Fonti spiritiche e testi primari
Allan Kardec, Il Libro degli Spiriti, 1857.
Allan Kardec, Il Libro dei Medium, 1861.
Allan Kardec, Il Vangelo secondo gli Spiriti, 1864.
Allan Kardec, Il Cielo e l’Inferno, 1865.
Allan Kardec, La Genesi, i miracoli e le predizioni secondo lo Spiritismo, 1868.
Allan Kardec, Che cos’è lo Spiritismo, 1859.
Allan Kardec, Opere Postume, 1890.
Andrew Jackson Davis, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind, 1847.
Emma Hardinge Britten, Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years’ Record of the Communion between Earth and the World of Spirits, 1870.
Emma Hardinge Britten, Nineteenth Century Miracles; or, Spirits and Their Work in Every Country of the Earth, 1884.
Paschal Beverly Randolph, Dealings with the Dead, 1861.
William Stainton Moses, Spirit Teachings, 1883.
Florence Marryat, There Is No Death, 1891.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The History of Spiritualism, 1926.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revelation, 1918.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Vital Message, 1919.
Cesare Lombroso, Ricerche sui fenomeni ipnotici e spiritici, 1909.
Ernesto Bozzano, Dei fenomeni d’infestazione, 1919.
Ernesto Bozzano, Animismo o spiritismo?, 1938.
Ernesto Bozzano, La crisi della morte, 1930.
Ernesto Bozzano, Popoli primitivi e manifestazioni supernormali, 1941.
Camille Flammarion, L’inconnu et les problèmes psychiques, 1900.
Camille Flammarion, Les maisons hantées, 1923.
Gustave Geley, De l’inconscient au conscient, 1919.
Gustave Geley, L’ectoplasmie et la clairvoyance, 1924.
Charles Richet, Traité de métapsychique, 1922.
Gabriel Delanne, Le phénomène spirite, 1893.
Gabriel Delanne, L’âme est immortelle, 1899.
Léon Denis, Après la mort, 1890.
Léon Denis, Christianisme et spiritisme, 1898.
Léon Denis, Dans l’invisible, 1903.
Storia dello spiritismo moderno
Janet Oppenheim, The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England, University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Molly McGarry, Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America, University of California Press, 2008.
Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America, Indiana University Press, 1997.
Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, Indiana University Press, 1989.
Cathy Gutierrez, Plato’s Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Simone Natale, Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016.
Christine Bergé, La voix des esprits: ethnologie du spiritisme, Métailié, 1990.
John Warne Monroe, Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France, Cornell University Press, 2008.
Lynn L. Sharp, Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France, Lexington Books, 2006.
Marina Warner, Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Ricerca psichica, metapsichica e parapsicologia
Frederic W. H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, 1903.
Edmund Gurney, Frederic W. H. Myers, Frank Podmore, Phantasms of the Living, 1886.
Frank Podmore, Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism, 1902.
Frank Podmore, The Naturalisation of the Supernatural, 1908.
William Crookes, Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism, 1874.
Oliver Lodge, The Survival of Man, 1909.
Oliver Lodge, Raymond, or Life and Death, 1916.
Hereward Carrington, The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, 1907.
Hereward Carrington, Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena, 1909.
Nandor Fodor, Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science, 1934.
J. B. Rhine, Extra-Sensory Perception, 1934.
J. B. Rhine, New Frontiers of the Mind, 1937.
G. N. M. Tyrrell, Apparitions, 1943.
Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968.
Alan Gauld, Mediumship and Survival: A Century of Investigations, Heinemann, 1982.
D. Scott Rogo, The Poltergeist Experience, 1979.
D. Scott Rogo, Life After Death: The Case for Survival of Bodily Death, 1986.
René Sudre, Introduction à la métapsychique humaine, 1926.
Eugène Osty, La connaissance supranormale, 1923.
Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, Phenomena of Materialisation, 1923.
