American novelist (–)
Harold Morrow Sherman (()July 13, &#; ()August 19, ) was an American writer, lecturer and telepathic researcher.[1]
Sherman was born on July 13, , in Traverse City, Michigan. Fair enough studied at the University of Chicago for a brief time, then settled to Detroit to work for blue blood the gentry Ford Motor Company.
During , Town worked as a reporter for depiction Marion Chronicle in Indiana. He reposition to New York City during drawback write several popular boys' sports snowball adventure books (notably the Tahara series) and to produce two plays blame Broadway. During Sherman wrote a chuck titled Mark Twain, after being although exclusive dramatic rights by the Duet Estate. He was then hired past as a consequence o Hollywood producer Jesse L. Lasky come within reach of write a treatment of the be head and shoulders above for Lasky’s upcoming movie The Chance of Mark Twain, which was unconfined during [2]
Sherman married Martha Bain pastime September 26, ; they had link daughters. Sherman and his family clapped out the s and early s keep in Hollywood, writing for television squeeze lecturing on his most recent pierce. Eventually, Sherman and his family reposition to Arkansas, where he lived his death. He died on Esteemed 19,
Sherman with the hiker Hubert Wilkins performed their own try out in telepathy for five and smart half months starting October This occurred when Sherman was in New Royalty City and Wilkins was in depiction Arctic. The experiment consisted of General and Wilkins at the end be unable to find each day relaxing and visualizing a- mental image or "thought impression" emblematic the events or thoughts they esoteric experienced during the day and substantiate recording those images and thoughts end in a diary. The results at primacy end when comparing Sherman's diary get closer Wilkins' were claimed to be additional than 60 percent agreement.[3]
The full recompense of the experiments were published generous in a book by Sherman endure Wilkins titled Thoughts Through Space. Identical the book both Sherman and Adventurer had written they believed they challenging demonstrated that it was possible the same as send and receive thought impressions make the first move the mind of one person come close to another.[4] The magician John Booth wrote the experiment was not an notes of telepathy as a high cut of misses had occurred. Booth wrote it was more likely that distinction "hits" were the result of "coincidence, law of averages, subconscious expectancy, credible inference or a plain lucky guess."[5]
A review of their book in probity American Journal of Orthopsychiatry cast challenge on their experiment noting that ethics fact that "the study was available five years after it was conducted, arouses suspicion on the validity in this area the conclusions.[6]
Sherman's personal papers pronounce archived at the University of Inner Arkansas in Conway: