Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism
ISBN: 9781108072571 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank Podmore (1856 1910) published Modern Spiritualism in two volumes in 1902. It was the first comprehensive history of the Spiritualist movement. Podmore traces the historical development of Spiritualism from its earliest origins in animal magnetism and alchemy, to its apogee in the early nineteenth century and through to its decline from 1870 onwards, which Podmore associated with the growth of professional psychics and an increase in fraud. Volume 1 covers the key figures of the movement: Paracelsus, Mesmer, Bertrand, Esdaile, and Andrew Jackson Davis. Book 1 focuses on French, English...
Frank Podmore (1856 1910) published Modern Spiritualism in two volumes in 1902. It was the first comprehensive history of the Spiritualist movement. P...
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Threescore Years and Ten: Reminiscences of the Late Sophia Elizabeth de Morgan
ISBN: 9781108027458 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (1809 1892) was the wife of the mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan and mother of ceramicist William De Morgan. In Threescore Years and Ten, completed in 1887, edited by her daughter Mary, and published in 1895, De Morgan recounts her formative early years and the influence of her father, the social reformer William Frend. She followed in his footsteps and fought for many causes, including higher education for women and prison reform. She was also an early animal rights activist and campaigned against vivisection. Throughout her life, De Morgan encountered...
Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (1809 1892) was the wife of the mathematician and logician Augustus De Morgan and mother of ceramicist William De Morgan. I...
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Mystic London: Or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis
ISBN: 9781108027434 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Anglican clergyman and founding member of the Society of the Holy Cross, Charles Maurice Davies (1828 1910), published Mystic London in 1875. The work is a collection of Davies' observations and researches into urban spiritualism. It includes descriptions of London mesmerists, mediums and seances, and discussions of Darwinism, secularism and the non-religious. Davies, who discovered spiritualism in Paris in the mid-1850s, and became a committed spiritualist after the death of his son in 1865, argued in this work that the principles and practices of spiritualism did not pose any threat to...
The Anglican clergyman and founding member of the Society of the Holy Cross, Charles Maurice Davies (1828 1910), published Mystic London in 1875. The ...
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Mesmerism, Spiritualism, Etc.: Historically and Scientifically Considered
ISBN: 9781108027397 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Carpenter (1813 1885) was a leading medical teacher and researcher in London. Although much of his work focused on physiology and the nervous system, he spent a considerable amount of time investigating questions surrounding the relationship between science and religion. He participated in many debates on this issue, and was a member of the prestigious Metaphysical Society, which explored scientific and religious connections. In Mesmerism, Spiritualism, etc. Historically and Scientifically Considered, two of his lectures published in 1877, Carpenter sets out to question on scientific...
William Carpenter (1813 1885) was a leading medical teacher and researcher in London. Although much of his work focused on physiology and the nervous ...
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Human Personality: And Its Survival of Bodily Death
ISBN: 9781108027366 / Angielski / Miękka / 686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, and later teaching, Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge he resigned his lectureship in 1869, became an inspector of schools, and campaigned for women's higher education. With the encouragement of former colleagues he began a scientific investigation of spiritualism and related phenomena, and in 1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research. This two-volume work, first published posthumously in 1903, contains the fullest statement...
Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, a...
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Human Personality: And Its Survival of Bodily Death
ISBN: 9781108027359 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, and later teaching, Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge he resigned his lectureship in 1869, became an inspector of schools, and campaigned for women's higher education. With the encouragement of former colleagues he began a scientific investigation of spiritualism and related phenomena, and in 1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research. This two-volume work, first published posthumously in 1903, contains the fullest statement...
Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, a...
