Fernández, José S(alvador) (1893-1967)

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Fernández, José S(alvador) (1893-1967)

A civil engineer and for many years the president of Colegio Argentino de Estudios Psiquicos (Argentine College of Psychic Studies). Fernández was born February 16, 1893, in Buenos Aires and studied at Buenos Aires University. His wife was a clairvoyant, and through the 1930s Fernández championed the cause of both Spiritualism and parapsychology in Argentina. He was the first Argentinian to adopt the quantitative methodology as advocated by J. B. Rhine, and made early statistical studies of clairvoyance and precognition. He also founded the ATMAN Spiritualist Circle in 1933 and attended meetings of the Psyke Circle to sit with mediums and clairvoyants. He helped revive psychical studies after World War II and served successively as the president of the Sociedad Argentina de Parapsicologia (1948-53), the Instituto Argentino de Parapsicologia (1953-55), and the Argentino de Estudios Psiquicos (1957-67).

Fernández was a member of the Sociedad Constancia and was assistant editor of the psychic journal Constancia. He contributed many articles on parapsychology to journals in Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, and Great Britain. He died March 14, 1967.

Sources:

Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

Fernández, José S. Application of the Statistical Method to the Study of Cryptesthetic Phenomena. N.p., 1942.

. Clairvoyance and Probability. N.p., 1941.

. Experimental Parapsychology. N.p., 1953.

. A Mathematical Preface to the Study of ESP. N.p., 1949.

. Parapsychology and the Existence of the Soul. N.p., 1959.

. Philosophical and Scientific Bases for Survival and Rein-carnation. N.p., 1957.

. The Photoelectric Cell and Perception of the Spiritual World. N.p., 1932.

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