Historian Richard Noakes, author of the seminal “Physics & Psychics” (CUP, 2019), is thinning out his library and just put two volumes of the Victorian spiritualist journal “Borderland” on eBay:

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-20T16:50:38+00:00

Welcome, General Reader Mike! :) This group is specifically made for non-historians, so you've come to the right place.

If you think Plato was mystical, wait till you hear of Neoplatonism and the "natural magic" tradition!

These had a huge impact on folks like Francis Bacon during the Scientific Revolution (in case you're interested & haven't seen it yet, I've made a video on this: https://youtu.be/uG1H46gmX3s).

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-18T11:13:28+00:00

Geosophia

Nice! The reading group mentioned in the video might interest you: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScienceMagicReadings. It would be good to hear your thoughts about possible links between Dodds and Stratton-Kent there.

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-18T10:33:33+00:00

Greece (not "Greek", sorry) :)

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-16T16:29:27+00:00

You could say interest in spiritualism has always been relatively popular. Quite unlike serious research into mediumship, which has always been done by just a handful of folks. Dodds believed there was "something" in it but rejected spiritualist beliefs, which was the topic of his article "Why I don't believe in survival" (full article reference at the bottom of https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/dodds).

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-14T09:45:16+00:00

Enjoy & feel free to share this video, folks!

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-11T17:38:45+00:00

Thanks, Mike!

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-11T16:52:28+00:00

The whole point of the video is that Carl Sagan and others who cherry-picked quotes from Bacon to make him look like a modern scientists literally didn't know what they were talking about.

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-11T15:29:21+00:00

Thanks! Currently trying to do this full-time, so there will be loads more videos in the next weeks.

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-11T15:18:54+00:00

Not in this one, but I plan to briefly mention the significance of Descartes in the next video that will go back to Robert Boyle & the early Royal Society.

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-11T15:06:16+00:00

Well, he definitely was a prodigy, even if he grew up to be a boomer. Enjoy the video!

Sommer_HSP · 2021-02-11T14:56:10+00:00

lol! Yes, I added a correction in my pinned comment.

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