The Art Of Ectoplasm

Download or read book Shannon Taggart: Séance written by and published by Fulgur Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American photographer Shannon Taggart (born 1977) became aware of spiritualism as a teenager when her cousin received a message from a medium that revealed details about her grandfather's death. In 2001, while working as a photojournalist, she began photographing where that message was received--Lily Dale, New York, home to the world's largest spiritualist community, proceeding to other communities in, for example, Arthur Findlay College in the UK. Taggart expected to spend one summer figuring out the tricks of the spiritualist trade. Instead, spiritualism's mysterious processes, earnest practitioners and neglected photographic history became an inspiration. Her project evolved into an 18-year journey that has taken her around the world in search of "ectoplasm"-- the elusive substance that is said to be both spiritual and material. With Séance, Taggart offers a series of haunting photographs exploring spiritualist practices in the US, England and Europe. Supported with a commentary on her experiences, a foreword by Dan Aykroyd, creator of Ghostbusters and fourth-generation spiritualist, and illustrated essays from Andreas Fischer and Tony Oursler, Séance examines spiritualism's relationship with human celebrity and its connections with technology, and concludes with the debate over ectoplasm and how spiritualism can move forward in the 21st century.

Download or read book The Art of Ectoplasm written by Serena Keshavjee and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Ectoplasm reflects on the history and legacy of T.G. and Lillian Hamilton's extraordinary collection of paranormal photographs, which have inspired and perplexed academics, historians, and artists since their creation a century ago, and offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.

Download or read book Phenomena of Materialisation written by A. Von Schrenck-Notzing and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where the Wolf written by Sally Rosen Kindred and published by Diode Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Rosen Kindred’s third book, Where the Wolf, is a wood where a girl-turned-woman, a daughter-turned-mother, goes walking, searching for the warm fur, the hackles and hurts—past and future—inside her. These poems explore how stories—fairy tales, family memories, myths, and dreams—tell us, and let us tell each other, who we are, and what’s wild and sacred in our connections. From “the beast your mother made/ who scans hood and bed,” to the ghost-guard summoned by a child on the night her family fractures, to the teenage son who transforms into “beauty, his dread-body,” the beings in these poems are themselves stories, spells: alchemized through language, always becoming, bearing hope and loss. They fragment in anxiety, and form into new wilderness. They open themselves to reconstruction, redemption. Through it all, “Wolf is the ghost of a hurt remembering itself. Is She. You can hear Her between trees.” These poems are a calling out—through meadows, emptied houses, dark skies—to wolf and self, parent and child, girl and woman, love and grief.

Download or read book The Art And Science Of Clairvoyance written by Helen DaVita and published by Helen DaVita. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration into the spiritual power of the visual mind, focusing specifically on clairvoyance. Rather than providing instructions on how to do something, it seeks to answer what it is all about. Topics such as understanding the clairvoyant power, unlocking imagination, the neuroscience of mental images, prophesy, precognition, and discovering new ways to unlock clairvoyant creativity are discussed. Through this book, readers gain an understanding of how and why they can tap into their inner clairvoyance and trust their own abilities. Suggestions of techniques for enhancing visualisation skills and deeper spiritual connection are explored, allowing readers the opportunity to unlock the potential of their visual power. Whether a novice or an experienced clairvoyant, this book will provide insights into the clairvoyant world and offer an opportunity to grow in knowledge of this powerful and fascinating field. By cultivating respect and appreciation for clairvoyance, its great power can be harnessed to make a difference. You have the capacity to increase your clairvoyant power and uncover new ways of seeing the world. By the end of this book, you will have gained valuable insight into the subject of clairvoyance and experienced at least one ‘aha’ moment.

Download or read book The Perfect Medium written by Clément Chéroux and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published. The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production. They document in unexpected ways a period when developing photographic technology merged with a popular obsession with the occult to create a new genre of haunting experimental photographs.

Download or read book This Beautiful Future written by Rita Kalnejais and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elodie is 17. She’s French. She washes her legs before going to church. She believes in God. Otto is 15. He’s a German soldier. Bulletproof skin. Eyes that could pierce tanks. He was part of a firing squad today. It’s 1944. Outside, the world around them is exploding. Inside, the room shakes. Elodie and Otto’s naked bodies touch.