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Periodical: Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research, The.
A Digest of the Philosophy of Survival and the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Psychic Research.
Science, Philosophy, Religion--1933? Monthly
Los Angeles, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Crossley Publishing Company. Editor: Felicie O. Crossley, editor-publisher; Bernice H. Jacquelin, secretary; Beverly D. Hiner, A.B., special correspondent.
Succeeds: Spiritualist Monthly

1/1 December 1930. $2.50 a year, 32 pp. This was the companion to Crossley's Spiritualists Monthly and differs from it mainly in its emphasis on "psychic and scientific research" rather than on doctrinaire spiritualism -- though the distinction is often less than clear. It contained contributions by Mrs. Hewat McKenzie, Mrs. St. Clair Stobart, Swami Dhirananda, Horace Leaf, Nandor Fodor, et al, and carried notably an article by H. Duncan McFarland in February 1933 on "The Truth About the Negro Question," on the split among spiritualists (the NSA and the GAS) at their 1927 convention. On Crossley, see the note under Spiritualist Monthly.

Other Sources:
Issues:Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N5 Jun 1932
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N6 Jul 1932
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N7 Aug 1932
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N8 Nov 1932
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N9 Dec 1932
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N10 Jan 1933
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N11 Feb 1933
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V4 N12 Mar 1933
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V5 N1 Apr 1933
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V5 N2 May 1933
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V5 N3 Jun 1933
Forum Of Psychic And Scientific Research V5 N4 Jul 1933
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Forum of Psychic and Scientific Research is an American Spiritualist forum that dresses mediumship in the language of science: overwhelmingly a paper of mediums, controls, seances and the question of survival, it repeatedly reaches for 'scientific research', the recent history of physical science, and how a proper 'history of religion' of Spiritualism should be written. Around that core it carries hypnotism and trance, a New Thought success-and-concentration overlay, and a general occult stratum. Its scattered 'rosicrucian' mentions are incidental and do not attach to the Christian-Rosenkreutz current. It reads as an evidential, survival-minded organ at the Spiritualism / psychical-research boundary.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritualism