Arthur Balfour's Ghosts电子书

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Publisher information

Dedication

Preface and Acknowledgements

Important Note on the Selection, Presentation and Assessment of Material

Body matter

Introduction

Part 1. The Development of the Cross-Correspondences from 1901–1936

1. Margaret Verrall and Diana Raikes: The Beginnings

2. The Return of Myers? The Syringa Flower; the Sealed Envelope and the Valley at Hallsteads; the Unexpurgated Autobiography

3. Paranormal Cognition in Margaret Verrall’s Early Scripts

4. The Life and Automatic Writing of Trix Fleming: Her Researcher, Alice Johnson, and the Theory of the Cross-Correspondences

5. Paranormal Cognition in Trix Fleming’s Scripts: Myers, Gurney, Oliver Lodge, Roden Noel, Richard Hodgson, Winifred Coombe-Tennant, Everard Feilding, the Verralls, and Miscellaneous and Untraced References

6. The Trance Automatic Writing Medium Leonora Piper in the US and UK

7. The Life and Automatic Writing of Winifred Coombe-Tennant to 1919: The Death of Daphne Coombe-Tennant; Early Paranormal Phenomena; Affair with Gerald Balfour; the Story of the Palm Maiden (May Lyttelton) and the Knight (Arthur Balfour); the Wizard of Melrose (Francis Maitland Balfour); the Peacock Lady (Laura Lyttelton); and the Messianic Child (Henry Coombe-Tennant)

8. The Later Scripts and Last Years of Margaret Verrall: Post-Mortem Communication from A.W. Verrall; and Interpretive Disagreements with Gerald Balfour and John George Piddington

9. The Life and Automatic Writing of Helen Verrall/Salter

10. Winifred Coombe-Tennant: The End of the Affair with Gerald Balfour; Her Later Scripts and the Last Years of Arthur Balfour; the Education and Career of Henry Coombe-Tennant

11. The Minor Automatists: The Mackinnon Family from Aberdeen; Dame Edith Lyttelton; Kenneth and Zoë Richmond; and Mrs Wilson

Part 2. Assessing the Cross-Correspondence Automatic Writings

12. Were the Cross-Correspondences Unambiguous, Consistent, and Meaningful?

13. Did the Scripts Demonstrate Paranormal Cognition?

14. Could One Be Sure that the Cryptic Nature of the Cross-Correspondences was not the Product of a Psychological Artefact?

15. Was the Process of Communication Interactive and was it Clear that the Discarnates Both Initiated and Signalled Cross-Correspondences and Understood and Accurately Responded to Messages and Requests from the Investigators?

16. Did the Cross-Correspondences Occur within a Reasonable Time Frame and Above Chance Expectation and Were They Distributed Widely Amongst the Automatists?

17. Have All Normal Avenues for Acquiring the Information Been Ruled Out?

18. Have the Correspondences (Including the Overall Story and the Plan) Been Tweaked by Wishful Thinking, Over-Subtle Interpretation, or Deliberate Selection?

19. Were the Aims, Intentions, and Long-Term Predictions of the Communicators Fulfilled?

Afterword

Back matter

Appendix 1: The flow of Scripts 1901–1936

Appendix 2: The Ave Roma Immortalis Complete Scripts

Appendix 3: The Hope Star Browning Complete Scripts

Appendix 4: List of Types of Symbols in the Scripts

Select Bibliography and References