Soulful Wisdom: 16 Timeless Books on Spiritualism
Classic Writings on Séances, Psychic Research, Afterlife, Skepticism, and the Search for EvidenceBy William Shakespeare, E. F. Benson, Camille Flammarion, Sir Oliver Lodge, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Hare, Samuel B. Emmons, Joel Tiffany, A. Alpheus, Chung Ling Soo, Charles Grafton Page, Hermann Hesse, E. Katherine Bates, C. Vincent Patrick, W. Whately Smith
Length133h 22m
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Soulful Wisdom: 16 Timeless Books on Spiritualism gathers a remarkably heterogeneous archive of inquiry into spirit, survival, perception, and the limits of material explanation. Moving from dramatic imagination and philosophical fiction to séance narrative, psychical investigation, scientific speculation, conjuring exposé, and religious reflection, the volume situates spiritualism as both a literary subject and a contested modern discourse. Its most compelling juxtapositions arise where evidentiary claims, moral yearning, and aesthetic experiment encounter one another. The contributors represent an unusually broad constellation of Victorian, Edwardian, and twentieth-century writers, investigators, performers, and thinkers. Shakespeare's enduring dramatic vocabulary of ghosts and conscience forms a distant literary horizon, while figures associated with psychical research, popular science, stage illusion, metaphysical fiction, and spiritualist controversy illuminate later attempts to make the unseen intelligible. Together, these voices disclose spiritualism's entanglement with modernity: its responses to bereavement, scientific authority, religious doubt, mass entertainment, and the desire for communication across apparently fixed boundaries. This collection will reward students of literature, religious history, occult studies, and cultural modernity, as well as general readers drawn to enduring questions of soul and evidence. By placing divergent methods and convictions in one volume, it invites readers to compare testimony with skepticism, imagination with investigation, and private faith with public debate. Soulful Wisdom offers both an instructive historical panorama and a lively dialogue among forms of writing rarely considered together.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, General Fiction
Length133 hrs 22 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
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Table of contents
1A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead
2ERRATA.
3CHAPTER VI.
4CHAPTER XI.
5CHAPTER XII.
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6CHAPTER XIV.
7CHAPTER XXI.
8The Spirit Land
9The Spirit Land
10INTRODUCTION.
11CHAPTER III. IGNORANCE OF THE CAUSES OF DREAMS.
12CHAPTER X. OMENS, CHARMS, AND DIVINATION.
13CHAPTER XV. INTERCOURSE WITH DEPARTED SPIRITS.
14CHAPTER XVI. EVIL EFFECTS OF POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.
15SCENE AT EAST BOSTON.
16EXPERIMENTS IN BIOLOGY.
17EFFECTS OF A BELIEF IN A GHOST.
18Raymond; or, Life and Death
19Raymond; or, Life and Death
20PREFACE
21CHAPTER II LETTERS FROM THE FRONT
22CHAPTER III LETTERS FROM OFFICERS
23PART TWO: SUPERNORMAL PORTION
24CHAPTER I ELEMENTARY EXPLANATION
25CHAPTER II THE 'FAUNUS' MESSAGE
26CHAPTER III SEQUEL TO THE 'FAUNUS' MESSAGE
27CHAPTER IV THE GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
28CHAPTER V BEGINNING OF HISTORICAL RECORD OF SITTINGS
29CHAPTER VI FIRST SITTING OF O. J. L. WITH MRS. LEONARD
30CHAPTER VII FIRST PETERS SITTING (ANONYMOUS)
31CHAPTER VIII A TABLE SITTING
32CHAPTER IX ATTEMPTS AT STRICTER EVIDENCE
33CHAPTER X RECORD CONTINUED
34CHAPTER XI FIRST SITTING OF ALEC (A. M. L.)
35CHAPTER XII GENERAL REMARKS ON CONVERSATIONAL REPORTS AND ON CROSS-CORRESPONDENCES
36CHAPTER XIII AN O. J. L. SITTING WITH PETERS
37CHAPTER XIV FIRST SITTING OF LIONEL (ANONYMOUS)
38CHAPTER XV SITTING OF M. F. A. L. WITH MRS. LEONARD
39CHAPTER XVI O. J. L. SITTING OF DECEMBER 3
40CHAPTER XVII K. K. AUTOMATIC WRITING
41CHAPTER XVIII FIRST SITTING OF ALEC WITH MRS. LEONARD
42CHAPTER XIX PRIVATE SITTINGS AT MARIEMONT
43CHAPTER XX A FEW MORE RECORDS, WITH SOME UNVERIFIABLE MATTER
44CHAPTER XXI TWO RATHER EVIDENTIAL SITTINGS BY O. J. L. ON 3 MARCH 1916
45CHAPTER XXII MORE UNVERIFIABLE MATTER
46CHAPTER XXIII A FEW ISOLATED INCIDENTS
47PART THREE: LIFE AND DEATH
48CHAPTER I THE MEANING OF THE TERM LIFE
49CHAPTER II THE MEANING OF THE TERM DEATH
50CHAPTER III DEATH AND DECAY
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