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Author: Jill Stefko
Prestigious UK's Society of Psychical Research investigated the unique Palm Sunday Case that evidenced, when the physical body dies, the spirit survives.
The Society for Psychical Research, SPR, investigated the Palm Sunday Case for over thirty years. Founded in 1882, the organization is the oldest parapsychological one in the world. Its purpose was investigating controversial phenomena, termed mesmerizing, psychical and spiritualistic, in a meticulous unbiased scientific manner. Its founders were highly respected intellectuals – Henry Sidgwick, Edmund Gurney and Frederick W. H. Meyers, all Fellows of the Trinity College of Cambridge. They researched mental mediumship, complex, ideal and simple cross correspondence and automatic writing, which are done in an altered state of consciousness, ASC, commonly referred to as a trance.
Complex cross correspondence is when messages are indirect and must be interpreted; ideal involves incomplete messages that have to be pieced together. Simple correspondence is when two or more mediums produce associated identical words, phrases or like phrases. The case was named for the date of death of one of the spirit communicators, May Lyttleton.
Palm Sunday Case: Purpose
Myers, Gurney and Sidgwick were interested in investigating human survival after the body’s death. Myers believed that the dead would know what represented credible evidence of survival and how the living might find it. He also believed that providing this evidence required contact with a group of several spirits, not just one. Initial communications with the dead were made prior to Myers’ 1901 death.... Continues at Suite 101
Copyright©Jill Stefko
Originally published on Suite 101 on July 12 2011 and partially reproduced here by kind permission of Jill Stefko
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