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Periodical: Borderland

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Borderland.
A Quarterly Review and Index / Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Crystal Gazing, Hypnotism, Automatic Writing / A Review of Spiritiualism, Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Psychics..
To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the sea-shore while the immense Ocean of Truth lay unexplored before me. -Issac Newton
1893-1897 Quarterly
London, England. Language: English.
Editor: William Thomas Stead.

1/1, July 1893-4/4, October 1897. Stead (1849-1912), founded and edited The Review of Reviews and other journals which devoted considerable space to spiritualism and psychic matters, and then started Borderland for more extensive elaboration of those subjects. The journal included, notably, articles by George Wyld, John Yarker (on "The Occult Side of Freemasonry"), Franz Hartmann (on "Demon Lovers"), Col. H.S. Olcott (on "Theosophy"), pieces on magic mirrors, portraits of "Borderlanders" (Annie Besant, H.P. Blavatsky, R.L. Stevenson, Mollie Fancher), accounts of the travails of the Theosophical Society, etc. It also first published "Letters from Julia," Stead's own experiences with the spirit of Julia Ames and with automatic writing. Undeterred by his death on the Titanic, Stead continued to appear at seances after his death.

Other Sources:NYPL; LOC; ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol; Frankfurt/M UB.
Issues:Borderland V1 Index
Borderland V1 N1 July 1893
Borderland V1 N2 October 1893
Borderland V1 N3 January 1894
Borderland V1 N4 April 1894
Borderland V1 N5 July 1894
Borderland V1 N6 October
Borderland V2 Index
Borderland V2 N7 (N1) January 1895
Borderland V2 N8 (N2) April 1895
Borderland V2 N9 (N3) July 1895
Borderland V2 N10 (N4) October 1895
Borderland V3 Index
Borderland V3 N1 January 1896
Borderland V3 N2 April 1896
Borderland V3 N3 July 1896
Borderland V3 N4 October 1896
Borderland V4 N1 January 1897
Borderland V4 N2 April 1897
Borderland V4 N3 July 1897
Borderland V4 N4 October 1897
Claude-Generated Themes:   Borderland (1893–1897) was W. T. Stead's popular London quarterly, a deliberately democratic survey of everything at the edge of the psychic — spiritualism and mediumship above all, but also hypnotism and suggestion, clairvoyance and animal magnetism, occult and Theosophical currents, astrology, and spirit photography. Its dominant register is spiritualist phenomena canvassed for the general reader, framed as an inclusive psychical inquiry rather than a laboratory science, with an eye to the movement's public standing and its power 'to appeal to all classes.' Where the Society for Psychical Research addressed specialists, Stead set out to bring the whole borderland of the unseen to a mass audience. Across the taxonomy it reads first as spiritualism and popular psychical research, with substantial hypnotic, mesmeric, and occult veins and lighter astrological and spirit-photography interests.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Automatic Writing and Channeling | Freemasonry and Masonic Orders | Hypnotism and Suggestion | Spiritualism | Theosophy