Practical Course in Personal Magnetism: The Victorian Guide to Health, Happiness, Power and Success: Doctor's Orders from Wellcome Library
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Finally, the secrets of natural magnetism made plain, in the 19th Century's delightful prelude to...
Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins
Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins and Sidney Harris
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Get the straight, scientific story on things like astrology, ghosts, spontaneous human combustion,...
Photography, Trace, and Trauma
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Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the...
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
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In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists,...
Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance: 2017
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers...
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Erika (17789 KP) rated The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World in Books
Nov 22, 2020
The spiritualist movement is an interesting one, that propelled many people to fame that had supposed psychic powers. Most of these were debunked, and Houdini was the main person doing this debunking. A notable believer in this movement was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which I find so completely interesting.
While this book mostly focuses on the woman referenced in the title, it does touch on other female psychics and mediums. There was some weird stuff that happened, and one situation seriously haunts me - ectoplasm being discharged from the vag (EWWWWWWWWWWW). Apparently these ladies hid a lot of things up there, and that's why they tended to be checked.
What is interesting about Houdini, is the fact that he was always trying to connect to the spirit world, and basically got pissed off when these fakes popped up, getting his hopes up. His doubting nature of the psychics, etc, mostly comes from a personal vendetta of being screwed over in the past by phonies.
Anyway, if you're interested in weird history, history of the spiritualist movement, and Houdini, it's a good read.
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Dredd (2012) in Movies
Oct 2, 2019 (Updated Oct 2, 2019)
Peach Trees is a 200 Floor mega-structure housing tower, the block is home to more than 75,000 citizens & is Notorious for its crime rate.
Whilst investigating a homicide with rookie Judge with a powerful psychic ability legendary Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) becomes the Target of a vicious and violent Hunt by the Ma-Ma clan when she put the tower into Lockdown!
Karl Urban's portrayal of the comic book Legend and his decision to remain faithful to the character made this movie one not to miss and although the box office was not as successful as it should have been, it has become a cult Hit with audiences all over the world.
Dredd is dark, gritty, well thought out, with a great plot fantastic action and gave us a dredd who doesn't remove his helmet.
Highly recommended.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Haunting (1963) in Movies
Oct 4, 2019
The Plot: Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor (Julie Harris), a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora (Claire Bloom), who has ESP, join John and the mansion's heir, cynical Luke (Russ Tamblyn). They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.
From the great novel- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
In 2010, The Guardian newspaper ranked it as the 13th-best horror film of all time. Director Martin Scorsese has placed The Haunting first on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time.
The film was remade in 1999 by director Jan de Bont, starring Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson, but that version was heavily panned by critics and audiences. Dont watch that film, but instead watch this masterpiece.
I would highly reccordmend this movie.
Oversight (The Community #2)
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Holden Payne has it all . . . or so he thinks. As heir to the founder of the Community—an...
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