I wrote a wee article on the excellent #Ghosts exhibition in Basel. Here's a short video I made on some of the displays: youtu.be/Xy6Uv4o4KyM

Nothing to see here just PERFORMING MAGNETISM advertised in the New York Review of Books

What does Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – a founder of the modern #hospice movement – have to do with the history of spirit visions? Find out in our new video – watch to the end and drop your answer to the quiz in the comments! youtu.be/MrLyco8ndb8

Lol but also not lol. 🥲

Part 1 of our trilogy on spirit visions is streaming now – watch to the end and drop your answer to the quiz in the comments. 😉 I hope you enjoy – if you do, please remember to share widely. youtu.be/MrLyco8ndb8?...

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to a phantasmagorically phantastic #PhantomsFriday - I'm looking forward to some more phascinating and phearful posts next Phriday!

Following up on my video about the Basel #Ghost exhibition, I’m shifting the lens toward a woefully underexplored historical puzzle: How did spirit visions & related experiences go from being dismissed as “insanity” to being explored as modern therapeutic tools? #histmed #histsci #histpsych

This was, I think, the first look-in (albeit a brief one) that fairies have ever had on Uncanny 🧚‍♀️

How the founder of German psychology scoffed & pathologized unorthodox science out of intellectual discourse – and tried to alter the historical record in due course. Plug for my recent article in the @spr1882.bsky.social encyclopedia. www.forbiddenhistories.com/2025/10/wundt

Bring back #UnicornCuddleDay!

Bringing the shadows of history to the screen: 🎥🕵️‍♂️ I offer Historical Consulting services for filmmakers & authors - specializing in the "borderlands" of science & history for true immersion. 👉 www.forbiddenhistories.com/historical-c... #FilmConsultant #History #ForbiddenHistories #ScriptDoctoring

Here's my short video about the exhibition: youtu.be/Xy6Uv4o4KyM. Enjoy!

NEW VIDEO: a short tour through the Art Museum Basel, Switzerland. This exhibition displayed ghost-related artifacts not limited to art & fiction. Rather than a typical art display, the collection offered a focused look at objects that sit on the fringes of traditional history. youtu.be/Xy6Uv4o4KyM

#Spiritualism is often conflated with #theism, but this article about the co-founder of modern #evolution shows that things are often more complex: It suggests #A.R.Wallace viewed spiritualism as a naturalistic framework rather than a religious one. digitalcommons.wku.edu/fac_staff_pa...

Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

Bringing the shadows of history to the screen: 🎥🕵️‍♂️ I offer Historical Consulting services for filmmakers & authors - specializing in the "borderlands" of science & history for true immersion. 👉 www.forbiddenhistories.com/historical-c... #FilmConsultant #History #ForbiddenHistories #ScriptDoctoring

How the founder of German psychology scoffed & pathologized unorthodox science out of intellectual discourse – and tried to alter the historical record in due course. Plug for my recent article in the @spr1882.bsky.social encyclopedia. www.forbiddenhistories.com/2025/10/wundt

Hello! In case you don't know me, I'm a freelance editor, translator, and humanities scholar, specializing in TTRPGs, as well as magic and the occult. My research reconstructs the cosmologies, epistemologies, and practices of historical individuals who engaged with various esoteric disciplines.

Nice: a major exhibition on #ghosts & #spirits in western #art is coming to the #KunstmuseumBasel in my current home town. It’s supposed to kick off on 20 September, so expect to see a brief report & pics.

