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British economist, statistician (now he would be called a demographer), and clergyman in the Church of England, who is best known for his Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society, first published in 1798. A second edition in 1803 included information collected on trips to the other main…

US. psychologist and proponent of sensory expansion. Leary’s self- described “illumination” occurred in Mexico in August 1960 as a consequence of eating “sacred mushrooms.” In 1962, Leary, then a professor at Harvard, was introduced to the hallucinogen LSD by a biologist who had been studying the drug’s effect on spiders. Leary subsequently began to promote…

U.S. historian of science. He graduated in physics from Harvard in 1943. After working on radar countermeasures in Europe during World War II, Kuhn returned to Harvard, where he obtained a Ph.D. in solid-state physics. While a postgraduate student, he was invited by James B. Conant to teach case studies in the history of science.…

U.S. journal ist, lecturer, and amateur psychologist. Hudson developed a two-level theory of mind that not only opposed spiritualist claims, but later provided theoretical underpinnings of a rival religious movement, New Thought. Hudson was born on February 22, 1835, in Windham, Ohio. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in his home state,…

Anthropologist and explorer, who made his reputation in 1947 when he sailed the primitive balsa-wood raft KON-TIKI from Peru to an island in the Tahiti chain. The Kon-Tiki expedition proved that pre-Columbian South American Indians could have reached and settled islands in the South Pacific. It also won the anthropologist a worldwide reputation and brought…

Professor of psychology. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Flournoy taught at the University of Geneva from 1891 until 1919. In 1901 he founded the journal Archives de Psychology and wrote numerous medical and psychological works. Interested in mediumship, Flournoy became well known for his studies of Helene Smith, who while in trance narrated three distinct…

One of the basic theories of “truth,” where the goal of enquiry stands in contrast to “falsity” and not in contrast to “opinion.” The correspondence theory is the most commonly used theory of the nature of truth because it says quite simply that a statement is true if it corresponds with reality, with the facts…

Application of pressure with the fingers and thumb, and manipulation of specific points on the body (acupoints).  

Slight rocking and shaking of the patient’s trunk and limbs in a rhythmic fashion.  

Information provided by individuals who claim to have been helped or cured by a particular product. The information provided lacks the necessary elements to be evaluated in a rigorous and scientific manner and is not used in the scientific literature.