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Contains an essay by the editors on the statistics of insanity; J. H. Worthington's "On Puerperal Insanity"; a long critical review of spiritualist phenomena taken from Winslow's "Psychological Journal"; a partial translation of Willers Jessen's Die Brandstiftungen…, the first modern monograph on pyromania [the term having been introduced in 1833 by Marc in the Annales d'Hygiene Publique, and the first separately published works on the subject being a number of monographs by Ernst Plattner from 1797 to 1809, all of which are rare].
Continues Claude Kelway Bamber's after-death communication with his mother via a medium. The first book was published in 1918.
OCLC locates only one copy, at the Niedersachsische Staats -und Univ. Library in Germany. The doyen of Continental parapsychologists since World War II, Bender held the first German chair of parapsychology (at the Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg) and founded the Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene.
Crabtree 1988 #629. The 2nd (1853), 3rd, and 4th (1876) editions include increasingly lengthy discussions of American spiritualism.
Crabtree #629. For some unfathomable reason OCLC doesn't list the 1884 5th edition. The later editions include lengthy discussions of American spiritualism.
Crabtree #629. For some unfathomable reason OCLC doesn't list the 1884 5th edition.
OCLC locates only two copies of the first printing, at Louisiana State & the University of Minnesota. The lectures are A Survey of World Conditions; The Problem of Colour; The Problem of Nationality; The Problem of Education; The Problem of Capital and Labor; The Problem of Government.
Crabtree 1988 #1605. Translated into English in 1917 as Our Hidden Forces.
Composed of writings produced between 1893 and 1903. Boirac attempts to answer the question whether it is possible to study scientifically psychic phenomena, which he divides into three main categories: hypnoidal, magnetoidal (natural but unclassified physicl forces), and spiritoidal (resulting from unknown agents).
"Attempts to present a complete picture of the status of psychical research at the time" with an important discussion of suggestion in psychical researh [Crabtree 1988 1721].
Not in Crabtree, though several journals edited by Bosc are. OCLC records only two copies of the original 1894 edition: NLM & Cornell.
OCLC records only 5 copies. Attributed variously to Francesco Barberi and Stefan Anton Marcello, this was in any case written by a member of the team of Inquisitors. OCLC gives Giovanni Barberi (1748-1821) as the author of the original Italian edition, but helpfully gives Francesco Barberi as the author of this German edition. Notorious occultist and promoter of Freemasony (which is what got him in trouble with the Inquisition), Cagliostro, who may have been the same person as Joseph Balsamo, traveled throughout Europe with his occult sideshow, mystifying and bamboozling aristocrats while helping to relieve them of some of their unneeded wealth. For an excellent and sober account of his life see the Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 4th ed., I: 191-195.
OCLC records only four copies: Cornell Med; Stetson; Headville-Lombard Theol. Schl; Boston Athenaeum. For the Occult Pub. Co. 1897 imprint OCLC locates only the copy at Yale. A New Thought book mostly devoted to telepathy, thought-transference, and mental suggestion. Born in England, the largely self-taught Colville had his first mediumistic experience in 1874. In 1878 he traveled to the US and spent the 1880s moving between England the USA, settling permanently in the US in the 1890s after a two-year sojourn in Australia. Colville wrote a number of books on various occult, theosophical, and New Thought subjects, and became an early advocate of alternative medicine, including chromotherapy.
OCLC records only three copies with this date: NLM; York Univ in Ontario; Univ of Manchester in England.
Classic account of Tibetan mysticisms. The author herself participated in all the rites described.
