Spiritualism

The Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for his creation of the character Sherlock Holmes. Trained as a medical doctor, Doyle - like many Victorian intellectuals - became fascinated by spiritualism and its promise of communication with the afterlife. Doyle was a firm believer in the movement, claiming as evidence 'sign[s] of a purposeful and organized invasion' from the spirit world. In 1926, towards the end of his life, he published this influential two-volume history. Volume 1 covers the background and origins of spiritualism, beginning with Swedenborg before turning to the 'supernatural' events in upstate New York in 1848 that are generally regarded as the beginning of modern spiritualism. It then focuses on key individuals including D. D. Home, and on scientific investigations of spiritualist phenomena. The History provides valuable insights into Victorian and early twentieth-century culture and the controversies generated by spiritualism at that time.

A seance is a second chance to say I love you or goodbye.

A seance with Suzane Northrop is nothing like those portrayed in the movies. There are no raps, no flickering candles, no moving tables.  But you do sit in a circle, and once there, you may not leave.  Then, with her eyes closed, Suzane begins to speak.  She brings messages from the dead. She offers hope. And she changes lives.

In this groundbreaking book, Suzane makes you an eyewitness to seances where sorrow and anger turn to love and forgiveness. You will read the testimonies of people who have heard from those on the other side.  You will discover dramatic truths that will take you by surprise...whether you believe or not.  And if you choose, you will learn how to communicate with the spirit world, discovering for yourself the inner peace that comes with the knowledge that death is not the end.

"... Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women's creativity-spiritual as well as political-in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement." —Jon Butler

"Radical Spirits is a vitally important book... [that] has... influenced a generation of young scholars." —Marie Griffith

In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women's rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women's history.

In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of women's history in general and the women's rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students.

As well as being an occultist of the first rank, Dion Fortune was an accomplished medium. Thus she is able to explain the methods, technicalities and practical problems of trance mediumship from first hand experience. She describes exactly what it feels like to go into trance and the different types of being one may meet with beyond the usual spirit guides. For most of her life her mediumistic abilities were known only to her immediate circle until, in the war years, she responded to the call to try to make a united front of occultists and spiritualists against the forces of materialism in the post-war world. At this point she wrote various articles for the spiritualist press and appeared as a speaker on several spiritualist platforms. This book contains her original work Spiritualism in the Light of Occult Science with commentaries by Gareth Knight that quote extensively from now largely unobtainable material that she wrote on the subject during her life, including transcripts from her own trance work and rare articles from old magazines and journals. Dion Fortune needs no introduction to the student of the Western Esoteric Tradition as the founder of a major occult school, the Society of the Inner Light. Gareth Knight, originally a student of her school, after making a name of his own as an esoteric author and teacher, has recently returned to the Society. This book represents the fourth collaborative work between the two, An Introduction to Ritual Magic, the Circuit of Force, and Principles of Hermetic Philosophy being already published in this series.

Charet uncovers some of the reasons why Jung's psychology finds itself living between science and religion.

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 fraudsters. Volume 2, focusing on English and American Spiritualism, sets the movement in its cultural and intellectual context and includes a discussion of the relationship of Spiritualism to science. The volume includes invaluable accounts of scientific investigations into materialisations, spirit photographs, clairvoyance, hallucinations and automatism. It contains a summary and conclusion for the two volumes. Podmore was a leading member of the Victorian Society for Psychical Research and his work remains an indispensable source for the modern-day historian of nineteenth-century Spiritualism and occult practices.

The spiritual movement in the early twentieth century had few, if any, proponents greater than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—a medical doctor, soldier, and world-renowned author. This book is a firsthand account of his investigation into the world of spiritualism. 

An original Introduction to the book provides an insightful look at Doyle’s personal life. His friendship with magician Harry Houdini is brilliantly captured in the book’s original Afterword.

This book is for anyone who wishes to communicate with spirits. Explore the nature of the Spiritual Body, learn how to prepare yourself to become a medium, locate your guardian angel, experience for yourself clairvoyance, psychometry, talking boards, automatic writing, spiritual healing, distant healing, channeling, and also learn how to avoid spiritual fraud.

Summary of Coming Out, The Road to Unconditional Love

Coming Out, The Road to Unconditional Love is about coming out as a gay man or lesbian woman, and the challenges presented for everyone involved in this process.

The book is based upon Kevin Lewis' work as a life coach. He's helped hundreds of families through this difficult process with rational compassion. His method includes:

   1. Defining the responsibilities of all involved.
   2. Understanding what needs to be addressed.
   3. Providing the tools necessary to progress toward healing.


The goal is to heal everyone from the dogmatic teachings of our times; with no judgment of anyone because of where they are.  There is no need to lay blame--simply understand the place they are today with the intent of moving into the place of healing and unconditional love.

Inspirational spiritual philosophic quotes & aphorisms.
A message to live, love and co-create.
A recognition that we are all magic beings whose sole purpose is to be joyful and magical.
The book is divided into 3 sections, The Inner-Self, Noble Aspects and The Higher-Self.
Each section is further broken into 3 chapters.
The theme of the first section is On Beauty, On Timelessness and On Oneness.
The theme of the mid section is On Parents, On Children and On a Beloved.
The theme of the final section is On a Phoenician, On a Twin-Self and On Longing.
110 colorful pages with 22 imaginative portraits. Landscape design 8.12" in width and 5.95" in height.