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Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature: (Cw 136)
ISBN: 9780880106153 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 10 lectures, Helsinki, April. 3-14, 1912 (CW 136)
In the architecture of Rudolf Steiner's great cosmological temple, this extraordinary course of lectures on spiritual beings forms the central pillar with other important texts such as the fourth chapter of An Outline of Esoteric Science (CW 13); The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World (CW 136); and Inner Experiences of Evolution (CW 132). These works--outlining a revolutionary angelological cosmology--are at the heart of Steiner's mission to transform our understanding of the world by laying down a... 10 lectures, Helsinki, April. 3-14, 1912 (CW 136)
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Cock Lane and Common-Sense
ISBN: 9781108072687 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by folklorist Andrew Lang (1844 1912), this 1894 publication examines the ambivalent relationship the living have attempted to forge with the dead throughout history. Nicknamed 'the Wizard of St Andrews', this prolific polymath also worked as an anthropologist, classicist, historian, poet, mythologist, essayist and journalist, producing over a hundred publications in his lifetime. Largely ignored by scholarship, this book suggests expanding the study of folklore to include contemporary narratives of supernatural events. Taking its title from the legends of the notorious Cock Lane...
Written by folklorist Andrew Lang (1844 1912), this 1894 publication examines the ambivalent relationship the living have attempted to forge with the ...
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Science and a Future Life: With Other Essays
ISBN: 9781108027380 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, and later teaching, Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge he resigned his lectureship in 1869, became an inspector of schools, and campaigned for women's higher education. With the encouragement of former colleagues he began a scientific investigation of spiritualism and related phenomena, and in 1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research. This volume, first published in 1893, is a collection of essays that Myers had previously...
Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, a...
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Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art
ISBN: 9780812243253 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In "Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art," Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious meaning and, in doing so, draws fascinating connections between art and faith in the Victorian age. Examining the work of such well-known American artists as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Sydney Mount, and Robert Henri, Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in... Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. I... |
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Incidents in My Life: Second Series
ISBN: 9781108025959 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1872, D. D. Home (1833 1886), the famous spiritualist and medium, published this sequel to his controversial autobiography Incidents in My Life (1863). In it, Home responds to the criticism levelled at him by reviewers, sceptics and detractors including William Thackeray and Robert Browning. He describes his expulsion from Rome in 1864 owing to the authorities' fear of 'sorcery', opposition from French and American clergy in 1865, a visit to Russia, and the opening of the 'Spiritual Athenaeum' in London in 1867. He also reports numerous seances and spiritual manifestations. The book ends...
In 1872, D. D. Home (1833 1886), the famous spiritualist and medium, published this sequel to his controversial autobiography Incidents in My Life (18...
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The Great Wing: A Parable about the Master Mind Principle
ISBN: 9781582703220 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Great Wing transforms the timeless miracle of the migration of a flock of geese into a parable for the modern age. It recounts a young goose's own reluctant but steady transformation from gangly fledgling to Grand Goose and his triumph over the turmoils of his soul and the buffeting of a mighty Atlantic storm. In The Great Wing, our potential as individuals is affirmed, as is the power of group prayer, or the "Flock Mind." As we make the journey with this goose and his flock, we rediscover that we tie our own potential into the power of the common good by way of...
The Great Wing transforms the timeless miracle of the migration of a flock of geese into a parable for the modern age. It recounts a young goos...
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The Naturalisation of the Supernatural
ISBN: 9781108072458 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A founding member of the Fabian Society and a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, Frank Podmore (1856 1910) occupied a unique position in British political and scientific society. From his undergraduate days at Oxford until his untimely death in 1910, he harboured a fascination for the supernatural, hallucinations and mesmerism. Published in the final years of his life, during a period of prolific writing and introspection, this 1908 work was the result of exhaustive personal research and first-hand observation. Although fascinated by his chosen subject, Podmore never...
A founding member of the Fabian Society and a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, Frank Podmore (1856 1910) occupied a unique posi...
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Through the Gate of Good
ISBN: 9781612031378 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of James Allen's earliest works, Through the Gate of Good, (also titled Christ and Conduct) is for anyone who is interested in the fundamental principles on which all religions are built. It expounds spiritually in the light of moral conduct, and regards character as the test and measure of truth. "The universal decay of effete religious systems which the world is witnessing today is matter for rejoicing; it is the death which precedes Life; it is the passing away of the false in order that the True may be more fully revealed." James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his...
