… I have also excluded from this work people whose interest in spiritualism or psychical research
flowered after 1914, not because they were few in number on the contrary, the Great War …

… Spiritualism and psychical research were motivated by … 'other world' which, in the guise of
mediumship, appeared to offer a chal lenging opportunity for scientists to extend their research …

… This dissertation explores the reasons for spiritualism and psychical research’s … British
population turned to spiritualism and psychical researcher in order to build a heaven on earth…

… two accounts of spiritualism published in the early twentieth century were more critical. Frank
Podmore, president of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR),37 saw spiritualism as the …

… This project to build a heaven on earth between 1914 and 1939 in remembrance of the …
of their ‘other world’ in disarray. Attempts to stave off disenchantment had their bounds. Spirit …

… those young sciences of psychical research and parapsychology.The studies of American
and British spiritualism by R. Laurence Moore and Janet Oppenheim respectively, however, …

… religion were highlighted. Further, as will be shown in this thesis, structured eclecticism shaped
psychical researchers’ attempts to reconcile religion … of Spiritualism, in The Other World (…

… English culture was transformed, and English imaginations were altered, by what happened
between 1914 and 1918.,,1 Much of this research … that these psychic studies, which he had …

… Even so, the modes of communicat ing with inhabitants of the other world were … Spiritualism
is grounded became, and continues to be, the mission of the Society for Psychical Research (…

… British cultures of wireless telegraphy, electrical experimentation, psychical research and
spiritualism… they added to intelligence from the other world. Built partly by following instructions …