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Psychical Research and Stanford University

Frederick C. Dommeyer

出版	Duke University Press, 1974
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NmjcHgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Examines the history of Thomas Welton Stanford's efforts to create a fellowship in psychical research at Stanford University. "The officials could hardly espouse spiritualism, and yet T.W. Stanford's gifts were designed to achieve University acceptance of his own occult beliefs. It is not difficult to realize the powder-keg nature of the situation thus created. Staford authorities have so far managed to keep the fuse from being ignited but, in so doing, they have been accused of misappropriating T.W. Stanford's funds and, indeed, of a conspiracy to conceal the 'positive' results achieved in the research of Coover and Stuart...It was to clarify the Stanford psychical research situation and to separate out fact from rumor that Dr. Frederick C. Dommeyer...spent eight years of research and writing. His book, Psychical Research and Stanford University is the result. It is a book that not only investigates thoroughly the Stanford enigma, but, after doing so, balances out the dismal results with an account of the accomplishments in scientific parapsychology at such other institutions as Harvard and Duke and in the Foundations and Societies where such research has been supported."--abstract.