Author: John Bovee DodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal magnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Philosophy of Electro-biology, Or, Electrical Psychology
Author: John Bovee DodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal magnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Philosophy of electro-biology, or, Electrical psychology, 9 lectures. Together with Grimes's philosophy of credencive induction. Compiled and ed. by G.W. Stone
Author: John Bovee DodsThe Philosophy of Electrical Psychology
Author: John Bovee DodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Philosophy of Electrical Psychology: in a Course of Twelve Lectures, Etc
Author: John Bovee DodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hypnotism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Philosophy of Mesmerism and Electrical Psychology
Author: John Bovee DodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrophysiology
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Electrical-Psychology of the Electrical philosophy of Mental Impression
Author: H. G. DarlingSpiritual Philosopher
Author: Dictionary of Early American Philosophers
Author: John R. ShookPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441171401
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences. Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
The Other Side of Salvation
Author: John Benedict BuescherPublisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN: 9781558964488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
During the 1850s, a surprising number of Americans believed that the spirits of the deceased could be contacted through trance mediums and seances. Many of the radical leaders of the anti-slavery movement, women's rights, the temperance movement, prison reform and labor reform were involved in spiritualism. Among the liberal religious denominations, Universalism was the one most affected by this movement. This amazing chapter in American religious history present a vast array of characters -- visionaries; prophets and inventors; pioneers in psychic healing and public lecturers who took to the podium, while in trance, to deliver communications from the spirits and to simultaneously agitate for reforms in society. Drawing from journals, newspapers, manuscripts and the personal papers of spiritualists and their opponents, The Other Side of Salvation is a fascinating read for anyone interested in America's religious history. Book jacket.
Credulity
Author: Emily OgdenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653247X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.