Background Material

F. Bateman

(and S. G. Soal) Modern Experiments in Telepathy (Faber, 1954).

Whately Carington

Telepathy (Methuen, 1945).

Thought transference, an outline of facts, theory and implications of telepathy (New York: Creative Age Press, 1946).

Arthur Conan Doyle

The New Revelation (1918).

Martin Gardner

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Dover, 1957). -- at Amazon.

Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus (Prometheus Books, (reprint) 1990). -- at Amazon.

Edmund Gurney

(and Frederic W. H. Myers and Frank Podmore) Phantasms of the Living, 2 vols. (1886).

Sylvan Muldoon

(and Hereward Carrington) The Projection of the Astral Body (1929).

The Case for Astral Projection (1936).

(and Hereward Carrington) The Phenomena of the Astral Body (1951).

F. W. H. Myers

Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (Longmans, 1903).

Janet Oppenheim

The Other World, Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1985). -- at Amazon.

Frank Podmore

Modern spiritualism (1902). Republished as Mediums of the 19th Century (New Hyde Park, N.Y., University Books, (1963).

J. B. Rhine

Extra-Sensory Perception (Boston: Society for Psychical Research, 1935).

New Frontiers of the Mind (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1937).

Samuel G. Soal

The Experimental Situation in Psychical Research (London: The Society for Psychical Research, 1947).

Modern Experiments in Telepathy -- at Amazon.

G. N. M. Tyrrell

The Personality of Man (Penguin, 1946).

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C. D. Broad

"The Relevance of Psychical Research to Philosophy" Philosophy 24 (1949): 291-309. Reprinted in

Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research (Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1953).

Lectures on Psychic Research (Routledge, 1962).