The substantiality of spirit: Georgiana Houghton's pictures from the other side

[prismatic]

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-substantiality-of-spirit/

[trilbyglens]

I love this. So much real history has been buried under social norms. Swept under the rug for later generations to rediscover. How much more of our real history is just waiting to be uncovered.

[Mistletoe]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchette

For people unfamiliar with the term like I was.

[nonrandomstring → Mistletoe]

There are interesting parallels between automatic writing. electronic voice phenomena [0], "hallucinations" obtained in generative systems seeded with noise and the misinterpretation of "chatter" in intelligence analysis. The common factor is that "We see/hear what we want to". It happens wherever there are imperceptible biases impinging on the system. A nice portrayal is the ad-lib construction of Keyser Soze's character in the Usual Suspects [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_phenomenon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects

[mistermann → nonrandomstring]

It's certainly not limited to just these forms either...and the recursive, self-referential nature of the phenomenon makes it very tricky to analyze.

[nprateem]

I saw a great documentary with a séance in. The participants contacted a medieval Welsh monk who was providing fascinating answers... He couldn't say a single word in Welsh though when asked (all the participants were English). They certainly convinced me :-D

[flir]

I was expecting spirit photography. These are stunning.