DID YOU KNOW? Charles Robert Richet Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist, who initially investigated a variety of subjects. He won the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis in 1913. He also devoted many years to the study ofspiritualist phenomena. In fact, he was the one who coined the term ectoplasm. He also had a deep interest in extrasensory perception and hypnosis. In 1884 Alexandr Aksakov interested him in the mediumEusapia Palladino. In 1891, Richet founded the Annales Des Sciences Psychiques. He kept in touch with renowned occultists and spiritualists of his time. People like, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Frederic William Henry Myers and Gabriel Delanne. In 1905, Richet was named president of the Society for Psychical Research in the United Kingdom, and coined the term ectoplasm. In 1919, he became honorary president of the Institut Métapsychique International in Paris, and, in 1929, full-time president. As a scientist, Richet was positive about a physical explanation for paranormal phenomena. He wrote: It has been shown that as regards subjective metapsychics the simplest and most rational explanation is to suppose the existence of a faculty of supernormal cognition ... setting in motion the human intelligence by certain vibrations that do not move the normal senses. He later wrote about a “sixth sense,” an ability to perceive the hypothetical vibrations; he discussed this hypothesis in his 1928 book, Our Sixth Sense.
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