Myers, Frederick William Henry

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Frederick William Henry Myers

1843-1901

Frederick William Henry Myers

(6 February 1843 − 17 January 1901)

The appendix refers to his biographical sketch elsewhere in the collected writings. (BCW 4:661).

Co-author with Frank Podmore and Edmund Gurney of Phantasms of the Living (1886), and author of Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903). (BCW 5:379).

Bibliographical references include: Phantasms of the Living. In collabor. with F. Podmore and Edmund Gurney. London: Trübner & Co. 1886. 2 vols. Vide Vol. V, pp. 263-64 (BCW 8:470).

British poet and critic, co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research. The signature “An English F.T.S.” on the questions about Esoteric Buddhism identifies F. W. H. Myers. He joined the Theosophical Society on 3 June 1883 and promoted the investigation of H. P. Blavatsky’s phenomena in 1884, but changed his attitude to her claims after R. Hodgson’s report. (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 5:129, BCW 5:263-264)

Some links:

• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Майерс, Фредерик Уильям Генри

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Mentioned in: Introductory Remarks by the Compiler (BCW 5:129) Compilers Notes (1) (BCW 5:263-264)

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