A fine, readable, definitive book on Psychic Phenomena - Tom Harrison writes here of his lifetime of experiences with psychic Physical Phenomena, particularly in their spiritualist Home Circle between 1946 and 1958, with his mother, Minnie Harrison, as the medium, where he met and spoke with over 1500 materialised spirit people. This German translation of the 2008 revised English edition, with Index, contains many photographs of phenomena, and details about the Stewart Alexander circle and Spiritual healing from the 1990s to 2007. Die Erfahrungen des Autors mit paranormalen physikalischen Phanomenen, im Besonderen in ihrem privaten spiritualistischen Zirkel in Middlesbrough zwischen 1946 und 1958, bei dem seine Mutter Minnie Harrison als Medium fungierte und wobei er mehr als 1500 materialisierte Geistwesen traf und sprach. Ein kostbares, sehr lesbares und ultimatives Buch uber paranormale Phanomene. Diese deutsche Ubersetzung folgt der englischen, 2008 veroffentlichten Ausgabe und enthalt viele Fotografien sowie Einzelheiten uber den Zirkel von Stewart Alexander und Episoden Geistiger Heilung von den 1990-er Jahren bis 2007. Ein Personen- und Sachregister ist dem Buch beigegeben.

2012 Reprint of 1930 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fulcanelli is almost certainly a pseudonym assumed during the early 20th century, by a French alchemist and esoteric author whose identity is still debated. Fulcanelli was undoubtedly a Frenchman, educated profoundly, and learned in the ways of alchemical lore, architecture, art, science, and languages. Fulcanelli wrote two books that were published after his disappearance during 1926, having left his magnum opus with his only student, Eugene Canseliet. These two works-- "Le Mystere des Cathedrals," and "Les Demeures philosophales" -propose to decipher the symbols and alchemy represented in such French monuments as Notre-Dame, Amiens Cathedrals and others.

"Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia" traces the history of occult thought and practice from its origins in private salons to its popularity in turn-of-the-century mass culture. In lucid prose, Julia Mannherz examines the ferocious public debates of the 1870s on higher dimensional mathematics and the workings of seance phenomena, discusses the world of cheap instruction manuals and popular occult journals, and looks at haunted houses, which brought together the rural settings and the urban masses that obsessed over them. In addition, Mannherz looks at reactions of Russian Orthodox theologians to the occult.
In spite of its prominence, the role of the occult in turn-of-the-century Russian culture has been largely ignored, if not actively written out of histories of the modern state. For specialists and students of Russian history, culture, and science, as well as those generally interested in the occult, Mannherz's fascinating study remedies this gap and returns the occult to its rightful place in the popular imagination of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian society.