GENERAL REPORT: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUALIST CONGRESS LONDON, SEPTEMBER 7TH TO 13TH 1928
Book Details + Condition: Jean Meyer (Paris). First Edition, 1929. Hardcover with paper-covered boards. 460 pages. Illustrated. Edited by Andre Ripert. Includes the French and English translations in one volume. The work is a record and report of the 1928 International Spiritualist Congress that was held in London from September 7-13, 1928. The International Spiritualist Congress' purpose was to gather the leading Spiritualists and scientists of the day to investigate the contemporary new spiritual and scientific theories, on a range of topics relating to psychic phenomena. The first part of the book lays out the officers and bylaws of the organization; the second part reports on topics and lectures from the 1928 Congress. Lectures and topics include:
- Psychic Phenomena of Spiritualism and Electro Magnetism
- Studies in Independent Objective Voice Phenomena
- Thoughts on Materializations
- A Scientific Testimony on A Case of Spirit Identity at the Moment of Death
- Mediumistic Facts
- Metapsychic Science and Medicine
- Spiritual Engineering
- The Experiment of Thought-graphy with Japanese Mediums
- The Effects of Spiritualistic Facts and Philosophy on Modern Science
- Spiritualism, Reincarnation and Social Peace
- And more.
An uncommon and scarce work, with firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with some darkening/fading; chipping to spine ends and edges; reference library stamp to inside front & rear boards, and Presentation sticker (from the Spiritualists' National Union) to ffep; small stamps to the upper corners of a few pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
