Thirty Years Among the Dead - Softcover

Wickland, Carl A.

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9780878770250: Thirty Years Among the Dead

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ISBN 10: 0878770259 ISBN 13: 9780878770250

Publisher: Newcastle Pub Co Inc, 1974

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Over and over again, this was the inspiring and illuminating message received by he author of this amazing book in over 30 years of communicating with departed spirits through the medium of his own wife! a man of science and a dedicated researcher in the fields of the psychic and abnormal psychology, Dr. Wickland presents the fruits of over three decades of painstaking work, recording verbatim a large body of spirit communication. In page after page of fascinating testimony, those on the Other Side discuss such subjects as magnetic auras, spirits and crime, spirits and narcotics, suiicide, life after death, the astral planes, Christian Science and Theosophy. On the last two subjects, Dr. Wickland presents views of none other than Mary Baker Eddy and Madam Blavatsky themselves! This enthralling classic of Spiritualism, first published in 1924, is now available again to enlighten and inspire. --- from book's back cover

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Dr. Carl A. Wickland, (1861-1945) was a member of the Chicago Medical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the chief psychiatrist at the National Psychopathic Institute of Chicago. Wickland specialized in cases of schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, addiction, manic-depression, criminal behavior and other phobias. After moving to Los Angeles in 1918, he founded the National Psychological Institute of Los Angeles with his wife Anna Wickland, who was a trance medium. Wickland treated many patients suffering from mental illness of all kinds, and after many years experience came to the conclusion that a number of patients he treated had 'attachments;' by that he meant that spiritual entities had attached themselves to unwitting mortals and influenced them (often) in the worst kind of way - leading them to alcoholism, madness, and occasionally murder. Wickland stated at the time; Spirit obsession is a fact - a perversion of a natural law - and is amply demonstrable. This has been proven hundreds of times by causing the supposed insanity or aberration to be temporarily transferred from the victim to a psychic sensitive who is trained for the purpose, and by this method ascertain the cause of the psychosis to be an ignorant or mischievous spirit, whose identity may frequently be verified. Having come to the 'spirit obsession' conclusion, Wickland and his wife set up a rescue circle, with Mrs. Wickland acting as the medium, and they set about communicating with lost souls who had passed away and were unaware of their post physical death condition and often in denial due to dogmatic religious and equally dogmatic atheist beliefs.

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