Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy: As Involved in the Case of Mrs. Leonora E. Piper and the Society of Psychical Research book cover
Rabbit Hole · 1902 · en

Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy: As Involved in the Case of Mrs. Leonora E. Piper and the Society of Psychical Research

by Clark Bell (editor)

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This collection records a debate prompted by Leonora E. Piper’s published statement about her experiences as a medium. Clark Bell brings together papers and responses presented to the New York Medico-Legal Society and its Psychological Section in 1901 and 1902.

Contributors including Thomson Jay Hudson, John Duncan Quackenbos, Richard Hodgson and J. H. Hyslop offer differing interpretations of spirit communications, suggestion, hypnosis and telepathy. Piper’s statement and related newspaper material are reproduced alongside the discussion. The complete illustrated 1902 volume retains the contributors’ portraits, its contents and Hudson’s concluding assessment of the arguments.