THE SPIRIT ENGINEER - Raps, Levitations and other Psychic Phenomena
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1 review - Guys Hospital Chapel
Description
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Live Music, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
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Tickets from £12.00
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Over 18
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Sat, 19th Mar 2022 @ 16:00 - 18:00
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16:00 - 18:00
The Victorian age is known for its rationalism and scientific innovation, but one of its great legacies to the early decades of the Twentieth Century was a belief in spiritualism. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Queen Victoria herself were adherents, with the Queen communicating with her dead daughter via a medium.
In 1914 scientist and sceptic William Jackson Crawford set out to Belfast with the intention of debunking 16-year-old Irish medium Kathleen Goligher, whose famed seances involved table-turning, levitation and ectoplasm aplenty. His investigations lasted six years and surprisingly he ended up becoming a convert, going on to write scientific books detailing supposed psychic phenomena such as the "cantilever theory of levitation". What happened? Was the professor hoodwinked b y the Golligher family, did he fall in love with Kathleen, bliding his scientific objectivity.. or could her powers have been genuine?
In this talk, writer A J West will discuss his own research into these real-life events, which form the basis of his novel "The Spirit Engineer” - a haunted, twisted tale of power, paranoia, and one ultimate, inescapable truth.
A.J. West
A.J.West is an award-winning former BBC journalist, radio broadcaster and voice artist from Buckinghamshire. He has written for national newspapers and magazines and has appeared on national television programmes, including BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain, This Morning and the legendary reality television show, Big Brother, where he became an instant household name. Last year, his first novel, The Spirit Engineer, was published by Duckworth books who describe his writing as “Gothic, artful and thoroughly-researched”.
Image credit - Kathleen and her spirits courtesy of A.J. West and Kathleen Goligher with ectoplasm and speaking trumpet, W.J. Crawford, 1920. Public domain courtesy of Cambridge University Library.
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The Spirit Engineer
Salon ticket including Gothic Punch |
16:00 - 18:00 | £12.00 |
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Guys Hospital Chapel, Entrance via the Courtyard, St. Thomas Street, London, SE1 9GU
Nearest Station
London Bridge (Tube)
Getting there
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
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