Ghost Hunters: The Victorians and the Hunt for Proof of Life After Death

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by Deborah Blum

opinion of SPR leaders

  report on Eusapia Palladino

  report on Leonora Piper. See Piper, Leonora Evelina

  reports of

  restoration of ASPR

  on retirement of Leonora Piper

  spirit of. See Hodgson control

  time in Boston

  visit to William James in New Hampshire

  William James’ paying of salary for

  Hodgson control. See Hodgson control

  Alice James’ experience with

  anagrams

  arrow scripts

  William James’ analysis of

  William James’ work on

  William Newbold’s contact with

  Holt, Henry

  Home, Daniel Dunglas

  appeal of

  death of

  effect of career of

  investigations of

  marriage of

  reputation of

  talents of

  telekinetic powers

  views on dark séances

  William Crookes’ opinion of

  witchcraft charge

  Houdini, Harry

  Howe, Alice Gibbons. See also James, Alice

  Hubbard, Gardiner

  Hugo, Victor

  Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers)

  Huse, Bertha

  Huxley, T. H.

  as agnostic

  attendance at séances at home of Wallace

  confession of unbelief

  confession to Metaphysical Society

  reaction to Crookes

  view of man in larger universe

  Hypnosis

  French studies of

  Hyslop, James Hervey

  admiration for Richard Hodgson

  American Institute for Scientific Research

  attempt at improving image of psychic inquiry

  background of

  concern over Eusapia Palladino’s U.S tour

  correspondence with Richard Hodgson on fake mediums

  death of

  death of wife

  disagreement with Simon Newcomb

  friendship with Richard Hodgson

  ghost of father through Leonora Piper

  health issues

  investigation of Leonora Piper

  James McKeen Cattell’s disagreement with

  letter to Richard Hodgson regarding resignation from SPR

  newspaper coverage of

  offer to assume Richard Hodgson’s duties

  questioning mother on Leonora Piper’s statements

  reaction to Hereward Carrington’s invitation to Eusapia Palladino to tour U.S.

  relationship with parents

  report of messages relayed from medium from William James

  resignation from Columbia

  resignation from SPR

  response to Widow’s Mite coin mystery

  role in leading ASPR

  social skills

  Vermont gold-mining venture

  William James’ opinion of social skills of

  Hyslop, Mary

  Hyslop, Robert

  Ile Roubaud tests

  Imperator

  Imperator (guide)

  Inexplicable fears

  Intellectual whoredom

  International Congress of Experimental Psychology. See Congress of Experimental Psychology

  The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)

  invitation to return to Cambridge for further investigations

  Isis Unveiled (Blavatsky)

  Jack the Ripper

  James, Alice

  anxiety attacks

  birth of daughter Margaret

  at deathbed of James

  death of

  on Edmund Gurney’s death

  experience with Hodgson control

  illness of

  marriage of

  opinion of Hugo Munsterberg

  quarantine of

  scarlet fever

  sittings with mediums after death of James

  James, Billy

  James, Bob

  James, Harry

  James, Henry, Jr.

  childhood

  ghost stories

  health issues

  novels of

  sittings with mediums after death of James

  James, Henry, Sr.

  childhood accident

  death of

  depression

  influence of Swedenborg on

  marriage to Mary Walsh

  treatment of children

  James, Herman “Humster”