19th century American spiritualist and one of the founders of modern spiritualism, Davis began his spiritualist career in 1844, when in a semitrance he wandered away and awoke the next morning 40 miles from home in the mountains, where he claimed to have met two men that he later identified as Galen and Swedenborg. He began teaching and on a professional tour met a Dr. Lyon (a Bridgeport musician) and Rev. William Fishbough. Lyon was appointed his magnetizer and Fishbough his scribe. With their assistance Davis dictated The Principles of Nature, which was published in 1847 and went into many editions. In it he predicted the coming of the Spiritualist movement, which his book probably helped to bring into being as well as shaping the climate of popular opinion that made the emergence of Spiritualism possible, or even likely. His book, which articulated a radically dualist, Swedenborgesque mystical philosophy, made him famous. By early 1848 he no longer needed his magnetizer, since he was then able to self-induce his trance states, in which he made his predictions and medical diagnoses. He remembered his trance experiences and wrote his many books based on his trance experiences. The later books are largely elaborations on the themes of Harmonial philosophy announced in The Principles of Nature and systematically elaborated in the volumes of The Great Harmonia, which alone passed through 40 editions. See Melton's Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, 4th ed., I: 301-302.In the present book, a follow-up to the fourth volume of Davis's Great Harmonia (which dealt with marriage and "the physiological vices and virtues"), Davis founds his mystical philosophy on a fundamental binary opposition, which he calls "male" and "female," with the former being the source of the material world and the latter of the spiritual. Davis posits a series of such related binary dyads: Feminine/Masculine; Matter/Energy; Goodness/Truth; Love/Intellect, which play out at every level from the cosmic to the human. Sex then, for Davis, is a cosmic principle for unifying opposites. The bulk of his text is devoted to working out the consequences of his metaphysical theory of Harmony for married partners and for society in general. Conjugal love turns out to be the foundation of society, with incorrect unions resulting in disease, crime, and death. Davis is, so far as I know, never regarded as a philosopher; yet he articulated a comprehensive, radically dualist, American metaphysics that was probably read by and influenced more 19th century Americans than all the academic treatises of philosophy combined.
Sadoff Catalog page 33.
Presents "a reliable computation of latitudes and longitudes, especially adapted to astrological requirements, embracing all towns and cities in the United States of 2500 inhabitants or over, and all county seats regardless of population" (page 1).
"A critical but friendly study of the principal questions of psychical research" [Crabtree 1724].
Crabtree 258; Gauld History of Hypnotism, p. 144; not in Wellcome. A German physician and philosopher who was professor of philosophy at Tübingen and both a follower and critic of Schelling, Eschenmayer edited the Archiv für den thierischen Magnetismus (1817-1824). Following in the footsteps of Kluge he wrote two major books describing his animal magnetic practices and mystical concerns: this work and Mysterien des innern Lebens (1830).Eschenmayer's "writings on animal magnetism contain much that is derived from Schelling, but also elements from sources as diverse as Paracelsus, Stahl, and Reil. Central to Eschenmayer's thnking are the notions of an 'organic ether', concentrated especially in the brain and nervous system, and of polarities in the nervous system, the brain being usually positive, the ganglion system negative, and the sphere of indifference somewhere between" [Gauld, p. 144]. "Influenced by the nature philosophy of Schelling, Eschenmayer had a special interest in the ancient occult traditions. Here, as well as in later works, he seeks out the parallels between those traditions and the contemporary phenomena of animal magnetism" [Crabtree].
Caillet 3780. An occult classic in which the author tried to construct knowledge of Biblical Hebrew by comparison with Arabic, Greek, Chinese, and other ancient languages. Fabre D'Olivet construed Hebrew grammar as applicable to most other languages on the basis of his analysis of its roots. Includes a translation of the first ten chapters of Genesis into literal English and French (along with Fabre's spiritual interpretation and copious motes). Also, this is the source for Benjamin Whorf's idea that language constrains our knowledge of reality (the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis).
An invaluable reference for early scientific books. Ferguson's erudite annotations are a delight.
"When 'turning tables' arrived in France from America around 1853, Figuier became convinced that it was necessary to know the historical background of such phenomena in order to judge their objectivity. The result was this work, divided into the following sections: Volume 1: the history of the epidemic possessions of Loudun and the Jansenist convulsionaries; Volume 2: the history of the divining rod and the Protestant prophets; Volume 3: the history of animal magnetism; Volume 4: the history of table turning and spiritism. Volume 3 is one of the early histories of animal magnetism. Volumes 2 and 4 give a good historical background for phenomena which began to be studied by psychical researchers some ten years later" [Crabtree 1988 #822].
An outstanding reference work. This reprint adds a few entries and death dates in the foreword.
Wing G80; Bibliotheca Astrologica 440. The first English book with detailed nativities of prominent persons.Probably an English recusant, Gadbury, who had been William Lilly's pupil, himself became a renowned astrologer and author of numerous astrological works. "Gadbury obtained a very wide circulation for his publications, which excited the envy of his brother astrologers and almanac-makers, who maliciously endeavoured to bring him into trouble on account of his faith. His name was dragged into the fabricated Popish Plots of 1678-9, and he was again accused of being in another plot in 1690. Partridge issued a scandalous publication against him in 1693, entitled the 'Black Life of John Gadbury'" [Gillow, A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics 2: 349-354].
