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2025-10-19T16:13:17-04:00

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VII

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 4:13 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VII As the proverb goes: “The further into the forest, the more firewood there is.” This is true for me. When I began my story about various kinds of “inexplicable” events that illustrated my relatively not very long life with pictures that were not quite ordinary, I never thought that I had such a rich and varied collection of them! I have said almost nothing about the very strange phenomena of mediumship, and other similar... Read more

2025-10-19T16:12:58-04:00

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VI

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 4:12 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. VI A few more memories of the “inexplicable” facts of my life, which is rich in them. In the autumn of 1872, I don’t remember the date or month, my husband and I were sitting at the large dining table in the dining room at twelve o’clock in the evening, reading newspapers and magazines. A large lamp brightly illuminated this long, high room from the ceiling. There were no windows in it, but seven large... Read more

2025-10-19T16:12:36-04:00

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. V

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 4:12 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. V I must now return to a very remarkable incident that happened to me earlier. In the spring of 1867, I went to Petersburg to bring my sister Liza, who had finished her course at the institute. Of course, I did not fail to stop in my eternally dear Pskov, where, despite all the life I had lived through in separation, I would still have friends. There were still many of them then! I considered... Read more

2025-10-19T16:12:19-04:00

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. IV

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 4:12 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. IV Having begun this story right from my youth, from the events that most struck my imagination, I now recall that strange things had happened to me before that, which are probably also destined to remain unexplained. For example, from my very childhood, from the first illness that remains in my memory, I remember a vision that subsequently constantly warned me of my illnesses. Did I see it in reality or in a dream? Probably... Read more

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. III

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 4:12 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. III Three years passed. I was again living in Tiflis with my relatives, having come to visit them while my husband, busy with the affairs of his uncle Kandalintsev, had to spend the whole winter in the wilderness, in the Vetluga forests, where I, expecting the birth of my second child, could not follow him. He left Tiflis in the autumn of 1857, and was supposed to return in the spring, but I, I don’t... Read more

2025-10-19T16:11:41-04:00

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. II

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 4:11 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. II Voiskovitsy, the Gatchina estate of my husband’s uncle, was a beautiful manorial village, with an exquisite garden, ponds, and a house with about twenty rooms, at least half of which were always hospitably open to visitors. Guests and merry receptions were never lacking in both the village and city home of N. F. Kandalintsev during the life of the young hostess, but after her death, life became quieter. There was no one for the... Read more

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Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. I

Last updated on: October 19, 2025 at 4:11 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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[An English translation of Vera Petrovna Zhelihovskaya’s “Inexplicable And Unexplained,” which appeared in 15 issues of the Russian journal, Rebus. A survey of some of the supernatural experiences she and her family encountered—S.] Inexplicable & Unexplained Pt. I 1853-1854 Whether they will believe me or not, I do not know; but I will tell only the truth, which I know for certain, without a doubt! We live in such a strange, troubled time, when we constantly hear, and sometimes... Read more

2025-10-17T15:18:09-04:00

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Henry Steel Olcott’s “World Of Spirits”

Last updated on: October 17, 2025 at 3:18 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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~ In 1874, Henry Steel Olcott’s dispatches from the Eddy farmhouse first appeared in the pages of The New York Sun and, soon after, in The New York Daily Graphic. Written as on-the-spot journalism, these reports carried readers into the crowded séance rooms of rural Vermont, where ghostly figures were said to emerge from darkened cabinets and mingle with the living. It was in the midst of this investigation that Olcott first encountered Helena Petrovna Blavatsky—a meeting that would... Read more

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The Unknown Story Of “The Unknown Life Of Jesus Christ”

Last updated on: October 17, 2025 at 6:53 pm By Shawn F. Higgins

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Was Jesus a student of Eastern wisdom? Did the teachings of Buddha and the Vedas leave their mark on the Gospel? In 1894, Russian explorer Nicolas Notovitch stunned the world with a revelation made at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, India—ancient scrolls describing the “lost years” of Jesus, known in the East as Saint Issa. These chronicles told of a young seeker who journeyed through India and Tibet, studying with Brahmins and Buddhists, preaching love and equality, and defying the... Read more

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2025-03-14T11:18:12-04:00

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Childe Helen’s Pilgrimage: Revue Spirite

Last updated on: March 14, 2025 at 11:18 am By Shawn F. Higgins

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REVUE SPIRITE 1858 [Previously] Like Germany, the foundation for Spiritualism in France began with the study of “animal magnetism” and the work of Dr. Franz Mesmer.[1] Among those who continued the study of “mesmerism” was one Baron Jules Dupotet, whose success in treating patients in London with mesmeric cures in 1838 did much to elevate the practice in public opinion.[2] It was said that “a murderer had been tracked, convicted, and executed solely on evidence supplied by one of... Read more

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