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_aBrownson, Orestes Augustus, _d1803-1876 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe spirit-rapper; an autobiography |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _a"... It is not a novel; it is not a romance; it is not a biography of a real individual; it is not a dissertation, an essay, or a regular treatise; and yet it perhaps has some elements of them all ..."--Preface | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-09-11 | ||
| 508 | _aTim Lindell, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) | ||
| 520 | _a"The spirit-rapper; an autobiography" by Orestes Augustus Brownson is a fictional autobiography written in the mid-19th century. It examines the rise of mesmerism and modern Spiritualism through the first-person account of a scientifically minded New Yorker who is drawn from curiosity into clairvoyance, spirit-rapping, and table-turning. Alongside ministers, reformers, and social radicals, he probes the claims and perils of these phenomena, weighing science, faith, and moral consequences. The opening of the narrative presents a prefatory statement that the work blends fact with fictional “machinery” to scrutinize spirit-manifestations and their links to reformist enthusiasms. The narrator then recounts his sober scientific education and early scepticism, his introduction to a French mesmerist’s convincing demonstrations, and a circle of interlocutors debating whether the effects arise from imagination, a human “demonic” force, or something darker. As mesmerism spreads, a lighthearted practitioner, Jack Wheatley, kills his fiancée by overusing it and is haunted by her apparition, while the narrator himself develops an intense desire for hidden power. Moving among Philadelphia reformers, he witnesses and conducts experiments that surpass mere suggestion—remote mesmerism, magnetized objects inducing trance, and clairvoyance that exceeds any “rapport.” He learns automatic speech and writing under a foreign will, then shifts to using objects as instruments, producing table movement and coded raps, and is told he can gain greater knowledge only if he purifies his motives—just as the excerpt breaks off. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aSpiritualism | ||
| 653 | _aAutobiographical fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMesmerism -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aParanormal fiction | ||
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/spiritrapperauto00brow/page/n5 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76858 |
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