“The American Paranormal: Technology, Spiritualism, and the Search for Proof of Life After Death” by Stephen Dietrich-Kolokouris

"From the rise of American Spiritualism to the age of artificial intelligence, humanity has repeatedly turned to technology in its effort to answer one enduring question: Does consciousness survive death?

Historian Stephen Dietrich-Kolokouris traces more than 150 years of American attempts to investigate ghosts, spirits, mediumship, and communication with the dead. Beginning with the Fox sisters and the birth of Spiritualism, the book examines séance culture, spirit photography, psychical research, Electronic Voice Phenomena, psychedelic encounters, modern mediumship, paranormal television, and new technologies designed to detect what may exist beyond ordinary perception.

The American Paranormal approaches extraordinary claims without demanding either belief or dismissal. It documents fraud, exploitation, psychological bias, sincere testimony, unexplained experiences, and evidence that remains intriguing but incomplete.

The result is both a history of American paranormal investigation and an examination of the deeper questions behind it: What is consciousness? Why has the search for survival persisted across generations? What would happen if technology finally produced convincing evidence that death is not the end?"

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