Spirit manifestations examined and explained : Judge Edmonds refuted; or, An exposition of the involuntary powers and instincts of the human mind / By John Bovee Dods.

  • Dods, John Bovee, 1795-1872.
Date:
[1854], [©1854]
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Credit: Spirit manifestations examined and explained : Judge Edmonds refuted; or, An exposition of the involuntary powers and instincts of the human mind / By John Bovee Dods. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    promiscuous audience of four or five hundred persons as to the certainty of their having in reality occurred. Let me see this performed without a mortal hand on instruments of music held by myself or any other per- son, and all others kept at a distance, and I am pre- pared to enter on a new scene of action and continue to pursue it faithfully to my dying day. I am then ready to move my philosophy one step higher, and show that the spirits of our departed friends—those dear and former loved ones of earth—do indeed im- press the involuntary powers of our minds with heav- enly impulses, and hold communion with us through the mysterious instincts of our nature in those beauti- ful mystic fields that lie beyond the realms of human reason and consciousness—those fields where wonders reign—where dreams inspire—where presentiments are born and beauty unfolds.