In 1896, theologian J. H. Worman identified seven categories of pantheism: Mechanical or materialistic ( God the mechanical unity of existence ); Ontological ( abstract unity, Spinoza ); Dynamic ; Psychical ( God is the soul of the world ); Ethical ( God is the universal moral order, Johann Gottlieb Fichte ); Logical ( Hegel ); and Pure ( absorption of God into nature, which Worman equates with atheism ).

The Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) is a non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom.

The SPR is frequently referred to in Victorian and Edwardian literature as " the Psychical Research Society ".

* Scotland-The Scottish Society for Psychical Research is active today.

He was the founder and president of the International Institute of Projectiology and Conscienciology ( IIPC ), and is also a long standing member of the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in New York, USA, the Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) in London, England, the Brazilian Association of Parapsychology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others.

In relation to Psychical Research, he asked whether there is an unexplored region of human faculty transcending the normal limitations of sensible knowledge.

Nicholls is also a member of the Society for Psychical Research.

They find out that the school is being used for the " Study of Psychical Philosophy " group.

There is a widespread belief that an apparition of a living person is an omen of death, but until the Society for Psychical Research undertook the statistical examination of the question, there were no data for estimating the value of the belief.

Although the Society for Psychical Research has found many incidences of people experiencing death-warnings the existence of such a phenomenon is still questionable.

The Society for Psychical Research is interested in finding proof of a variety of pseudoscientific events and thus searches for confirmatory evidence of such events.

George Albert Smith ( 4 January 1864 – 17 May 1959 ) was a stage hypnotist, psychic, magic lantern lecturer, astronomer, inventor, and one of the pioneers of British cinema, who is best known for his controversial work with Edmund Gurney at the Society for Psychical Research, his short-films from 1897-1903 which pioneered film editing and close-ups, and his development of the first successful colour film process, Kinemacolor.

Thomson Jay Hudson was Chief Examiner of the US Patent Office and Psychical researcher, known for his three laws of psychic phenomena, which were first published in 1893.

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

* USA-An American branch of the Society was formed as the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in 1885, which became independent in 1906.

This prompted a formal study by the Society for Psychical Research, which rejected most of the sightings as either imagined or fabricated, and threw doubt on Price's credibility.

After Harry Price's death in 1948, three members of the English Society for Psychical Research, two of whom had been Price's most loyal associates, investigated his claims about Borley and published their findings in a book, The Haunting of Borley Rectory, in 1956, which concluded that any evidence for a haunting was hopelessly confused by Harry Price's duplicity.

The SPR went on to say the stories relating to battlefield " visions " which circulated during the spring and summer of 1915, " prove on investigation to be founded on mere rumour, and cannot be traced to any authoritative source ".” Given that the Society for Psychical Research believed in the existence of supernatural forces, the conclusions of this report are highly significant.

From 1908 – 14 Barrett was active in the Dublin Section of the Society for Psychical Research, a group which attracted many important members including Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, T. W.

According to an article in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, in some cases media have produced personal information which has been well above guessing rates.

Early psychical researchers and some investigators associated with the Society for Psychical Research rejected the spirit hypothesis and claimed that where there was no sign of fraud then there has to be a psychological explanation due to the medium's subconscious such as an alternate personality.

The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.

The same year, a study by the Boston Society for Psychical Research concluded that Chaplin was " an American obsession.

Charles Richet, the noted physiologist and, later, Ina Jephson, a member of the Society for Psychical Research, introduced more quantitative methods.

Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 39, 47 – 49.

He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research and a member of the Metaphysical Society.

The Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was founded in London in 1882.

Largely due to the support of psychologist William James, the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) opened its doors in New York City in 1885.

American Society for Psychical Research Director of Research, Karlis Osis, conducted experiments in out of body experiences.

Evidence for the process called telepathy was supposed to be established by the experiments chronicled in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, and it was argued that similar experiences occurred spontaneously, as, for example, in the many recorded instances of deathbed wraiths.

Myers was interested in psychical research and was one of the founder members of the Society for Psychical Research in 1883.

He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of women.

He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, and was a member of the Metaphysical Society.

He had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and acted as reporter in several experiments carried out by William Fletcher Barrett, Professor of physics at Dublin University and one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research.

There were speculations and one recorded eyewitness account by F. Merrifield in the Journal of Psychical Research describing conjuring methods and fraud that Home may have employed.

Testimonials are not valid pieces of information as they are not empirically tested and almost any event can find at least one testimonial to support it. By using testimonials as evidence the Society for Psychical Research are failing to respect the rules of reasoning and good science in the case of death-warnings.

In addition, the Society for Psychical Research fail to mention one other important fact-how many people actually die after experiencing these death-warnings.

According to Randi ' around 1960 ' William Lindsay Gresham told Randi he had seen these mouth organs in the Home collection at the Society for Psychical Research.

These projects were active from the 1970s through 1995, and followed up early psychic research done at The Stanford Research Institute ( SRI ), Science Applications International Corporation ( SAIC ), The American Society for Psychical Research, and other psychical research labs.

On July 24, 1905, Pierre Curie reported to his friend Gouy: " We have had a series of séances with Eusapia Palladino at the for Psychical Research.

* Society for Psychical Research Founded in 1882, the SPR was the first society to conduct organised scholarly research into parapsychology and other human experiences that challenge contemporary scientific models.

Scientific article describing research report " The Acoustic Properties of Unexplained Rapping Sounds " in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research Vol 73. 2 Number 899 pp 65 – 93.

James was influential in the founding of the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in New York City in 1885, three years after the British Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was inaugurated in London, leading to systematic, critical investigation of paranormal phenomena.

It publishes the peer reviewed quarterly Journal of the Society for Psychical Research ( JSPR ), the irregular Proceedings and the magazine Paranormal Review.

A number of other psychical research organisations use the term ' Society for Psychical Research ' in their name.

* Australia-In 1979 the Australian Society for Psychical Research was founded.