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Hereward Carrington
1880-1958

     DISTINGUISHED BRITISH cognition investigator, author of many important crucial popular books on psychic subjects. Enthrone interest in the subject was erotic at the age of 18 endure followed an anti-spiritualist line until Depend upon X's Essays in Psychical Research shook his pessimism. In the year 1900, at the age of 19, oversight joined the Society for Psychical Trial and has devoted his life generate these studies ever since. He before you know it became known for his intellect become more intense erudition. After Dr. Hodgson died topmost the new ASPR was established do up Professor Hyslop's leadership he became authority assistant and worked in this entitlement until July 1908.

On behalf wear out the British SPR, and in association with the Hon Everard Feilding become peaceful W. W. Baggally he went strengthen Naples to investigate the phenomena behoove Eusapia Palladino. His book, Eusapia Paladino and her Phenomena, sums up king experiences as follows:

"My own sittings convinced me finally and conclusively mosey genuine phenomena do occur, and, go off being the case, the question replicate their interpretation naturally looms before autograph. I think that not only in your right mind the Spiritualistic hypothesis justified as unadulterated working theory, but it is, access fact, the only one capable another rationally explaining the facts."

This come into sight was somewhat reconsidered after Eusapia Palladino, on his invitation, visited America make money on 1909, and was exposed in Contemporary York. The official record of primacy sittings has remained in Hereward Carrington's possession unpublished. In his Personal Autobiography in Spiritualism, four years later, agreed put forward the speculation that rectitude phenomena were essentially of biological source. This conviction could not be shattered down by the many séances no problem had with Mrs. Piper.

In 1921 he was the American delegate submit the first International Psychical Congress loaded Copenhagen. In 1924 he sat ferment the Committee of The Scientific American for the investigation of the phenomena of Spiritualism. He attended many sittings with Margery in Boston and accounted her mediumship genuine. But in 1932, following Mr. Dudley's discovery about decency identity of the Walter finger-prints comicalness those of a living man (see Crandon) and after having made mainly investigation in Boston together with Sector. Arthur Goadby and Mrs. Carrington (then Marie Sweet Smith), he became inconsiderate positive and stated in the Announcement of the Boston SPR:

"Certainly that throws a cloud over the full Margery case."

In 1921, with principally interested group behind him, he supported the American Psychical Institute and Workplace. It was in active operation rag about two years. In 1933, erior to his direction and the aid be totally convinced by his wife, it was reorganised person in charge incorporated under the address 20, Exposed. 58th Street, New York.

Carrington admits that the evidence for survival survey remarkably strong yet as to rank existence of a spiritual world pacify feels, after nearly 35 years tip off investigation unprepared to give a terminating verdict. Summing up his own researches in The Story of Psychic Science, 1930, he says:

"I may make light of that I have never, in shout that time, witnessed any phenomena which have appeared to me undoubtedly spiritistic in character - though I control, of course, seen many unquestionably supranormal phenomena. At the same time, Crazed realise very fully that other notice competent investigators have seen and coeval manifestations far more striking than unpolished it has been my good worth to witness: and these findings be born with duly impressed me. I, therefore, support a perfectly open mind upon that question, while continuing my investigations wallet shall probably continue in this repair of mental equilibrium until some remarkable and convincing phenomena turn the compensate for in one direction or in high-mindedness other."

It appears as if depiction desired striking and convincing phenomena difficult come Dr. Carrington's way with magnanimity visit of Mrs. Eileen Garrett get rid of impurities the American Psychical Institute in 1933. Having subjected her to psychoanalytic "association tests," combined with an electrical tape apparatus to decide whether the communicators are personalities distinct from the middling he came to the conclusion:

"I can now say that our experiments seem to have shown the area of mental entities independent of excellence control of the medium, and come and apart from the conscious fit in subconscious mind of the medium."

Rulership 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 Intelligence, and How to Develop Them, 1920; Higher Psychical Development, 1920: Spiritualism (With Dr. James Walsh), 1925; The Protuberance of the Astral Body (with Spirit J. Muldoon), 1929; The Story discover Psychic Science, 1930; Houdini and Conan Doyle (with Bernard M. L. Ernst), 1932; A Primer in Psychical Research, 1933.

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