Great ad for W.H. Bach’s “Psyche: The Mysterious Cabinet” from the 1890s. What’s great about this ad is that it came from Bach’s own archive of Spiritualist newspapers and documents, which he meticulously collected and preserved when he noticed that the historical record of the early Spiritualist movement was vanishing. Using his position as the founding Secretary of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, he put the call out to member to send old materials to him, and the archive was stored in the attic of the NSAC headquarters in the famous Spiritualist community, Lily Dale. Seeing these requests in the historical record, my associates and I in IAPSOP (the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist & Occult Periodicals—yes we’re a real thing!) rediscovered the existence of Bach’s accumulated and hidden archive, but were denied access many times over until I paid them a personal visit accompanied by the ever-charming Ms. @chloe___alexis. The introduction led to a friendship with the then-Secretary, Bach’s successor many times over, and my colleagues and I were granted access to the trove to digitally scan and preserve them, which are now available for free download at IAPSOP.com. It was an amazing adventure to gain access to a true lost treasure of my discipline’s history, and the tens of thousands of pages of new information we recovered has proven invaluable to scholars. As for Bach’s board, it is a fantastic hand-crafted piece free some nails or metal of any sort, so as to not interfere with spiritual transmissions, and the hollow bottom was designed to accumulate and focus the medium’s Odic force to facilitate communication from beyond. Stay tuned and I’ll post the world’s only know surviving specimen from my collection! #planchette #talkingboard #seance #spiritualism #ouija #occult #psychic #odicforce #psyche #haunt #paranormal https://www.instagram.com/p/B1yXn31Fnvx/?igshid=1qrqofl4yzahu
