Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Book I. The Pedigree of Spiritualism: 1. Possession and witchcraft; 2. On poltergeists; 3. The sympathetic system; 4. Mesmer and his disciples; 5. The second French commission; 6. Spiritualism in France before 1848; 7. The German somnambules; 8. The English mesmerists; 9. Community of sensation; 10. Clairvoyance in England; 11. Andrew Jackson Davis and the Univercoelum; Book II. Early American Spiritualism: 1. In Arcadia; 2. Some dwellers in Arcadia; 3. The physical phenomena; 4. Clairvoyance and speaking with tongues; 5. Trance writing and speaking; 6. General survey of the movement.

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The first comprehensive history of Spiritualism by one of the foremost Victorian psychic researchers: an indispensable source on the movement.