The 6 Spookiest Things You Should Know About Columbia University – Columbia University

While Ghostbusters may not be real, this professor, who was one of the founding fathers of paranormal research, was. Meet James Hervey Hyslop, psychical researcher, psychologist, and professor of ethics and logic. While at Columbia, he wrote textbooks, including The Elements of Logic, Elements of Ethics, and Problems of Philosophy. It was after this that he became involved in paranormal research and was one of the first researchers to connect psychology with psychic phenomena. After retiring due to ill health, Hyslop founded the American Institute for Scientific Research (later absorbing the flailing American Society for Psychical Research), which has a mission to explore extraordinary or as yet unexplained phenomena that have been called psychic or paranormal, and their implications for our understanding of consciousness, the universe and the nature of existence.

In the early 1900s, Hyslop delved further into the paranormal, writing Science and a Future Life, Enigmas of Psychic Research, Borderland of Psychical Research, Psychical Research and the Resurrection, Psychical Research and Survival, Life After Death, and Contact with the Other World.

As he wrote in Life After Death in 1918: I regard the existence of discarnate spirits as scientifically proved and I no longer refer to the skeptic as having any right to speak on the subject. Any man who does not accept the existence of discarnate spirits and the proof of it is either ignorant or a moral coward. I give him short shrift, and do not propose any longer to argue with him on the supposition that he knows anything about the subject.

You can read more about Hyslop here.

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