George Nugent Merle Tyrrell Explained

George Nugent Merle Tyrrell
Birth Date:23 March 1879
Occupation:Mathematician, Parapsychologist

George Nugent Merle Tyrrell (23 March 1879 - 29 October 1952), best known as G. N. M. Tyrrell, was a British mathematician, physicist, radio engineer and parapsychologist.[1] [2]

Biography

Tyrrell was born in Frome, Somerset to Nugent and Margery Tyrrell. His father was a civil engineer, and his grandfather, George Nugent Tyrrell, was the first "Superintendent of the Line" for the Great Western Railway.

Tyrrell was a student of Guglielmo Marconi and a pioneer in the development of radio.[3] In 1908 he joined the Society for Psychical Research. He conducted numerous experiments in telepathy and was interested in apparitional experiences. He attempted to explain ghosts by a psychological theory.[4]

Tyrrell proposed that ghosts are a hallucination of the subconscious mind of a person, to explain collective hallucinations for more than one person, he proposed it as a telepathic mechanism.[2] [5] Tyrrell was the president of the Society for Psychical Research 1945-1946.[1]

Although a believer in telepathy, Tyrrell was a critic of physical mediumship. He stated that it has been the "happy hunting ground of tricksters and charlatans."[6]

Tyrrell created the term out-of-body experience in his book Apparitions.[7]

A review in Nature for Science and Psychical Phenomena praised Tyrrell for his "obvious sincerity" but suggested the book was "full of flaws" which aroused suspicion of Tyrrell's critical faculties.[8]

Published works

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Past Presidents of the Society for Physical Research. 6 May 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160328031548/http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/page/past-presidents-parapsychology. 28 March 2016.
  2. Book: Blom, Jan Dirk. A Dictionary of Hallucinations. limited. Springer. 2009. 978-1441912220. New York. 109.
  3. http://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tyrrell-george-nugent-merle1879-1952 "George Nugent Merle Tyrrell"
  4. Book: Drury, Nevill. The Dictionary of the Esoteric: 3000 Entries on the Mystical and Occult Traditions. Motilal Banarsidass. 2004. 8120819896. United Kingdom. 314.
  5. Book: Willin, Melvyn. Music, Witchcraft and the Paranormal. Melrose Books. 2005. 1905226187. United Kingdom. 99.
  6. Tyrrell, G. N. M. (1954). Physical Mediumship: Is there Anything Besides Fraud in the Physical Séance Room? In The Personality Of Man. Penguin Books. p. 217
  7. Book: Tyrrell, George. Apparitions. Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd. 1943. 9781446358269. London. 149.
  8. Anonymous. (1939). Academic Psychical Research. Nature 143 (3615): 223.
  9. Russell, L. J. (1931). Review of G. N. M. Tyrrell Grades of Significance. Philosophy 6: 273-273.
  10. Finger, Frank. (1948). Reviewed Work: The Personality of Man: New Facts and Their Significance by G. N. M. Tyrrell. The Quarterly Review of Biology 23 (1): 93-93.

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