Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Other religions

Authors: Hester Travers Smith In Year : 1924

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

Foreword, Preface, and Introduction
Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 1
Chapter I: The Psychic Messages and Automatic Writings of Oscar Wilde - part 2
Chapter II: The Automatic Writing
Chapter III: The Ouija Board
Chapter IV: The Sub-Conscious
Chapter V: Cryptesthesia
Chapter VI: The Spiritist Explanation
Chapter VII: To the Public
Appendices

Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the spirits of various celebrities. In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, she reproduces the text of her "conversations" with the Irish poet and playwright, conducted via a Ouija board and automatic writing. Wilde proves just as talkative after death as he was in life. His spirit revels in the complements paid to his work by Travers Smith and her colleagues, describes how it feels to exist without a body, and pronounces James Joyce's recently published novel Ulysses a "great bulk of filth". Listeners who are primarily interested in the conversations, rather than Travers Smith's lengthy discussion of them, are directed to Chapter 1 and the Appendices. - Summary by Rob Marland