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Mystical experience & psychic claims

An account of an experience includes both what is reported and how it is interpreted. Explore claims and observations through their stated sources, attending to the language and evidence each writer provides.

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Theosophical astral cosmology

Spirit Photography

Images attributed to unseen presences, given an etheric explanation by Leadbeater.

Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)

The Pine-tree Lovers of Takasago

Matsue rescues Teoyo beside a pine-tree, and their lifelong companionship continues as a moonlit legend in Davis’s retelling.

Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)

The Violet Well

A rescue at a flower-covered well becomes a tragic love story shaped by social exclusion in Davis’s anthology.

Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater

Thought Vibration

The book’s proposed transmission of a thought’s character through radiating vibration.

Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes

Tolaeth

An ominous sound that anticipates work, death or a funeral procession.

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