Occultism and Common- Sense

In Occultism and Common-Sense by Beckles Willson, the author examines the widespread interest in spiritualism, psychic phenomena, and occult practices that captured public imagination in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than accepting such claims at face value, Willson approaches them with a critical and investigative eye.

Surveying séances, mediums, spirit communications, and other supposed manifestations of supernatural power, he explores how these phenomena were p...