Experiences in Spiritualism with MR D. D. Home Contributor(s): Adare, Windham Thomas Wyndham (Author), Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham (Author), Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1108052975 ISBN-13: 9781108052979 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Body, Mind & Spirit | Spiritualism - General |
Dewey: 133.9 |
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Kno |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.63 lbs) 222 pages |
Themes: - Topical - New Age |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: First published in 1869, this book describes the spiritualist activity of Scottish-born Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-86), who emerged as a medium in the United States in the wake of the Fox sisters' alleged 'spirit rappings' in the mid-nineteenth century. Written by the Irish journalist and politician Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, Lord Adare (1841-1926), who befriended Home in 1867, the book records Adare's observations of seventy-eight spiritualist sittings over two years, and reports verbatim the conversations between Home and the spirits with whom he was allegedly in contact. Adare also describes Home's supernatural interactions away from the formal setting of a s ance. The accounts were originally written as private reports to Adare's father, the landowner and archeologist Edwin Wyndham-Quin, third Earl of Dunraven. Dunraven was deeply interested in spiritualist activity and wrote the introduction to this work, which also includes a classification of all spiritualist phenomena. |