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Periodical: Psychic Truth

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Psychic Truth.
Devoted to a Higher Understanding of the Psychic Laws of Nature.
And the Truth Shall Make You Free
1920--1922?
Lily Dale, NY.
Language: English.
Editor: Seymour J. Richardson; Merle Ashe Atwood, associate editor.
1/1, March 1920.
$1.00 a year (for 5 quarters), 46 pp.

This was the organ of the insurgent National Association of Free Psychics, a loose affiliation of psychics in western New York and Pennsylvania led by Richardson and headquartered in Buffalo. Its complaint with the established spiritualist organizations seems to have been the latter's attempt to limit spiritualism to the spirits, to the exclusion of the development of "Psychic Power" and "psychic unfoldment." Contributions by Richardson and Ashwood, and by May Morse-Burke, Joseph G. Wind, Rev. Mrs. E. Erhardt, et al., as well as by Alexander James-McIvor Tyndall, and extensive listings and directories of affiliated spiritualist and psychic congregations in the area. The journal carried an advertisement for the "Syco-Graf," "the Psychic Machine; a Mechanical Ouija" with "dual revolving indicators" that "register micro-psychic impressions too delicate For other devices." Five dollars.

Other Sources:Skidmore Library, Lily Dale.
Issues:Psychic Truth V1 N1 Mar 1920
Psychic Truth V1 N2 Jun 1920
Psychic Truth V1 N13 Sep 1920
Psychic Truth V2 N5 Mar 1921
Psychic Truth V2 N7 Dec 1922
Psychic Truth V2 N8 Mar 1922
Psychic Truth V2 N9 Jun 1922
Claude-Generated Themes:   Psychic Truth is a Spiritualist periodical carrying the full séance-room register — mediumship, spirit-controls, materializations and messages on the survival of personality after death — but filtered through the optimistic self-culture of turn-of-the-century New Thought, with its talk of 'success,' 'demonstration,' 'the silence' and the subconscious. Clairvoyance and magnetic treatment add a minor mesmeric strand. It belongs to that large hybrid class of American papers where Spiritualism and mind-cure share the same columns, addressing the reader as much about realizing one's own higher nature as about proving communication with the dead.

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