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Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism (Paperback)
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Scottish spiritualist DANIEL DUNGLAS HOME (1833-1886) may well have
been the most famous celebrity medium of the Victorian world, his
hundreds of sances attended by some of the biggest names of his
day. Though not everyone was a fan-Robert Brownings' 1864 poem
"Sludge the Medium" is a thorough lashing of Home-he remains
renowned to this day for never having been exposed as a fraud. It's
ironic, then, that this 1877 book, is best remembered for Home's
exposing of the "false prophets" and phony mediums of his day. But
that doesn't come until the first third of the work. In Part I,
Home explores the spiritualism of the world's oldest civilization,
from the faiths of the first pagans to the spiritualist beliefs of
ancient Greece and Rome. And in Part II, he discusses spiritualism
in the Jewish and Christian eras, including the spiritualism of the
Bible and the great seers of recent centuries. Modern paranormal
debunker James Randi has noted one instance of the medium's
dishonesty: though published under his own name, both this book and
Home's 1864 "autobiography," Incidents in My Life, were in fact
ghostwritten by Home's lawyer, W. M. Wilkinson. Whether Home was a
fraud or not, though, this remains a fascinating, is biased,
history of spiritualism.
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