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From Pat Deveney's database:
Survival. The journal announced its purpose as the affirmation and explication of the limited idea of "survival": "SURVIVAL is the word chosen to imply the truth that all that is essentially YOU—your Self, your Mind, your Treasury of Memory and acquired Personality—in short, your Character and all that makes you an Individual—survive the loss of the Body and continue in a state of greater activity and freedom." In reality, it seems to have been yet another attempt to interest the American public in psychical research, and suffered the common fate of such ventures. Bond (
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| LOC; University of Texas, Austin; 1/1, August 1935, Skidmore, Lily Dale; 1/2 University of London. | |
| Survival V1 N1 Aug 1935 | |
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Survival was the 1935 organ of the New York Survival Foundation, edited by Frederick Bligh Bond — the Glastonbury Abbey archaeologist who had famously located ruins through automatic writing before turning to psychical work in America. As its title declares, the paper existed to make the case for the survival of the personality after death, and it argued that case through mediumship, the séance, and physical phenomena, reprinting studies of materialization and ectoplasm submitted to the American Society for Psychical Research. It sat at the meeting point of organized Spiritualism and laboratory-minded psychical research, wrapping both in a mission 'for the Reconstruction of the Spirituality of America.' Its trance sittings are the trance of the medium, not the hypnotist, and its talk of 'faculties' concerns the surviving mind rather than the phrenologist's skull. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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