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The Society for Psychical Research Scandal

H.P. Blavatsky got in trouble with the SPR. These are some links to relevant sources.

• The Book of Dzyan - Tim Maroney's new book on Blavatsky and the relationship between occultism and horror fiction contains an analysis of the Hodgson report.
• The Coulomb Conspiracy Against Theosophy - Chapter 13 of H. P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement by Charles J. Ryan. A vigorous attack on Coulomb.
• H. P. Blavatsky and The Society for Psychical Research - A defense of Blavatsky, by Grace F. Noche.
• H. P. Blavatsky and the SPR - A critique of the Hodgson report by Vernon Harrison.
• Obituary: the "Hodgson Report" on Madame Blavatsky - Another Blavatsky defense, by Theosophist Walter A. Carrithers, Jr. ("Adlai E. Waterman"), 1963.
• Society for Psychical Research - Information about the society, contact information and schedules of forthcoming lectures and study days.

Blavatsky herself about the SPR report  - from the Blavatsky Collected Writings

• THE SACRED MISSION OF THE S. P. R. [Lucifer, Vol. IV, No. 20, April, 1889, p. 126]
• WHY I DO NOT RETURN TO INDIA
• [H.P.B. AND THE S. P. R. REPORT] [Pencil note written on February 5, 1885. Courtesy of The Theosophical Society, Adyar]

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