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The Psychic Mafia Paperback – January 1, 2015

by M. LaMar Keene (Author), Allen Spraggett (Author)

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The discovery of the story of Lamar Keene and his remarkable life began when William V. Rauscher contacted Keene and conducted 75 hours of interviews not including visits to investigate Spiritualist Camps, preparing written reports, contacting publishers, writing the foreword and the extensive bibliography assembled from his own research library. The selection of a publisher and their desire to have researcher, writer, Allen Spraggett prepare the final manuscript resulted in one of the great classic books of psychical research. In addition to his research Rauscher’s pastoral help to Keene averted the mediums plan to commit suicide. Keen was later successful in several business ventures and he never returned to mediumship. Lamar Keene died June 11, 1996. His story is a testament to the underworld of fake mediumship and the intriguing life of a man known as the “Prince of Spiritualism.”

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177 pages
Language

English
Publisher

1878 Press Co.
Publication date

January 1, 2015
ISBN-10

057815644X
ISBN-13

978-0578156446
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 1878 Press Co. (January 1, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 177 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 057815644X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0578156446
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.8 ounces

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Deb E

The Darker Side of Spiritualism

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2014

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I have always had a deep and abiding interest in all things psychic, especially Spiritualism, and purchased this book on a whim. I found this it to be absolutely fascinating (a real page turner!), deeply disturbing and very, very sad. I would recommend it as a "must read" before getting involved in any type of Spiritualistic activity; remember to keep an open mind, but forewarned is also forearmed. Be careful!

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tubthumping

Psychic Mafia

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2010

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Wonderful book about mediums from the last century. Goes into explicit detail how things are shown to apparently seem real to the gullible, which includes all financial classes of people. Naturally, he got much heat from the fraud artists to keep quiet exposing them, since those phony mediums feared their loss of power over those victims. It also explained a brief history of psychic shows going back to the 1800's.

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Gary Bacchetti

Unbelievable!

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 1997

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I have read thousands of books in my life. This one takes the cake. You'll find yourself engrossed in the macabe. Easy, light reading - but packed with a punch. I personally have an autographed copy of this book and wouldn't give it up for the world. Its sealed in plastic - airtight. I purchased this latest paperback for day-to-day reminders of what goes on in the seance room. Be prepared, you'll learn about the so-called "other-side."

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molesman

No doubts on frauds...

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2011

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...and some of the thinks eye opened here may still be of common use in the widespread psychic mafia. I was anyway very happy to see in the forword the author nevertheless believes also in true mediums, or lets better say in the possibility of supernatural phenomenon. Its a pity so many people make millions on the grief of others who lost soemone. For sure if there is soemthing like a hell on the other side those people run a high risk of hosting that area of the beyond. Who knows. I am researching many things and yet I did not come to a final clue on all. The tricks mentioned here are quite old. I have been to many seances with wide open eyes (anyway in pitch black) and can confirm none of those thricks has been used to cause fraud. But nevertheless there may be new and modern ways to reach the same aims. I agree with the author, its good to see how many people do their shameless work on that business. But on the other side there are things that seem to be unexplainable as there is no financial purpose, no desire on admiration in the public, no loci cause why some mayb really talented mediums and not frauds do what they do. Sure, some may think they are gifted. But what about SCOLE, Senkowski, Jürgensson. What about Reincarnation that is based on hard earned facts within the sittings (check the data, there is much that has ben proven). I guess the only statement that really is justified is that there may be more. Deniying it would be pure ignorance. Saying its 100% sure may be (still) too far from prove, also by science who gets closer and closer to the topic. (telepathy, near death experiences, out of body experiences have yet reached the scientists interests and are no longer funny blahblah)

So say goodby to most ghsot whisperers but ddo not judge them all by same means. The amount of honest people may be small but I am sure there are more than just a few.

The book. :) Back to it. Easy to read, amusing, not really that new and the tricks, well. I expected somehow more intelligent dark action but the more shocking is people belived what they were confronted with. Its not spectacular and if the author would not have opened the nox most of the stuff would be aware by anyone who does reaearch as well. Nevertheless. Entertaining. And not shocking for people who atill believe in something.

Again to all those lousy cheaters. You run a risk on making your afterlife a sad thing. You really want to risk that? There is always a turnback possibility unless you make your final breath. Think about it. The chances of beeing "rewarded" for cheating the weak finally may be small in your eyes but, you really want to risk it?

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Richard G. Prosapio

A useful tool.

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2015

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Good historical info that helped this psychic (me) uncover a scam.

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2017

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Excellent and informative. Recommended

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MJP2

Great expose, and more than a little shocking

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2008

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Before reading this book I had no idea there were such things as spiritualist camps or that people paid exorbitant amounts of money to attend them. I also had no idea that human depravity could extend so far as to blatantly take advantage of people they way the frauds described in this book do. M. Lamar Keene does a great job of exploring the psychology of the psychic fraud, having been one himself for many years. His journey through the conspiratorial world of psychic graft is a fascinating one, and after reading this you'll probably come away thinking, "Psychics aren't in league with devils after all. They're devils themselves!" Whether this applies to all psychics is anybody's guess, but the message is clear: In the psychic world, you're much more likely to be a victim than a "client".

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