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Bored? The ‘rona got ya stir crazy and wall-climbing? Consider falling down an occult internet rabbit hole on IAPSOP.com. For those of you that follow my exploits, you know I devote a lot of time and energy to the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist & Occult Periodicals as a preservationist and director, helping to assemble the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of primary historical documents on esoteric disciplines. If you’ve got some free time, choose your favorite occultist, spirit medium, or ghost hunter, do a keyword search, and follow the thread for hours on end through nearly 4 MILLION PAGES of fully free and keyword searchable historical PDFs. It’s how I spend my days when the world isn’t burning, and with all that free time you’ve discovered, put down Tik Tok and deep-dive into your favorite esoteric topic! #IAPSOP #occult #esoteric #magic #spiritualism #history #mediumship #preservation #library #archive https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7NIsbF2go/?igshid=gi3ewr14jj7j

I clipped this from the cover of a 1946 “Today’s Astrology” magazine recently added to the IAPSOP archives, and it is just too beautiful to not share. My research partner and frequent collaborator John Buescher, who has also made some paradigm-shifting talking board discoveries, is working on a book on border radio occultists (folks who broadcast from Mexico into the US where anti-fortune telling laws made such activity illegal), and our team had been helping him run some of these radio personality “trash astrologers” (not our term!) to ground. These folks lived some pretty amazing lives! Discoveries like this are such a neat byproduct of that search—art and illustration that might otherwise be lost and forgotten if we didn’t go on these crazy grail quests to satisfy our insatiable yearnings to know more about the strange cast of characters that make up this occult world we study. #astrology #astrologer #astrologie #zodiac #horoscope #pastpresentfuture #occult #sphinx #egypt #esoteric #oracle #art #illustration #magazine #borderradio #iapsop https://www.instagram.com/p/Bssn3MFFfJZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ji6he90cv1i3

The #IAPSOP archives are such a rich treasure trove of #occult and #spiritualist documents, and just when I think I've exhausted the discovery of every last #planchette image, another worms it's way from the woodwork. This one is from the turn of the century. #seance #talkingboard #spiritscribbles #ghostwriter #automaticwriting #automaticwriter