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The lawyer and journalist Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) published People from the Other World in 1875. Part 1 of the work is a careful account of Olcott's 1874 investigations into the famous Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vermont, and their claimed psychic powers. Part 2 is a report into two Philadelphia mediums who claimed to be able to call up two spirits called John and Katie King. The account includes descriptions of séances, healings, levitation, teleportation and the famous Compton transfiguration. Olcott, a founding member of the Theosophical Society and its first president, was a pioneer of psychical research. This work, deeply influenced by Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), who he met at Chittenden, is one of his most popular. It offers an important insight into the nineteenth-century fascination with the occult and is a classic example of a Victorian attempt to approach the supernatural with the rigours of scientific investigation.
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Olcott's People from the Other World (1875) is an account of his investigations into the psychic powers of the Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vermont, and two Philadelphia mediums. Olcott's report includes descriptions of séances, healings, levitation, teleportation and the famous Compton transfiguration. It is a classic of Victorian psychic research.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Alfred Kappes; T. W. Williams (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0804809798I4N01
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Alfred Kappes; T. W. Williams (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near fine red cloth boards in a very good dust jacket, not price-clipped, in a mylar cover. Is there life after death? Are there living ghosts who speak? Can spirits be invoked by mediums? This little classic of spiritualism says yes! New intro by Terence Barrow, Ph.D. Profusely illustrated by Alfred Kappes, and T.W. Williams. Seller Inventory # 002599
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PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER WORLD. Profusely Illustrated By Alfred Kappes, And T.W. Williams. With An Introduction To The New Edition By Terence Barrow, Ph.D.
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Alfred Kappes; T. W. Williams (illustrator). shiny red, gilt lettered full cloth (looks to be silk) hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. shadow from old price sticker on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. couple of scratches on the rear, not price clipped (note ~ bottom front flap corner is clipped but US price is on the top one ). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first tuttle edition so stated. first printing (nap) of this facsimile reprint edition. b&w frontis. xii+492p. 58 b&w illustrations. bibliography of spiritualism and the occult sciences. spiritualism. theosophy. philosophy. psychology. apparitions. religion. buddhism. ~ Is there a life after death? Are there living ghosts who speak? Can spirits be invoked by mediums? This little classic of spiritualism says yes! The author, Colonel Henry Olcott (1832~1907 ), was one of those who pioneered in America the serious investigation of mediums and their alleged spirit phenomena. The book is especially concerned with the famous case of spiritual happenings at the Eddy brothers' farm at Chittenden, Vermont, in the year 1874. Olcott was a witness to the confusing events described, and reported them to the public in a series of articles published by the New York Daily Graphic. In the following year, 1875, People from the Other World was released. It contains, in addition to the Daily Graphic articles, much supplementary material, including a bibliography of writings relating to spiritualism. Belief in the reality of ghosts, apparitions, rapping spirits, and ecotoplasm is not essential to the enjoyment of this book. What Olcott has to say is as gripping as a detective story and as fascinating as science fiction. Manifesting spirits, Olcott's attempts at preventing fakery, and Madam Blavatsky's ability to conjure up and control spirits spread out before us as a panorama of nineteenth~century spiritualism. Olcott firmly believed in spirit communication. The state he speaks of is that of being "face to face with the dead, or rather with the quick who have tasted death, and passed on into immortal life where death is no more." HENRY STEEL OLCOTT, born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1832, lived a long and venturesome life as reporter, lawyer, spirit hunter, and occultist until his death in 1907. He is best known to the world as the first president of the Theosophical Society in America and for his association with Theosophy's eccentric co~founder, Countess Helena Petrova Hahn Blavatsky. Henry Olcott was educated in the schools of New York City, including the University of the City of New York. Thereafter he engaged in farming in northern Ohio until he became associate agricultural editor of the New York Tribune in 1858. ln 1860 he married but later renounced his family in order to follow Madame Blavatsky. He acquired the title of colonel as an investigator of corruption in military arsenals and naval shipyards after the Civil War, in which he served. His interest in spiritualism began early in his life, and he followed this bent in America, Europe, and India. In India he studied Hinduism. Eventually he became a Buddhist and in 1889 accepted an invitation from eight Japanese Buddhist sects to lecture in Japan. He formulated points common to all Buddhists and to a large extent pioneered the unity of international Buddhism. Seller Inventory # 9242302