Andrew Jackson Davis - The First American Prophet and Clairvoyant

by John DeSalvo

The Life and Works of Andrew Jackson Davis. Also read about Abraham Lincoln's involvement in Spiritualism and his prophetic dreams. This book contains over 90 illustrations.

217 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2006

Reviews

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Andrew Jackson Davis is considered the father of American Spiritualism. Which I guess means the seance in the smoking room after supper type affair that the upper classes fancied. He was an ordinary enough lad who after being hypnotised became aware of the upper spheres and could communicate with the spiritual world and wrote a whole load of books in channel mode with a whole load of predictions, some of which potentially have been realised. DeSalvo seems a little uncritical in his acceptance of what Davis wrote, where Davis himself was cautious to stress that his work shouldn't be taken for gospel. Actually, DeSalvo's part of this book should be discarded and instead read the appendices only. This book did serve the purpose of making me interested in reading Davis' work but I dare say I'll never pick up another of DeSalvo's.

Oh, and apparently Lincoln was into seances, by the way.