Abstract

This is a survey, intended for the general public, of the scientific investigations in parapsychology. The book, originally published in England, deals primarily with developments in Britain as represented by the activities of the Society for Psychical Research over the past 4 decades. The modern period of quantitative experiments receives sympathetic but limited treatment. An appendix entitled "Some Explanations and Hypotheses" discusses the relevant views of G. N. M. Tyrrell, Whately Carington, Sir Alister Hardy, Sigmund Freud, C. J. Jung, Gardner Murphy, R. H. Thouless, C. D. Broad, and H. H. Price.