Frederick Bligh Bond

Frederick Bligh Bond (born June 30, 1864 in Marlborough , Wiltshire , England , † March 8, 1945 in Dolgellau , Wales ) was a British architect, archaeologist and parapsychologist .

Bond led the excavations in the area of Glastonbury Abbey , the Abbey of Glastonbury , from 1908 , whereby he was guided by the decisions about the details of the excavations on paranormally obtained information, which a medium produced by automatic writing . He kept this source a secret until he published it in his books. Their discovery destroyed his scientific reputation, which subsequently led to his dismissal as excavation manager in April 1922.

Later he worked as a parapsychologist with automatic writing and with psycho-photography (the mental influence of photographic images). From 1921 to 1926 he was editor of the journal Psychic Science (then name: Quarterly transactions of the British College of Psychic Science ). During his stay in the United States (from August 1926 to January 1936) he published the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research from 1930 to 1936 .

After ordination to a priest in 1932, Bond was consecrated bishop of the Old Catholic Church of America by Archbishop William Henry Francis Brothers in 1933 .

Frederick Bligh Bond was a great-great-nephew of Captain William Bligh , who was mutinied on the Bounty .

Works

• The Gate of Remembrance . Oxford 1918.
• The Hill of Vision . Boston 1919.
• The Company of Avalon . London 1924.