Spiritualism and Psychical Research
Séances, mediums and the scientists who investigated them.
Modern Spiritualism began in 1848 and within a generation had spread across the world, prompting some of the leading scientists of the day to investigate it. This path reads the movement’s own texts alongside the researchers.
Who This Path Is For
Readers interested in the history of Spiritualism and the origins of parapsychology.
The Syllabus
Introductory text
Conan Doyle’s sympathetic two-volume history.
Arthur Conan Doyle The History of Spiritualism I
Anonymous
Arthur Conan Doyle The History of Spiritualism I
Anonymous
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Foundational text
Allan Kardec’s codification of Spiritism.
Major development
Emma Hardinge Britten’s chronicles of the movement.
Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years' Record of the Communion Between Earth and the World of Spirits
Emma Hardinge Britten
Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years' Record of the Communion Between Earth and the World of Spirits
Emma Hardinge Britten
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Nineteenth Century Miracles; or, Spirits and Their Work in Every Country of the Earth: A Complete Historical Compendium of the Great Movement Known as 'Modern Spiritualism'
Emma Hardinge Britten
Nineteenth Century Miracles; or, Spirits and Their Work in Every Country of the Earth: A Complete Historical Compendium of the Great Movement Known as 'Modern Spiritualism'
Emma Hardinge Britten
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The investigators
Crookes and Richet: the scientific investigation of mediumship.
Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism
William Crookes
Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism
William Crookes
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Thirty Years of Psychical Research, Being a Treatise on Metapsychics
Richet
Thirty Years of Psychical Research, Being a Treatise on Metapsychics
Richet
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Advanced and interpretive
Theoretical and critical works from within and outside the movement.
Arcana of Spiritualism: A Manual of Spiritual Science and Philosophy
Hudson Tuttle
Arcana of Spiritualism: A Manual of Spiritual Science and Philosophy
Hudson Tuttle
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What Is a Ghost? and Phantasms of the Dead
Hereward Carrington
What Is a Ghost? and Phantasms of the Dead
Hereward Carrington
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