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lieved that his faculties were only a preliminary stage of spiritual growth. He published his experiences because he be- lieved they were evidence of spiritual realities beyond mundane life, and threw additional light upon psychic phenomena. He stressed the fact that (unlike conventional spiritualist mediums) he was never entranced, achieving his fantastic feats with full conscious mental activity. His rare faculties were born with him.
VINCENT NEWTON TURVEY was born in Southport, Britain, February 11, 1873. The main outlines of his life are described in the Preface by W. T. Stead, the great English journalist who edited the Pall Mal! Gazette and Review of Reviews, and became a Spiritualist. Stead was drowned in the tragic sinking of the “Titanic” in 1912. He describes how Turvey saw phantoms until the age of ten, in later life becom- ing an engineer by profession and a keen amateur cyclist in his spare time, until a severe health breakdown when he spent many hours meditating on yoga and occult philosophy.
His book was published in 1911 and reviewed by the Hon. Ralph Shirley in his journal The Occult Review. Shirley had previously drawn attention to the subject of out-of-body travel- ling or astral projection in 1907, and played a pioneer part in making the phenomenon better known. He published articles by Oliver Fox (pseudonym of Hugh G. Callaway) and wrote a foreword for his book Astral Projection (recently reissued University Books Inc.). He also wrote a fine survey himself— The Mystery of the Human Double (published 1938, reissued University Books 1965).
Early in 1912 Ralph Shirley wrote to Mr. Turvey for per- mission to reproduce his portrait in The Occult Review, and received in reply two photographs—one of Mr. Turvey at the age of 26 and another at the age of 38. Mr. Turvey stated that
lieved that his faculties were only a preliminary stage of spiritual growth. He published his experiences because he be- lieved they were evidence of spiritual realities beyond mundane life, and threw additional light upon psychic phenomena. He stressed the fact that (unlike conventional spiritualist mediums) he was never entranced, achieving his fantastic feats with full conscious mental activity. His rare faculties were born with him.
VINCENT NEWTON TURVEY was born in Southport, Britain, February 11, 1873. The main outlines of his life are described in the Preface by W. T. Stead, the great English journalist who edited the Pall Mal! Gazette and Review of Reviews, and became a Spiritualist. Stead was drowned in the tragic sinking of the “Titanic” in 1912. He describes how Turvey saw phantoms until the age of ten, in later life becom- ing an engineer by profession and a keen amateur cyclist in his spare time, until a severe health breakdown when he spent many hours meditating on yoga and occult philosophy.
His book was published in 1911 and reviewed by the Hon. Ralph Shirley in his journal The Occult Review. Shirley had previously drawn attention to the subject of out-of-body travel- ling or astral projection in 1907, and played a pioneer part in making the phenomenon better known. He published articles by Oliver Fox (pseudonym of Hugh G. Callaway) and wrote a foreword for his book Astral Projection (recently reissued University Books Inc.). He also wrote a fine survey himself— The Mystery of the Human Double (published 1938, reissued University Books 1965).
Early in 1912 Ralph Shirley wrote to Mr. Turvey for per- mission to reproduce his portrait in The Occult Review, and received in reply two photographs—one of Mr. Turvey at the age of 26 and another at the age of 38. Mr. Turvey stated that
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