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The History Spiritualism
THE HISTORY of SPIRITUALISM by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, M.D., LL.D. former President d'Honneur de la Fédération Spirite Internationale, President of the London Spiritualist Alliance, and President of the British College of Psychic Science Volume One With Seven Plates PSYCHIC PRESS LTD First edition 1926 To SIR OLIVER LODGE, M.S. A great leader both in physical and in psychic science In token of respect This work is dedicated PREFACE This work has grown from small disconnected chapters into a narrative which covers in a way the whole history of the Spiritualistic movement. This genesis needs some little explanation. I had written certain studies with no particular ulterior object save to gain myself, and to pass on to others, a clear view of what seemed to me to be important episodes in the modern spiritual development of the human race. These included the chapters on Swedenborg, on Irving, on A. J. Davis, on the Hydesville incident, on the history of the Fox sisters, on the Eddys and on the life of D. D. Home. These were all done before it was suggested to my mind that I had already gone some distance in doing a fuller history of the Spiritualistic movement than had hitherto seen the light - a history which would have the advantage of being written from the inside and with intimate personal knowledge of those factors which are characteristic of this modern development. It is indeed curious that this movement, which many of us regard as the most important in the history of the world since the Christ episode, has never had a historian from those who were within it, and who had large personal experience of its development. -
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REGISTERED AS A NEWSPAPER. SN© J0US(X®I< f)^YdSoi<o^idai( &\}t (Dlfresf toiflj S^rxittalbm m (&xmt grifam, THE SPIRITUALIST is regularly on Sale at the following places:—LONDON: u, Ave Maria-lane, St. Paul’s Churchyard, E.C. PARIS: Kiosque 246, Boule vard des Capucines, and 5, Rue Neuvedes Petits Champs, Palais Royal. LEIPZIG: 2, Lindenstrasse. FLORENCE: Signor G. Parisi, Via della Maltonaia. ROME: Signor Bocca, Libraio, Via del Corso. NAPLES: British Reading Rooms, 267, Riviera di Chiaja, opposite the Villa Nazionale. LIEGE: 37, Rue Florimont. BUDA-PESTH: Josefstaadt Erzherzog, 23, Alexander Gasse. MELBOURNE: 84, Russell-street-South. SHANGHAI: Messrs. Kelly & Co. NEW YORK: 51, East Twelfth-street. BOSTON, U.S.: “Banner of Light” Office, 9, Montgomery-place. CHICAGO: “ Religio-Philosophical Journal” Office. SAN FRANCISCO: 319, Kearney-street. PHILADELPHIA: 325, North Ninth-street. WASHINGTON: No. 1010, Seventh-street. No. 327. (VOL. XIII.—No. 22.) LONDON : FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1878. Published Weekly; Price Twopence. Contents. BRITISH NATIONAL ASSOCIATION THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF OF SPIRITUALISTS, GREAT BRITAIN, Spiritualism and the Royal Society... * ...253 38, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY, W.O. 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W Prince Bismarck’s Opposition to Modern Materialism. By Entrance in Woburn Street. Christian Reimers 253 PRESIDENT—MR. SERJEANT COX. The Tower of Turvil. (Poetry,) 254 CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER, 1878. This Society was established in February, 1875, for the pro- Society in 1878. By J. T. Markley, Author of Stray Monday, ‘Ind.—DISCUSSION MEETING. Captain Burton, motion of psychological science in all its branches. Its object Thoughts on Many Themes 256 F.R.G.S., on “ Spiritualism in Eastern is the investigation of the forces, organic and intelligent, that The Same Mystery Throughout. -
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ISSN 0719-4285 FRONTERAS – Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades http://publicacionescienciassociales.ufro.cl/index.php/fronteras/index doi: (en proceso) Contacting dead people online: The hidden Victorian rationality behind using The Internet for paranormal activities. Contactando a los muertos en línea: la racionalidad victoriana oculta tras el uso de Internet para realizar actividades paranormales. DR. DAVID RAMÍREZ PLASCENCIA. Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, México. [email protected] Recibido el 25 de junio de 2015 Aceptado el 1 de diciembre de 2015 FRONTERAS VOL II NÚM. 2 · DICIEMBRE 2015 · ISSN 0719-4285 · PÁGS. 89 -103 91 DAVID RAMÍREZ RESUMEN The aim of this article is to find the rational foundations behind the belief in the paranormal, and to understand why some people still believe that it is possible to use scientific devices like computers or smart phones to contact dead people. This is especially interesting, because in this case we are dealing with the fact the same way as in the Victorian age, people use technical advances to reinforce their convictions on the existence of life beyond life. In this sense one important task is to realize the role of technological gears in supporting this kind of shared rationality. Unexpectedly, science has not undermined supernatural thought but it has served for reinforcing it. It looks like the more advanced the civilization the more possibilities it turns into the search of alternative and extravagant conceptions of the world. Key Words: Media, Victorians, Internet, the paranormal, folklore. ABSTRACT El objetivo de este artículo es encontrar el soporte racional que subyace bajo la creencia en lo paranormal, y comprender porque algunas personas creen que es posible utilizar dispositivos tecnológicos como computadoras o teléfonos inteligentes para contactar a los muertos. -
Psypioneer V3 N3 Mar 2007
PSYPIONEER Founded by Leslie Price Editor Paul J. Gaunt Volume 3, No 3; March 2007 Available as an Electronic Newsletter Highlights of this issue: The Failure of Spiritualism in the Past - Herbert Thurston 48 A Japanese Spiritualist: - Mr. Wasaburo Asano 57 A Comparatively Unimportant Matter – Leslie Price 58 Further light on Emma’s lost book and marriage 60 Early Spiritualism in England Continued: - Mediumship of Mrs. Everitt 61 Psychic Phenomena in New York Times – Carlos S. Alvarado 64 Letters from Mr. J. J. Morse, letter XI 67 Article correction 70 How to obtain this Newsletter by email 71 ========================================= ‘Modern Spiritualism’ by Herbert Thurston Note by Psypioneer: - Last year, the Jesuit British Province Treasurer graciously gave permission for Psypioneer Newsletter to reproduce two papers by Fr Herbert Thurston on the No War prophecies of 1939, one from “The Month” and one from “The Tablet.” These were duly included in Psypioneer September 20061, which is archived on line. We now begin to reprint the entire four lectures of Fr Thurston’s “Modern Spiritualism” (Sheed and Ward 1928. Twelvepenny Series.) which cover about 90 pages. Our intention would be to include one lecture in each of four successive issues of Psypioneer. Once again we are grateful to the Treasurer. Copyright in Fr Thurston's work is held by the British Province of the Society of Jesus. The full text of this and of the following three articles in subsequent issues is reproduced by virtue of written permission given to Psypioneer News. The first lecture gives details of the grand prophecies of new era made in 1848-52 when Modern Spiritualism started. -
The Victorian Seance Comes to England
Wilderness House Literary Review 16/2 Sharon DeBartolo Carmack © 2021 The Victorian Séance Comes to England “Mrs. Hayden was something of a fraud,” the tour guide said with a smirk. “No she wasn’t.” I swear, the words were meant to be a stage whisper to my husband, but they somehow projected into the room. With all eyes upon me, I added, “I’m Maria Hayden’s biographer, and she wasn’t a fraud.” I discovered something about being a biographer in that moment. A biographer will counter any falsehood about her subject as fiercely as a defense attorney. ^ We hadn’t planned on visiting Knebworth House during our brief time in England. I didn’t know the house still existed and was open to the pub- lic. As we made our way along the M11 from London to Cambridge, I saw the exit sign announcing Knebworth House, 66 kilometers. I turned to my husband and said, “That’s where Maria conducted her first séance for Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton in 1852. We have to go there.” I’d been working on her biography for the past three years. Sir Edward, owner of Knebworth House, is perhaps best known today for the opening line, “It was a dark and stormy night” and the oft-quoted, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” A highly regarded and prolific writ- er in his day, whose book sales rivaled his friend Charles Dickens, Lytton published two dozen best-selling novels, nine plays, fifteen volumes of poetry, and four volumes of essays. After we settled into our B&B in Cambridge, I opened my laptop and Googled the house, only to discover it was off season and closed—except on the weekends starting in May. -
Lecture on Spiritualism
