1885 - SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - BLAVATSKY FRAUD THEOSOPHY GHOSTS SPIRITS

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH - 1885, Volume 3   Book Details + Condition: Trubner and Co. (London). First Edition, 1885. Hardcover. 500 pages. Illustrated. Very scarce first edition, original copy of PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH from 1885. Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt title, etc. to spine. In 1884, Richard Hodgson was sent by the SPR to India to investigate Helena Blavatsky and concluded that her claims of psychic power were fraudulent. In this volume, his findings are published. Through astral projection, Blavatsky claimed that she could appear and intelligently communicate at a place where her body was in another location. Also, claims were made where physical objects could be made to teleport from a faraway location. The evidence provided by Blavatsky were letters which are printed in this issue. The committee's conclusion stated that Blavatsky was a fraud, and that no evidence of astral projection was produced. Other