Spirits Seers Séances

Author : Steele Alexandra Douris
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738774848

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Spirits, Seers & Séances by Steele Alexandra Douris Pdf

Spiritualism in the Age of Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe A woman wearing a black veil convenes a séance. A magician puts a volunteer into a trance. A fortune-teller leans over a crystal ball. Everyone knows what Victorian mysticism looks like because our modern imagery, language, and practice of magic borrows heavily from the Victorians. But we have little understanding of its spiritual, cultural, and historical foundations. What made the Victorians turn to mediumship, hypnotism, and fortune-telling? What were they afraid of? What were they seeking? This book explores the history of automatic writing, cartomancy, clairvoyance, and more. It reveals how Victorian belief in ghosts, fairies, and nature spirits shaped our celebrations of Halloween and Christmas. With historic examples and hands-on exercises, you will discover how spiritualism in the time of Jack the Ripper, Jane Eyre, "A Christmas Carol," and Dracula left such a profound impact on both the past and present.

Author : Stan McMullin
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Claire Goodchild
Publisher : Voracious
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780316353441

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The Book of Séances by Claire Goodchild Pdf

From an award-winning artist, a beautifully mysterious guide to conducting seances and communing with the spirits in our conscious and unconscious lives. As long as people have lived, they have longed for wisdom and comfort from those who have died. In The Book of Séances, artist, author, and witch Claire Goodchild takes readers on a journey through the historical landscape of spiritualism and guides questers through safe practices for cultivating a connection with the other side. The Book of Séances details the four types of spiritual encounters, teaches us how to protect ourselves, and breaks down the different tools -- from spirit boards and tarot to dominoes and charms -- that are essential for opening a bridge to the afterlife. Whether conducting solitary or group séances, this book offers a way to safely glimpse beyond the veil. Through her evocative writing and singular art, Claire provides a comprehensive history of the séance, alongside an immersive guide to accessing and communing with the spirit world. The Book of Séances provides hauntingly lovely signposts into our own personal mythology as revealed through our conscious and unconscious lives.

Author : Lisa Morton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781789142815

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Calling the Spirits by Lisa Morton Pdf

From Halloween expert Morton, a level-headed and entertaining history of our desire and attempts to hold conversations with the dead. Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism—when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born. Among our cast are the Fox sisters, teenagers surrounded by “spirit rappings”; Daniel Dunglas Home, the “greatest medium of all time”; Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose unlikely friendship was forged, then riven, by the afterlife; and Helen Duncan, the medium whose trial in 1944 for witchcraft proved more popular to the public than news about the war. The book also considers Ouija boards, modern psychics, and paranormal investigations, and is illustrated with engravings, fine art (from beyond), and photographs. Hugely entertaining, it begs the question: is anybody there . . . ?

Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Tom Cowan,Thomas Dale Cowan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0809237334

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The Book of Seance by Tom Cowan,Thomas Dale Cowan Pdf

A powerful tool for anyone interested in making contact with those who have left the world as we know it, The Book of Seance offers timeless insights into the unknown world beyond. Easy-to-follow chapters explain how to set up a seance circle, approach spirit guides, become a medium, interpret messages from departed loved ones, and more.

Author : Elaine Kuzmeskus
Publisher : Red Feather
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Seances
ISBN : 0764327178

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Séance 101 by Elaine Kuzmeskus Pdf

Sance 101 explores the physical side of the spirit world and how contact with the other side affects you! Read this book to find out: How spirits communicate with us by tipping tables. Learn the basics from the New England School of Metaphysics. How spirits manifest on film and the methods for using Electronic Voice Phenomena to contact spirits. Where to locate and safely open your third eye, that natural intuition that can be developed into a psychic tool. Learn to meditate and set up a seance. The importance of psychic surgery, medical practices without tools, anesthesia or pain; trumpet mediumship, where spirits speak from megaphones; and percipitated painting, when spirits paint works of art, without the help of mortals. How magic and mediumship are tied together via the spirit of Harry Houdini!The spirit lives. Will you become a believer?

Author : Alice & Claude Askew
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329376342

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Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer by Alice & Claude Askew Pdf

This is a collection of eight ghost stories, written by the remarkably prolific husband and wife team of Claude and Alice Askew, centering on Aylmer Vance, an investigator of the supernatural. Dexter, the narrator, meets Vance during a fishing holiday and Vance tells him three ghost stories on successive nights, each story involving Vance more closely in the action. The fourth story brings Dexter himself into the action, and reveals him to have unsuspected clairvoyant powers. The remaining stories feature Vance and Dexter as a sort of Holmes-and-Watson team investigating incidents not all of which prove to have supernatural causes. The final story, "The Fear" is very effective, describing a house in which a general feeling of extreme fear grips the inhabitants at various times and locations; the emotion of fear is effectively evoked and an interesting tale is constructed as Vance and Dexter work to assign the fear "a local habitation and a name".

