Case Studies Bearing Upon Survival.

8vo. 150 pp. Burgundy blind-stamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; spine darkened. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Very good. "In 1927, John F. Thomas, an officer at Detroit's public school system, approached [J.B.] Rhine to see if he would work with him on mediumistic communication records (L. E. Rhine, 1982, pp.111-113). Thomas was having sances with Soule and other mediums attempting to communicate with his deceased wife [See: Dale, L. A. (1941) Dr. John F. Thomas (in memoriam). - JASPR 35, 1-8.]. Rhine accepted and Thomas asked him later the same year if he and his wife would go to Duke University to work with William McDougall on his mediumistic records. McDougall was then the head of Duke's psychology department. Eventually the Rhines arrived at Duke where they were welcomed by McDougall. Their first work at Duke was centered on the Thomas material and only later did they branch out into ESP research. / [8] On Thomas see Dale (1941). - / The Rhines went with Thomas to continue to assist in the evaluation of mediumistic sittings with Mrs. Soule, as well as with such other mental mediums as Eileen J. Garrett and Gladys Osborne Leonard. Thomas eventually obtained a doctoral degree in psychology from Duke University for his study of mediumistic communications. In his books Case Studies Bearing Upon Survival (Thomas, 1929) and Beyond Normal Cognition (Thomas, 1937), Thomas mentioned that both J. B. and Louisa Rhine helped him in various ways. / The effect of this early mediumship work was to give the Rhines first hand appreciation of what so many other psychical researchers before them had realized, the difficulties involved in determining the source of the information produced. In a letter he wrote to Prince on November 23, 1927, J. B. Rhine said: "We are just now organizing our thoughts on the question of what we require for proof of the supernormal, how many reasonable hypotheses there seem to be for supernormal production of information, and how we may discover then which of these is the correct one ." (cited in Brian, 1982, p.68). - / However, later on Rhine was more positive about survival. On March 21, 1929 in a letter to Prince about Thomas' mediumistic records, Rhine said: "We have a very real appreciation for Mr. T. himself, and have been convinced that his material is in part at least, genuinely evidential, that of the hypotheses available to our knowledge certainly the spirit interpretation is the most acceptable" (cited in Mauskopf & McVaugh, 1980, p. 328)." - - Carlos S. Alvarado Ph.D., "The Concept of Survival of Bodily Death and the Development of Parapsychology. . " [SurvivalAfterDeath.info]. Contents: I. The General Case, II. Personal Identity, III. Rings and Two Other Cases, IV. Wall LakeOther Memories, V. Orchard LakeThe Will, Awareness, Five Other Cases, Four Sittings, Comments.

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Publisher: Boston Society for Psychic Research, 1929.

Year: 1929

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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