Okay, I know, I know, parapsychology is not a science. But science does study claims of psychic abilities. Dr. Joseph B. Rhine was influential in codifying a way to do that.Since the 1930s, Zener cards, also known as ESP...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/12/28/How-One-Man-Used-a-Deck-of-Cards-to-Make-Parapsychology-a-Science/The following article is from the new book Uncle J... ...nt—and then a “religion” called Spiritualism .Spiritualists believe that death is simply &ldquo... ...its heyday (the second half of the 19th century), Spiritualism had as many as 10 million followers. The movement... ...s and then by...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/10/25/The-Spirits-of-Lily-Dale/Brandon Hodge collects gadgets and devices that were used in different times to communicate with the dead. He has what is probably the biggest private collection of planchettes ever. Hodge explains some of the history be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/23/Ghosts-And-Gadgets-Communicating-with-the-Spirits/The name Madame Helena Blavatsky was only familiar to me through Kurt Vonnegut references, and I wasn’t too sure that she was a real person. Now I know. Blavatsky was a real person, but how real any of the things s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/20/The-19th-Centurys-Seance-Queen/You’ve read about mediums, seances, and Ouij... ...ntact the dead. Collectors Weekly takes a look at Spiritualism and the devices used in a talk with Brandon Hodge... ...for modern audiences. In addition to a history of Spiritualism , you’ll learn about automatic writing, spir...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/30/Ghosts-in-the-Machines-The-Devices-and-Daring-Mediums-That-Spoke-for-the-Dead/The magician is famous for his thrilling escapes.... ...ed-hot center in the raging national debate over Spiritualism , an 80-year-old religious movement that centered... ...Scientific American approached him to investigate Spiritualism , had yet to offer his approval. When he learned... ...wasn’t do...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/17/Houdinis-Greatest-Trick/The spiritualist movement rose at about the same time photography was invented. Therefore, it was no wonder that the earliest use of trick photography was to show evidence of spirits that one could communicate with -for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/25/Ghost-Photography-of-the-19th-Century/It seems strange that a man best known for creatin... ...n, would also be one of the biggest proponents of Spiritualism around the turn of the last century. Equally stra... ...in Europe. While the magician did not believe in Spiritualism , he had a strong interest in the subject and said... ...oint, and was c...
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