Morgan takes Norm into Spiritualism, the movement that changed how the West understands death, the spirit world, and how you could talk to the other side. They also touch on the roots of stage magicians like Harry Houdini and the great legacy of debunking spiritual mediums by people who in their hearts (probably) want to believe. They also don't leave out the more compassionate cosmology spiritualism because even in the 1800s people thought there had to be more than just life-is-hard-and-then-you-die.

Sources & Further Reading:

• Morton, Lisa. Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. University of Chicago Press, 2022. 

Jaher, David. The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World.

• Broadway Books, 2016. 
• Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Indiana University Press, 2013. 

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