"It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - and earlier - also drank deeply from the same spiritual...

Despite struggling to accept his talent for communicating with the departed, Henry grew to embrace it, and finally found the courage to share it with the world. For the first time, he pulls back the curtain on living life as a medium, opens up about discovering his gift as an adolescent, explains what it's truly like to communicate with those who have passed, and shares the lessons we can learn from our departed loved ones.

A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement – and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery. In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox – sisters aged 11 and 14 – anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had...

Matthews serves as a vessel of hope for those who wish to communicate with their loved ones in spirit. He takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotional stories, and also teaches step-by-step methods for recognizing communications from beyond.

Spiritual medium Patrick Mathews describes how he communicates with the dead, and shares stories of the other side.

"Here is Lincoln in the Bardo—for real. You couldn't make it up—necromancers, mad actors, frauds, true believers, and, in the middle, the greatest President." —Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln

The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes

...

"Famed illusionist Harry Houdini embarks on a quest to investigate spiritual phenomena and the possibility of communication with those on the "other side.""--

"Out of the Shadows tells the stories of six enterprising Victorian women whose apparent ability to move between the realms of the dead and the living allowed them to cross rigid boundaries of gender and class, and to summon unique political voices. The clairvoyance of the Fox sisters from upstate New York inspired some of the era's best-known female suffrage activists and set off an international séance craze. Emma Hardinge Britten left behind a...

A vivid account of the spiritual Lincoln and his search for answers midst personal and national crisis. This book digs deeply into the documented records of Lincoln's involvement with mediums, and sets forth a preponderance of evidence suggested he was indeed guided by benevolent spirits in his most crucial decisions. It dissects the testimony and leaves the reader with evidence stongly favoring spirit communication and influence.