Showing posts with label William Stainton Moses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Stainton Moses. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The way to Love and Inner Peace is through Forgiveness.
"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."
Thursday, June 27, 2013
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
Friday, February 3, 2012
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.
Psychography.
The Reverend William Stainton Moses (1839-1892), was an English clergyman and Spiritualist. Educated at Bedford School, University College School, London and Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in 1870.He attended his first séance with Miss Lottie Fowler in 1872. Charles Williams and D. D. Home were the next mediums he visited. Five months after his introduction to spiritualism, he had his first experience of levitation. The automatic scripts of Moses began to appear in his books Spirit Teachings and Spirit Identity. The scripts date from 1872 to 1883 and fill twenty-four notebooks. All but one have been preserved by the London Spiritualist Alliance.
Moses published Psychography. A Treatise on One of the Objective Forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena in 1878. In it, he coins the term "psychography" (from psycho- + -graphy) for the spiritist concept of channeling messages from the dead via automatic writing (also known as "independent writing", "direct writing" or "spirit writing".)
In 1881-1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research, with Edmund Rogers and Sir William Barrett. Its early members included F. W. H. Myers, Henry Sidgwick, and Edmund Gurney.
In 1884, he was a founding member, together with Rogers, of the London Spiritualist Alliance, afterwards the College of Psychic Studies.
Under the pen name M.A. Oxon, William Stainton Moses published the following books on spiritualism:
• Spirit Identity (1879)
• Psychography (1882)
• Spirit Teachings (1883)
• Higher Aspects of Spiritualism (1880)
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