PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA AND THE WAR
Book Details + Condition: Dodd, Mead and Company (New York). First Edition, 1918. Hardcover with dark blue boards, and gilt to front and spine. 363 pages with Index. Author Hereward Carrington was an amateur magician and a member of both the Society for Psychical Research in England and the American Society for Psychical Research, and an ardent investigator of Spiritualism throughout his entire life. In this work, he examines the then-current war (WWI) and the occult. Contents include:
- German Methods of Warfare: The Psychology of the Doctrine of "Frightfulness”
- The Psychology of the Soldier: During Mobilization
- In the Cantonments
- In the Trenches
- During the Attack
- Pain
- Shell-Shock
- Dreams
- Fatigue, etc.
- Psychical Phenomena
- Science and the War
- Psychic Phenomena Amidst the Warring Nations
- Prophecies and Premonitions
- Apparitions and Dreams of Soldiers
- Clairvoyant Descriptions of Death
- Death Described by Spirits
- Our Dead Soldiers Yet Live
- Communications from Soldiers Who Have Died
- The Spiritual Revival Awakened by the War.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; normal aging and wear to boards, with minor discoloration to rear; darkening to spine; interior is clean and free of markings.
