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PSYCHIC
EXPLORATION
Famous Western Sensitives
Alan Vaughan
New York
Famous Western Sensitives, copyright 1974 by Alan Vaughan. First published by G.P. Putnams Sons in 1974 as part of Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science. Current edition published by Cosimo Classics in 2015.
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without prior written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
ISBN: 978-1-94452-908-6
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Note to the Readers: This mini-ebook was earlier published as part of a compilation of essays in Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science, Understanding the Nature and Power of Consciousness (originally published in 1974; reprinted by Cosimo Books in 2011), edited by Apollo 14 astronaut, moonwalker, and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Edgar Mitchell.
Each of the 28 chapters in the original Psychic Exploration was dedicated to a specific field of research in parapsychology, written by leading experts and scientists, such as Stanley Krippner, Montague Ullman, Charles Tart, Russel Targ, William Roll, Jean Houston, Willis Harman, and many others. With the advent of ebook technology, we feel that each of these unique essays deserve attention as a dedicated mini-ebook in addition to the complete version of Psychic Exploration.
If you prefer exploring specific subjects or authors, below is a complete list of the individual essays, all available as mini-ebooks. On the other hand, if you are interested in all of the essays and the field of parapsychology in general, we encourage you to read the original Psychic Exploration, available at online bookstores in both paperback and ebook versions.
However you decide to read these essays, we know you will receive a thorough introduction to psychic research in its many forms, from what is now considered a classic in the parapsychology genre. Part of the proceeds of this mini-ebook will benefit the Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org).
INDIVIDUAL ESSAYS FROM PSYCHIC EXPLORATION
A History of Parapsychology, by Martin Ebon (978-1-94452-907-9)
Famous Western Sensitives, by Alan Vaughan (978-1-94452-908-6)
The Psychic Personality, by Gertrude Schmeidler (978-1-94452-909-3)
Telepathy, by Stanley Krippner (978-1-94452-910-9)
Clairvoyance, by Rex G. Stanford (978-1-94452-911-6)
Precognition and Retrocognition, by E. Douglas Dean (978-1-94452-912-3)
Psychokinesis, by Helmut Schmidt (978-1-94452-913-0)
Parapsychology Today, by Rhea A. White (978-1-94452-914-7)
The Psychobiology of Psi, by Robert L. Morris (978-1-94452-915-4)
Psi and Psychiatry, by Montague Ullman (978-1-94452-916-1)
Anthropology and Psychic Research, by Robert L. Van De Cas tle (978-1-94452-917-8)
Man-Plant Communication, by Marcel Vogel (978-1-94452-918-5)
Psychic Photography and Thoughtography, by Jule Eisenbud (978-1-94452-919-2)
Psychic Research and the Healing Process, by Henry K. Puharich (978-1-94452-920-8)
Out-of-the-Body Experiences, by Charles T. Tart (978-1-94452-921-5)
Apparitions, Hauntings, and Poltergeists, by D. Scott Rogo (978-1-94452-922-2)
Survival Research: Problems and Possibilities, by William G. Roll (978-1-94452-923-9)
The Emergence of Paraphysics: Research and Applications, by James B. Beal (978-1-94452-924-6)
The Emergences of Paraphysics: Theoretical Foundations, by Brendan OReagan (978-1-94452-925-3)
Psychic Research in the Soviet Union, by Thelma Moss (978-1-94452-926-0)
Devices for Monitoring Nonphysical Energies, by William A. Tiller (978-1-94452-927-7)
Psychic Research and Modern Physics, by Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ (978-1-94452-928-4)
Consciousness and Quantum Theory, by Evan Harris Walker (978-1-94452-929-1)
Psychic Phenomena and Mystical Experience, by Lawrence L. Leshan (978-1-94452-930-7)
Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research, by Jean Houston (978-1-94452-931-4)
Consciousnes and Extraordinary Phenomena, by Robert Masters (978-1-94452-932-1)
Psi-Conducive States of Awareness, by Charles Honorton (978-1-94452-933-8)
The Social Implications of Psychic Research, by Willis W. Harman (978-1-94452-934-5)
ALAN VAUGHAN
Since the advent of Spiritualism over a century ago in America, certain individuals with unusual psychic abilities have dominated the scene of psychic research. At first these psychic sensitives were mainly mediums, persons who allegedly act as an intermediary between the living and the dead. Some of them expressed their psychic ability in physical phenomena, including even levitation. Twentieth-century investigations of trance mediums shed light on the puzzling nature of their trance personalities. Other types of sensitives include trance diagnosticians, readers of past lives, and even mediums who produce voices directly on recording tape, an electronic equivalent of automatic writing. Sensitives often combine a number of psychic skills, including psychometry (telling an objects past by touching it), PK, precognition (foreknowledge of events), clairvoyance (direct perception of a distant or concealed object), telepathy (direct perception of information in a persons mind), and clairaudience (hearing words of a paranormal nature). Recent work in parapsychological laboratories by a number of sensitives is bringing increased interest in parapsychology to scientists and laymen. The latest trend is to develop methods for training sensitives.
The beginning of psychic research in the late nineteenth century was inextricably rooted in the phenomena displayed by Spiritualist mediums who began to appear in America in the mid-nineteenth century. The famous Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York, specialized in raps from alleged spirits who answered questions by code. In something of a stageshow atmosphere, they toured the country, producing raps (fraudulently, some said, but it was never proved) to the spoken and mental questions of their paying customers. Hundreds of imitators sprang up across America, giving rise to millions of followers who called themselves Spiritualists.
The prince of mediums hips golden age was a Scot named Daniel Dunglas Home, who developed his mediums hip in New York State. Home extended his extraordinary career of physical phenomena to impress the nobility of all Europe and even Russia. Among his specialties were levitation, of which over a hundred instances were recorded; elongation (seeming to grow in height); and handling live coals and even inducing others to handle them without harm. Homes physical phenomena attracted the attention of the illustrious physicist Sir William Crookes, who tested Homes ability to move objects at a distance and pronounced it genuine. Most spectacular was Homes ability to play an accordion without touching it when the instrument was locked in a caged box.
While Home has the distinction of never being implicated in any attempts at fraudulent mediums hip, Sir William Crookess reports of his physical phenomena were not received with approval by his colleagues at the Royal Society. Homes phenomena did not comply with Newtons laws, nor did Homes reliance on an alleged spirit control who aided him in his feats impress the advocates of scientific materialism.
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