George Nugent Merle Tyrrell

George Nugent Merle Tyrrell
Occupation Parapsychologist

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

Tyrell was a student of Guglielmo Marconi and a pioneer in the development of radio.[1] 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.[3]

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][4] Tyrell was the president of the Society for Psychical Research 1945-1946.[1]

Although a believer in telepathy, Tyrell was a critic of physical mediumship. He stated that it has been the "happy hunting ground of tricksters and charlatans."[5]

Tyrrell created the term out-of-body experience in his book Apparitions.[6]

Published Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Past Presidents of the Society for Physical Research". Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  2. 1 2 Blom, Jan Dirk (2009). A Dictionary of Hallucinations. New York: Springer. p. 109. ISBN 1441912223.
  3. ↑ Drury, Nevill (2004). The Dictionary of the Esoteric: 3000 Entries on the Mystical and Occult Traditions. United Kingdom: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 314. ISBN 8120819896.
  4. ↑ Willin, Melvyn (2005). Music, Witchcraft and the Paranormal. United Kingdom: Melrose Books. p. 99. ISBN 1905226187.
  5. ↑ Tyrell, 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
  6. ↑ Tyrrell, George (1943). Apparitions. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd. p. 149. ISBN 9781446358269.
  7. ↑ Russell, L. J. (1931). Review of G. N. M. Tyrrell Grades of Significance. Philosophy 6: 273-273.
  8. ↑ 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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