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Writing as “Rita,” Mrs. Desmond Humphreys surveys Spiritualism through its meetings, reported manifestations, methods, and explanations. The book asks how ideas about survival after death relate to personal experience, religious belief, and the interpretation of psychic communications.
Twelve chapters consider the beginnings of the movement, public and private séances, materialisation, automatic writing, and particular mediums and communications. Later discussions turn to perception, theory, verification, and the problems of life that make the question of continued existence significant to the author. The introduction places the inquiry within the controversies surrounding the movement and its reception.
Published in Philadelphia and London by J. B. Lippincott in 1920, the complete edition includes the dedication to Oliver Lodge, contents, introduction, and final chapter, “What Is Spiritualism?” The original publisher’s printed cover and all native pages are preserved.