Beckles Willson: 5 books

Orientalism and Musical Mission presents a new way of understanding music's connections with imperialism, drawing on new archive sources and interviews and using the lens of 'mission'. Rachel Beckles Willson demonstrates how institutions such as churches, schools, radio stations and governments, influenced...

Is there any scientific basis to occultism? That's what author Beckles Willson set out to discover, and the results of each of his experiments are set forth in the series of thoughtful essays collected in Occultism and Common-Sense. Whether you're a cynical skeptic or a true-blue mystic, you'll be drawn in by Willson's open-mindedness and generosity of spirit.

Every evening since 1928, the Last Post is sounded in the town of Ypres in West Flanders, and the local fire brigade turn toward the Menin Gate as the local traffic stops. This Mark of respect to the Allied soldiers who fell defending the Ypres salient has been a tradition in the town for almost one...

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. SCIENCE'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE "SUPERNATURAL" II. THE HYPNOTIC STATE III. PHANTASMS OF THE LIVING IV. DREAMS V. HALLUCINATIONS VI. PHANTASMS OF THE DEAD VII. ON "HAUNTINGS" AND KINDRED PHENOMENA VIII. THE DOWSING...

Those of us who took part in the foundation of the Society for Psychical Research were convinced from personal investigation and from the testimony of competent witnesses that, amidst much illusion and deception, there existed an important body of facts, hitherto unrecognised by science, which, if incontestably...