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Periodical: Progression

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Progression.
1932 Quarterly
St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. Language: English.
Publisher: The Radiant Healing Centre. Editor: Jennie O’Hara Jennie O'Hara Pincock; F.E. Hetherington, 1935.
1/1, 1932. $1.00 a year, which included membership in the Radiant Healing Center and "any helpful instructions that may arise during the year in the Mother Centre."

The Centre practiced daily "withdrawal into the Silence, and a twice monthly concentration (simultaneous with the meeting of the Mother Circle)," and would send private instructions to members on request. Pincock had earlier written Trails of Truth, her verbatim account of seances with the independent voice medium William Cartheuser, and the first issue of the journal, called the "William Cartheuser Series" on "Healing and Self-Unfoldment," was written (and copyrighted) by him. Cartheuser's earlier success before the A.S.P.R. in 1926 was somewhat dimmed when one of his communicating spirits was found to be alive. Pincock broke with the journal in 1935 after realizing that Cartheuser's mediumship was fraudulent.

Other Sources:Skidmore Library, Lily Dale.
Issues:Progression V1 N1 1932 and an alternative version
Progression V2 N7 No Date
Progression V5 Lesson 20 1937 Aug-Nov
Progression V5 Lesson 20 1938 Feb
Claude-Generated Themes:   Progression was the house organ of William Cartheuser's Radiant Healing Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario, a Spiritualist direct-voice medium's magazine organized around 'Healing and Self-Unfoldment.' Its language braids New Thought mind-power — concentration, the subconscious, the silence, thought-force — with Spiritualist proofs of survival and spirit-control, all in service of a faith-healing program. An occult overlay of the astral body and brotherhood rounds it out. It reads less as a phenomena-hunting paper than as a devotional healing-and-unfoldment magazine promising personal spiritual growth backed by evidence of the surviving dead.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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