Author: Paul Miller
Publisher: Saturday Night Press Publications
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781908421326
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A long overdue reprint of a rare classic book from 1945 by Paul Miller. The author scoured many books and papers of eminent scientists who investigated psychic phenomena in the early days of Spiritualism. The book contains detailed descriptions of their experiments and their own words justifying their conclusions of the phenomena they witnessed.
Author: Alexander Reid (Spiritualist.)
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Miller (spiritualist.)
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Beth A. Robertson
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2016-11-28
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0774833521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the 1920s and ’30s, people gathered in darkened rooms to explore the paranormal through seances. They were motivated by grief, spiritual devotion, or a desire to be entertained. Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a small transnational group and their quest for objective knowledge of the supernatural, casting new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform gendered norms in this era. Robertson draws back the curtain to reveal a world inhabited by researchers, spirits, and spiritual mediums. Representing themselves as masters of the senses, untainted by the effeminized subjectivity of the body, psychical researchers in Canada, the UK, and the US believed that they could use machines and empirical methods to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project. However, mediums and ghostly subjects could and did challenge their claims to scientific expertise and authority.
Author: Stan McMullin
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2004-03-19
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0773571973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →MacKenzie King did it, so did Susanna Moody. In fact, many Canadians consulted the spirits as part of a religious experience, to seek guidance for themselves and others, and to attempt to learn what lies beyond the grave. Some came to the seance room to hear ancient wisdom while others came to understand the nature of psychic phenomena. Like the mechanisms that produced the flashing lights, cool breezes, and whirling trumpets that materialized in the presence of the medium, their beliefs and experiences have been mostly hidden, until now. In this first full-length study of Canadian spirit communication, Stan McMullin has drawn upon seance notes, letters, diaries, and special collections to create a fascinating picture of how educated people were drawn to spiritualism and psychic research. Anatomy of a Seance shows that for many Canadians attempting to sort out their religious beliefs and find an acceptable marriage between religion and science the seance room provided an alternative to formal religious dogma. Despite the opposition of mainline churches, spiritualism offered the possibility of a "scientific" religion that could prove the existence of heaven.
Author: Ben Goldsmith
Publisher: Source Point Press
Published: 2020-07-22
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781945940781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In an ancient castle, an eccentric collector traps lost souls and old ghosts. Enter the Seance Room! The Séance Room is a place beyond time and space that exists inside a castle owned by an eccentric ghost monger. Six ghosts have been trapped there, each with their own expertise of the expired. Do you dare tempt fate and enter the Séance Room?
Author: Edwin Frederick Bowers
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 275
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Warne Monroe
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0801461715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rejection of scientific thought; participants in séances and magic rituals were seekers after experimental data as well as spiritual truth. A young astronomy student wrote of his quest: "I am not in the presence or under the influence of any evil spirit: I study Spiritism as I study mathematics." He did not see himself as an ecstatic visionary but rather as a sober observer. For him, the darkened room of occult practice was as much laboratory as church. In an evocative history of alternative religious practices in France in the second half of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, John Warne Monroe tells the interconnected stories of three movements—Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism. Adherents of these groups, Monroe reveals, attempted to "modernize" faith by providing empirical support for metaphysical concepts. Instead of trusting theological speculation about the nature of the soul, these believers attempted to gather tangible evidence through Mesmeric experiments, séances, and ceremonial magic. While few French people were active Mesmerists, Spiritists, or Occultists, large segments of the educated general public were familiar with these movements and often regarded them as fascinating expressions of the "modern condition," a notable contrast to the Catholicism and secular materialism that prevailed in their culture. Featuring eerie spirit photographs, amusing Daumier lithographs, and a posthumous autograph from Voltaire, as well as extensive documentary evidence, Laboratories of Faith gives readers a sense of what being in a séance or a secret-society ritual might actually have felt like and why these feelings attracted participants. While they never achieved the transformation of human consciousness for which they strove, these thinkers and believers nevertheless pioneered a way of "being religious" that has become an enduring part of the Western cultural vocabulary.