Ghost Hunters
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Author: Deborah Blum
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 384
In Victorian Britain, a group of eminent scientists got together to found a society expressly to prove the existence of ghosts. he age of Darwin represented the greatest scientific advances known to man. The tension between science and religion was exposed by Darwin s On the Origin of the Species in 1859, which challenged the basic tenets of belief. et many of those in the forefront of the scientific revolution could not give up the idea of a higher reality. Life after death was the unknown frontier. Victorian society was full of mediums claiming they could communicate with the spirits of the dead. Baffling psychic phenomena occurred every day at seances- mysterious rappings were heard, furniture moved, ghostly forms appeared, the mediums spoke in the altered voices of the dead with information only their nearest could possibly know. Pyschometry involving locks of hair and watches and children s toys; telepathy; ouija boards; apparitions; astral projection- all were commonplace. n 1882 the Society of Psychical Research was founded in London to investigate all these phenomena- it was a group led by some of the greatest scientists of the age but its membership also included Alf
Author: Deborah Blum
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 384
In Victorian Britain, a group of eminent scientists got together to found a society expressly to prove the existence of ghosts. he age of Darwin represented the greatest scientific advances known to man. The tension between science and religion was exposed by Darwin s On the Origin of the Species in 1859, which challenged the basic tenets of belief. et many of those in the forefront of the scientific revolution could not give up the idea of a higher reality. Life after death was the unknown frontier. Victorian society was full of mediums claiming they could communicate with the spirits of the dead. Baffling psychic phenomena occurred every day at seances- mysterious rappings were heard, furniture moved, ghostly forms appeared, the mediums spoke in the altered voices of the dead with information only their nearest could possibly know. Pyschometry involving locks of hair and watches and children s toys; telepathy; ouija boards; apparitions; astral projection- all were commonplace. n 1882 the Society of Psychical Research was founded in London to investigate all these phenomena- it was a group led by some of the greatest scientists of the age but its membership also included Alf
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Deborah Blum
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 384
In Victorian Britain, a group of eminent scientists got together to found a society expressly to prove the existence of ghosts. he age of Darwin represented the greatest scientific advances known to man. The tension between science and religion was exposed by Darwin s On the Origin of the Species in 1859, which challenged the basic tenets of belief. et many of those in the forefront of the scientific revolution could not give up the idea of a higher reality. Life after death was the unknown frontier. Victorian society was full of mediums claiming they could communicate with the spirits of the dead. Baffling psychic phenomena occurred every day at seances- mysterious rappings were heard, furniture moved, ghostly forms appeared, the mediums spoke in the altered voices of the dead with information only their nearest could possibly know. Pyschometry involving locks of hair and watches and children s toys; telepathy; ouija boards; apparitions; astral projection- all were commonplace. n 1882 the Society of Psychical Research was founded in London to investigate all these phenomena- it was a group led by some of the greatest scientists of the age but its membership also included Alf
Author: Deborah Blum
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 384
In Victorian Britain, a group of eminent scientists got together to found a society expressly to prove the existence of ghosts. he age of Darwin represented the greatest scientific advances known to man. The tension between science and religion was exposed by Darwin s On the Origin of the Species in 1859, which challenged the basic tenets of belief. et many of those in the forefront of the scientific revolution could not give up the idea of a higher reality. Life after death was the unknown frontier. Victorian society was full of mediums claiming they could communicate with the spirits of the dead. Baffling psychic phenomena occurred every day at seances- mysterious rappings were heard, furniture moved, ghostly forms appeared, the mediums spoke in the altered voices of the dead with information only their nearest could possibly know. Pyschometry involving locks of hair and watches and children s toys; telepathy; ouija boards; apparitions; astral projection- all were commonplace. n 1882 the Society of Psychical Research was founded in London to investigate all these phenomena- it was a group led by some of the greatest scientists of the age but its membership also included Alf
Ghost Hunters