How to speak with the dead (Registro nro. 118001)
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| LC control number | 19026087 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | BF |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sciens |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | How to speak with the dead |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-11-21 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface -- Do the dead still live? -- Soul and life -- Telepathy and tele-mnemoniky -- Discarnate spirits -- Mediums -- Communicating -- Practical instructions for speaking with the dead -- "Spiritualism" and "Rationalism. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Peter Becker, Tom Trussel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "How to speak with the dead" by Sciens is a practical handbook written in the early 20th century. It argues, in a coolly “scientific” tone, that human souls survive bodily death and that disciplined methods can enable communication with them. Framed against spiritualism’s showmanship, it promises evidence, procedures, and cautions for rational readers seeking results rather than spectacle.<br/><br/>The opening of the handbook lays out its plan: practical instructions later, but first a case for survival and communication that claims impartiality and “hard facts.” The Preface defends investigation on utilitarian grounds, even asserting that spirit-derived insights into gravitation and levitation could transform aviation, citing Crookes and Crawford and alluding to Edison’s rumored “spook factory.” Chapter I argues that religion and science alike imply survival, distinguishing soul from body via examples (trance, paralysis, sleep), and offers Crawford’s lab weighings as proof of intelligent, discarnate agency, buttressed by Lodge’s “Raymond” and S.P.R. work, plus a moral critique of strict materialism. Chapter II separates impersonal, organizing “life” from the personal, conscious, moral “soul,” listing sharp contrasts and clarifying that “death” ends bodily life but not soul-existence. Chapter III introduces telepathy and “tele-mnemoniky” (memory-reading), proposing an ether-like medium to explain thought and memory transfer, including apparent “thought-reading.” Chapter IV claims many spirits linger near Earth, questions distant spirit-spheres, advances reincarnation as a tidy hypothesis, describes spirit “bodies” without race or sex, and notes that character can shift once freed from bodily limits, with few signs of outright devils and some unreliability in statements. Chapter V begins by defining mediums as rare but real, often amateurs, tools rather than authors of messages, warns about fraud without dismissing the genuine, and cautions that a medium’s mind can color communications, casting doubt on theatrical “controls.” (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: E.P. Dutton & company, 1918 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Spiritualism |
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| Uncontrolled term | Parapsychology |
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| Uncontrolled term | Future life |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/howtospeakwithde00scie">https://archive.org/details/howtospeakwithde00scie</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77281">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77281</a> |
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