Spirit Communication
Séances, mediums and the attempt to test them.
1 traditions6 curated texts
Modern Spiritualism began in 1848 with the Fox sisters in New York state and spread quickly through circles and lecture halls. Scientists such as William Crookes and F. W. H. Myers investigated it; others exposed fraud.
Believers, investigators and critics are all represented, so the debate can be read from each side.
Key Texts (6)
Rules for the Formation and Conduct of Spirit Circles
Emma Hardinge Britten
Rules for the Formation and Conduct of Spirit Circles
Emma Hardinge Britten
English · Occult Philosophy
Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism
William Crookes
Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism
William Crookes
English · Spiritualism & Psychical Research
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
Frederic W. H. Myers
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Magic Staff: An Autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis
Andrew Jackson Davis
Traditions Connected
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