Celia Green Explained

Celia Elizabeth Green (born 1935[1] [2]) is a British parapsychologist and writer on parapsychology.

Biography

Green's parents were both primary school teachers, who together authored a series of geography textbooks which became known as The Green Geographies.[3] Green completed a B.A., M.A., and B. Litt. from Oxford University.[1] She studied psychical research at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1958 to 1960.[1]

From 1957 to 1962, Green held the post of Research Secretary at the Society for Psychical Research in London.[1] [4] [5] In 1961, Green founded and became the Director of the Institute of Psychophysical Research.[1] The Institute's areas of interest were initially listed as philosophy, psychology, theoretical physics, and ESP.[6] However, its principal work during the sixties and seventies concerned hallucinations and other quasi-perceptual experiences. In 1982, while Green was the director, the Institute investigated psychokinetic phenomena.[7]

Writing

In 1968 Green published Lucid Dreams, a study of a phenomenon described by Green as when a dreamer consciously changes the content of their dreams.[8] The possibility of conscious insight during dreams had previously been treated with scepticism by some philosophers[9] and psychologists[10] and scientific skepticism continued after her book was published.[11]

Green collated both previously published first-hand accounts and the results of longitudinal studies of four subjects of her own. In Lucid Dreams, she proposed a correlation between lucid dreams and the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep.[8] In 1968, Green also published a collection of 400 first-hand accounts of out-of-body experiences for the benefit of scientists interested in studying the phenomena.[12] [13]

With Charles McCreery, Green co-authored the 1975 book Apparitions and the 1994 book Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep.[14] [15] [16] Apparitions is a taxonomy of 'apparitions', or hallucinations in which the viewpoint of the subject was not ostensibly displaced, based on a collection of 1500 first-hand accounts.[17] A 1976 Kirkus Reviews review of Apparitions states, "It's hard to imagine anyone being converted by this [Institute for Psychophysical Research] product: an endless sequence of supposed apparitions [...] There are minimal efforts at objective classification by type of experience and attendant phenomena—visual and auditory effects, collective apparitions, out-of-body experiences—but none whatever at verification."

Aphorisms

Her aphorisms have been published in The Decline and Fall of Science[18] and Advice to Clever Children.[19] Ten are included in the Penguin Dictionary of Epigrams,[20] and three in the Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations.[21]

CDs

The CD titled Lucid Dreams 0096, which includes parts of the book Lucid Dreams narrated by Green for the label, was released in 1995.[22] [23] Earlier Green had contributed a nine-minute track to a compilation CD put out by the same recording label.[24] The track was entitled "In the Extreme" and consisted of readings by the author from her books, The Human Evasion, and Advice to Clever Children.

Selected works

Books

with Charles McCreery:

Selected papers

Translations

References and notes

  1. Web site: Green, Celia Elizabeth (1935-) . . 2 June 2023.
  2. Web site: 77170613 . viaf.org . . 2 June 2023.
  3. The Oxford Times, 8 September 1989, Obituary: Mr William Green, Headmaster and author.
  4. Renée Haynes, The Society for Psychical Research 1882-1982, London: McDonald, 1982, p.52.
  5. News: London's Ghost Tales Diminishing . 1 June 2023 . . December 6, 1959 . 62.
  6. The Psychophysical Research Unit, Oxford: undated pamphlet of 3 pages, in circulation ca 1962-1965
  7. News: Calling All Poltergeists... . 1 June 2023 . . . November 15, 1982.
  8. Stumbrys . Tadas . Bridging Lucid Dream Research and Transpersonal Psychology: Toward Transpersonal Studies of Lucid Dreams . . 2018 . 50 . 2 . 176–193 . The first scientific book on the subject was published by Celia Green (1968) who also worked in the field of psychic research. In her book entitled Lucid Dreams, Green provided a comprehensive summary of the phenomenon describing its perceptual features and associations with out-of-body experience (OBE). Additionally, she introduced the notion of pre-lucid dreaming and proposed that lucid dreams are likely to occur during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep..
  9. Cf. Malcolm, N., Dreaming. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959, pp.48–50.
  10. See, e.g., Hartmann, E., 'Dreams and other hallucinations: an approach to the underlying mechanism,' in Siegal, R.K. and West, L.J., eds., Hallucinations. New York: Wiley, 1975.
  11. News: Heines . Vivienne . Lucid dreaming: Making fantasies work for you . . 13 October 1986 . A decade ago, LaBerge came across a book called Lucid Dreams by Celia Green, an English parapsychologist. Since many scientists were skeptical that lucidity occurred during the dream state, LaBerge went to the sleep lab to prove that lucid dreaming occurred during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep—the time when most dreams occur..
  12. News: Probably an Eerie Feeling . 1 June 2023 . . . December 1, 1968 . 6.
  13. News: Psychics Strive To Erase Stacked-Deck Image . 1 June 2023 . . November 9, 1968 . 10-A.
  14. News: Dream dreams . . 19 October 1994 . These case histories have been edited from Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep, by Celia Green and Charles McCreery. Published by Routledge.
  15. News: Ilman . John . Self-awareness in dreams is more common than we think. So why do those who inhabit a shimmering nocturnal world keep quiet about it? . . 19 October 1994.
  16. News: Simons . Paul . Balls of fire, rain of fish, and other very weird phenomena . . 26 December 1994 . Psychologists Celia Green and Charles McCreery put a lot of these sightings down to an unusual state of sleep. In their recent book Lucid Dreaming (published in Britain by) they explain that the dreamers think they are wide awake but all their electrical brain waves show they're in a deep sleep and their visions are, in fact, dreams..
  17. Green, C., and McCreery, C., Apparitions, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975.
  18. Cf. Green, C., The Decline and Fall of Science. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
  19. Cf. Green, C., Advice to Clever Children. Oxford: Institute of Psychophysical Research, 1981.
  20. M.J. Cohen, ed., The Penguin Dictionary of Epigrams, London: Penguin Books, 2001. Pg 452
  21. J.M. and M.J. Cohen, eds., The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, London: Penguin Books, 2nd edition 1980. Pg 140
  22. Lucid Dreams 0096. Nottingham: Em:t, 1995. 5025989 960027.
  23. News: Gray . Louise . Lucid pink noise . . August 11, 1995 . Green reads sections from her book, Lucid Dreams, to a background of music that has a fluctuating, if constant, presence. Bursts of pink noise (an aural static, with the hard frequencies cut out), a sound that Green uses in experiments to stimulate lucid dreaming, is featured..
  24. Em:t 2295. Nottingham: Em:t, 1995. 5025989 229520.
  25. News: NOTED WITH PLEASURE: [Review] ]. . 26 January 1986 . ... He is quoted in The Human Evasion, by Celia Green (Institute of Psychophysical Research/State Mutual Book and Periodical Service). ....
  26. News: Apparitions . 1 June 2023 . . February 1, 1976 . en.
  27. Reviews of Lucid Dreaming
    • News: Blake . Robin . BOOK REVIEW: Lucid Dreaming: The Paradox of Consciousness During Sleep - Celia Green and Charles McCreery: Routledge . . 30 October 1994.
    • News: Lezard . Nicholas . Books: Paperbacks . . September 1, 1995.

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