Research Diary/Sketchbook for Objective 2.0

This is the research diary for Objective 2.0 which covers the historical spiritualism, scientific and psychological facts that will steer me to an honours project rich with appropriate elements.




Victorian Spiritualism:


(The Table-Rappers - R. Pearsall)


 (p9)


(p9)


(p9)


(p9-10)




(p10)


(p10)


(p10)




(p10)


(p10-11)


(p10)







Mesmerism


(p15)


(p15)
The Night Side Of Nature by Catherine Crowe



(p15-16)


(p16)


(p16)


(p16-17)


(p17)


(p17-18)







(p18)


James Braid



(p18-19)


Baron von Reichenbach


(p19-20)



(p18)






(p20)



(p20)


(p20-21)



(p21)



Michael Faraday


(p22)


(p22)

(p22-23)




(p23)

(p23-24)


(p24-25)




Elizabeth Barrett



(p25)



Charles Dickens




(p25-26)


(p26)





(p27)

(p27)

(p27)


(p28)







Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
(Professor Richard Wiseman)


(p8)




(10)



Kate Bush - 'Strange Phenomena'


(p22)

(p26)

(p26)

Mr D at work


(p28)


(p30)




(p32)


Eliza reminds me of Douglas Adams' character Gag Halfrunt in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Gag is Zaphod Beeblebrox's Brain Care Specialist





(p33)

Transgressing the Boundaries



(p34)



(p40)


(p48)

(p54)






(p60)

Image taken by Mumler




Dr. Hyppolite Baraduc


(p61-62)

Image taken by Baraduc



(p63-64)

Duncan MacDougall's Original Journal Concerning Soul Substance






(p86-87)





(p93)





(p108)



(p109)



(p109-110)

A couple of personas of Sir Michael Gambon - dressing up to look the part 
i.e. actors use similar methods to portray different people and to fool an audience 






(p122-123)



Field footage of the Premenda test

This is a test made by Richard Wiseman of Swami Premenda's powers under controlled conditions



(p139)


(p140)


Richard Wiseman interviews Dr. Peter Lamont


(p147)


(p148)
*the decline of Spiritualism as cinema evolved, does this mean that it was nothing more than entertainment anyway, and that cinema was a new trick or wonder of something that appeared supernatural?




(p148)




(p149-150)


(p150-153)

Psychological Research (2004) - A short history of ideo-motor action



Joseph Jastrow


(p157)

(p158)



Edmund Jacobson


(p158-159)

Progressive Muscle Relaxation



Dan Wegner


(p169)

Daniel M. Wegner - How do we control our minds?




Stages of Sleep

(p200-201)






(p216-217)






Michael Persinger vs. Pehr Granqvist


(p218-220)

'The God Helmet' debate




(p230)

Heider and Simmel's psychological animation test









(p300-301)


(p301)


(p301-302)


(p302)




Richard Wiseman performing the suggestibility test


Richard Wiseman performing the straw demonstrations







Hiding the Elephant
(Jim Steinmeyer)



(pxxi)


Harry Houdini


(p5)


David Devant


(p6)

Who's Who in Victorian Cinema - David Devant

Modern Shadowgraph Stage Art



The Davenport Brothers


(p7)

John Nevil Maskerlyne



Orson Welles


(p12-13)



(p13)



(p14)


(p14-15)

Howard Thurston on stage








(p17)


Jean Robert-Houdin


(p17)



(p17)









































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