Voices of Spirit: Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt

Elwood Babbitt is a trance medium through whom the spirits of famous persons such as Mark Twain, Einstein, and Wordsworth have spoken. For many years, spiritually minded people sought him for life readings in which he would look back through the individual's past and previous lives and offers advice based on clairvoyant knowledge.

In Voices of Spirit Charles Hapgood discusses fifteen years of work with Elwood Babbitt. He relates the phenomenon of trance mediums to recent research in parapsychology and examines Babbitt's mediumship in depth. Two long chapters devoted to the mechanics of spirit communication, including the role of "controls" (spirits closer to the earthly plane who guide the medium) and a careful description of how images and spirit voices enter Babbitt's mind will fascinate both the curious skeptic and the believer. Full-length transcripts of communications that came through trances are included in this volume.