Babbitt, Elwood, 1922-
Elwood Babbitt Papers, 1974-20002 boxes (3 linear feet).
Clairvoyant from his youth, Elwood Babbitt developed his psychic abilities at the Edgar Cayce Institute, and by the mid-1960s, was well known in Western Massachusetts through his readings and lectures, often opening his home to other seekers. Charles Hapgood, a professor at Keene State College, worked closely with Babbitt studying the physical effects of the medium’s trance lectures, and by 1967, he began to take on the painstaking process of transcribing and copying them. With communications purporting to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, among others, these lectures formed the basis for several books by Hapgood and Babbitt, including Voices of Spirit (1975) and Talks with Christ (1981). Babbitt ultimately established a non-profit, alternative school, the Opie Mountain Citadel, which was essentially run out of Babbitt’s home in Northfield.
The collection consists of proofs of publications, lectures, some correspondence, film reels, and transcripts of spiritual communications for which Babbitt was the medium.
- Channeling (Spiritualism).
- Hapgood, Charles H.
- Mediums–Massachusetts.
- Babbitt, Elwood, 1922-.
Interesting to note that Edgar Cayce really started this whole psychic/medium thing off (other than fortune tellers). What would the world be like without him? One would suspect a lot different…
March 3rd, 2012 at 3:41 pm