Simeon Edmunds

Simeon Edmunds (1917 – 1969) was a British psychical researcher and writer on hypnotism.

Edmunds was a research secretary for the College of Psychic Science and member of the Society for Psychical Research. He was the associate editor of the Tomorrow magazine.

He is most well known for his skeptical books on spiritualism. His booklet Spirit Photography was published by the Society for Psychical Research. It exposed the fraudulent methods involved in producing spirit photographs. According to Edmunds "not one professional spirit photographer of any note ever escaped convincing exposure as fraudulent."

His book Hypnotism and the Supernormal was described in a review as a "classic and serious study".

Publications

• Hypnotism and Psychic Phenomena (1961)
• Miracles of the Mind: An Introduction to Parapsychology (1965)
• Spirit Photography (1965)
• Spiritualism: A Critical Survey (1966)
• Hypnosis: Key to Psychic Powers (1968)
• Hypnotism and the Supernormal (1968)
• ESP, Extrasensory Perception (1975)
• The Psychic Power of Hypnosis (1981)