Archpriest Grigory M Dyachenko / Chad Zimmerman
Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
A count’s shade appears at a window in Riga at the exact hour of his death, hundreds of miles away. The poet Pushkin and a companion, trading jokes at religion’s expense, are disarmed mid-sentence by a stranger none of the household servants ever saw come in or go out. In a German castle, a pale woman in white speaks only once a century, and only to pronounce judgment.On Spirit-Seeing gathers seventeen such accounts, collected from court memoirs, provincial newspapers, the records of the London Society for Psychical Research, and the Russian spiritualist journal Rebus. It appears here in English for the first time.Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko was not a sensationalist, and this is not a ghost book. He was a parish priest and a serious churchman, compiler of the standard Church Slavonic dictionary, and he assembled these accounts to argue a plain claim against the materialism of his age: that death is not the end of the person, and that the testimony of ordinary people, taken carefully and in quantity, is worth attending to.This volume presents chapter fourteen of his 784-page From the Realm of the Mysterious, followed by his own appendix weighing the explanations available in 1900, and by notes tracing every source he cites. A translator’s foreword sets Dyachenko in his moment and marks where his answers fall short.
