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1854
America, the Northeast. The time, particularly, is important. Think about it: 1854.
- Years before even the civil war, a time of technological innovation.
- No electric lights.
- The safety match was even a year away.
- No elevators.
- The hypodermic syringe and spinal anesthesia was either just developed (the former) or just a little ways away (the latter). So don’t even THINK of getting sick.
- Think coal, wool coats, the Crimean War, legal slavery, and Sir Richard Burton in Mecca and Medina.
Also John Murray Spear.
Go ahead, look him up. If you're lucky, you might find him as a footnote, a side-thought in the spiritualist movement of the time. You know: ghosts, table-turning, trances, automatic writing, levitations ... in other words, spirits. Spear was part of that world, a medium- temperature medium.
Then sometime during that coal and Crimean War year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
America, the Northeast. The time, particularly, is important. Think about it: 1854.
- Years before even the civil war, a time of technological innovation.
- No electric lights.
- The safety match was even a year away.
- No elevators.
- The hypodermic syringe and spinal anesthesia was either just developed (the former) or just a little ways away (the latter). So don’t even THINK of getting sick.
- Think coal, wool coats, the Crimean War, legal slavery, and Sir Richard Burton in Mecca and Medina.
Also John Murray Spear.
Go ahead, look him up. If you're lucky, you might find him as a footnote, a side-thought in the spiritualist movement of the time. You know: ghosts, table-turning, trances, automatic writing, levitations ... in other words, spirits. Spear was part of that world, a medium- temperature medium.
Then sometime during that coal and Crimean War year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
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Go
ahead, look him up. If you’re lucky, you might find him as a footnote, a
side-thought in the spiritualist movement of the time. You know:
ghosts, table-turning, trances, automatic writing, levitations ... in
other words, spirits. Spear was part of that world, a medium-temperature
medium.
Then sometime during that year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
Contacted by a bunch of spirits, with an “apparent mechanical turn of mind”
See in 1854 Spear was contacted by a bunch of spirits, with an “apparent mechanical turn of mind” (to quote A.J. Davis) that included the ghost of Benjamin Franklin: the Association of Electricizers, who commanded him to go forth unto this world and build The New Motor
Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/02/the-new-motor-or-steam-powered-messiah.html#upMoP3GGabdutXcP.99
Then sometime during that year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
Contacted by a bunch of spirits, with an “apparent mechanical turn of mind”
See in 1854 Spear was contacted by a bunch of spirits, with an “apparent mechanical turn of mind” (to quote A.J. Davis) that included the ghost of Benjamin Franklin: the Association of Electricizers, who commanded him to go forth unto this world and build The New Motor
Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/02/the-new-motor-or-steam-powered-messiah.html#upMoP3GGabdutXcP.99
Go
ahead, look him up. If you’re lucky, you might find him as a footnote, a
side-thought in the spiritualist movement of the time. You know:
ghosts, table-turning, trances, automatic writing, levitations ... in
other words, spirits. Spear was part of that world, a medium-temperature
medium.
Then sometime during that year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/02/the-new-motor-or-steam-powered-messiah.html#upMoP3GGabdutXcP.99
Then sometime during that year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/02/the-new-motor-or-steam-powered-messiah.html#upMoP3GGabdutXcP.99
Go
ahead, look him up. If you’re lucky, you might find him as a footnote, a
side-thought in the spiritualist movement of the time. You know:
ghosts, table-turning, trances, automatic writing, levitations ... in
other words, spirits. Spear was part of that world, a medium-temperature
medium.
Then sometime during that year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/02/the-new-motor-or-steam-powered-messiah.html#upMoP3GGabdutXcP.99
Then sometime during that year of 1854 Spear was elevated from mediocrity to the domain of the truly, magnificently ... unusual.
Read more at http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/02/the-new-motor-or-steam-powered-messiah.html#upMoP3GGabdutXcP.99
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