Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian search for life
after death is the first full-length biography of Frederic W.H.
Myers, leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research and
friend and associate of Browning, Gladstone, Ruskin, Tennyson,
Swinburne, Henry James, Prince Leopold and other influential
Victorians. The book offers a fascinating insight into a key period
in the development of Victorian thought. Among many things it
covers: 1. Extraordinary Phenomena Myers investigated extraordinary
phenomena, much of which is still reported today: out of body
experiences and astral projection, near death experiences,
poltergeists, gurus like Madame Blavatsky claiming strange powers,
mediums both private and public, and haunted houses (for example,
the giant warrior haunting a chateau near Heidelberg, the
Cheltenham Ghost that was seen by a considerable number of people,
and the odd doings at Ballechin House in Scotland which caused a
scandal in the press. 2. Life After Death Investigations Myers
believed he had virtually proved life after death by a) the link he
thought established between hundreds of apparitions and living or
dead human beings b) the messages that the outstanding mediums Mrs
Piper and Mrs Thompson gave him from his first great love Annie and
his intimate friend and co-worker Edmund Gurney which contained
information the medium could not know and was delivered in a way
highly characteristic of the personality concerned. 3. Automatic
Writing Some researchers have claimed that he has returned after
death and proved his continued existence through the automatic
writings of a number of mediums in England, America, India. These
writings continued for thirty years. 4. Romance & Suicide There
is also love, tragedy and jealousy in Myers' life. His first great
love Annie, a married woman, committed suicide and Myers' wife, a
rather possessive person, tried to prevent any detail about this
being made public after his death, even though the relationship was
platonic. This inhibited the work of researchers who were trying to
verify the 'post-mortem' communications from Myers, since, for many
years, they could not check the facts. 5. Credibility Myers
researches led him to forming a view about human personality and
psychology which Aldous Huxley has said is much richer than Freud's
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