Apparitions
Tyrrell, G. N. M. Apparitions. Collier Books, 1963 (1st Collier Books Ed.). Softbound. Preface by H. H. Price. The book that originated the term 'out-of-body experience', Apparitions was written after mathematician and Guglielmo Marconi–student Tyrrell conducted a series of experiments in telepathy and apparitional experiences with the objective of explaining ghosts by a psychological theory. First published in 1953 by the Society for Psychical Research, a UK-based organization with its roots in the 19th-century spiritualist movement (Arthur Conan Doyle famously resigned from the SPR in protest of what he saw as its inhibitory standards of proof), this handsome little 1960s edition features a cover worthy of a mid-century mitosis-themed educational reel.
