Category: Cora Richmond
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The Day After Death
Here are a few excerpts from a talk given via the mediumship of Cora L. V. Richmond in Chicago on January 17, 1881. I’ve read many tales of the dying experience, but this luminous account is one of the most beautifully eloquent. Below are quotations from the death experience of the writer and poet Epes…
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Vibration in Spiritualist Discourse
In a discussion on Michael Tymn’s excellent blog on White Crow Books, the subject of “vibrations” was discussed as to when the term first came into use in the spiritualist world. I used Google’s Notebook LM across a large series of trance lectures given via the mediumship of Cora L. V. Richmond. Here is what…
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Why Cora?
I was asked recently “why the interest in Cora?”, referring to the 19th century trance medium Cora L. V. Richmond. I am very interested in the “century of miracles” that constituted the heyday of Spiritualism beginning in 1847. Truth is a stable currency. Though its expression down through the ages is coined in language appropriate…
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“The Three M’s: Mammon, Millionaires, and Murder.”
Here are a few excerpts from a talk given via the mediumship of Cora L. V. Richmond in Chicago on March 4, 1888. If intelligence, or love, or truth, or justice, by some possible miracle should be the mortal standard controlling mankind does any one suppose that there would be any jealousy because of too…
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Summary of Cora L. V. Richmond’s Life
1840–1923 The following summary is courtesy of the Google Gemini AI and is derived from the book The Life Work of Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond. I have verified the accuracy of the following summary. A more detailed biography is contained in the article Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan’s Experiences as a Medium. As the disclaimer at the bottom of the…