38 lines
3.5 KiB
Markdown
38 lines
3.5 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
|
|
tags:
|
|
- Psi
|
|
- Person
|
|
- RemoteViewer
|
|
summary: "Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles."
|
|
born: 1893-03-17
|
|
died: 1970-09-15
|
|
location: "Beauparc, County Meath, Ireland"
|
|
updated: 2026-10-09
|
|
relations:
|
|
- type: reported_to
|
|
with: "[[Martin Ebon]]"
|
|
reverse: true
|
|
role: "administrative secretary to the founder of the Parapsychology Foundation"
|
|
start: 1953
|
|
end: 1965
|
|
fn: 4
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
|
|
Eileen Garrett was an Irish medium who was well-known in New York City parapsychology circles. She was one of the psychics tested by [[Andrija Puharich]] at his [[Round Table Foundation]] in Maine.[^1]
|
|
|
|
Garrett's psychic abilities were tested in a [[Faraday cage]] using Zener cards. According to Puharich, her ESP scores were significantly higher inside the cage, which suggested that electronic shielding had a positive impact on psychic functioning.[^1]
|
|
|
|
Puharich testified in 1968 that Garrett, inside the treated cage, produced results he gave as a probability against chance of 5.5 times ten to the minus seventh. A control subject placed outside the cage scored at chance expectation (probability .64) in the same series, and in a run with the cage uncharged her own score was at the .28 level.[^2] Puharich also testified that Garrett was one of nine principal subjects he used at the Round Table Foundation.[^3]
|
|
|
|
[[Martin Ebon]] was administrative secretary of the [[Parapsychology Foundation]], which Garrett founded, from 1953 to 1965 according to the Skeptical Inquirer's biography of him; another biography dates the post from 1954.[^4] Ebon's masthead roles at the magazine Tomorrow are documented: volume 4 (1956) lists Garrett as editor-publisher, Ebon as managing editor, Lenore Davison as assistant to the publisher and Lester Buckland as circulation and business manager, Garrett Publications, 500 Fifth Avenue; volume 9 (1961) lists Phoebe Moss as associate editor and Gorham Munson as consulting editor, with Ebon identified as managing editor of Tomorrow and administrative secretary of the Parapsychology Foundation.[^5] Ebon is listed among participants (U.S.A.) at the Foundation's First International Conference of Parapsychological Studies, Utrecht, July 1953, with Miss I. Jephson, Dr. Henry Margenau and Dr. Louis Mars.[^5] The New School Archives hold an "Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship, 1975" file regarding a scholarship to take a New School course in parapsychology.[^6]
|
|
|
|
### Footnotes
|
|
|
|
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
|
|
[^2]: Transcript of Record, Puharich v. Brenner, No. 22286 (D.C. Cir.), testimony of Henry K. Puharich on cross-examination, Appx. 73a-74a. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner
|
|
[^3]: Transcript of Record, Puharich v. Brenner, Appx. 66a-67a. https://archive.org/details/dc_circ_1968_22286_henry_k_puharich_v_edward_j_brenner
|
|
[^4]: Skeptical Inquirer, "Martin Ebon," author biography (administrative secretary of the Parapsychology Foundation, 1953 to 1965). https://skepticalinquirer.org/authors/martin-ebon/
|
|
[^5]: Tomorrow, vol. 4 (1956), p. 122, https://books.google.com/books?id=OHUPAQAAIAAJ ; vol. 9 (1961), https://books.google.com/books?id=8HAPAQAAIAAJ
|
|
[^6]: New School Archives and Special Collections, Adult Division Office of the Dean records (NS-02-01-01), Series 5, Box 7, Folder 43, "Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship, 1975." https://findingaids.archives.newschool.edu/repositories/3
|