with Hannen Swaffer and Maurice Barbanell. He helped to found the International Institute for Psychical Research, of which he became the chairman. He also became an honorary member of both the American Foundation for Psychical Research, Edinburgh Psychic College and the honorary president of both the Institute of Psychic Writers and Artists and the Spiritualists' National Union. In his will, he left Stansted Hall to the Spiritualists' National Union as a college for the advancement of Psychic Science, which was named the Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Science after him. Thornton Heath poltergeist In 1938, the psychical researcher Nandor Fodor investigated the Thornton Heath poltergeist case that involved Mrs. Forbes. According to Rosemary Guiley "Fodor asserted that the psychosis was an episodic mental disturbance of schizophrenic character, and that Mrs. Forbes' unconscious mind was responsible for the activities finally determined to be fraudulent. Fodor eventually identified the cause as sexual trauma that had occurred in Mrs. Forbes's childhood, and had been repressed." Because he was skeptical of the case, Fodor was heavily criticized by spiritualists and was dismissed from his post at the International Institute for Psychical Research. Findlay, the founder of the Institute, did not approve of his research and resigned. Fodor was attacked in the Spiritualist newspaper, Psychic News which he sued for libel. Bibliography On Spiritualism On The Edge Of The Etheric: Being An Investigation Of Psychic Phenomena , 1931, in which Findley examines the theory that spirits are linked to subatomic physics. The Unfolding Universe or The Evolution of Man's Conception of His Place in Nature, 1935 The Psychic Stream, 1939 Where Two Worlds Meet, 1951, about Findley's encounters with the medium John Sloan. The Way Of Life, 1953 Looking Back: The Autobiography of a Spiritualist, 1955 On Other Religions The Rock Of Truth, 1933, a history of the persecution of mediums by Christianity The Curse of Ignorance Volumes I and II, 1947, the devastating effects of ignorance on the history of humanity, ignorance of our true nature as human beings, as well as what really leads to happiness and contentment; includes a criticism of various economic systems and organised religion like Christianity The Effect Of Religion On History (Booklet) A History of Mankind Volumes I and II Fiction The Torch Of Knowledge: A Story About the Twentieth Century, and the Changes which Will Take Place as the Result of Increased Knowledge, 1936 References External links