Author : David Jaher
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307451071

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The Witch of Lime Street by David Jaher Pdf

History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish-flu epidemic. A desperate search for reunion with dead loved ones precipitated a tidal wave of self-proclaimed psychics—and, as reputable media sought stories on occult phenomena, mediums became celebrities. Against this backdrop, in 1924, the pretty wife of a distinguished 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 none other than Sherlock Holmes' creator 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 and offering a large cash prize to the first medium declared authentic by its impressive five-man investigative committee. Admired for both her exceptional charm and her dazzling effects, Margery was the best hope for the psychic practice to be empirically verified. Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges. There was only one left to convince...the acclaimed escape artist, Harry Houdini. David Jaher's extraordinary debut culminates in the showdown between Houdini, a relentless unmasker of charlatans, and Margery, the nation's most credible spirit medium. The Witch of Lime Street, the first book to capture their electric public rivalry and the competition that brought them into each other’s orbit, returns us to an oft-mythologized era to deepen our understanding of its history, all while igniting our imagination and engaging with the timeless question: Is there life after death?

Author : John Barker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317044970

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The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond by John Barker Pdf

The Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond examines how Melanesians experience and deal with moral dilemmas and challenges. Taking Kenelm Burridge’s seminal work as their starting point, the contributors focus upon public situations and types of people that exemplify key ethical contradictions for members of moral communities. While returning to some classical concerns, such as the roles of big men and sorcerers, the book opens new territory with richly textured ethnographic studies and theoretical reviews that explore the interface between the values associated with indigenous village life and the ethical orientations associated with Christianity, the state, the marketplace, and other facets of ’modernity'. A major contribution to the emerging field of the anthropology of morality, the volume includes some of the most prominent scholars working in the discipline today, including Bruce Knauft, Joel Robbins, F.G. Bailey, Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.

Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481419987

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The Sword of the Spirits by John Christopher Pdf

In the conclusion to the trilogy set in post-apocalyptic England, Luke returns a triumphant Prince from his expedition in the North, although he loses the three things he cares about most.

Author : Herman Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041261731

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Visions of the Beyond, by a Seer of Today by Herman Snow Pdf

Author : Herman Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Future life
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5AVA

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Visions of the Beyond by a Seer of To-day, Or, Symbolic Teachings from the Higher Life by Herman Snow Pdf

Author : Gervase Phinn
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444779363

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A Lesson in Love by Gervase Phinn Pdf

'[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriott, and every bit as endearing.' - bestselling author Alan Titchmarsh Love is in the air in the little village of Barton-in-the-Dale. Anyone can see that Ashley Underwood and Emmet O'Malley are made for each other. They've just got to admit it to themselves . . . But as the saying goes, the course of true love never did run smooth. While romance blossoms on one side of the village, an angry young boy struggles to believe in love. But when tragedy strikes, he learns that comfort and care can come from the most unexpected of places. Meanwhile, head teacher Elisabeth Stirling faces a new challenge for the start of the school year. An eccentric teacher joins the staff, and there's also a worrying case of potential negligence to answer. In the village too, a puritanical new vicar stirs up trouble. But as always, mixed in with the drama there's plenty of gossip, laughter, friendship - and love - in Barton-in-the-Dale. Readers are loving A LESSON IN LOVE! 'When you pick up one of his books you don't want to put it down.' - 5 STARS 'A beautiful book.' - 5 STARS 'The best book ever.' - 5 STARS 'A charming, lovely book' - 5 STARS 'A great, colourful, packed-with-character read.' - 5 STARS

Author : Srdjan Smajić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139485883

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Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists by Srdjan Smajić Pdf

This book is a study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories and detective stories - and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight. Srdjan Smajić argues that to understand how writers represented ghost-seers and detectives, the views of contemporary scientists, philosophers, and spiritualists with which these writers engage have to be taken into account: these views raise questions such as whether seeing really is believing, how much of what we 'see' is actually only inferred, and whether there may be other (intuitive or spiritual) ways of seeing that enable us to perceive objects and beings inaccessible to the bodily senses. This book will make a real contribution to the understanding of Victorian science in culture, and of the ways in which literature draws on all kinds of knowledge.