Among the Spirits: actual demonstrations of psychic phenomena

              AMONG THE SPIRITS



We see all, Know all, and can tell all, if ye will but hearken!!





See and Hear Materialized Spirits.






See Spirit Handwriting






See Psychic Forces





ACTUAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA



WEIRD
GRIPPING
ENTERTAINING
EDUCATIONAL
HILARIOUS


Learn the secrets of mediums and fortune tellers.





Yes! This Program Draws Crowds . . .



For a speaking program he broke all-time records.  We had perhaps ten times as many requests from outsiders to hear him as we have had for any other speaker regardless of how well he may have been known.
—
Mahoning Valley Foremen's Club, Youngstown, Ohio.




In spite of the fact that the program came upon the first night of an intense heat wave, the Auditorium was packed with the largest crowd we have had for years.
—
Pennsylvania State College Summer Session.




I was amazed at the number who came out on a very rainy night.  Among them were many distinguished doctors, noted psychiatrists, Catholic priests, not to mention the many who came simply to be amused.
—
One of Boston's most exclusive clubs.  Name upon request.




It drew the largest single admission ticket sale we have had.
—
Freeport Town Hall Series, Illinois.




It drew the largest guest night audience we have had for years.
—
Wednesday (Woman's) Club, East St. Louis.





Women Like It . . .



A superior program.  One of the best we have ever had.
—
Newtonville, Mass., Woman's Club.




His psychology in presenting the program was wonderful.  All the members declared it a delightful evening.
—
Woman's Club, Duluth, Minn.




Students have asked that we get him back again this year.
—
Brenau College (for Women).




About 800 people came out on a very rainy night for our guest night program.  The lecture was extremely interesting.  It appealed to men and women alike.
—
American Association of University Women, Toledo, Ohio.





Men Like It . . .



The outstanding program of the year for cur club.
—
Exchange Club, Springfield, Mass.




Intensely interesting.  One of the best we have ever had.
—
Rotary Club, Plymouth, N. H.




Crisp, intelligent, interesting lecture on a subject of fascination to all.
—
The Beloit Club, Wisc.




A most enjoyable and profitable program to members of the large audience which came for the program.
—
Davidson College, North Carolina.





Religious Leaders Like It . . .



A real contribution to Christian thinking.
—
Boston University School of Theology.




As worthwhile as it was interesting; an adroit speaker with a fine personality.
—
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Jackson, Michigan.




Good entertainment.
—
Notre Dame University.




Our Seminary audience, which is not so easily pleased, commented again and again on his excellent program.
—
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.




Enthusiastic comments.  He is doing a constructive piece of religious and educational work.
—
University of Chattanooga.





Educators Like It . . .



Just returned from a dinner of schoolmen, some of whom had heard the program at the University of Pennsylvania; it was regarded by them as one of the best that has been given at the University for several summers.
—
University of Pennsylvania.




Dean Higgins took his audience here and was taken in turn by the audience.  His use of crowd psychology was excellent.  He gave an hour and twenty minutes of good, clean, instructive entertainment.
—
State Teachers College, Farmville, Virginia.




A superior lecture—as valuable from the informative as from the entertainment standpoint.
—
University of Mississippi.




Unusually valuable on our summer lecture series because it combined superior educational and entertainment values in the same program.
—
University of Minnesota.





and It's A Good Show!



Dramatic and interesting.  It elicited very good comments and made us hundreds of new friends.
—
World Adventure Series, Detroit.




. . . a distinct success; all comments were very laudatory.  Only two other speakers, out of some thirty for this season, attracted an audience as large as that for Dean Higgins.
—
The Boston City Club.




A great entertainment.  Two large audiences.
—
The Goodwyn Institute, Memphis.




Not only was it a large crowd but it was one which responded whole-heartedly to the performance.
—
Illinois Wesleyan University.




He kept them on the edge of their seats from the beginning to the end of the program.
—
University of South Dakota.






