New Age
The Cellular Cosmogony
Here's your chance to learn the truth: that we are all living inside the Earth, rather than on top of its surface.The Wikipedia page for Koresh, aka Cyrus Teed.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 18, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Nineteenth Century
Dr. MacDonald’s Astrological Dream Book
Read the whole thing here, and see what fate has in store for you!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 20, 2024 -
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Category: Dreams and Nightmares, New Age, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1920s
Mental Magnetism
Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 30, 2023 -
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Category: New Age, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Books, 1920s
The Live Forever Folk
Read an issue of their magazine here.
Read THE COSMIC SURVEY here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 06, 2023 -
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Category: New Age, Regionalism, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1920s
The Great Cheiro
The late part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century were filled with occult types, most famously Aleister Crowley. But I had not previously encountered Cheiro.His Wikipedia page is here.
You can read his palmistry book here.
And luckily, in 1979, Cheiro (died 1936) conducted a long conversation with another medium. Read it here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 27, 2023 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Banvard’s Folly
I am halfway thru reading this book and can testify to its greatness, and to its allure for all WU-vies. I have already learned about so many hoaxes, weirdos and charlatans I never knew about before.Here's how the book opens:
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 01, 2021 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, History, Historical Figure, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Inventions, New Age, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Books, Goofs and Screw-ups
Dannie Druehyld, Only Official Witch of Denmark, Has Passed
Some interesting videos, not in English, at the obituary.
Dannie Druehyld knew every single plant and stone in Rold Skov, after calling the forest [her] home for more than 30 years. Now Denmark has lost its only officially registered witch. Dannie Druehyld died on Monday, aged 74. She leaves behind a daughter and a granddaughter.
According to Dannie Druehyld, she was a witch before she was born, and in Rold Skov she has over the years taught children and adults about the forest's magic, folk beliefs and ancient wisdom through her workshop in the Rebild Center. She has also published several books, including "The Witch's Handbook", which tells about witch life all year round.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 05, 2021 -
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Category: Eccentrics, New Age, Religion, Rituals and Superstitions, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Europe
The Science of Mental Physics
Source of ad.
Read the whole text here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 26, 2021 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, New Age, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1930s, 1940s
Dr. Abrams’s Theory of Human Energy
Read the doctor's thesis here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 08, 2021 -
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Category: New Age, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, 1910s
Canadian Prime Minister Consults Ghost Dogs
Article:
William Lyon MacKenzie King (1874-1950), Canada’s 10th and longest serving Prime Minister was a devoted dog owner in life and in death.While active in politics King had an achingly dull public image, which was certainly at odds with the goings-on in his private life. What the Canadian populace wasn’t aware of was his séances, his consultations with spiritual mediums, table-rapping sessions, tea-leaf readings and communing with the spirits of the likes of former PM Wilfrid Laurier, his long-deceased mother, and of course his dear ghost dog, Pat. That he owned and frequently used both a Ouija board and a crystal ball was published in Time Magazine in 1953, news that shocked the nation. Rampant rumours circulated about King’s oddities, some true, most false. That King had Pat stuffed by a taxidermist so that the little dog would always be by his side turned out to be untrue. King’s detailed diary entries, published after his death in 1950 revealed that King consulted the dead Pats during these séance sessions in manners of international political policy, conscription, and Liberal Party Leadership.
King, obsessed with death and the afterlife, often expressed his wish to communicate with the living after he died, just as he hoped to be reunited forever in the spirit world with his three Pats; “we shall all be together in the Beyond,” he wrote, “of that I am perfectly sure”.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 30, 2019 -
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Category: Communications, Eccentrics, Government, Officials, New Age, Paranormal, Dogs, Twentieth Century
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