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- Allan Kardec was a pioneering French educator in the 19th century who focused on the scientific study of psychical experiences, particularly mediumship.
- His research explored various hypotheses that could explain mediumistic phenomena, including fraud, hallucinations, new physical forces, and discarnate minds.
- Despite his influential work, Kardec's contributions and life story are not widely recognized or understood today.
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The French educator Allan Kardec (1804-1869) was one of the first researchers to propose the scientific investigation of psychical experiences and was an influential scholar in Europe during the second half of the 19th Century. However, his life and the outcome of his research in this field are currently little known and often misconstrued. This paper briefly presents Kardec's biography and his first steps in the investigation of psychical phenomena, especially mediumship. Kardec raised and tested several hypotheses on the causes of mediumistic phenomena: fraud; hallucinations; a new physical force; somnambulism (including unconscious cerebration); thought reflection (including telepathy and super-psi); and discarnate minds.
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