Mesmerism and Christian Science by Frank Podmore - 9781108072465

Mesmerism and Christian ScienceA Short History of Mental Healing\nAuthor(s): Frank Podmore\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108072465, 978-1108072465\nSynopsis\nFor most of his life a clerk in the post office, Frank Podmore [tel] was a prolific author on psychical research. As an undergraduate Podmore became interested in spiritualism, and he joined the British National Association of Spiritualists. Eventually disillusioned by that society, Podmore co-founded several organisations: the Progressive Association (in 1882); the Fellowship of the New Life [tel]; and, spurred by his desire to see political change, the Fabian Society [tel]. Podmore's membership in the Society for Psychical Research influenced his activities and interests, and he spent the next twenty years investigating and writing on psychical phenomena. Podmore's two-volume Modern Spiritualism (also reissued in this series) is a so.