Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Ouija Board Mediumship, Automatic Writing, and the Enigma of Pearl Curran's Spirit CommunicationsBy Casper S. Yost
Length6h 1m
About this audiobook
Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery examines one of the most intriguing literary-spiritual phenomena of the early twentieth century: the purported communications of "Patience Worth," a seventeenth-century English spirit who spoke through Pearl Curran of St. Louis by means of the Ouija board. Casper S. Yost presents the case with a journalist's clarity and a documentarian's patience, reproducing dialogues, poems, and narratives while weighing questions of authorship, subconscious creativity, and survival after death. Situated amid the era's fascination with psychical research, spiritualism, and automatic writing, the book is both a cultural artifact and a study in literary anomaly. Yost, a respected newspaperman and editor, approached the subject not as a sensationalist but as an investigator attentive to evidence, testimony, and style. His background in journalism shaped the book's measured tone: he records the circumstances surrounding Curran, considers skeptical objections, and reflects on the astonishing range of diction and historical imagination attributed to Patience Worth. This volume is recommended to readers interested in spiritualism, authorship, psychology, and unconventional literary production. Whether approached as evidence, enigma, or performance, it remains a fascinating inquiry into the boundaries between inspiration, mediumship, and art.
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- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length6 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
10CONVERSATIONS
2PREFACE
11The Story of the Herbs
3THE COMING OF PATIENCE WORTH
12RELIGION “Teach me that I be Ye.”
4NATURE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS
13THE IDEAS ON IMMORTALITY
5PERSONALITY OF PATIENCE
14THE PHANTOM AND THE DREAMER
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6THE POETRY
15THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE
7THE PROSE
16Transcriber's Notes
8THE FOOL AND THE LADY
17Memorable Quotes
9THE STRANGER
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