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Author: Mark Russell Bell
Spiritualism, Maurice Barbanell, Spirit Voices and Materialization Mediumship
This etching by James Tissot was inspired by an 1885 seance and was featured in Clairvoyance and Materialisation (1927) by Gustave Geley. A caption noted that "a double materialisation by the mediumship of Eglinton" was depicted. The light illuminating the visitors was described as "bluish-white."
This summer I completed a chapter about Spiritualism for my future book and was surprised by how many 19th Century and early 20th Century books on this subject—the famous as well as the obscure—are now available to be read without charge online at such websites as www.archive.org, www.hathitrust.org, www.spiritwritings.com, www.survivalebooks.org and Google Books.
Among the authors whose books I studied were Arthur Conan Doyle, W. Usborne Moore, Edward C. Randall and J. Arthur Findlay, to name a few. Some other books are mentioned in the preceding blog post. I read two books by Psychic News founder/editor Maurice Barbanell: his autobiographical This Is Spiritualism (1959, revised edition 1967) and The Case of Helen Duncan (1945).
In This Is Spiritualism Barbanell attempted to express the momentous implications of seance room phenomena. Here is one of his recollections from his book's third chapter "Voices From Beyond." .....continues
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