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Andrew Jackson Davis (August 11, 1826 – January 13, 1910) was an American Spiritualist, born in Blooming Grove, New York . Early years. Davis was the son of a shoemaker and had little education. [1] . From age 14, Davis claimed to be able to diagnose illness via clairvoyance. [1] .
11 de may. de 2018 · Davis, Andrew Jackson [1] (1826-1910) Medium, channel, and one of the founders of modern Spiritualism. He was born August 11, 1826, at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York [2]. Young Davis had gifts of clairvoyance and heard voices at an early age.
27 de oct. de 2023 · The small but very influential group of Spiritualists associated with the seer Andrew Jackson Davis offer a fascinating window into popular construals of religion and world religions—here, internally oriented, naturalized, and evolutionary—taking shape amid increasing globalization and the challenge of scientific materialism.
Andrew Jackson Davis: Prophet of American Spiritualism. American Spiritualism. ROBERT W. DELP. AA CCOMPANYING the various religious, social, and political experiments which caused historians to call the fourth decade of the nineteenth century the "mad forties" was a wave of Spiritualism which left a lasting impres-
Seventy-five years later, the 19 th century American seer Andrew Jackson Davis, who would become known as the “John the Baptist of Modern Spiritualism,” combined these two ideologies, claiming...
15 de feb. de 2018 · Learn how a shoemaker from New York became a controversial mystic and inspired Edgar Allan Poe with his Spiritualist claims of communicating with the dead and seeing into space. Discover his unorthodox methods, his controversial books, and his influence on American culture.
This chapter studies Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), often cited as the philosopher-theologian of American spiritualism, who early displayed susceptibilities to mesmeric trance. In the mid-1840s, he delivered a series of trance-produced lectures in New York City, which were transcribed and published in the huge Nature’s Divine Revelations.