  James, Margaret

  James, Robertson

  James, Wilkie

  James, William

  as acclaimed chemist

  address to Philosophical Clubs of Yale and Brown

  admiration for Henry Sidgwick

  admiration for James McKeen Cattell

  American Magazine article

  analysis of Hodgson control

  animal serum injection therapy

  argument with Edward Titchener over telepathy

  attempt at explaining God

  attendance at International Congress of Experimental Psychology

  belief in work

  childhood of

  claims of contacts with spirit of

  communication with dead son

  concern about lack of mediums

  concern about scientific approach to spiritual murkiness

  concern over Eusapia Palladino’s U.S tour

  concern over Frederic Myers’ health

  concern over replacing Henry Sidgwick

  “The Confidences of a Psychical Researcher” article

  confusion over intolerance for work of Society

  consultation with mindcure doctress

  cross-correspondence study

  cryptic message to Oliver Lodge

  death of

  death of Aunt Kate

  death of brother Robertson James

  on death of father

  death of son Herman

  defense of Richard Hodgson’s affirmation of spirit life

  dismantling of Newcomb’s criticisms of British SPR research

  editing of Myers’ Rosina Thompson paper

  effect of Richet’s home on recuperation

  efforts to maintain ASPR

  founding of ASPR

  on fraud

  friendship with Hugo Munsterberg

  gypsy-like childhood

  at Harvard

  health issues

  inquiries into faith

  invitation from Richet to his home to recuperate

  invitation to become president of British SPR

  invitation to the Scratch Eight meeting

  Leonora Piper as guest at New Hampshire house of

  marriage to Alice Gibbons Howe

  medical treatment in Europe

  mind-body connection

  mourning death of Richard Hodgson

  need to keep open mind

  opinion of James Hyslop’s social skills

  opinion of President Grover Cleveland

  opinion of religion

  paying of Hodgson’s salary

  physical traits of

  as piecemeal supernaturalist

  on potential for fraud

  praise for Henry Sidgwick

  praise for SPR publications

  The Principles of Psychology

  as psychology teacher

  reaction to Alice’s death

  reaction to Alice’s illness

  reaction to death of Edmund Gurney

  reaction to Hereward Carrington’s invitation to Eusapia Palladino to tour U.S.

  reaction to Seybert Commission report

  recruitment into British SPR

  relationship with Edmund Gurney

  reputation of

  response to Widow’s Mite coin mystery

  retirement from Harvard

  retreat

  return to U.S. from second sabbatica
l

  review of Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers)

  review of life’s work

  review of Phantasms of the Living

  sabbatical in England

  sabbatical in Europe

  Scribner’s article

  self-medication

  study of slate writing messages

  theory on psychology

  unorthodoxy of

  view of mind healers

  view of world

  withdrawal from American Institute for Scientific Research board of directors

  work on Hodgson control

  James H. Hyslop X: His Book

  James Hyslop’s investigation of

  Janet, Pierre

  reaction to Census of Hallucinations

  Jastrow, Joseph

  denunciation of telepathy

  opinion of Mark Twain

  Jencken, H. D.

  Johnson, Alice

  Journal of the Society of Psychical Research

  Kane, Elisha Kent

  Kane, Maggie Fox. See Fox, Margaretta (Maggie)

  Kant, Immanuel

  King, Katie

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Lankester, Ray

  investigation into Henry Slade

  The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper)

  Laudanum

  Light

  Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism (Home)

  Lily Dale

  Little Bright Eyes

  Lodge, Mary

  Lodge, Oliver

  background of

  at Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition

  complaints about manners of Richard Hodgson

  cross-correspondence study

  cryptic message from William James to

  efforts to carry on psychical work

  ether testing machine

  on Gurney’s work habits

  as head of physics dept. at Univ. of Birmingham

  interest in telepathy

  invention of coherer

  knighthood of

  opinion of Frederic Myers’ autobiography

  opinion of Wallace

  patent battle with Marconi Radio Company

  public revelation of cross-correspondence study

  request to Stanley Hall to publish Piper findings in SPR journal

  Richard Hodgson’s opinion of

  role in rebuilding of British SPR

  study of slate writing messages

  testing of Leonora Piper

  witness to Charles Richet’s investigations of Eusapia Palladino

  work on wireless communication

  Lombroso, Cesare

  investigations of Eusapia Palladino

  reputation of

  Loring, Katherine

  L’uomo deliquente (Criminal man) (Lombroso)

  McCosh, James

  Magnetic signals

  Marconi, Guglielmo

  Marshall, Annie

  A-Control

  Frederic Myers’ search for

  Marshall, Walter

  Master of Turin. See Lombroso, Cesare

  Maxwell, James Clerk

  Medium, A.

  Mediums

  acceptance of term

  Anna Eva Fay. See Fay, Anna Eva

  ASPR report on

  Catherine Muller (Helene Smith)

  Charles Richet’s opinion of

  Church of Spiritualism

  Creery sisters

  Daniel Dunglas Home. See Home, Daniel Dunglas

  Eusapia Palladino. See Palladino, Eusapia

  Fox sisters. See Fox, Kate; Fox, Margaretta (Maggie)

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. See Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna

  Helene Smith

  Henry Slade

  Leonora Evelina Piper. See Piper, Leonora Evelina

  in Lily Dale

  Madame Blavatsky. See Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna

  “Mr. Sludge, the Medium.” See “Mr. Sludge, the Medium”

  Newcastle mediums

  paid mediums

  peculiarities of

  reactions to

  reaction to Henry Sidgwick

  Reverend May Pepper. See Pepper, Reverend May

  Rosina Thompson. See Thompson, Rosina

  social events with

  meeting with James

  Mental illness

  Mesmer, Anton

  Metaphysical Society

  “Meta-trousers and meta-coats”

  Methods of Ethics (Sidgwick)

  Mill, John Stuart

  Mind-body therapy

  Mindcure doctress

  Mind cures

  Mind-reading. See also Telepathy; Thought transference

  Newcomb’s dismissal of

  Minot Savage’s investigation of

  Modern Spiritualism (Podmore)

  Morality

  “Mr. Sludge, the Medium”

