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Minot J. Savage examines whether telepathy can account for the experiences collected by late nineteenth-century psychical researchers, or whether those accounts point toward communication with the dead. His 1902 book moves from an introduction to the Society for Psychical Research through reported apparitions, voices, spirit photography, unexplained movements and mediumistic communications.
Personal sittings, accounts involving Mrs. Piper and reports of information obtained at a distance form the material for Savage’s comparison of telepathic and spiritistic explanations. The later chapters discuss the assumptions each explanation requires, the difficulties of communication and the religious implications of survival. Four appendices supply contemporary opinions, names, suggested reading and an outline of beliefs associated with spiritualism. This is the complete historical edition, including its original front matter and appendices.