Organizations

Society for Psychical Research

1882

Founded in London in 1882, the first organization to study psychic and paranormal claims with scientific method - the historical fountainhead of parapsychology. Its early members coined the term "telepathy" and investigated mediums, apparitions, and thought-transference, setting the template every later psi program followed.

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Connections (4)

confirmedFrederic W.H. Myers

co-founded it (1882) and coined the term telepathy

Source: Society for Psychical Research history

confirmedParapsychological Association

the modern professional field descends from it

Source: Parapsychological Association records

confirmedWilliam James

he served as its president (1894-95)

Source: Society for Psychical Research history

confirmedJ.B. Rhine

his laboratory parapsychology grew from the psychical-research tradition it founded

Source: history of parapsychology

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