American Seers

American Seers

The Poughkeepsie Seer

On Andrew Jackson Davis, the first systematic American visionary, who mapped the spirit world before Spiritualism existed and whose cosmology anticipated everything that came after

American Seers

The Rappings

On the Fox Sisters, the birth of American Spiritualism, and what the most controversial religious movement of the nineteenth century was actually asking

American Seers

The Seth Material

On Jane Roberts, the entity who spoke through her, and the channeled cosmology that has quietly shaped how millions of Americans understand consciousness and reality

American Seers

The Secret Teachings

On Manly P. Hall, the encyclopedia he wrote at twenty-seven, and the Los Angeles institution that has quietly preserved the Western esoteric tradition for a century

American Seers

The Imaginal Act

On Neville Goddard, the Barbadian mystic who taught that the human imagination is God, and whose radical reading of scripture as psychology anticipated depth therapy by decades

American Seers

The Man in the Chair

On Edgar Cayce — the Sunday school teacher from Kentucky who accurately diagnosed illnesses from hundreds of miles away while unconscious, left 14,306 transcribed readings in an archive in Virginia Beach, and accidentally became the most documented case of trance-state information retrieval in the h