Arthur Hastings
(Neosho, Missouri: May 23rd, 1935 - Palo Alto, California: April 13th, 2014)
Dr. Arthur Claude Hastings was a semi-pro magician and research director of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He has researched aspects of parapsychology and in particular extra-sensory perception, remote viewing, hypnosis, dreams, and bereavement. He was well known as a parapsychologist and considered that the scientific research evidence was more than enough to establish the reality of extra-sensory perception.
He was a consultant on remote viewing research at SRI International and published successful research studies on the subject. He also investigated poltergeist phenomena, using his insights into conjuring techniques to identify several cases of deception or misinterpretation. He wrote critiques of Israeli psychic Uri Geller and deceptive psychic readers that were published in the literature of parapsychology. He was one of the few individuals who had expert knowledge of magical techniques and also investigated paranormal phenomena with an open mind.
Coauthors: Bert Allerton, Tony Corinda, Ulysses Frederick Grant, Edward Marlo, Joseph White
