Theos-Talk Archives (December 1999 Message tt00035)

It is hoped that all Theosophical readers of this posting will spread the word

about this new site. Tell your friends and colleagues. Please bookmark the site
for future reference.

A series of booklets will be published. The first two in the series have recently

been issued:

OCCULTISM AND SPIRITUALISM. ( A Review of A.P. Sinnett's "The Occult

World" by William Stainton Moses.)

THE MYSTERY OF STAINTON MOSES by Leslie Price.

Ordering information can be found at these URLs:

http://www.psypioneer.com/Subscriptions/Subscription.htm

http://www.psypioneer.com/News/News.htm

The Press Release follows.

Daniel H. Caldwell

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PSYCHIC PIONEER GOES LIVE

A web site concerned exclusively with the pioneers of the psychic world has
now transferred to a permanent home - http://www.psypioneer.com.

The aim of the site is to promote new research into the early workers of
such movements as Mesmerism, Spiritualism and Theosophy. The Spiritual
Truth Foundation gave a grant for software used on the site, while the
College of Psychic Studies made possible the domain name. The Society for
Psychical Research opened its archives for the material in the first
booklet issued by the new project - a review by Stainton Moses in which he
discloses how occult (not psychic) training ruined his health!

" We cannot provide answers to all historical questions" explained editor
Leslie Price " That is a big reason for starting the project. We want the
help of students all over the world in tracing lost material and solving
historical mysteries that are sometimes as puzzling as the phenomena
themselves.

" It is also a little shocking to realise how little is known about basic
facts in the lives of such major figures as Andrew Jackson Davis or Emma
Hardinge Britten. Reference books often repeat the confusions. Not many
people know that Davis for example had three wives, and this is not just a
personal detail - his relations with them had a big impact on the fate of
his Harmonial Philosophy. "

As previously reported in PW, the project has already confirmed the date of
birth of Emma Hardinge Britten and focused attention on a forgotten early
book by Davis.

" We are concentrating first on the Victorians" explained Leslie" because
their records are most vulnerable to destruction. But we are also interested
in more recent history."

The project will publish in March a detailed critique of the 1960s case of
Arthur Guirdham and his Cathar past lives (expanded and updated from an
investigation first made in " Reincarnation International").

The web site is designed by Tony Hern who first met Price in the Psychic
Youth Group at the College of Psychic Studies in 1968, where Price was
librarian. Others encouraging the project are Don Galloway (who was then CPS
assistant secretary) and Roy Stemman (who chaired the PYG Spiritualist Task
Force). Financial support for the booklets has come from a PW reader who in
1968 was a course lecturer at CPS.

Printer, and Pioneer booklet distributor David Ellis was then an early
researcher into the electronic voice phenomenon. He was the first printer of
" The Christian Parapsychologist" in 1975 and has recently played a major
part in the production of the SPR's Scole Report.

" This is a collaborative venture which we hope everyone will support,"
concluded Leslie" Perhaps surprisingly, the past is always changing. The
new project uses the latest technology, but is the fruition of threads woven
thirty years ago."

Theos-World A new Web Site on Mesmerism, Spiritualism and Theosophy