Glen Hamilton. In 1921 a well-known doctor and
parliamentarian from Winnipeg, Canada called Glen Hamilton became interested in
psychical research. He and a group of like-minded friends set up a series of
experimental seances with some gifted local mediums and, over a period of more
than ten years, produced a wide range of psychic phenomena. Dr. Hamilton worked
under strictly-controlled conditions and, using specialised equipment such as a
bank of different types of cameras to record events, produced some remarkable
results. In particular, they recorded more than 60 "teleplasms" or
materialisations, many of which showed specific pictures of recognisable faces
or particular human forms or structures, thus supporting the findings of Prof.
Richet. Dr. Hamilton believed that through the ‘teleplasms’ produced by the
mediums "transcendental intelligences" were able to make contact with
this world. His researches are described in:
Hamilton, T. Glen (1942). Intention and Survival. Psychical research and the bearing of intentional actions by trance personalities on the problem of human survival.
The Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto. Second edition edited by Margaret L. Hamilton (1977). Regency Press, London.
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