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Concerning matters pertaining to that great Movement of Divine Reform known as Spiritualism, orginating from those Excellent Fox Sisters from the Splendid Upstate New York, in which Contact had been made with the Dead in a most Useful fashion that (as We shall see) spread Hither with must Haste across the Country and the Philosophies and Theologies and Phenomena of Such manifest themselves into fictional Narratives in which a balance between Hallucination, the Sciences and Religion is Struck.

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An introduction to Spiritualism (0:00)

Leopoldo Lugones - "An Inexplicable Phenomenon" (1906) (28:54)

Leopoldo Lugones - "The Psychon" (1906) (41:17)

Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg - "The Marvelous Voyage of Mr. Nic-Nac" (1875-76) (50:48)

Marie Corelli - "A Romance of Two Worlds" (1886) (1:37:13)

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Doyle, Arthur Conan - "The History of Spiritualism, Vol. I and II" (1926)

Ferguson, Christine - "Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848–1930" (2012)

Ferreira, Rachel Haywood - "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction" (2011)

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