The way to Love and Inner Peace is through Forgiveness.

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"If two of your friends are on the other side of a thick wall, you may not be able to recognize them by their voices. The wall prevents clear hearing. If you wish to recognize them, the wall must not remain between you and them. This is what we are now doing. In order to recognize the voice of truth, we are removing our psychological wall. For example, by removing traditional but false beliefs, we are able to hear the pure messages of our original nature."

The sealed envelope test; a double blind experiment.

The sealed envelope test was applied to both Leonora Piper and W. Stainton Moses. Information was sealed in envelopes that neither had any knowledge of, nor access to, and they would then talk to the spirit world to obtain the messages

Writing such stuff as dreams are made of.

I’ve already blogged Leonora Piper, here are some quotes of hers that explain the phenomena of trance medium-ship in her own words. It was after a session with Dr.J.R. Cocke (see Post-Hypnotic Suggestion) in 1884 that she had her first trance experience.

They cannot tell us what it is like.

James Hervey Hyslop(1854- 1920) was a professor of logic and ethics and prominent psychical researcher. He was educated at Wooster College, Ohio (B.A., 1877), the University of Leipzig (1882-84), and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1877). He was one of the first American psychologists to connect psychology with psychic phenomena. He joined the philosophy department at Columbia University as a professor in ethics and logic, during which time he became deeply involved with psychical research. As early as 1888, in a skeptical frame of mind, he was brought for the first time into contact with the supernormal through the mediumship of Leonora Piper.

Ancient Mysteries: Recycled bunk or Legitimate?

W. J. Colville (1862–1917)[ William Wilberforce Juvenal Colville] Colbville wrote about the Occult, Theosophy and Spiritism among other things.

This is a curiosity:

A man of conviction.

Horatio Willis Dresser (1866–1945) was a New Thought religious leader and author. Born January 15, 1866 in Yarmouth, Maine to Julius and Annetta Seabury Dresser. His parents were involved in the early New Thought movement through their study with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. In 1921, after the Library of Congress made Quimby's papers available, Dresser compiled and edited a selection of Quimby's works, The Quimby Manuscripts. Dr. David Seabury was his younger brother.
He was described, in an enthusiastic 1900 Atlanta Constitution article, as:

William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James.

In 1909 William James published Expériences d'un Psychiste, a book which relates many experiments that he had with the medium Leonora Piper.