Modern Spiritualism
A History and a Criticism
Volume 2
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
- Author: Frank Podmore
- Date Published: May 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108072588
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Frank Podmore (1856–1910) published Modern Spiritualism in two volumes in 1902. It was the first comprehensive history of the Spiritualist movement. Podmore traces the historical development of Spiritualism from its earliest origins in animal magnetism and alchemy, to its apogee in the early nineteenth century and through to its decline from 1870 onwards, which Podmore associated with the growth of professional psychics and fraudsters. Volume 2, focusing on English and American Spiritualism, sets the movement in its cultural and intellectual context and includes a discussion of the relationship of Spiritualism to science. The volume includes invaluable accounts of scientific investigations into materialisations, spirit photographs, clairvoyance, hallucinations and automatism. It contains a summary and conclusion for the two volumes. Podmore was a leading member of the Victorian Society for Psychical Research and his work remains an indispensable source for the modern-day historian of nineteenth-century Spiritualism and occult practices.
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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108072588
- length: 390 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Book III. Spiritualism in England:
1. Table turning and table talking
2. The incubation period
3. The American invasion
4. Private mediumship
5. Physical mediumship in general
6. Materialisation
7. Spirit photographs
8. Clairvoyance and trance-speaking
9. Science and superstition
10. General survey of the movement
Book IV. Problems of Mediumship:
1. Some foreign investigations
2. Slate-writing
3. Daniel Dunglas Home
4. Was there hallucination? 5. The mediumship of Stainton Moses
6. Automatism
7. Dream-consciousness
8. The trance utterances of Mrs. Piper
Summary and conclusion
Index.
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