LECTURE ON SPIRITUALISM, DELIVERED BEFORE AN AUDIENCE OF THREE THOUSAND, AT THE TABERNACLE) IN THE CITY OF NEvV YORKJ IN NOVEMBER, 1855, COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF TRW MANIFESTATIONS WHICH INDUCED THE AUTHQll'S CONVERSION TO SPIRITUALISM, I 1 AND CONFIRME~ 1tilS I I HO!E OF IM\RTALITY, / Republished by request and at the cost e some zealous Spirituali5ts, I -~:t$11?6 / ~) ...... .. ./ PHILA / SAMUEL BARRY, N NEW YORK: PARTRIDGE / IN TR 0 DUCT 0 RY R El\iA R KS, '-..... BY MR. BR I TT AN. JUDGE ED:\WNDS, who had been invited to preside at the meeting, was not present, and the duty was therefore assigned to S. B. BRITTAN, who, at the appointed hour, addressed the assembly, in substance, as follows: LADIES AND GENTLE:\IEN : In the absence of Judge Edmonds, the duty of supplying his place has unexpectedly devolved on me. It is not my purpose to occupy your time by any extended remarks, but in rising to introduce the vener able Friend who is to address you on this occasion, you will perhaps indulge me for a moment. It is often alleged that the converts to Spiritualism ~re people of uncultivated minds; that they have not been trained in the severe school of modern science and philosophy-that they are wanting in the educa tion and discipline necessary to tbe exercise of an intelligent discrimina tion and a reliable judgment. If this is true, in any degree, the reason is equally manifest. Few, comparatively, who have occupied distin guished positions in the church or the state, in the schools of science, or the walks of literature and art, have ventured to engage in the investi gation. -
Spiritualism and Theosophy No
Adyar Pamphlets Spiritualism and Theosophy No. 104 Spiritualism and Theosophy by H.S. Olcott Lecture delivered at the rooms of the United Service Institution of India, Simla, 7 October 1880 Published in 1919 Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Chennai [Madras] India The Theosophist Office, Adyar, Madras. India THIRTEEN years ago, one of the most eminent of modern American jurists, John W. Edmonds, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, declared in a London magazine that there were then at least ten millions of Spiritualists in the Unites States of America. No man was so well qualified at that time as he, to express an opinion upon this subject, for not only was he in correspondence with persons in all parts of the country, but the noble virtue of the man as well as his learning, his judicial impartiality and conservatism, made him a most competent and convincing witness. And another authority, a publicist of equally unblemished private and public reputation, the Hon. Robert Dale Owen, while endorsing Judge Edmonds’ estimate adds [The Debatable Land between This World and the Next, p 174- London Ed. 1874] that there are at least an equal number in the rest of Christendom. To avoid all chance of exaggeration he, however, deducts one-fourth from both amounts and (in 1874) writes the sum-total of the so-called Spiritualists at fifteen millions. But whatever the aggregate of believers in the alleged present open intercourse between our worlds of substance and shadow, it is a known fact that the number embraces some of the most acute intellects of the day. -
Eddy Brothers
Seeking to Establish Knowledge and Understanding /www.the-voice-box.com /[email protected] The Mediumship of the Eddy Brothers By N. Riley Heagerty Seven miles north from Rutland in the state of Vermont, in a wooded valley shut in by the slopes of the beautiful Green Mountains and lying high above the tide water, is the tiny hamlet of Chittenden. On a quiet back road, not far from this little community, facing away from the road, sits a large remodeled 19th century farmhouse. It is a well maintained two storey structure, with a covered porch built on and, typical of this New England region and many rural areas of the United States, it has five shuttered windows up top and bottom. If one is directly facing the front of the building, known for many years now as the High Life Ski Lodge, it can be seen that to the main structure another addition had been built, extending the overall length of the building into the rear of the property. Many, many decades ago, when the original farmhouse had been purchased, the main structure originally faced eastward, towards the road, and was then actually turned to face south, away from the road. The main structure then ran parallel to the extension. To the casual observer, there is nothing remarkable about this particular dwelling, it is simply an old farmhouse that has been done over and is now the lodge that it is. But to some of the elderly residents of this remote farming district, certain historians and town clerks, and the last speck of the surviving relatives of the old generation Spiritualists who are buried out in the distant hills, they know of something else, something altogether different about the big white house on the back road. -
Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become a Science Creative Works
Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become A Science Creative Works 2021 Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become A Science John Haller Jr Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/histcw_ms Copyright © 2020, John S. Haller, Jr. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN (print): 9798651505449 Interior design by booknook.biz This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Creative Works at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become A Science by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become A Science By John S. Haller, Jr. Copyright © 2020, John S. Haller, Jr. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN (print): 9798651505449 Interior design by booknook.biz Spiritualism, then, is a science, by authority of self-evident truth, observed fact, and inevitable deduction, having within itself all the elements upon which any science can found a claim. (R. T. Hallock, The Road to Spiritualism, 1858) TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Chapters 1. Awakening 11 2. Rappings 41 3. Poughkeepsie Seer 69 4. Architect of the Spirit World 95 5. Esoteric Wisdom 121 6. American Portraits 153 7. -
Robert Hare Correspondence Ms
Robert Hare correspondence Ms. Coll. 74 Finding aid prepared by Nicole Love. Last updated on July 01, 2020. University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts 2015 April 13 Robert Hare correspondence Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4 Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information........................................................................................................................... 4 Related Materials........................................................................................................................................... 5 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................5 General note...................................................................................................................................................6 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 7 I. Robert Hare correspondence................................................................................................................7 -
North American Indian Medicine Powers
North American Indian Medicine Powers North American Indian Medicine Powers: Spirit Talkers By William S. Lyon North American Indian Medicine Powers: Spirit Talkers By William S. Lyon This book first published 2020 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2020 by William S. Lyon All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-4556-3 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-4556-4 Dedication This book is dedicated to all the American Indian medicine people who persistently serve to bring hope and peace of mind to humankind, and to Prem Rawat, recognized “Ambassador of Peace” to the world, for doing the same. Table of Contents Acknowledgements .................................................... viii Preface .................................................................... x Introduction ........................................................... 1 Chapter 1 – Superstition—but whose? .................... 13 Chapter 2 – The Work of the Devil ......................... 61 Chapter 3 – The Heart of the Matter ..................... 110 Chapter 4 – Medicine Ways .................................... 147 Chapter 5 – Walking the Good Red Road ............. -
Chapter 8: Historical and Sociological Analysis Of
Chapter 8 Historical and Sociological Analysis of the Early Theosophical Movement 8.1.1 Blavatsky as Initiator of the Modern Theosophical Movement To gain a different perspective that accounts for some of its unique historical convolutions, the theosophical movement can be examined more directly as a sociological phenomenon. The preliminary assessment of the theosophical movement as an alternative, minority worldview, based upon deviant cognitive knowledge, can be expanded by introduction of some of the more familiar categories proper to the sociology of religion. We shall first try and examine some of the more significant internal historical dynamics of the theosophical movement before discussing how it may be categorised in the broader sociological context. We shall limit our historical framework to roughly the first thirty-five years of the movement, the most volatile and intriguing phase of its history. This period covers the time of the formation of the Theosophical Society through to the power struggle after Blavatsky’s death and the ultimate ascendancy of the Besant- Leadbeater faction. The first and most critically identifiable fact we can distinguish is that the nineteenth century theosophical movement was mostly shaped and defined through the vision and conceptual apparatus provided by Madame Blavatsky. And without her charismatic leadership and uncompromising promotion of the theosophical agenda, it appears unlikely that the movement could have attained its unique form. Although spiritualist theory and other occult and mystical