. . . 
Among the Spirits
 . . . with HOWARD HIGGINS


The Program




Among the Spirits
 is a demonstration-lecture showing how fortune-telling mediums enable 
spirits
 to return to deliver personal messages to their living friends; how they walk through fire and other hazards unharmed; how they accomplish spirit slate writing; how they tell us our fortunes and 
secrets which they could not possibly have known.




The program is in two parts, the first part being a composite seance made up of features from seances by leading mediums, in which are demonstrated spirit forces, spirit vision, writing by an invisible hand, spirit slate writing, and the materialization of a spirit while the medium is securely bound by members of the audience.  In this part of the program many, even in the most sophisticated audiences. are led to believe in the possibility of fortune-telling!




Then follows the exposé in which the technics used to establish belief in fortune-telling are exposed.  Pictures, demonstrations of alleged psychic phenomena, speech and music are all blended in an exposé that is dramatic, intensely interesting, educational and entertaining.  There is no other program like it.




But 
Among the Spirits
 is more than mere entertainment.  It is a scientifically sound discussion of the psychology of suggestion—in an effort to protect the public against fraud.  An open forum may follow the program whenever desired.




Note the evidence on the opposite page that 
Among the Spirits
:  (1) Draws crowds; (2) Women like it; (3) Men like it; (4) Religious leaders like it; (5) Educators like it; (6) It is as amusing and fascinating as a mystery novel!




The Man . . .



Howard Higgins first became interested in the technics of mediums and fortunetellers while working toward the doctorate in the field of psychology.  He found that to investigate certain of their phenomena adequately he needed to be well grounded in magic as well as in academic psychology, hence his study of magic.  He combines in this unusual program the technic of a scientist, an entertainer, a speaker 
par excellence.




Howard Higgins is Dean of Emerson College, Boston, and head of the Division of Psychology and Education; a member of the Boston Assembly (No. 9) of the Society of American Magicians; president of the International Lyceum Association.



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Howard Higgins

IS THE AUTHOR OF

Influencing Behavior Through Speech,
 the most widely used college textbook on the psychology of persuasive speech.




Speech Reports,
 a booklet designed to give speech students a record and criticism of their work.




Glimpses of the Public Mind
 (Co-Author with Dr. J. Stanley Gray, Psychology Department, University of Pittsburgh).




Numerous articles in professional journals—and editorials in 
The Platform World
, of which he was formerly the educational editor.




Other Address Subjects



Mental Miracles.
  Demonstrates both the fake and genuine in the field of mental phenomena.  Debunks alleged mental miracles as performed by oriental fakirs and by American entertainers who assume strange accents and pose as foreign doctors and students of mental phenomena.


Who Is Educated?
  Stresses four of the essential traits of a truly educated person.  Often humorous—but always serious in purpose.


Influencing Behavior Through Speech.
  The psychology of persuasion; applied to the special problems of the audience.




For additional information, terms or dates, communicate with
 MISS JANE ALDEN, 
Secretary, 130 Beacon Street, Boston 16, Mass. KENmore 7191.






Can We Know the Future
?



Do the dead speak through mediums?


How do mediums tell our fortunes when they do not know who we are?


How did the modern practice of mediumship develop?


Where do mediums obtain their secrets and their supplies?


Why do mediums prefer to be investigated by physical scientists?


How do mediums read sealed letters, enable us to see the spirits of our departed, and, in fact, perform all their psychic phenomena?


How did Kuda Bux, the East Indian psychic, walk through fire unharmed?


Why did the United States Senator, duped out of $18,000 by a medium through spirit photography, not sue the medium and thus recover what she had obtained from him fraudulently?


Why did a movie corporation reimburse the movie 
sweetheart of the world
 the $10,000 out of which she had been duped by a Hollywood medium?


How did the Boston medium cause the corpse of a New Hampshire manufacturer to 
sit up
 in his casket and 
talk
 to his widow?


Is there an honest, genuine medium?




These Questions and Many Others Are Answered — in —
 AMONG THE SPIRITS