Thought Reader Craze

Retired high-tech executive Barry H. Wiley is the author of numerous books on the history of thought reading and spiritualism. He is an associate of the Inner Magic Circle, London, and a member of the Order of Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He lives in Oregon.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Prologue      1. Introduction ... and Mrs. Hayden      2. The Borderland      3. Crookes and D.D. Home      4. The First Thought Reader      5. The Crookes Galvanometer Tests      6. Muscle Reading?      7. W. I. Bishop and W.F. Barrett      8. The Greatest Rascal      9. Proof! The Creery Sisters      10. Truth! Barrett and Bishop      11. J.R. Brown and His Telegraph Test      12. Stuart C. Cumberland, Thought Reader      13. Thought Reading Extraordinary: Blackburn and Smith      14. W. I. Bishop and “THE SECRET”      15. The Thought Reader Craze      16. “The Willingness to Deceive”      17. The Conjuror and the Physicist (Devant and Lodge)      18. The Blackburn Revelations      19. Truth ... or Hunger      Epilogue      An Afterthought      Appendices:A. Impossible or Supernormal?      B. Origins of Second Sight      C. The Date of the Coin Is...?      D. Coding of a Random Drawing      E. Techniques of Thought Reading (Contact Mindreading )      F. A Thought Reader’s Novel      G. The Crookes- Fay Galvanometer Test, February 19, 1875      H. SPR Leaflet by Alice Johnson      Notes      Bibliography      Index

“Valuable”—Psypioneer Journal; “rigorously researched”—Journal of the Society for Psychical Research; “fascinating accounts...the author’s fluent style makes for enjoyable reading, the book is well illustrated, thoroughly referenced”—The Magic Circle; “fascinating reading. Wiley has combined exhaustive archival research with keen insight to bring this story to light”—Magic; “a remarkable job...highly recommended”—The Linking Ring; “Barry Wiley is a first rate researcher...thorough piece of work...required reading”—Genii, The Conjurors’ Magazine.