The Seybert Report

Author : Elizabeth Schleber Lowry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319615127

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The Seybert Report by Elizabeth Schleber Lowry Pdf

This book is a rhetorical analysis of the "Seybert Report," based on the findings of the Seybert Commission formed in the nineteenth century at the University of Pennsylvania and tasked with investigating the paranormal phenomena alleged to arise in Spiritualist séances. The findings of the report are significant because they provide a historical benchmark for how “paranormal” research--or psi--has been addressed by academics for well over a century. Elizabeth Schleber Lowry examines academic discourse with respect to psi from such approaches as the rhetoric of science and scholarship in the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Mark Blacklock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198755487

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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension by Mark Blacklock Pdf

The idea of the fourth dimension of space has been of sustained interest to nineteenth-century and Modernist studies since the publication of Linda Dalrymple Henderson’s The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (1983). An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siècle as a staple of genre fiction and grew to become an informing idea for a number of important Modernist writers and artists. Describing the post-Euclidean intellectual landscape of the late nineteenth century, The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension works with the concepts derived from the mathematical possibilities of n-dimensional geometry—co-presence, bi-location, and interpenetration; the experiences of two consciousnesses sharing the same space, one consciousness being in two spaces, and objects and consciousness pervading each other—to examine how a crucially transformative idea in the cultural history of space was thought and to consider the forms in which such thought was anchored. It identifies a corpus of higher-dimensional fictions by Conrad and Ford, H.G. Wells, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, and others and reads these closely to understand how fin de siècle and early twentieth-century literature shaped and were in turn shaped by the reconfiguration of imaginative space occasioned by the n-dimensional turn. In so doing it traces the intellectual history of higher-dimensional thought into diverse terrains, describing spiritualist experiments and how an extended abstract space functioned as an analogue for global space in occult groupings such as the Theosophical Society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : HARVARD:HXIT4E

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Light by Anonim Pdf

Author : Seybert Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : UIUC:30112114660837

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Annual Report of the Trustees of the Seybert Institution by Seybert Institution (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pdf

Author : Alfred Emanuel Smith,Francis Walton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066372578

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Outlook by Alfred Emanuel Smith,Francis Walton Pdf

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Christianity
ISBN : WISC:89092857309

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The Christian Union by Henry Ward Beecher Pdf

Author : Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3462020

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Report by Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania Pdf

Author : Corinna Treitel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0801878128

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A Science for the Soul by Corinna Treitel Pdf

In A Science for the Soul, historian Corinna Treitel explores the appeal and significance of German occultism in all its varieties between the 1870s and the 1940s, locating its dynamism in the nation's struggle with modernization and the public's dissatisfaction with scientific materialism. Occultism, Treitel notes, served as a bridge between traditional religious beliefs and the values of an increasingly scientific, secular, and liberal society. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, Treitel describes the individuals and groups who participated in the occult movement, reconstructs their organizational history, and examines the economic and social factors responsible for their success. Building on this foundation, Treitel turns to the question of how Germans used the occult in three realms of practice: Theosophy, where occult studies were used to achieve spiritual enlightenment the arts, where occult states of consciousness fueled the creative process of avant-garde painters, writers, and dancers and the applied sciences, where professionals in psychology, law enforcement, engineering, and medicine employed occult techniques to solve characteristic problems of modernity. In conclusion, Treitel considers the conflicting meanings occultism held for contemporaries by focusing on the anti-spiritualist campaigns mounted by the national press, the Protestant and Catholic Churches, local and national governments, and the Nazi regime, which after years of alternating between affinity and antipathy for occultism, finally crushed the movement by 1945.

Author : Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : HARVARD:HNT85A

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Annual Report of the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania by Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pdf

Author : Arkansas. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044078574365

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Arkansas Reports by Arkansas. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547510789

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Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate Modern Spiritualism by University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism Pdf

"Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate Modern Spiritualism" by University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Pennsylvania. University,University of Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015076401978

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Reports of the Provost by Pennsylvania. University,University of Pennsylvania Pdf

Author : Edward Royall Tyler,William Lathrop Kingsley,George Park Fisher,Timothy Dwight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B3058166

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New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler,William Lathrop Kingsley,George Park Fisher,Timothy Dwight Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0035528206

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New Englander and Yale Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arkansas. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103134161

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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas by Arkansas. Supreme Court Pdf