Modern Spiritualism, which held that the spirits of former humans could communicate with the living, originated in Hydesville, New York, in 1848,
when the Fox family’s youngest daughters, Maggie and Kate, communicated with the spirit of a murdered peddler through an improvised form of rapping sounds. Touted as the religion of the future, it taught that people were animals by accident and that their true birthright was as spirit. [Read John S. Haller, Jr., Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become a Science (Monee, IL: Amazon Books, 2020).]The Fox Sisters Property/Hydesville Memorial Park
The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism Their seances with the departed launched a mass religious movement—and then one of them confessed that “it was common delusion”
William Walker Atkinson: An Intellectual
Biography
by John S. Haller, Jr.
New Thought, Law of
Attraction, his development during the period.
Following the World’s Parliament of Religions which met for
seventeen days during the Columbian Exhibition of 1893, drawing more than
175,000 visitors to its lectures, …, Atkinson capitalized on this newest
interest by writing articles under his own name and using the pseudonyms of
Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Bhakta Vishita, SwamiPanchadasi, Theron Q. Dumont, the
Three Initiates, Magus Incognito, L. W. de Laurence, and Theodore Sheldonto carry his message. Of
all his pseudonyms, the books by Ramacharaka and Vishita were among the most
popular and many remain in print today.
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