Publisher's Synopsis
It would begin with a rumble of "thunder" followed by a bolt or two of "lightning," shocking them awake. And when they awoke, they would find themselves alert and "alive" inside a woman's body . . . a woman as foreign as the doctor gazing back at them. A doctor who would speak to them about God, earthbound spirits, and the hereafter. The same doctor who would let them know that they were so-called "dead." In his groundbreaking, first book, Thirty Years Among the Dead, psychiatrist Dr. Carl A. Wickland details and documents three decades of psychical research conducted alongside his wife, Anna, from the 1890s through the early 1920s. Considered an authority on the subject of "spirit obsession," Dr. Wickland explores how spirits influence the pathology of mental illness by "obsessing" unsuspecting people who happen to be very sensitive to these unseen influences. First published in 1924, Thirty Years Among the Dead, remains a seminal work in parapsychology. This book is a republication of a standard edition of Thirty Years Among the Dead published in 1924 by the National Psychological Institute, Los Angeles, California.
