15 Facts About Whately Carington

Walter Whately Carington was a British parapsychologist.

Whately Carington was admitted to Middle Temple on 8 November 1912, but withdrew in 1916 without being Called to the Bar.

Whately Carington joined the Royal Flying Corps during World War I and became an experienced pilot, but was badly injured after a forced landing.

Whately Carington investigated the mediums Kathleen Goligher and Gladys Osborne Leonard and he set about studying psychical research in more detail.

Between 1934 and 1936 Whately Carington tested the trance mediumship of Eileen Garrett, Gladys Osborne Leonard and Rudi Schneider with psychogalvanic reflex and word association tests.

Whately Carington concluded from the results their trance controls were secondary personalities, not spirits.

The psychologist Donald West had praised the tests that Whately Carington performed with Leonard.

Whately Carington gave up all other work for his interest in psychical research.

Whately Carington lived on a small private income for a time in a remote village in the Netherlands.

Whately Carington theorised that individual minds are less isolated from one another than is assumed.

Whately Carington hypothesized that telepathy depends upon an analogous type of linkage at a subconscious level.

Whately Carington suggested that such links could perhaps be reinforced by what he called 'K' ideas or objects.

Whately Carington speculated on the concept of a "group mind" and "psychons".

Whately Carington wrote about his hypothesis in his book Telepathy.

Whately Carington held that mind and matter both consist of the same kind of components known as "cognita" or sense data.