People From the Other World

Klappentext Olcott's investigation into the psychic powers of the Eddy brothers of Chittenden! Vermont! is a classic of Victorian psychic research. Zusammenfassung Olcott's People from the Other World (1875) is an account of his investigations into the psychic powers of the Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vermont, and two Philadelphia mediums. Olcott's report includes descriptions of séances, healings, levitation, teleportation and the famous Compton transfiguration. It is a classic of Victorian psychic research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I: 1. The Eddy family; 2. The Eddys as public mediums; 3. Personal matters; 4. A moonlight seance; 5. Portents and marvels; 6. Wonders in the Eddy family; 7. A chapter of feet and inches; 8. Materialization; 9. The first seance; 10. Many phantom visitors; 11. Are they personations?; 12. Is it an occult force?; 13. Full of strange things; 14. The dark-circle; 15. Philosophical tests; 16. Startling phenomena; 17. A chapter of marvels; 18. More wonders; 19. Germans, Khourds, and Hungarians; 20. The dead alive; 21. Spiritualism vs. rationalism; 22. Spirits as carriers; 23. Tests continued; 24. Pseudo-investigators; 25. The Shakers as spiritualists; 26. Summing up; Part II: The Katie King affair; The Compton transfiguration; Miscellaneous; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Steel Olcott, Olcott Henry Steel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2011
• EAN: 9781108072656
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07265-6
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, RELIGION / Wicca, HISTORY / Social History, Spiritualism, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Parapsychological studies, Occult Studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Psychic Phenomena / General