Abstract On 15 July 1908 The Times advertised a talk on ‘personal experiences in spirit-photography and the scientific aspect of spiritualism’, due to take place that night at Eustace Miles Restaurant. Attendees could look forward not only ‘exhibitions spirit writing’, but also enjoying ‘flesh-free’ meal afterwards. This entertainment speaks confluence spiritualist belief vegetarian ideals was ...

Nineteenth-century Spiritualism was a watershed moment in which many of the keywords our communication vocabulary—“medium,” “channel,” and “communication” itself—were first given fleshly ghostly form spiritualist séance, early on likened to “spiritual telegraph.” Throughout this period, newfangled ghosts infrastructures (including telegraph, but also equally novel postal service) developed tand...

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace independently discovered natural selection, and a set of common experiences surely contributed to that event. But, there were also major differences in their life-experience as collectors and travelers, their socio-political commitments, and their personal styles. The present paper is focused on, what is, perhaps, the most fundamental area of disagreemen...

The 19th century has been a shift in sight, observation and perception. It change from the rational way of seeing to subjective physiological seeing, perception expression. This also process for spiritualists who used their bodies communicate with spirits. Different disciplines professions have formed invention photography. For this very reason, combined photography physiology, technology as “m...

Around the year 1900, European discourse on art was becoming increasingly ‘esotericized’. The 1890s saw esoteric salons create a sensation in Paris, and critics theorists painted picture of true artist esotericist as overlapping figures. There also at time conflict regarding mediumistic art, phenomenon initially made popular through Spiritualist mediums. This debate, we shall see, had interesti...