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245	1	0	_aHow to speak with the dead
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-21
505	0		_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.
508			_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)
520			_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.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: E.P. Dutton & company, 1918
653			_aSpiritualism
653			_aParapsychology
653			_aFuture life
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/howtospeakwithde00scie
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77281
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