People from the Other World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108072656)

The lawyer and journalist Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) published People from the Other World in 1875. Part 1 of the work is a careful account of Olcott's 1874 investigations into the famous Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vermont, and their claimed psychic powers. Part 2 is a report into two Philadelphia mediums who claimed to be able to call up two spirits called John and Katie King. The account includes descriptions of s ances, healings, levitation, teleportation and the famous Compton transfiguration. Olcott, a founding member of the Theosophical Society and its first president, was a pioneer of psychical research. This work, deeply influenced by Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), who he met at Chittenden, is one of his most popular. It offers an important insight into the nineteenth-century fascination with the occult and is a classic example of a Victorian attempt to approach the supernatural with the rigours of scientific investigation.

Author: Henry Steel Olcott
ISBN-10: 1108072658
ISBN-13: 9781108072656
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2011
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.12d