ジェラルド・クロワゼット氏スレ 伍
One of Croiset's most remarkable achievements in the field of parapsychological testing was the famous "chair test,"
which involved random selection of a chair number from a seating plan for a future meeting at which seats were not reserved or allocated to specific individuals.
At a period of anywhere from one hour to 26 days before the meeting, Croiset would describe the individual who would sit in that chair at the meeting.
These predictions were sealed and then opened at the meeting and checked detail by detail against the characteristics of the individual actually occupying the seat.
Croiset's first chair test was in Amsterdam in October 1947 before the Studievereniging voor Psychical Research (Dutch Society for Psychical Re-search).
Croiset seems to have had remarkable successes in this unusual type of clairvoyance.
In cases where Croiset himself was allowed to choose a chair number, his descriptions sometimes included information on the individual's past and future.
Subsequent chair tests were set up in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland, as well as Holland. Some of these tests are described in detail in Tenhaeff's 1961 book
De Voorschouw (Precognition). Other cases have been reported in the Dutch Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie.
Croiset's international reputation was spread by the publication of Jack Pollack's Croiset the Clairvoyant (1964) which was translated into German and French editions.
The book discusses some seventy cases of various types, all verified by Tenhaeff. In the meantime, other Dutch parapsychologists were questioning Croiset's abilities.
Dutch researcher Piet Hein Hoebens emerged as Croiset's and Tenhaeff's major critic. He claimed that in many of the cases, such as those reported by Pollack,
Tenhaeff had misrepresented or even fabricated the facts. He also uncovered a number of cases on which Croiset had worked that had turned out to have been complete failures.
Hoebens also criticized the chair tests, noting their subjectivity (Croiset's descriptions of people were vague and could apply to a wide variety of individuals),
and again alleged falsifi-cation of data by Tenhaeff. The discrediting of Tenhaeff, not only in relation to Croiset but in other work as well,
has done much to tarnish the reputation of Croiset and cost doubt on the early evaluations of his abilities.
A biography of Croiset (in Dutch) titled Croiset Paragnost appeared in 1978. Croiset died July 20, 1980. His son has continued the work of the healing clinic.
which involved random selection of a chair number from a seating plan for a future meeting at which seats were not reserved or allocated to specific individuals.
At a period of anywhere from one hour to 26 days before the meeting, Croiset would describe the individual who would sit in that chair at the meeting.
These predictions were sealed and then opened at the meeting and checked detail by detail against the characteristics of the individual actually occupying the seat.
Croiset's first chair test was in Amsterdam in October 1947 before the Studievereniging voor Psychical Research (Dutch Society for Psychical Re-search).
Croiset seems to have had remarkable successes in this unusual type of clairvoyance.
In cases where Croiset himself was allowed to choose a chair number, his descriptions sometimes included information on the individual's past and future.
Subsequent chair tests were set up in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland, as well as Holland. Some of these tests are described in detail in Tenhaeff's 1961 book
De Voorschouw (Precognition). Other cases have been reported in the Dutch Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie.
Croiset's international reputation was spread by the publication of Jack Pollack's Croiset the Clairvoyant (1964) which was translated into German and French editions.
The book discusses some seventy cases of various types, all verified by Tenhaeff. In the meantime, other Dutch parapsychologists were questioning Croiset's abilities.
Dutch researcher Piet Hein Hoebens emerged as Croiset's and Tenhaeff's major critic. He claimed that in many of the cases, such as those reported by Pollack,
Tenhaeff had misrepresented or even fabricated the facts. He also uncovered a number of cases on which Croiset had worked that had turned out to have been complete failures.
Hoebens also criticized the chair tests, noting their subjectivity (Croiset's descriptions of people were vague and could apply to a wide variety of individuals),
and again alleged falsifi-cation of data by Tenhaeff. The discrediting of Tenhaeff, not only in relation to Croiset but in other work as well,
has done much to tarnish the reputation of Croiset and cost doubt on the early evaluations of his abilities.
A biography of Croiset (in Dutch) titled Croiset Paragnost appeared in 1978. Croiset died July 20, 1980. His son has continued the work of the healing clinic.
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