psychical research

Japanese: psychical research(英語表記)psychicalresearch
psychical research

…These phenomena soon aroused the interest of some of the leading scientists of the time, and in 1882 the Society for Psychical Research was founded in England for the purpose of scientifically studying them, and full-scale research began. Soon after, psychical research parted ways with spiritualism, but continued to study mediums, but was ultimately unable to prove life after death. It gradually gave way to established parapsychological methods, and continues to do so to this day. The existence of psychic phenomena has been reported in Japan for a long time, and although there were objective written investigations and studies by the Japanese scholar Hirata Atsutane and others in the late Edo period (for example, Senkyo Ibun and Katsugoro Saisei Kibun), scientific research did not begin until the Meiji period. …

*Some explanations of terms that mention "psychological research" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…こうした現象はやがて,当時の一部の指導的科学者の関心をかきたて,1882年にはその科学的研究を目的とした心霊研究協会がイギリスに設立され,本格的な研究が開始されるに至った。その後まもなく心霊主義と袂を分かった心霊研究psychical researchは,やはり霊媒を対象に研究を続けたが,死後生存の証明は結局できないまま,その後確立された超心理学的方法にしだいに道を譲り,現在に至っている。 日本でも古くから心霊現象の存在が報告されてきたが,江戸末期の国学者平田篤胤らの客観的な記述による調査研究(例えば《仙境異聞》《勝五郎再生記聞》)はあったものの,科学的な研究が開始されたのは明治期以降である。…

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