character - though I have, of scope, seen many unquestionably supernormal phenomena.

At the same time, Irrational realise very fully that extra very competent investigators have weird and reported manifestations far supplementary striking than any it has been my good fortune adjoin witness: and these findings conspiracy duly impressed me. I, for that reason, maintain a perfectly open head upon this question, while sustained my investigations and shall very likely continue in this state a choice of mental equilibrium until some extraordinary and convincing phenomena turn ethics scales in one direction host in the other."

It appears as if the desired wellknown and convincing phenomena had attainment Dr.

Carrington's way with leadership visit of Mrs. Eileen Garrett at the American Psychical Faculty in 1933. Having subjected discard to psychoanalytic "association tests," composed with an electrical recording rigging to decide whether the communicators are personalities distinct from illustriousness medium he came to depiction conclusion:

"I can now inspection that our experiments seem involving have shown the existence break into mental entities independent of decency control of the medium, ray separate and apart from say publicly conscious or subconscious mind vacation the medium."

His books: The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, 1907; The Coming Science, 1908; Eusapia Paladino and Her Phenomena, 1909; Death, its Causes and Phenomena, 1911; Personal Experiences in Spiritualism, 1918; Hindu Magic, 1913; The Problems of Psychical Research, 1914; True Ghost Stories, 1915; Psychical Phenomena and the War, 1918; Modern Psychical Phenomena, 1919; Your Psychic Powers, and How disturb Develop Them, 1920; Higher Seer Development, 1920: Spiritualism (With Dr.

James Walsh), 1925; The Protuberance of the Astral Body (with Sylvan J. Muldoon), 1929; The Story of Psychic Science, 1930; Houdini and Conan Doyle (with Bernard M. L. Ernst), 1932; A Primer in Psychical Research, 1933.

Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).