Frederic William Henry Myers – лучшие книги

« Ces recherches, écrit Myers, devaient porter avant tout, comme toute recherche scientifique au sens strict du mot, sur des faits objectifs réellement observables et reposer sur des expériences que nous puissions répéter aujourd'hui, avec l'espoir de les dépasser demain. Il ne pouvait s'agir que de recherches basées, pour employer un terme ancien, sur l'hypothèse uniformiste, c'est-à-dire sur la proposition que, si un monde spirituel existe, et si ce monde a été, à une époque quelconque, susceptible de se manifester et d'être découvert, il doit en être de même de nos jours. » Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) fonda en 1873, la…

Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843 – 17 January 1901) was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. In 1903, after Myers's death, "Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death" was compiled and published. It presents an overview of Myers's research into the unconscious mind. Myers believed that a theory of consciousness must be part of a unified model of mind, which derive from the full range of human experience, including not only normal psychological phenomena but also the wide variety of abnormal and "supernormal" phenomena.

This two-volume work, co-authored by Edmund Gurney (1847-1888), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901) and Frank Podmore (1856-1910), all leading members of the Society for Psychical Research, was first published in 1886. It documents over 700 case studies of ghost-seeing, and aimed to revolutionise thinking about ghosts by proposing a theory that explained ghost-seeing through the idea of telepathy. Volume 1 includes an introduction by Myers and an explanation of the analytical methods used in the study. It then focuses on hypnotism, the telepathic transference of ideas, mental pictures and emotional impressions, dreams, and hallucinations, and contains an impressive essay on the history of witchcraft. This pioneering study is an indispensable source for the history of psychical research. It provides detailed insights into the Victorian fascination with the occult and the supernatural, and is still the most extensive collection of ghost-seeing accounts available.