Mike Lamp

Historical background and foundational material on psychic traditions, notable figures, early theories, and how these ideas developed over time 📜

Criswell: Hollywood’s Most Fearless Psychic Predictor He wore a glittering tuxedo, stared straight into the camera, and confidently declared that the world would end on August 18, 1999. That was one of countless bold predictions from The Amazing Criswell a psychic showman who turned clairvoyance into pure theater. In the golden age of television mediums, […]

What Is 19th Century American Spiritualism 19th Century American Spiritualism was a belief system centered on the idea that the living could communicate with the dead through mediums. These communications were said to occur during séances, table rappings, trance speaking, and other public or private demonstrations. Unlike earlier religious traditions, the movement presented itself as […]

The Fox Sisters and the Commercialization of Psychic Phenomena In the mid-nineteenth century, psychic belief did not spread quietly through private faith or personal conviction. It moved through rented halls, ticketed demonstrations, and newspaper columns that treated unexplained events as public entertainment. The Fox Sisters did not invent belief in spirits, but they were among […]