The Guardian reviews the recent biography of legendary British ghost-hunter, Tony Cornell (the co-author, with the late Alan Gauld, of a classical study of poltergeist cases): www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

New podcast episode: Forgotten pioneers of the subconscious mind (Carl du Prel & Frederic Myers) on temple sleep, oracles, and other ancient magical practices. youtu.be/Cgr0cDxxmGE?... If you enjoyed the episode, please remember to like, share and subscribe! 🙏🥹

In case you guys know something - or know someone who knows something about Hans Christian Andersen & #spirittualism. 🧐

Very cool video! #psychicalresearch #apparitions #spiritphotography #hauntings

New podcast episode: Forgotten pioneers of the subconscious mind (Carl du Prel & Frederic Myers) on temple sleep, oracles, and other ancient magical practices. youtu.be/Cgr0cDxxmGE?... If you enjoyed the episode, please remember to like, share and subscribe! 🙏🥹

This is insane! I just wrote to Yvette Cooper, please consider doing the same.

Oh look, the FH podcast is now also on Youtube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Uhm, this. 👇

Honk if you miss the good old days, when academic publishers still had the decency to at least send a complementary hardcopy of the journal issue with your article. 📯

4 episodes (each in English & German) already available. Would be keen to hear what you lovely people think! 🥹

James also thinks inquiry needs to be conducted in a scientific fashion, but especially in philosophical inquiry, he doesn't think this should be done using jargon, in a technical fashion. James's outlook here is evolutionary… amphilos.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-i...

August is the time for reaping. #medievalcalendar Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 939; Astrological and ecclesiastical calendar in six pieces; 14th century; England; section 2ar @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

The latest addition to the FH multimedia universe: The podcast, where contents are discussed in an entertaining dialogue format. Each episode can be streamed & downloaded in English & German. Here is the introduction (in English): forbiddenhistories.podbean.com/e/introducti... Enjoy!

Happy 498th birthday to English mathematician, occultist, and court astronomer/advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee. Here's one of the wax seals (in the British Museum) used in the 'Enochian magic' practiced by Dee and his scryer Edward Kelley, through which they (apparently) spoke with angels.

Pinker has been a loud-and-proud voice for anti-intellectualism and a promoter of chin-stroking race-science platforms such as Quillette for a decade. This isn't lack of awareness. It's an attempt to protect his extremely lucrative brand from association with the causes that helped build it.

Living in Switzerland now, I thought it was high time to produce more output in my German mother language. If you read German, or know folks who may be interested, feel free to share zis: @andreassommer.bsky.social

...oh, and zis: www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 🫣

Original testimony of Abigail Williams from the Salem Witch Trials, 1692. Now located in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

Some personal thoughts on the recent death of the historian of science, Mario Biagioli #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/m...

Make Nazis Melt Again youtu.be/FfQWz4gVcP8?...

Living in Switzerland now, I thought it was high time to produce more output in my German mother language. If you read German, or know folks who may be interested, feel free to share zis: @andreassommer.bsky.social

This Friday, please join us in Paris (or online) for a workshop on my book *Consciousness Is Motor: William James on Mind and Action* (Oxford UP). The book examines James’s evolutionary theories of consciousness and action, with special attention to experimental work in nonhuman animals…

Recent Pew Survey "Beliefs in spirits, afterlife are popular across religiously diverse countries." I used to tag this kind of thing with #TheWorldofEnchantment on the old platform. Might be time to bring that back. religionnews.com/2025/05/08/b...

Congrats! Great channel doing some serious & important myth busting, with plenty of interesting stuff from the history of magic.

"Laying Lard on Bacon"... Help, I'm running out of daft puns.

Science literacy is under threat. @tealcartoons.bsky.social & I have a kids' book coming out that we hope will inspire readers aged 8-12! DEAD ENDS celebrates flukes, flops, & failures that have given science a better understanding of our bodies. Pre-orders appreciated: bookshop.org/p/books/dead...

The MPIWG seeks to appoint a new head of purchasing! 🛒 lead our #purchasing team 🗺️ coordinate national and international tenders 🖥️ drive the digitalization of our business processes 🗓 Deadline: open until vacancy filled 🔗 bit.ly/3RYJcKl #JobsInBerlin #Career #Administration #Logistics

Take that, positive thinkers!