Title: PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA AND THE WAR
Author: Hereward Carrington
Publisher: American Universities Publishing Company
City: New YorkYear: 1920 (Second Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 363Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: 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. Here, he examines the then-current
war (WWI) and the occult. Part of The Occult and Psychical Sciences series (please see our listings for more occult books within this 1920 series). In very good condition: minimal shelfwear; rubbed and bumped corners; light fading towards edges of boards; very old and faint water stains to top and corner edge of some pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings. CONTENTS: 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. The book is "Dedicated to those brave souls who have, while fighting for their country, solved the problems with which this books deals."
