Indridi Indridason

The authors´ preoccupation with Indridi Indridason spans several decades. Erlendur Haraldsson first read about him in the 1960s perhaps earlier. He joined the Psychology department at the University of Iceland in 1973 and during his course on paranormal phenomena he would regularly discuss Indridason Iceland's most prolific physical medium. Loftur Reimar Gissurarson one of Haraldsson's students soon became interested and wrote his BA thesis on Indridason (Gissurarson 1984).Based on their research they co-authored a monograph entitled The Icelandic Physical Medium Indridi Indridason which was published in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (Gissurarson and Haraldsson 1989). The monograph was subsequently reprinted partially and in full in Renaitre 2000 in France Luce e Ombra in Italy and Parapsykologiske Notiser in Norway.Loftur continued the work and co-authored with William Swatos the book Icelandic Spiritualism: Mediumship and Modernity in Iceland (Swatos and Gissurarson 1997) much of it dealing with Indridi and the history of Mediums and Spiritualism in Iceland.Shortly after the year 2000 two Experimental Society minute books dating back to the Indridason period were unexpectedly found that contained new information (Haraldsson 2009). Some time later Haraldsson delved into the new material which resulted in three major articles being published in the Proceedings and the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (Haraldsson 2011 2012a) and the Journal of Scientific Exploration (Haraldsson and Gerding 2010). It soon became obvious that only a book would do justice to Indridi as he deserved to be known to the wider international public. This is that book.