Publisher's Synopsis
Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World is a book written by Robert Dale Owen, an American politician and social reformer, in 1860. The book is a collection of essays and personal accounts of supernatural experiences and paranormal phenomena. Owen, who was a spiritualist, believed that the dead could communicate with the living and that there was an afterlife. The book includes stories of ghosts, haunted houses, and psychic phenomena, as well as discussions of spiritualism and the nature of the soul. Owen also includes accounts of his own experiences with mediums and seances. The book was controversial at the time of its publication, as many people were skeptical of spiritualism and paranormal phenomena. However, it remains a fascinating historical document and a window into the beliefs and attitudes of the 19th century.1859. Contents Book I. Preliminary: Statement of the Subject; The Impossible; The Miraculous; The Improbable. Contents Book II. Touching Certain Phases of Sleep: Sleep in General; and Dreams. Contents Book III. Disturbances Popularly Termed Hauntings: General Character of the Phenomena; Narratives; and Summing Up. Contents Book IV. Of Appearances Commonly Called Apparitions: Touching Hallucination; Apparitions of the Living; and Apparitions of the Dead. Contents Book V. Indications of Personal Interferences: Retribution; and Guardianship. Contents Book VI. The Suggested Results: The Change at Death.5This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.