| SPIRITUALISTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY*** |
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| Margery Crandon-demonstrated materialization, automatic writing, direct voice and psychic music. Her mediumship, along with her brother Walter's, was very powerful. They both came under heavy investigations and many stated her mediumship was the most remarkable in the history of psychical research although still attacked by many. She passed to Spirit in 1939 leaving great wonder of her mediumship instilled in the minds of many. William Crookes- one of England's most noted chemists and physicists. He conducted many detailed experiments to prove the truths of Spiritualism. He invented many great things of our time and investigated D.D. Home, Catherine Fox, Florence Cook and Eusapia Palladino. He became, through his investigations, and advocate of the Spiritualist movement. He wrote Researches in the Phenomena of Madern Spiritualism and The Spiritualist. Andrew Jackson Davis- the founder of The Harmonial Philosophy. He was born in New York in 1826.The Harmonial Philosophy was an approach to awareness. He is referred to as the "Spiritualism's John the Baptist" and "The Father of of the Spiritualist's Lyceum." He believed in the vital importance of children and the instructional Lyceums began due to his influence. Some of his other writings are Natures Divine Revelations, The Magic Staff, The Children's Progressive Lyceum Manual , The Great Harmonia, Penetralia, Arbula and Beyond The Valley |
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| Emma Harding Britten-known as the Silver Tongued Lecturer and the Greatest Woman Propagandist Modern Spiritualism Ever Had, born in London in 1823. She published Two Worlds and wrote Modern American Spiriualism Dr.Joseph Rhodes Buchanan- coined the term psychometry, wrote Journal of Man and the Manual of Psychometry in 1889 and was a medical doctor noted for this interest in "the soul of things." Mercy E. Cadwallader- the "Animated Encyclopedia of Spiritualism" and one of the organizers of the National Spiritualist Assoc. Through her efforts the Andrew Jackson Lyceum was built in Lily Dale, NY. She was responsible for the markers placed at Hydesville, NY that stated"There is no death, there are no dead." Also, helped erect a shrine placed by the Spiritualists of the World at Rochester, NY (that still stands today) Hereward Carrington- British researcher of psychic phenomena. He investigated the mediumship of Eusapia Pallidino that served to change his skepticism regarding Spiritualism. He established the American Psychical Institute and Laboratory in 1921. He also wrote Psychic Phenomena of Spiritualism in 1918. Wilberforce J. Colville-through the influence of spirit could stand and talk on any subject, unprepared, for hours. He wrote the Universal Spiritualist Catechism of Spirituals Philosophy |
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