Volume 20, Number 7 · May 3, 1973
Greetings from Far Away
By Martin Gardner
Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead
by Allen Spraggett, by William V. Rauscher
New American Library, 301 pp., $7.95
ESP and Hypnosis
by Susy Smith
Macmillan, 253 pp., $6.95
Modern Spiritualism began in 1848 in Hydesville, New York, when the Fox sisters discovered they could produce spirit raps by cracking their toe joints. The movement grew rapidly, peaking in the Reconstruction period and spreading to England, where it won such distinguished converts as Conan Doyle, Oliver Lodge, and William Crookes. Ten years ago it had reached such a low ebb in the United States that it was almost impossible to find a medium willing to produce physical phenomena unless you went to a Spritualist camp such as Lily Dale, in upstate New York.
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