Project Gutenberg 2025-04-18 Public domain in the USA. 278 Bland, Oliver 20017101 The adventures of a modern occultist $bDodd, Mead and Company, $c1920. Published in the England under title: Secrets of occultism. deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Adventures of a Modern Occultist" by Oliver Bland is a collection of personal accounts and explorations into occult and psychic phenomena, written in the early 20th century. Its core topic is the investigation of spiritualism, psychic experiences, and occult practices from the perspective of an engaged and experienced researcher. The book is likely to appeal to readers interested in spiritualist history, supernatural occurrences, and the boundary between science and the mystical. The opening of this book establishes the author's motivation as both a student and practitioner of occultism, emphasizing a careful and reluctant approach to sharing esoteric knowledge with the public. The introduction makes clear that the book aims to share selected experiences from the author's diaries, highlighting unusual cases and the complexities surrounding spiritual phenomena, skepticism, and the ethics of disclosure. The first main chapter, "The Dead Rapper," tells a detailed story of a haunting involving a persistent spirit and a troubled living man, focusing on the struggle to resolve a disturbing supernatural communication through séances and psychological confrontation. Subsequent sections introduce topics such as automatic writing, materialization of spirit light, experiments with spiritualist instruments, and the contentious role of sex, morality, and deceit in the spiritual realm, all approached with a blend of narrative anecdote and critical analysis. The tone is investigative, sometimes skeptical, and often concerned with separating genuine phenomena from misinterpretation or fraud, making the opening both accessible and thought-provoking for those interested in occult investigations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/adventuresofmode00blan 20231217125132bland 1920 Reading ease score: 56.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Spiritualism Occultism BF Text Category: Biographies Category: Psychiatry/Psychology Category: Religion/Spirituality 303104 2025-07-30T05:46:06.115077 text/html 277217 2025-04-18T02:36:55 text/html 366480 2025-07-30T05:46:12.003037 application/epub+zip 363363 2025-07-30T05:46:07.467074 application/epub+zip 354696 2025-07-30T05:46:06.708060 application/epub+zip 1178065 2025-07-30T05:46:15.272039 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1155912 2025-07-30T05:46:11.313038 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 263870 2025-07-30T05:46:05.330089 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 243949 2025-04-18T02:36:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16324 2025-07-30T05:46:15.457002 application/rdf+xml 14357 2025-07-30T05:46:06.934043 image/jpeg 2117 2025-07-30T05:46:06.818047 image/jpeg 931138 2025-07-30T05:46:06.148106 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog