Among the Spirits: actual demonstrations of psychic phenomena

              AMONG THE SPIRITS



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ACTUAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA



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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.
—
The Harvard Club of Boston.




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 our 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 Goodwin 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


This Program




Among the Spirits
 shows how fortune-telling mediums enable 
spirits
 to return to deliver personal messages to their living friends; how they tell our fortunes and secrets.




The program is in two parts, the first part being a composite seance made up of features from seances by leading mediums.  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 expose.  Demonstrations of alleged psychic phenomena, speech and music are all blended in an expose that is dramatic, intensely interesting, educational, entertaining.  
There is no other program like it.




Dr. Higgins has approached his subject with all the objectivity of a pure scientist, and effectively scuttles the favorite practice of the most unprincipled medium and fortune teller.  Yet he manages to give his audience a show that keeps them on the edge of their chairs, at times regales them with laughter, and provides an hour of pure entertainment.




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 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, former Dean of Emerson College, Boston, and head of the Division of Psychology and Education; for three terms President of the International Platform Association; member Society of American Magicians.  Now Manager, Eastern Division, The Redpath Bureau.




Dr. Higgins first became interested in the methods of mediums and fortune-tellers while working toward the doctorate in psychology.  He found that to investigate certain phenomena adequately he needed a thorough background in magie as well as in academic psychology, hence his study of magic to complete an academic research project!  And he has since continued his investigations of mediums and fortune-tellers as a hobby.



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He combines in this show (or lecture, if you prefer!)  the technic of a scientist, an entertainer, a speaker par excellence.




Howard Higgins is the author of 
Influencing Behavior Through Speech
, a 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); and of numerous articles in professional educational journals.




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.


The Truth About Hypnotism.
  With demonstrations.  Separates the fact from fiction on this interesting subject.


Who Is Educated?
  Stresses essential traits of a truly educated person.  Often humorous — but always serious in purpose.  (For commencements; institutes).





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Can We Know the Future?



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


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 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 the East Indian psychics 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 a movie star 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