Long before weekend warriors began to hunt lonely graveyards and haunted homes by night, sporting the titles of “ghost hunters” and “paranormal investigators,” and even before there were the parapsychologists of yesteryear hunting ESP and PK in the laboratory, there were the spiritualists. Especially toward the end of the nineteenth century, it was a popular pastime for those interesting in interacting with the neither realm to utilize “spiritual sciences” as medium for contacting the dead.
Today, the methods employed by the spiritualist of yesteryear–namely involving such archaic practices as table tipping, pendulum swinging, automatic writing, Ouija boards and planchette or pointing devices–have largely been cast to the wayside as tools to be utilized in reaching that proverbvial other side. The modern paranormal researcher likely would find these sorts of approaches highly insufficient for use in gathering real data about a presumed haunting today, with the possible exception of psychic mediums who might feel such techniques would “enhance” aspects of their perception. But is it really the case that spiritualist practices of this sort should be thrown to the wayside, having no merit for use today?
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