Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

Hester Travers Smith

Sprache: English

Genres: Sachbücher Andere Religionen Religion

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1. Foreword, Preface, and Introduction
2. Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 1
3. Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 2
4. Chapter II: The Automatic Writing
5. Chapter III: The Ouija Board
6. Chapter IV: The Sub-Conscious
7. Chapter V: Cryptesthesia
8. Chapter VI: The Spiritist Explanation
9. Chapter VII: To the Public
10. Appendices

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Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the spirits of various celebrities. In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, she reproduces the text of her "conversations" with the Irish poet and playwright, conducted via a Ouija board and automatic writing. Wilde proves just as talkative after death as he was in life. His spirit revels in the complements paid to his work by Travers Smith and her colleagues, describes how it feels to exist without a body, and pronounces James Joyce's recently published novel Ulysses a "great bulk of filth". Listeners who are primarily interested in the conversations, rather than Travers Smith's lengthy discussion of them, are directed to Chapter 1 and the Appendices. - Summary by Rob Marland