Yram. By Susan Blackmore Yram is the pen name of a French occultist who, like Fox and Muldoon, learned to project at will. Unlike the others he '... became sated with ordinary phenomena. To pass through stone walls, to visit friends, to roam freely in space simply for the sake of enjoying this extraordinary state, are games of which one soon wearies.' Many of his descriptions are of experiences on 'higher planes' in which he met with other beings or powerful forces. These are couched in terms of his kind of physics: of other levels involving radio-active essences, ultra-sensitive atoms and differing rates of vibration.
Yram suggests that three things are necessary for astral projection: good health (the opposite of that suggested by Muldoon); phychological preparation, involving a peaceful life and the ability to relax; and psychical preparation. He distinguishes three kinds of projection. In the second type, instantaneous projection, the separation is sudden and uncontrolled. Yram. Sylvan Muldoon. By Susan Blackmore By the mid 1920s Hereward Carrington had written many books about psychical research and had mentioned more than once the phenomenon of astral projection, but he mainly condensed the work of others and gave little information that would be of interest to someone who had a spontaneous OBE. Then in November 1927 he received a letter from a young American called Sylvan Muldoon, telling him in no uncertain terms what he thought of his book. Muldoon wrote, 'What puzzles me most is that you make the remark that M.
Lancelin has told practically all that is known on the subject. Why, Mr Carrington, I have never read Lancelin's work, but if you have given the gist of it in your book, then I can write a book on the things that Lancelin does not know! ' Muldoon went on to sketch a wealth of details about the astral world, the silver cord, and the formation and movement of the phantom. Muldoon's first conscious projection occurred when he was 12 years old.
Custom Search. Oliver Fox. By Susan Blackmore Oliver Fox was born in 1885 and spent childhood in northeast London progressing, as he puts, 'from illness to illness' and often dreading sleep because of the nightmares it might bring. He saw apparitions both terrifying and pleasant; and he feared moments in which, when he was occupied in some normal activity, things would 'go wrong', leaving him feeling temporarily paralysed and with everything around him seeming to separate and stretch him. His early dreams are important because it was through dreaming that he first learned to project at will. His first control over his dreams came when as a child he used to see small blue or mauve vibrating circles, something like a mass of frogspawn. One night in the early summer of 1902, when Fox had started as a science student in Southampton, he dreamed that he was standing on the pavement outside his house.
Fox also tried some experiments with others. On one occasion, though, it was different. This problem is very familiar. Robert Monroe. By Susan Blackmore Robert Monroe is no mystic or magician, but an American businessman with a wife and children living in Virginia. Working in the field of communications, he had been experimenting with learning during sleep. One Sunday afternoon he was lying down while the family had gone to church.
Suddenly a beam of light seemed to come out of the sky to the north, at about 30° to the horizontal. Very worried, he went to his doctor, but was told there was nothing wrong. Another time when the vibrations returned Monroe was thinking about going gliding when he found himself brushing against what seemed to be a familiar but strangely blank wall. As Monroe progressed he learned how to induce the experience at will and how to move when out of his body. Of course not everything he saw on his trips was correct. One detail was an excellent match. This is a clear example of something we shall meet again and again: the frustrating mixture of right and wrong information. Custom Search. Theosophical Society. The Theosophical Society is an organization formed in 1875 to advance theosophy.
The original organization, after splits and realignments has (as of 2011)[update] several successors.[1] History[edit] Formation[edit] Notes of meeting proposing the formation of the Theosophical Society, New York City, 8 September 1875 To form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste, or colour.To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science.To investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man. The Society was organized as a non-sectarian entity. ARTICLE I: Constitution 4. The Society reformulated this view in a resolution passed by the General Council of the Theosophical Society on December 23, 1924.[5] The Hidden Masters[edit] Seal of the Theosophical Society - Door decoration at Kazinczy Street 55, Budapest (Hungary).
Schisms[edit] Theosophical Society, Adyar, India, 1890 The "World Teacher"[edit] See also[edit] Western esotericism. Western esotericism (also Western hermetic tradition, Western mysticism, Western inner tradition, Western occult tradition, and Western mystery tradition) is a broad spectrum of spiritual traditions found in Western society, or refers to the collection of the mystical, esoteric knowledge of the Western world.
This often includes, but is not limited to, philosophy, meditation, herbalism, alchemy, astrology, divination, and various forms of ritual magic. The tradition has no one source or unifying text, nor does it hold any specific dogma, instead placing emphasis on spiritual "knowledge" or gnosis and the rejection of blind faith. Although the protosciences were widespread in the ancient world, the rise of modern science was born from occult varieties of Western Esotericism reinterpreted in the "Age of Enlightenment" and is documented within the field known as the History of science. Definition[edit] As a category, Western esotericism has been defined in various ways. History[edit] Hereward Carrington. Hereward Carrington (17 October 1880 – 26 December 1958) was a well-known British investigator of psychic phenomena and author.
His subjects included several of the most high-profile cases of apparent psychic ability of his times, and he wrote over 100 books on subjects including the paranormal and psychical research, conjuring and stage magic, and alternative health issues. Early life[edit] Carrington was born in St Helier, Jersey in 1880. He emigrated to the USA in 1899 and settled in New York City in 1904. Hereward previously lived with his brother Hedley in Minnesoda and appears in the 1900 census there. In New York he first worked as an asst. editor for Street and Smith magazines.
Initially a sceptic about psychic abilities, his interest grew from reading books on the subject and at the age of 19 he joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).[1] Career[edit] An important early case Carrington investigated and described was that of the medium Eusapia Palladino in 1908. Astral projection.