Telepathy: Genuine and Fraudulent
(London, 1917)
W. W. Baggally: Experienced investigator of supernormal
phenomena and amateur conjuror with much experience. Alan Gauld
notes in The Founders of Psychical Research that Baggally
'had sat with every notable physical medium since Home and had
found them all wanting'. For many years he had come to a
negative conclusion as to the possibility of any genuine
physical phenomena - until his co-investigation of Eusapia
Palladino in 1909, with Everard Feilding and Hereward
Carrington. |
MY friend, Mr W. W. Baggally, an experienced investigator of supernormal
phenomena, has set down some of his experiences in connexion with the subject of
Telepathy, and I heartily commend his book to the public as the record of a
careful, conscientious, and exceptionally skilled and critical investigator. It
would be difficult to find anyone more competent by training and capacity to
examine into the genuineness of these subtle and elusive phenomena, which yet
are of the utmost importance in the development of psychological science.
Telepathy, or the direct action of mind on mind apart from the ordinary channels
of sense, opens a new chapter; it is not a coping-stone completing an erection,
but a foundation-stone on which to build.
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