[PDF] The Philosophy Of Spiritualism And The Pathology And Treatment Of Mediomania eBook

Author : Frederic Rowland 1847-1918 Marvin
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372875144

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Author : Frederic Rowland Marvin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780282356453

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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Spiritualism and the Pathology and Treatment of Mediomania: Two Lectures Materialism is both unscientific and groundless. It has no root and can have none. Like Idealism, it is a dream in which imagination usurps the' place of reason. I reject all forms of Materialism and among them Spirit ualism. Spiritualism is the heart of Materialism - it is materialism of Materialism - the worst kind of Material ism. Its ghosts are material and appeal to the five senses - theyhave shape, color, and density; they walk and talk like men and women. Never did any form of -materialism attack the soul so effectually as'spiritualism. Other forms of Materialism have left the soul out and ignored its existence, but Spiritualism is an organized efi'ort to drag it into View and exhibit its earthiness. Helvetius and Holbach denied its existence, but Robert Dale Owen and Judge Edmonds would exhibit it very much as I would exhibit a piece of 'timber or stone. Here is our ghost, they cry; come and look at it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Frederic Rowland 1847-1918 Marvin
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372875168

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Karen Redrobe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082238437X

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With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman reveals how these new visual technologies projected their anxieties about insubstantiality and reproducibility onto the female body, producing an image of "woman" as utterly unstable and constantly prone to disappearance. Drawing on cinema studies and psychoanalysis as well as the histories of magic, spiritualism, and photography, Beckman looks at particular instances of female vanishing at specific historical moments—in Victorian magic’s obsessive manipulation of female and colonized bodies, spiritualist photography’s search to capture traces of ghosts, the comings and goings of bodies in early cinema, and Bette Davis’s multiple roles as a fading female star. As Beckman places the vanishing woman in the context of feminism’s discussion of spectacle and subjectivity, she explores not only the problems, but also the political utility of this obstinate figure who hovers endlessly between visible and invisible worlds. Through her readings, Beckman argues that the visibly vanishing woman repeatedly signals the lurking presence of less immediately perceptible psychic and physical erasures, and she contends that this enigmatic figure, so ubiquitous in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, provides a new space through which to consider the relationships between visibility, gender, and agency.

Author : Janet R. Jakobsen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780822341499

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A collection that challenges the binary conception of conservative religion versus progressive secularism by highlighting the existence of multiple secularisms.