Download or read book The Higher Spiritualism written by John C. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy and teachings of spiritualism in their relation to accepted philosophy and science. Contents: Historical: Andrew Jackson Davis and the harmonial philosophy; early American spiritualism; spiritualism in England; more recent spiritualism; physical phenomena of spiritualism; Philosophy of Spiritualism: psychical constitution of man; nature and process of death; spirit world; life in the spiritual world; spiritualism and evolution; spiritualism as a religion; conclusion.
Download or read book The Higher Spiritualism written by John Calvert Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Higher Spiritualism written by John Calvert Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism written by Anne Kalvig and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world. However, practices of spiritualism and mediumship continue to remain popular and in high demand within contemporary Western societies. This book analyses the practices of today’s mediums, who insist on standing at the threshold between life and death, interpreting signs and passing on communications, and asks how such concepts and practices are perceived by contemporary society. Using first-hand material gathered from alternative fairs, mediumistic congresses, séances, and interviews with both practitioners and clients, as well as thorough textual analysis, Anne Kalvig provides a clear overview of the various forms of consumption of mediumship in Western society and places these within a socio-cultural, religious and historical context. She also raises questions as to the controversies surrounding spiritualism and its representation and relationship with popular culture and the media. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of sociology, religious studies, folklore, media studies and anthropology as well as to anyone interested in the upsurge of contemporary spiritualism, psychic phenomena and the paranormal.
Download or read book Supernatural Entertainments written by Simone Natale and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.
Download or read book Higher Aspects of Spiritualism written by Stainton Moses and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The In Betweens The Spiritualists Mediums and Legends of Camp Etna written by Mira Ptacin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America’s longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin’s haunting account of the women of Camp Etna—an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the links between the mortal realm and the afterlife. Beginning her narrative in 1848 with two sisters who claimed they could speak to the dead, Ptacin reveals how Spiritualism first blossomed into a national practice during the Civil War, yet continues—even thrives—to this very day. Immersing herself in this community and its practices—from ghost hunting to releasing trapped spirits to water witching— Ptacin sheds new light on our ongoing struggle with faith, uncertainty, and mortality. Blending memoir, ethnography, and investigative reportage, The In-Betweens offers a vital portrait of Camp Etna and its enduring hold on a modern culture that remains as starved for a deeper sense of connection and otherworldliness as ever.
Download or read book The Higher Aspects of Spiritualism written by M. A. (Oxon) and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.
Download or read book The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism written by Ann Leah Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Higher Teachings of Spiritualism written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Higher Aspects of Spiritualism Classic Reprint written by M. A. Oxon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Higher Aspects of Spiritualism Spiritualism is a subject much maligned and mis understood: discredited by friends and misrepresented by enemies. The newspaper reading public gains its notions from such stray paragraphs as creep into print when some fresh exposure of fraud gives room for a sneer to writers who are neither generally nor specially informed on the subject, so as to handle it with reasonable fairness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Higher Teachings of Spiritualism written by Joseph H. Tompkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Higher Teachings of Spiritualism: Carefully Selected, Condensed, Arranged Subjectively, and Brought Down to Latest Dates, for the Publishers To our readers and especially to clergymen. What the new philosophy of spiritualism teaches Is it of the Devil? Within the past thirty years several prominent clergymen (one of them quite recently) have seen fit to denounce spi ritualism from their pulpits. They have also concluded by attributing the phenomena and teachings to the evil one. Now above all things Spiritualists seek for the truth, and if this charge be true they want to know it. A few extracts from our best writers and speakers are appended. The clergymen of Orthodox Churches are invited to point out the evil in them. Having done so they are asked to tell who and what kind of a being the devil is, to give utter ance to such teachings? And Spiritualists offer any of them the use of our platforms for that purpose! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Spiritual Science written by Steve Taylor and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often assumed that there are two ways of interpreting the world: a rational scientific way, or an irrational religious way. Spiritual Science offers a third alternative: a spiritual view of reality that transcends both conventional science and religion, and answers many of the riddles that neither can explain. The standard model of science has had little success in explaining such areas as human consciousness, the connection between the mind and the body, altruism and ‘anomalous’ phenomena such as near-death experiences, psi phenomena (such as telepathy) and spiritual experiences. But from a ‘panspiritist’ point of view – which sees spirit or consciousness as a fundamental essence of reality – it is possible to make sense of all these things. Steve Taylor puts forward the evidence for a spiritual view of reality, drawing on the insights of philosophers, physicists, mystics, as well as spiritual traditions and indigenous cultures. He systematically shows how a ‘panspiritist’ view can explain many puzzling aspects of science and the world, including evolution and the origins of life, and a wide range of other phenomena such as quantum physics, the placebo effect, precognition and neuroplasticity. Spiritual Science offers a new vision of the world that is compatible with both modern science and ancient spiritual teachings. It provides a more accurate and holistic account of reality than conventional science or religion, integrating a wide range of phenomena that are excluded from both. After showing how the materialist worldview demeans the world and human life, Spiritual Science offers a brighter alternative – a vision of the world as sacred and interconnected, and of human life as meaningful and purposeful. Spiritual Science explains how the standard materialist model of reality developed, and turned into a belief system. This belief system can only function by denying (or explaining away) a whole range of phenomena that are part of human experience. It is possible to be scientific without adopting this belief system – in fact, it is much more rational to do so.
Download or read book Spiritism written by Eduard von Hartmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1885, this was one of the first works to attempt a complete psychological explanation of all occult phenomena.
Download or read book The History of Spiritualism written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1926 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Higher aspects of spiritualism by M A Oxon written by William Stainton Moses and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Luminous Brotherhood written by Emily Suzanne Clark and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history. Clark shows that the beliefs and practices of Spiritualism helped Afro-Creoles mediate the political and social changes in New Orleans, as free blacks suffered increasingly restrictive laws and then met with violent resistance to suffrage and racial equality. Drawing on fascinating records of actual seance practices, the lives of the mediums, and larger citywide and national contexts, Clark reveals how the messages that the Cercle received from the spirit world offered its members rich religious experiences as well as a forum for political activism inspired by republican ideals. Messages from departed souls including Francois Rabelais, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Emanuel Swedenborg, and even Confucius discussed government structures, the moral progress of humanity, and equality. The Afro-Creole Spiritualists were encouraged to continue struggling for justice in a new world where "bright" spirits would replace raced bodies.
