Vincent Newton Turvey (1873-1912) was a British

clairvoyant Clairvoyance (; ) is the magical ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception. Any person who is claimed to have such ability is said to be a clairvoyant () ("one who sees cl ...

and

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known in the field of

parapsychology Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near ...

for his early book that records his

out-of-body experience An out-of-body experience (OBE or sometimes OOBE) is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world from a location outside their physical body. An OBE is a form of autoscopy (literally "seeing self"), although this term is more commonly use ...

s. In 1902, Turvey suffered from serious health problems, he gave up his profession of engineering and took interest in

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philosophy and

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. His book ''The Beginnings of Seership'' (1911) records his alleged clairvoyant and out-of-body experiences.Irwin, Harvey J. (1985). ''Flight of Mind: A Psychological Study of the Out-Of-Body Experience''. p. 45

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*''The Beginnings of Seership; Or, Super-normal Mental Activity'' (1911)

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1873 births 1912 deaths Clairvoyants English occult writers English spiritualists Parapsychologists {{Para-psych-stub

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