Anatomy Of A Seance

Author : Stan McMullin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773571976

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Anatomy of a Seance by Stan McMullin Pdf

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 : Claudie Massicotte
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773549944

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Trance Speakers by Claudie Massicotte Pdf

Few people know that Susanna Moodie participated in spiritual séances with her husband, Dunbar, and her sister, Catharine Parr Traill. Moodie, like many other women, found in her communications with the departed an important space to question her commitment to authorship and her understanding of femininity. Retracing the history of possession and mediumship among women following the emergence of spiritualism in mid-nineteenth-century Canada – and unearthing a vast collection of archival documents and photographs from séances – Claudie Massicotte pinpoints spiritualism as a site of conflict and gender struggle and redefines modern understandings of female agency. Trance Speakers offers a new feminist and psychoanalytical approach to the religious and creative practice of trance, arguing that by providing women with a voice for their conscious and unconscious desires, this phenomenon helped them resolve their inner struggles in a society that sought to confine their lives. Drawing attention to the fascinating history of spiritualism and its persistent appeal to women, Massicotte makes a strong case for moving this practice out of the margins of the past. A compelling new reading of spiritual possession as a response to conflicting interpretations of authorship, agency, and gender, Trance Speakers shines a much-needed light on women’s religious practices and on the history of spiritualist traditions and travels across North America and Europe.

Author : Beth A. Robertson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780774833523

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Science of the Seance by Beth A. Robertson Pdf

Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a group of men and women who sought to transform the seance into a laboratory of the spirits and a transnational empirical project. Her findings cast new light on how science, metaphysics, and the senses collided to inform gendered norms in the 1920s and ’30s. She reveals a world inhabited, on one side, by psychical researchers who represented themselves as masters of the senses, untainted by the effeminized subjectivity of the body and, on the other, by mediums and ghostly subjects who could and did challenge the researchers’ exclusive claims to scientific expertise and authority.

Author : Joel Hawkes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501380730

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Mary Butts by Joel Hawkes Pdf

A scholarly and experimental collection that offers fresh insight-with a feminist focus-into the often overlooked modernist writer Mary Butts and the contested processes of recovering such an author. Scholars instrumental in the recovery of Mary Butts, along with newer writers, publishers, printers, and artists, enter into conversation exploring the work of the British author, whose body of work plays between high modernist forms and more popular genres-writing that can be described as occult, Gothic, queer, proto-environmental, and feminist. Taking its cue from Butts's experimental, rhythmic writing and the transnational artistic communities in which Butts moved in the 1920s, the collection is a non-linear exchange rather than a collection of isolated arguments-a conversation constructed from "classical" academic chapters, "knight's move" non-academic reflections, and short responses to these. This conversation lies at the intersection of "feminism" and "reconstruction": Chapters range between Butts's writing techniques and forms, her position in the modernist canon, contested sites of feminism in her work, critical reception of that work, queer and post-critical readings, and the success of, and the need for, a feminist recovery of the author. The collection aims to be a feminist engagement, while asking questions of what this might look like, why it is needed, and how such an approach offers fresh insight into an erudite, playful, difficult, contradictory, and experimental body of work. Ultimately, the collection asks, how should we reconstruct the author and her work for the contemporary reader?

Author : Edward Jones-Imhotep,Tina Adcock
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774837262

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Made Modern by Edward Jones-Imhotep,Tina Adcock Pdf

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. Made Modern draws together leading scholars from a wide range of fields who write on topics ranging from exploration and infrastructure to the occult sciences and communications. The contributors use histories of science and technology to enrich our understanding of Canadian history and of Canada’s place in a transnational modern world. The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, this book explores the place of science and technology in shaping Canadians’ experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.

