Paschal Beverly Randolph

Paschal Beverly RandolphThis first scholarly work on Randolph includes the full text of his two most important manuscripts on sexual magic. This is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccentric path in the mid nineteenth century from the slums of New York's Five Points to the courts of Europe, where he performed as a spiritualist trance medium. Although self educated, he became one of the first Black American novelists

Is there a philosophically sophisticated way to claim that the survival of consciousness after physical death is not only possible but likely

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Gripping with relatable prose analogous to the many conundrums of growing up

and the epigraphical material

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the author shares her own story

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