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Article: Biology, vitalism, and the "golden era" of continental European parapsychology.(Abstract)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
- Author:
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ABSTRACT: The "parapsychological paradigm" prevailing during the 1920s and early 1930s--the period the author calls the Golden Era of continental European parapsychology because of the degree of integration of the field into academic life--is explained (telekinesis as a precursor of materialization and the concepts of ectoplasm and ideoplasty). The author details the reasons for the then proximity of biology and parapsychology and introduced the leading figures in the field (first and foremost Schrenck-Notzing). The basis that the issue of physical mediumism is still being discussed are the unsurpassed experiments of father and son Osty with Austrian medium Rudi Schneider ...
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