Life's Adventure: The Story of a Varied Career

362 pp. Episcopal clergyman, psychical researcher, and founder of the Emmanuel movement, which pioneered medicine and psychotherapy in conjunction with spiritual guidance for individuals with physical, mental, and nervous problems. Through James H. Hyslop he became interested in psychical research, and he was a founder of the Boston Society for Psychic Research, of which he was president from 1925 until his death. Worcester was born on May 16, 1862, in Massillon, Ohio. He studied at Columbia College, New York (B.A., 1886), General Theological Seminary, New York (1887), and Leipzig University (Ph.D., 1889). He was ordained in 1891. He served as rector at St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia (1896-1904) prior to his quarter of a century at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Boston (1904-29). While at Emmanuel he began to work with a group of pioneering psychotherapists, including Joseph H. Pratt, Richard C. Cabot, and Isador H. Ciriat. Out of their collaboration emerged the Emmanuel movement, one of the early spiritual healing movements in mainline Protestantism (later superseded by the Order of St. Luke). - Encyclopedia dot com