  Mr. Splitfoot

  Muller, Catherine. See Smith, Helene

  Munsterberg, Hugo

  attendance at Eusapia Palladino séance

  friendship with William James

  Myers, Arthur

  Myers, Eveleen

  comforting of Eusapia Palladino

  destruction of husband’s records

  evidence of failed marriage

  illness while in Rome

  life after death of Frederic

  marital problems

  meeting with Leonora Piper

  problems with SPR members

  reaction to Frederic’s illness

  request for recall of “Fragments of an Inner Life”

  Myers, Frederic

  appeal of Sigmund Freud’s studies

  attendance at International Congress of Experimental Psychology

  background of

  belief in Leonora Piper’s abilities

  belief in science

  call to action

  at Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition

  concern over legacy of

  concerns about Phantasms of the Living

  death of

  decision to investigate supernatural phenomena

  depression

  description of human mind

  drug use

  enjoyment of Cambridge party circuit

  Eusapia Palladino tests in Italy

  founding of British SPR

  “Fragments of an Inner Life”

  gratitude towards Leonora Piper

  greeting Leonora Piper in Liverpool

  health issues

  investigation of Rosina Thompson

  investigations of apparitions

  invitation from Richet to his home to recuperate

  invitation to William James to become president of British SPR

  loss of Annie Marshall

  marriage to Eveleen Tennant

  opinion of D. D. Home

  opinion of Wallace

  “other” consciousness

  partnership with Sidgwick and Gurney. See Sidgwick group

  praise for The Principles of Psychology

  preferred description of ghosts

  reaction to death of Edmund Gurney

  reaction to Richard Hodgson’s report on Eusapia Palladino

  as school inspector

  search for Annie Marshall

  spirit of. See Myers, Frederic (spirit)

  subliminal consciousness. See Subliminal consciousness

  subliminal self

  telepathy tests

  testing of Leonora Piper

  time at Richet’s home

  use of mediums

  view of scientific dogma

  views on women

  William Fletcher Barrett’s opinion of

  witness to Charles Richet’s investigations of Eusapia Palladino

  Myers, Frederic (spirit)

  communicating through slate writing

  “Francis and Ignatius”

  Myers, Leo

  Narcotics

  National Geographic Society

  Natur
al selection theory

  Nelly

  Newbold, William

  Newcastle mediums

  New Church

  Newcomb, Simon

  ability to understand psychical research

  credentials of

  criticisms of British SPR research

  disagreement with James Hyslop

  dismissal of mind-reading work

  first president of ASPR

  opinion of Nora Sidgwick’s work

  Newnham College

  The Night Side of Nature (Crowe)

  Nitrous oxide

  Nobel, Alfred

  Nobel Prize

  Charles Richet (medicine)

  Lord Rayleigh (physics)

  Occult Bookstore

  Ochorowicz, Julien

  Eusapia Palladino tests in Italy

  Hugo Munsterberg’s opinion of

  opinion of Eusapia Palladino’s Cambridge sittings

  reaction to Richard Hodgson’s report on Eusapia Palladino

  witness to Charles Richet’s investigations of Eusapia Palladino

  Oliver Lodge investigation of

  on SPR payroll

  On the Origin of Species (Darwin)

  “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type” (Wallace)

  On the Threshold of a New World of Thought (Burett)

  Ordinary occult

  Ouija boards

  ovarian tumor

  Paid mediums

  Palladino, Eusapia

  Cambridge testing

  Cesare Lombroso’s investigations of

  Charles Richet’s championing of

  Charles Richet’s investigations of. See Richet, Charles

  cheating by

  cross-Atlantic séance

  death of

  as dominant medium in Europe

  Everard Feilding’s investigation of

  Frank Podmore’s opinion of

  Hereward Carrington’s investigation of

  Hereward Carrington’s invitation to tour U.S.

  Italy testing

  loss of powers

  “Neapolitan rage”

  Richard Hodgson’s opinion of

  Richard Hodgson’s report on

  sexual arousal of

  talents of

  Theodore Flournoy’s investigation of

  as trouble maker

  participation in cross-correspondence study

  Pasteur, Louis

  Peirce, Charles S.

  Pellew, George

  automatic writing

  communication through Leonora Piper

  death of

  opinion of Chauncey Wright

  Pepper, Reverend May

  Little Bright Eyes (guide)

  marriage to Edward Ward Vanderbilt

  slate writing

  Phantasms

  Phantasms of the Living (Gurney, Myers & Podmore)

  attention paid to

  concerns about

  publication of

  William James review of

  Philosophical Clubs of Yale and Brown

  Phinuit, Dr.

  George Pellew communicating through

  Phony spirit shows

  Piddington, John

  arrow scripts

  communication with Rector

 

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