One of James Allen's earliest works, Through the Gate of Good, (also titled Christ and Conduct) is for anyone who is interested in the fundamental pri...
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Have You Lived Before? Reincarnation and the Afterlife.
ISBN: 9781926826042 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever had the feeling that you lived before? Most religions throughout history have held a belief in reincarnation. Even the early Christians believed it. Is it possible? This book discusses: - The ancient beliefs and how they evolved throughout history, - The arguments for and against reincarnation, - What happens between incarnations, - The justice of reincarnation, - The law of Karma Find out what many of the great thinkers of history believed and decide for yourself. This book is an updated version of the New Thought classic "Reincarnation and the Law of Karma" originally...
Have you ever had the feeling that you lived before? Most religions throughout history have held a belief in reincarnation. Even the early Christians ...
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The Kybalion - Hermetic Philosophy - Revised and Updated Edition
ISBN: 9781907347016 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An occult classic Since its first publication in 1908, The Kybalion, Hermetic Philosophy by Three Initiates, has been in constant demand by students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines. It is a modern addition to the body of work devoted to Hermes Trismegistus, an icon of ancient teachings that reveal the path to self transformation. In this revised edition, we have corrected many editorial issues inherent within the original text, creating a clearer presentation of the book's message: The Seven Hermetic Principles, or axioms: Principle of Mentalism Principle of Correspondence Principle...
An occult classic Since its first publication in 1908, The Kybalion, Hermetic Philosophy by Three Initiates, has been in constant demand by students a...
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Spiritualism
ISBN: 9781108029131 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John W. Edmonds (1799 1874), a prominent New York judge, and George T. Dexter, a New York physician, met though their shared interest in the spirit world. They were both dabbling in the spiritualist movement first with scepticism and decided to join forces in their investigations of such phenomena as 'spirit-rappings'. Dexter eventually found himself 'fully developed as a writing medium', with his pen controlled by unseen forces. Their conclusions, published in 1853 in Spiritualism, which went into numerous editions and was followed in 1855 by a second volume, caused much controversy. Drawing...
John W. Edmonds (1799 1874), a prominent New York judge, and George T. Dexter, a New York physician, met though their shared interest in the spirit wo...
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Thoughts Are Things
ISBN: 9781438236117 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Thoughts are Things- is the beginning- of your personal understanding, of the Victorian New Thought Movement, and in turn, the modern New Age and Quantum Physics and Reality. A book that is hard to describe, yet indespensible reading Always described as rather odd and other worldly, Prentice Mulford believed in, and practiced the arts of mental telepathy and prophesy; he predicted the airplane, and his holistic views of nature and ecology, and his appreciation and respect for women and those of other races and cultures are now a part of the fabric of our modern culture. He was a true Master...
-Thoughts are Things- is the beginning- of your personal understanding, of the Victorian New Thought Movement, and in turn, the modern New Age and Qua...
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The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
ISBN: 9781108073233 / Angielski / Miękka / 852 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831 1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her powers as a medium. She was a co-founder of the theosophy movement in the United States, which she later extended to Europe and India, drawing from her extensive global travels and her familiarity with a broad range of belief systems, from Asian religions to New Orleans voodoo, as well as secret societies such as the Freemasons. Drawing from Hinduism and Buddhism, theosophy aimed to understand the mystic powers of the universe and promote the study...
Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831 1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her pow...
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The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
ISBN: 9781108073226 / Angielski / Miękka / 730 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831 1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her powers as a medium. She was a co-founder of the theosophy movement in the United States, which she later extended to Europe and India, drawing from her extensive global travels and her familiarity with a broad range of belief systems, from Asian religions to New Orleans voodoo, as well as secret societies such as the Freemasons. Drawing from Hinduism and Buddhism, theosophy aimed to understand the mystic powers of the universe and promote the study...
Ukrainian-born Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831 1891) was a powerful and controversial member of the spiritualist world and for a time famous for her pow...
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