Osty, Eugèn (1874-1938)

French physician and director of the Institut Métapsychique Internationale. Osty was born May 16, 1874. He was physician at Jouet sur l'Aubor's from 1901 through 1924.

In 1910, Osty investigated psychical phenomena and summed up his research three years later in Lucidity and Intuition. Osty claimed the acquisition of knowledge through paranormal means was possible. His subsequent research was published in Supernormal Faculties in Man. He described the source of after-death communication as "crypto-psychism" (lingering after bodily death).

Osty was succeeded by Gustave Geley as the head of the Institut Métapsychique. Geley considered Osty "the first living authority on lucidity as applied to a human being, both under its practical and its theoretical aspect. His book Supernormal Faculties in Man (Une Faculté de Connaissance Supra-Normale) is truly epochal in the study of subjective metapsychics."

In 1931 and 1932, with the collaboration of his son, Marcel, Osty employed infra-red and ultra-violet rays in the study of physical and physiological phenomena of Rudi Schneider. The results were published in Les Pouvoirs inconnus de l'esprit sur la matiere. Osty died August 20, 1938.

Sources:

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

Osty, Eugene. Une Faculté de connaissance Supra-Normal. (Super Normal Faculties in Man). Paris: Felix Alcan, 1926.

Osty, Marcel. "Eugene Osty: Pioneer Researcher." Tomorrow. 7, 1 (1959).