Frank Podmore

Frank Podmore ( born February 5, 1856 in Elstree, Hertfordshire, England; † August 14, 1910 in Malvern, Worcestershire, England ) was a British writer who dealt primarily with paranormal and spiritualism.

Life

After visiting the Elstree High School in Haileybury, where he graduated in 1868, he studied until its completion in 1877 at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

Podmore was not only a member of the Fabian Society and the National Association of Spiritualism, but 1882-1909 also co-founder and member of the Council of the Society for Psychical Research, an association for the study of parapsychological phenomena.

His numerous books dealing primarily with paranormal and parapsychological phenomena such as those of Daniel Dunglas Home, animal magnetism, as well as extra-sensory perceptions. Among his most important publications:

  • Apparitions and Thought - Transference (1892 )
  • Studies in Psychical Research (1897 )
  • Modern Spiritualism (1902 )
  • Spiritualism (1903 )
  • The Naturalization of the Supernatural ( 1908)
  • Mesmerism and Christian Science ( 1909)
  • Telepathic Hallucination: The New View of Ghosts ( 1909)
  • The Newer Spiritualism (1910 )

He also wrote under the title Biography of Robert Owen ( 1906), a biography of the entrepreneur and early socialists Robert Owen.

External links and sources

  • Frank Podmore in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Parapsychologist
  • Author
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Parapsychology
  • Briton
  • Born in 1856
  • Died in 1910
  • Man
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