Phantasms of the Living

Abstract

UNDER the title “Phantasms of the Living,” three of the leading members of the Society for Psychical Research have presented to the world at large, in two bulky volumes running to upwards of 1400 pages, the evidence they have collected in support of the hypothesis of telergy and telepathy, or the influence of one mind on another, near or at a distance, without the intervention of the ordinary channels of sense. The division of labour, for such we may truly term it, seems to have been as follows: Mr. F. W. H. Myers writes an introduction and a concluding chapter on “A Suggested Mode of Psychical Interaction”; Mr. Edmund Gurney is responsible for the compilation of the body of the work, the presentation and criticism of the evidence; while in the collection of evidence and examination of witnesses Mr. Podmore “has borne so large a share, that his name could not possibly have been omitted from the title-page.”

Phantasms of the Living.

By Edmund Gurney Frederic W. H. Myers Frank Podmore. (London: Trübner and Co., 1886.)