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McKenzie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 11 November 1869 and died on 29 August 1929, in London.
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McKenzie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 11 November 1869 and died on 29 August 1929, in London.
Through years of study and experimentation with hypnotists and mediums, Mckenzie wrote what is considered his main work, Spirit Intercourse: Its Theory and Practice in 1917. He left his practice as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in 1900 to pursue parapsychology and the occult sciences as a result of being disenfranchised by traditional theology and science not being able to reconcile themselves. He devoted his time to helping spiritual mediums develop their abilities, such mediums included Gladys Osborne Leonard, Franek Kluski, Maria Silbert and Eileen J. Garrett.
He spent a number of years touring and lecturing in the United States both seeking and studying mediums he also spent quite some time in the middle east, Germany, Austria, and Poland for this same purpose, finally returning home to England in 1920.
McKenzie"s contributions to parapsychology and its coming of age in the great spiritual movement of the early 20th century can be considered his greatest legacy, paving the way for future study of clairvoyance, extrasensory perception and remote viewing. However, allegations of fraud and mismanagement, as well as hoaxing, plagued McKenzie"s research.
Characterized by a strong, assertive personality, he was known to cover up evidence of fraud when he discovered lieutenant"
British College of Psychic Science
In December 1938 the college merged with the International Institute for Psychical Research, becoming the Institute for Experimental Metaphysics. During World World War II the institute closed in 1947, and all of its library and records were destroyed.
Harry Houdini
In his book Spirit Intercourse: Its Theory and Practice, McKenzie claimed the magician Harry Houdini"s feats such as being able to unbolt locked doors and escape from handcuffs were the result of psychic power.
McKenzie also claimed in his book that Houdini had the power to materialize and dematerialize objects and other stage mentalists such as Anna Eva Fay and Julius and Agnes Zancig had genuine psychic powers. The force necessary to "shot a bolt within a lock," is drawn from Houdini the living human being and not a medium. My methods are perfectly natural, resting on natural laws of physics."
Psychical researcher Eric Dingwall wrote regarding McKenzie that "In spite of his massive credulity and disregard of scientific evidence he was a remarkable example of the spiritualist business-manitoba
And it is better to remember him for his many good qualities than to stress his naïve belief in Houdini’s “psychic” powers".
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