SPIRIT-PSYCHOMETRY AND TRANCE COMMUNICATIONS BY UNSEEN AGENCIES THROUGH A WELSH WOMAN AND DR. T. D'AUTE-HOOPER
Book Details + Condition: William Rider and Son, Ltd. (London). First Edition, 1914. Extremely scarce. Hardcover with red cloth boards, gilt-lettered on spine, lettered and bordered in blind on front board. 160 pages. Illustrated. Author T. d'Aute-Hooper explains psychometry as the ability to discover facts about an event or person by handling or viewing associated inanimate objects. He associates it with the Spiritualist movement of the day, and details that the readings are relayed through a spirit. In this scarce work, he relates a series of experiments with a Welsh trance medium, known only as "Olwyn". The book is divided into three parts:
- Psychometrical Visions, Through Various Objects
- Olwen's First Trance on Passing from being a Psychometrix into a Trance Medium (Jan 29, 1910)
- Irrelevant Visions
General content includes:
- Vision of a Prehistoric Cremation Scene
- Visions of Early Geological Ages and of Their Contemporary Animals
- Visions Through Some Grains of "Mummy-Wheat" from a Tomb at Thebes
- Visions of our Lord's Crucifixion
- A Female Suicide / Swedenborg on Suicides
- Dora on Spirit-Babies
- And much more.
A solid and clean copy of an extremely scarce work, with firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards, with a bit of fading and discoloration; bumped spine ends, with minor fading present to spine; toning to endpapers; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
