Koons: "Why King, you have a band of very mischievous spirits with you tonight, have you not?" Once the tin "dinner-horn" began issuing the "sharp, shrill" voice of John King, the spirit informed the party of his usual biography-that he was 14,500 years old-and became somewhat hostile toward the sitters themselves: His skepticism was either voiced in mid-seance or merely palpable: his party was not allowed to touch the manifest spirit-limbs, and one or more may had been hit on the head with a floating tambourine. turned his ire toward the spirit guide John King himself. keenly compares the distances most physical manifestations involved, measured against the length of outstretched arms of mediums perched on a centrally-located table in the room's small confines-Mr. came prepared with skepticism, though he claimed he was not previously "prejudiced toward Spiritualism." After a thorough criticism of Koon's fiddle "hoe down" and the other presented phenomenon-Mr. So, the following day, after a "breakfast fully in keeping with their lodgings," off to Koons went G, intent on seeing his manifestations at one farm or another. Something did manifest in G's quarters on the Tippie farm that evening, however. In fact, he found the Tippies wholly unprepared to host his party, being told that "the spirits had left" to the extent that no manifestations would be forthcoming that night. The remaining phenomena were also liberally borrowed by the Davenports). And, of course, Jonathan Koons and John Tippie construct their spirit rooms, which birthed entirely new species of phenomenon-dark séances, physical manifestation and spirit-speaking through trumpets-as well as their "Spiritual Machines" in the spirit-designed tables used as conduits for John King and his tribe of discarnate entities (King himself being another enduring "first" to be put to use by subsequent generations of mediums. John Murray Spear tries to spark the Second Coming with his New Motive Power. Robert Hare starts to make his turn toward Spiritualism. For the tech-junkies, it's also the first year we have real cooperative-communication apparatus: Wagner's Psychograph, Hornung's Emanulector, and Pease's Spiritual Telegraph Dial. The bandwagoneer mediums without the talents for rapping start finding mechanical means to circumvent their shortcomings.
The tables tournantes phenomenon hits Germany in March, then France by the summer, making tipping tables a bonafide worldwide phenomenon. 1848 will always, of course, get all the credit as Spiritualism's birthday, but it is 1853 when things truly start happening. It really is amazing just how much this year changed the entire dialogue of Spiritualism. For the last few months, the wheels have been spinning in the sand of 1853.
Work continues on the big talking tables book.
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