Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age
A Forgotten History of the Occult

Cormack's writing is personable, passionate, and engaging, which draws you in even when he's talking about something as complicated and esoteric as Spiritualism and Daheshism. It was fascinating to hear about these figures from turn-of-the-century occultism. Tahra Bey and Dr. Dahesh are colorful and......more

This book jumps into WWI and WWII era non-traditional spiritualism. We see the same thing, still, with clairvoyants, mind-readers, etc. Much like today, there are believers that will be so pulled in by these scammers that they get swindled. The different spiritualists from Europe to the Middle East......more

I appreciated the light historical dustings on Lebanon, Turkey, Armenia, Greece and Palestine. As a US citizen, can I ever truly understand what drove Dr. Dahesh and Tahra Bey to stun society into imagining, then believing in another world? This book is mixed exquisitely with horrific and terrific. A......more

"There is another question, though, that could be answered through their stories; it is the one posed at the start of this book: Is another world possible? The stories of these holy men of the early twentieth century told in this book suggest that the answer is no. All of their movements ended witho......more

My thanks to NetGalley and W. W. Norton & Company for an advance copy of this new book that looks at the rise of occult and paranormal thinking that took place in Europe during the World War. A time in which many people were looking for meaning in the devastation they saw all around them, and the pe......more