Biography:George Nugent Merle Tyrrell
George Nugent Merle Tyrrell | |
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| Born | 1879 |
| Died | 29 October 1952 (aged 72–73) |
| Occupation | Mathematician, Parapsychologist |
George Nugent Merle Tyrrell (1879 - 29 October 1952), best known as G. N. M. Tyrrell, was a British mathematician, physicist, radio engineer and parapsychologist.[1][2]
Biography
Tyrrell was a student of Guglielmo Marconi and a pioneer in the development of radio.[1][3] In 1908 he joined the Society for Psychical Research. He conducted numerous experiments in telepathy and was interested in apparitional experiences. He attempted to explain ghosts by a psychological theory.[4]
Tyrrell proposed that ghosts are a hallucination of the subconscious mind of a person, to explain collective hallucinations for more than one person, he proposed it as a telepathic mechanism.[2][5] Tyrrell was the president of the Society for Psychical Research 1945-1946.[1]
Although a believer in telepathy, Tyrrell was a critic of physical mediumship. He stated that it has been the "happy hunting ground of tricksters and charlatans."[6]
Tyrrell created the term out-of-body experience in his book Apparitions.[7]
A review in Nature for Science and Psychical Phenomena praised Tyrrell for his "obvious sincerity" but suggested the book was "full of flaws" which aroused suspicion of Tyrrell's critical faculties.[8]
Published works
- Grades of Significance (1931)[9]
- Science and Psychical Phenomena (1938)
- Apparitions (1943)
- The Personality of Man (1946)[10]
- Homo Faber: A Study of Man's Mental Evolution (1951)
- Man the Maker: A Study of Man's Mental Evolution (1952)
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Past Presidents of the Society for Physical Research". Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160328031548/http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/page/past-presidents-parapsychology.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Blom, Jan Dirk (2009). A Dictionary of Hallucinations. New York: Springer. pp. 109. ISBN 978-1441912220. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryhalluc00blom.
- ↑ "George Nugent Merle Tyrrell". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.
- ↑ Drury, Nevill (2004). The Dictionary of the Esoteric: 3000 Entries on the Mystical and Occult Traditions. United Kingdom: Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 314. ISBN 8120819896.
- ↑ Willin, Melvyn (2005). Music, Witchcraft and the Paranormal. United Kingdom: Melrose Books. pp. 99. ISBN 1905226187.
- ↑ Tyrrell, G. N. M. (1954). Physical Mediumship: Is there Anything Besides Fraud in the Physical Séance Room? In The Personality Of Man. Penguin Books. p. 217
- ↑ Tyrrell, George (1943). Apparitions. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd. pp. 149. ISBN 9781446358269.
- ↑ Anonymous. (1939). Academic Psychical Research. Nature 143 (3615): 223.
- ↑ Russell, L. J. (1931). Review of G. N. M. Tyrrell Grades of Significance. Philosophy 6: 273-273.
- ↑ Finger, Frank. (1948). Reviewed Work: The Personality of Man: New Facts and Their Significance by G. N. M. Tyrrell. The Quarterly Review of Biology 23 (1): 93-93.
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