03520cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000110012624500310013726400510016830000470021933600260026633700260029233800360031850000310035450502270038550801860061252021570079853400650295565300170302065300190303765300160305685600550307285600430312777281UtSlPG20260610134805.0mcr n260607r20251918utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a19026087  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aBF1 aSciens10aHow to speak with the dead 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-11-210 aPreface -- 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.  aPeter 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)  a"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.

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.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: E.P. Dutton & company, 1918  aSpiritualism  aParapsychology  aFuture life4 uhttps://archive.org/details/howtospeakwithde00scie40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77281