Stefan Dardik is an avid collector of spirit magic, seance equipment and seance history, and his writings have appeared in the PEA newsletter "Vibrations", the bizarre magick journal "Oracle", and several Neal Scryer books, to name just a few places you may have seen his work. The Pro Shop is pleased to present essential Golden Age manuscripts from Stefan Dardik that lay bare the inner workings of the dark seance, a critical component of any theatrical seance presentation.

This manuscript is a rare Robert Nelson publication that mysteriously disappeared from Nelson catalogs in 1946...


RaMayne's Spirit Manifestations

RaMayne, of course, was one of Robert Nelson's performing pseudonyms. In addition to being a seasoned performer, private reader, and radio psychic, he was also a masterful writer of ad copy. Here's how he described Spirit Manifestations in Nelson Enterprises Catalog 19...

"Weird, eerie and baffling pseudo spirit manifestations are easy to accomplish, and with very little preparation or expense, once you know how! Dr. RaMayne, eminent authority on Pseudo-spiritism here reveals many of the inner secrets of the 'spook parlors', including a few of the never-before revealed effects.

The full range of spirit manifestations are discussed, explained and amplified in this work. Including manifestations, Spirit Light, new sound effects, 'bees', slate writing, ectoplasm, materialization and a bevy of luminous effects.

Supplementing the strange revelations of the Spirit parlor is a section devoted to spirit tricks, materializations, etc., with ordinary luminous paint. This section is most complete and should prove of immense value to the ghost worker."

Whether you are already offering a seance to your clients, thinking about adding a seance to your catalog of services, or just a student of mentalism's diverse history, Spirit Manifestations will be a valuable resource for you.

Here's a partial listing of the contents of Spirit Manifestations...

• Opening the seance

• How to arrange the seance circle

• What's wrong with most seances

• How to froth at the mouth (!)

• Spirit rapping

• Message bearing

• Use of slates

• The best reaching rod

• Materialization of spirit images

• Pre-seance work

• How to produce spirit sounds

• Spirit sensations

• Luminous apparitions

"I am so delighted that you are doing what's necessary to preserve this material in a more future-friendly digital format.

Lee Earle


Blessed Be...

Many seances of the day emphasized the fact that the seance medium was securely tied before the lights went out. While Nelson was very thorough in describing how he presented a seance, he didn't go into detail on how to get loose from the ropes that prevented him from engaging in any shenanigans, preferring instead to promote his "Instantaneous Spirit Tie".

We wanted to go above and beyond, however, so included in this re-issue is S.W. Reilly's Spirit Rope Ties: An Expose of Secret Methods, in which he gives step-by-step, illustrated instructions on six different methods for escaping the ties that bind.

In addition to the Spirit Manifestations and Spirit Rope Ties manuscripts, we added a section that features the original ads for the Nelson products promoted in Spirit Manifestations, including Nelson's Spirit Rapper, Floating Spirit Faces, the Phantom Ghost Projector, Spirit Trumpets, Ectoplasm, Luminous Novelties, Spirit Slates, and more. The artwork for these ads is, in a word, priceless.

For some people (myself included), part of the "Nelson Experience" is in the look and feel -- and smell -- of the original manuscript. Typed up on the most advanced typewriter of the day and run off on a mimeograph machine, there is just something about reading Nelson's devious methods in their original form that can't be described. Unfortunately, we can't duplicate the feel or smell of the original manuscript, but we have included a section that contains scans of Spirit Manifestations that recreate the anticipation and discovery that came with every order placed with Nelson Enterprises.

All in all, this 54-page e-book is all you'd really need to start presenting your own Dark Seance.





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