A valuable bibliogrphy of 1340 items, a few with annotations. The first volume, published in 1903, was a bibliography of Rosicrucian books.
Crabtree #1460. Collects 9 papers on psychical research previously published in periodicals, with two on hauntings, one on crystal-gazing, one on hypnotism, and on psychic healing, and one on second sight.A contentious figure in psychical research, both during her life and after it, Goodrich-Freer was a pioneer psychical researcher who wrote using the pseudonym "Miss X," and an early member of the SPR and associate of F. W. H. Myers. With W. T. Stead she co-edited the magazine Borderland. She quarrelled and broke with Myers after a dispute over the investigation of an 1897 haunting at Bellechini. In 1901 she left England for Palestine, dropped out of psychical research, eventually settled in the USA, and wrote a number of books about her travels in the Middle East. John L. Campbell and Trevor H. Hall examined her papers after her death and accused her of a lifetime of falsification, deception, and plagiarism. [Account taken from Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, 4th ed., I: 534-535].
Scientific spiritualism with chapters on the biologic basis of ethics and religion and on the role of maternal love in organic evolution.
Caillet 4736; Crabtree 1588 (1907 1st edition). A serious examination by a notable French neurologist and psychiatrist of spiritualist and parapsychological phenomena.
Crabtree 1144.
"With Myers's Human Personality … this work stands as the most important ever written in the field of psychical research. It was published with the sanction of the Society for Psychical Research and was the result of a long and laborious collection of first hand evidence of psychic occurrences. Myers was responsible for the lengthy introduction and the forty page "Note on a Suggested Mode of Psychical Interaction" in the second volume; Podmore collected and sifted through a large part of the evidence used in the book; and Gurney worte all of the text apart from the sections done by Myers. … the work embraces all transmissions of thought and feeling from one person to another by means other than through the recognized channels of sense, and this includes apparitions [but not of the dead]. Myers had already coined the word 'telepathy' to denote these transmissions" [Crabtree].
Hammond was Surgeon General during the Civil War and a pioneer American neurologist who wrote the first American textbook of general neurology. "This book, a revised and expanded form of an article in the North American Review (April 1870), provides a rational explanation of 'the real and fraudulent phenomena of what is called spiritualism'" [Crabtree #941]. "… reduces all spiritualistic phenomena either to explicable physical causes or to the credulity of receptive individuals—including clairvoyant and mental healing" [Atwater Collection #1548].
A highly critical examination of the scientific evidence for ESP. Hansel was Chair of Psychology at the University College of Swansea University of Wales.
"Although it contains chapters on immortality, the nature of the after-life, and psychical research, Psychical Investigations is mainly a verbatim report of mediumistic sittings held in 1914-1916" [Crabtree 1988 1726].
Crabtree 1988 #1115: "drawn from material published by the Society for Psychical Research on thought reading."
First book by one of the most important American pschical researchers, in which he "deals with the isse of the evidence for survival after death as found in mediumistic communications. Although taking up the problem in its most general form, he concentrates on the material received through Mrs. Pier, examining the various possible explanations for the data, in particular the spiritistic versus the telepathic hypothesis" [Crabtree 1988] #1556.
NUC lists two copies; OCLC four: LC, Dartmouth, Brown, & Richmond Public Library. Written for juveniles.
The first volume issued in Jung's collected writings in English translation, being a translation with minor alterations of Psychologie und Alchemie (Zurich 1944), which was an expansion of two lectures originally published in the Eranos-Jahrbuch for 1935 and 1936 (Zurich, 1936 & 1937). The two lectures, respectively titled "Traumsymbole des Individuationsprozesses" and "Die Erlösungsvorstellungen in der Alchemie" had previously appeared in English in 1939 in Stanley M. Dell's translation as The Integration of the Personality.
Collects together Jung's various alchemical commentaries not included in his major alchemical texts.
7. Auflage durch ein Fremdwörterverzeichnis mit Erklärungen erweitert.
A spiritualist rendition of psychoanalysis. The last section, titled "Psycho-Cosmology" (pp. 155-207) details the author's spiritualist interpretation of the subconscious.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #1576 (citing the 2nd Italian edition of 1907). Translated from the 2nd Italian edition.
Crabtree Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism #1472.
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