Science Of The Seance

Author : Beth A. Robertson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Paul Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : OCLC:9173980

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Science in the Seance Room by Paul Miller Pdf

Author : Paul Miller
Publisher : Saturday Night Press Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1908421320

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Science in the Séance Room by Paul Miller Pdf

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 : Stan McMullin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Robert Kirkman
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781534308985

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Science Dog by Robert Kirkman Pdf

From the pages of Invincible comes a Science Dog odyssey no fan should miss! Spanning time and space, watch Science Dog fight fire with fire, evil with science! Collected from issues #1 and #2 of Science Dog

Author : Ludy T. Benjamin,David B. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 193737842X

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From Séance to Science by Ludy T. Benjamin,David B. Baker Pdf

This book is intended to round out the picture of American psychology's past, adding the history of psychological practice to the story of psychological science. Written by two well-recognised authorities in the field, this book covers the profession and practice of psychology in America from the late nineteenth century to the present. From Séance to Science tells the story of psychologists who sought to apply the knowledge of their science to the practical problems of the world, whether those problems lay in businesses, schools, families, or in the thoughts, emotions, and behaviours of individuals. Engagingly written and full of interesting examples, this book includes figures and photos from the Archives of the History of American Psychology. This is the story of individuals, trained in psychology, who function as school psychologists, counselling psychologists, clinical psychologists, and industrial psychologists. These are psychology's practitioners; they take the knowledge base of psychology and use it for practical purposes outside of the classroom and outside of the laboratory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fulgur Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1527236315

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Shannon Taggart: Séance by Anonim Pdf

American photographer Shannon Taggart (born 1977) became aware of spiritualism as a teenager when her cousin received a message from a medium that revealed details about her grandfather's death. In 2001, while working as a photojournalist, she began photographing where that message was received--Lily Dale, New York, home to the world's largest spiritualist community, proceeding to other communities in, for example, Arthur Findlay College in the UK. Taggart expected to spend one summer figuring out the tricks of the spiritualist trade. Instead, spiritualism's mysterious processes, earnest practitioners and neglected photographic history became an inspiration. Her project evolved into an 18-year journey that has taken her around the world in search of "ectoplasm"-- the elusive substance that is said to be both spiritual and material. With Séance, Taggart offers a series of haunting photographs exploring spiritualist practices in the US, England and Europe. Supported with a commentary on her experiences, a foreword by Dan Aykroyd, creator of Ghostbusters and fourth-generation spiritualist, and illustrated essays from Andreas Fischer and Tony Oursler, Séance examines spiritualism's relationship with human celebrity and its connections with technology, and concludes with the debate over ectoplasm and how spiritualism can move forward in the 21st century.

Author : David Jaher
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : 9780307451064

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The Witch of Lime Street by David Jaher Pdf

In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American. Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges. There was only one left to convince ... the acclaimed escape artist, Harry Houdini. Jaher captures their electric public rivalry and the competition that brought them into each other's orbit.

Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Simone Natale
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271077390

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Supernatural Entertainments by Simone Natale Pdf

In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.

Author : Ciarán O'Keeffe,Billy Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1782011838

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Science and Seance by Ciarán O'Keeffe,Billy Roberts Pdf

A discussion between a parapsychologist and a medium about the nature of clairvoyance and mediumship.

Author : George W. Meek,Bertha Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Mediums
ISBN : OCLC:1031089957

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From Seance to Science by George W. Meek,Bertha Harris Pdf

Author : Rosemarie Pilkington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1933665130

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The Spirit of Dr. Bindelof by Rosemarie Pilkington Pdf

"The Spirit of Dr. Bindelof" focuses on one little known episode of physical mediumship, which is characterized by the movement and levitation of tables and other objects, ectoplasmic apparitions, direct voices and knocking sounds or raps, among other phenomena. This episode is Gilbert Roller's utterly charming and disarming autobiographical account of a group of teenage boys who experimented with seance phenomena and contacted an alleged spirit named Dr. Bindelof in the 1930s. Author Rosemarie Pilkington follows up with the history of these extraordinary physical mediums and the remarkable feats they perform, placing the Bindelof case within this wider framework and bringing it up to date with a review of contemporary "secular" mediums. Physical mediumship has been maligned to the point that most people think all physical mediums are fakes because of the frauds who sought to capitalize on the success of real mediums and because of arch skeptics who refuse to accept what they don't understand. This book demonstrates that these mind-boggling feats are indeed real. Their existence illustrates just how little science knows, and shows us that we need to revise our under- standing of reality in order to explain these phenomena."

Author : A. Von Schrenck-Notzing,Baron V. Notzing
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 078730638X

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Phenomena of Materialisation by A. Von Schrenck-Notzing,Baron V. Notzing Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : OCLC:940085689

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A Science and a Séance by Anonim Pdf