Since the founding of the Institute of Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene (ISPP) was only in 1950, the Department of Archives stocks are still very young. The focus of the tradition is on the second half of the 20th Century. Various materials, especially from the retained estates, but rich in the 19th Century. The oldest datable
current document in the archive of IGPP is 29 Januar 1854th This is a transcript of a seance in the house of the Austrian official Stratil Johann Heinrich (1793-1874). The document is therefore in the context of the then emerging in Europe, spiritualism, as the social movement of the 19th Century belongs now increasingly the attention of the social history. Since the spring of 1853 the practice had spread the "back table", coming from the U.S., Europe and in the following decades into a "fashion between spiritualism, science and social life" (Timo Heimerdinger) was developed. In many places, held meetings did the participants using the table around which they had gathered, embassies seek from the beyond. The "back" or "knocking" of the table in response to questions were brought in connection to a "knock alphabet": the table was thus "speak" to the crowd. The questions and answers sent aufnotiert were: a new parlor game - interpreted by many other factors - was born.
Ill.: Minutes of a meeting of spiritualist 29/01/1854 The present protocol of the House Stratil presents a somewhat stubborn and cheeky "poltergeist", especially the taunts parat. The outwardly unassuming writing his twelve answers from beyond chronological beginning of a large collection of similar reports from Austrian Spiritistenkreisen, Johann Heinrich Stratil left (IGPP archive, inventory 10/10).
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Source: Uwe Schellinger (IGPP), showcase the archive No. 08-07 , 1.8.2007
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