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Frank Podmore examines reports and experiments concerning telepathy, apparitions and the communication of sensations or ideas without ordinary speech. The book gathers nineteenth-century investigations into a connected discussion of what the evidence might show.
Chapters consider experiments involving tastes, pain, sounds, visual images and other impressions, alongside spontaneous experiences and apparitions. Podmore discusses problems of observation, alternative explanations and the circumstances in which reports were collected, connecting experimental work with accounts from everyday life.
Illustrations and detailed examples support the presentation. The volume offers readers an extended account of the questions and methods associated with early psychical research, with particular attention to the possibility that thought-transference could help explain experiences commonly attributed to other causes.