Author : Serena Keshavjee
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781772840407

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The Art of Ectoplasm by Serena Keshavjee Pdf

The legacy of the Hamiltons’ psychic archive In the wake of the First World War and the 1918–19 pandemic, the world was left grappling with a profound sense of loss. It was against this backdrop that a Winnipeg couple, physician T.G. Hamilton and nurse Lillian Hamilton, began their research, documenting and photographing séances they held in their home laboratory. Their extensive study of the survival of human consciousness after death resulted in a stunning collection of hundreds of photographs, including images of tables flying through the air, mediums in trances, and, most curious of all, ectoplasm—a strange, white substance through which ghosts could apparently manifest. The Art of Ectoplasm invites readers to explore the Hamiltons’ research and photographic evidence which has attracted international attention from scholars and artists alike. Notable figures like Arthur Conan Doyle participated in the Hamilton family’s séances, and their investigations garnered support among the psychical scientific community, including renowned physicist Oliver Lodge, the inventor of wireless telegraphy. In the century since their creation, the Hamilton photographs (now housed at the University of Manitoba) have continued to perplex and inspire as the subject of academic study, comedic parody, and artistic and cinematic renderings. This fascinating collection reflects on the history and legacy of the startling and uncanny images found in the Hamilton Family archive. As contemporary society continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Art of Ectoplasm offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.

Author : Magda Fahrni,Esyllt W. Jones
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822145

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Epidemic Encounters by Magda Fahrni,Esyllt W. Jones Pdf

Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled interest in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which swept the globe after the First World War and killed approximately fifty million people. Epidemic Encounters examines the pandemic in Canada, where one-third of the population took ill and fifty-five thousand people died. What role did social inequalities play in determining who survived? How did the authorities, health care workers, and ordinary citizens respond? Contributors answer these questions as they pertained to both local and national contexts. In the process, they offer new insights into medical history’s usefulness in the struggle against epidemic disease.

Author : Lynne Marks
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774833479

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Infidels and the Damn Churches by Lynne Marks Pdf

British Columbia is at the forefront of a secularizing movement in the English-speaking world. Nearly half its residents claim no religious affiliation, and the province has the highest rate of unbelief or religious indifference in Canada. Infidels and the Damn Churches explores the historical roots of this phenomenon. Lynne Marks reveals that class and racial tensions fuelled irreligion in frontier BC, a world populated by embattled ministers, militant atheists, turn-of-the-century New Agers, rough-living miners, Asian immigrants, and church-going settlers. This nuanced study of mobility, masculinity, and family in settler BC offers new insights into the beginnings of what has become an increasingly dominant secular worldview across Canada.

Author : Anna Riva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Seances
ISBN : 0943832209

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How to Conduct a Seance by Anna Riva Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Coulston Gillispie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400824618

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Science and Polity in France by Charles Coulston Gillispie Pdf

By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.

Author : Kuriakos
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1435735862

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How to Hold a Seance by Kuriakos Pdf

This book, How to hold a Séance, is a very short to the point book on how to quickly and easily hold a Séance anytime and anywhere. A Séance allows you to contact the spirit world to get instant answers about your life. It's like getting a free psychic reading anytime you want! Anyone from beginner to advance can easily hold a Séance by following the very simple and effective exercises in this book. This book makes it so easy to do and requires no experience of any kind and will show you step by step how to quickly get accurate information from the universe through holding a Séance. You will be able to get answers about your past, present or future situation in your life concerning money, love, health, psychic abilities and many more things as well. Over 20 years of experience has been accessed in this book to give you the most quick and effective way to hold a Séance and get immediate results.

Author : William Stainton Moses
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024333689

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Cosmic Anatomy and the Structure of the Ego by William Stainton Moses Pdf

Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738729046

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Solitary Seance by Raymond Buckland Pdf

Connecting with your departed loved ones doesn't have to mean visiting a medium or taking a specialized course. With the proven techniques in this book, you can contact spirits anytime you wish—easily and safely in your own home. Bestselling author Raymond Buckland guides you through nearly twenty effective methods for communing with spirit, as taught in his popular workshops. No special knowledge is required. Simply follow the steps for each method to see which one works best for you. Dreamwork Table-tipping Pendulums Crystal skrying Automatic writing Tarot Runes Spirit photography Dominoes Flame messages Praise: "Buckland brings his wonderful wisdom, insight, and experience together in this comprehensive guide for personal spirit communication."—Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits

Author : Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24500619804

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A Treatise on localized electrization by Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne Pdf