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Stuart Cumberland recounts encounters with mediums, mystics and people interested in occult phenomena, drawing on his experience as a performer of demonstrations associated with thought reading. He describes how his early curiosity developed into an investigation of the methods and expectations surrounding spiritualist sittings.
Chapters address spirit forms, physical manifestations, clairvoyance, spirit photography, trance communications and subjective visions. Cumberland also discusses thought transference and the explanations he offered for effects presented as supernatural. His personal recollections include meetings with public figures and accounts of demonstrations before scientific and university audiences. The complete 1918 Grant Richards edition preserves the author’s concluding discussion.