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For more than three decades — beginning at a time when live performances of these symphonies, each a psychical experience, were not commonplace — the local Mahler Society held annual “Mahlerthons.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

Price moved in for a year in 1937, and documented his findings — later disputed in a 1956 study known as “The Borley Report,” which led to a schism in psychical research circles.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

To be an immigrant is to live in a fractured multiverse, one riven with geographic, temporal and psychical dissonances.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

“It’s just the way the game is played. There’s a lot of psychical guys out here and playing football and playing it the right way, you have to have some fortune with that.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2019

They are at once physical and psychical, material and intellectual, are not always produced by our conscious will, and are rather the subject of observation than experiment.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille