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History of Parapsychology in Austria - Notes for a History of Parapsychological Developments in Aust |
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Mulacz, P. (2000). History of Parapsychology in Austria - Notes
for a History of Parapsychological Developments in Austria. Proceedings of Presented
Papers: The Parapsychological Association 43rd Annual Convention, (pp.
192-209).
Abstract
This papers aims at an overview of the Austrian
contributions to parapsychology - researchers as well as psychics
- during the past 150 years, from the Austrian Empire to the Republic of
Austria. The main themes are Baron Reichenbach and the `Od', Baron Hellenbach
and his philosophical concept similar to the later one of du Prel, the
Occult Wave after World War I, the era of Great Mediums, the Schneider
brothers - in particular Rudi Schneider, perhaps the most important personality
ever in physical mediumship -, parapsychology entering Vienna University (K. C.
Schneider) and leaving it again, the eventual establishment of the Austrian
S.P.R., a short history of the latter, etc. Due to constraint of space those
aspects that are believed to be widely known (e.g. the mediumship of Rudi
Schneider, which is well covered in Anita Gregory's book) have been kept short
in favour of lesser known facets of the history of parapsychology in Austria. On
several occasions, the connection of the past to the present is pointed out
specifically.
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