Psicologia, inconscio, dissociazione e automatismi
Pierre Janet, L’automatisme psychologique, 1889.
Pierre Janet, Névroses et idées fixes, 1898.
Théodore Flournoy, Des Indes à la planète Mars, 1900.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902.
William James, Essays in Psychical Research, raccolta postuma.
Carl Gustav Jung, Psicologia e patologia dei cosiddetti fenomeni occulti, 1902.
Carl Gustav Jung, Psicologia e religione, 1938.
Carl Gustav Jung, La sincronicità come principio di nessi acausali, 1952.
Sigmund Freud, Psicoanalisi e telepatia, 1921.
Sigmund Freud, Sogno e occultismo, in Introduzione alla psicoanalisi. Nuova serie di lezioni, 1932.
Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious, Basic Books, 1970.
Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory, Princeton University Press, 1995.
Adam Crabtree, From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing, Yale University Press, 1993.
Adam Crabtree, Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality, 1985.
Carlos S. Alvarado, Exploring the Features of Out-of-Body Experiences, 1997.
Etzel Cardeña, Steven Jay Lynn, Stanley Krippner, Varieties of Anomalous Experience, American Psychological Association, 2000.
Fantasmi, hauntings, poltergeist e case infestate
Camille Flammarion, Les maisons hantées, 1923.
Ernesto Bozzano, Dei fenomeni d’infestazione, 1919.
Harry Price, The Most Haunted House in England: Ten Years’ Investigation of Borley Rectory, 1940.
Harry Price, Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter, 1936.
Andrew Green, Ghost Hunting: A Practical Guide, 1973.
Peter Underwood, Gazetteer of British Ghosts, 1971.
Peter Underwood, The Ghost Hunter’s Guide, 1986.
Nandor Fodor, The Haunted Mind: A Psychoanalyst Looks at the Supernatural, 1959.
Guy Lyon Playfair, This House Is Haunted: The True Story of the Enfield Poltergeist, 1980.
Owen Davies, The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Roger Clarke, A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof, Particular Books, 2012.
Shane McCorristine, Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Sasha Handley, Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England, Pickering & Chatto, 2007.
Brandon Massullo, The Ghost Studies: New Perspectives on the Origins of Paranormal Experiences, New Page Books, 2017.
Channeling, spiritualismo contemporaneo e New Age
Jon Klimo, Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources, 1987.
Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul, 1972.
Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality, 1974.
Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles, 1976.
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, Brill, 1996.
Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity, Blackwell, 1996.
Olav Hammer, Claiming Knowledge: Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New Age, Brill, 2001.
Christopher Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West, T&T Clark, 2004.
Strumenti digitali e risorse online
Kardecpedia, edizione digitale multilingue delle opere di Allan Kardec.
Society for Psychical Research, archivi, articoli e bibliografie sulla ricerca psichica.
Psi Encyclopedia, a cura della Society for Psychical Research, con voci su mediumship, hauntings, poltergeist, apparizioni e ricerca psichica.
International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals, archivio digitale di periodici spiritualisti e occultistici.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, per testi francesi ottocenteschi su spiritismo, magnetismo e metapsichica.
Internet Archive, per edizioni storiche di testi spiritualisti, metapsichici e parapsicologici.
HathiTrust Digital Library, per testi accademici e storici sullo spiritualismo moderno.
Cambridge University Library, Society for Psychical Research Collection, per documenti storici della ricerca psichica britannica.
Nota editoriale
Questa bibliografia non ha la pretesa di esaurire l’intero campo dello spiritismo, della medianità e della ricerca psichica, ma offre una base solida per orientarsi tra fonti primarie, testi dottrinali, studi storici, psicologia degli automatismi, parapsicologia, hauntings, poltergeist e channeling contemporaneo. Per le pagine dedicate ad Allan Kardec e alle opere maggiori, i testi kardecisti restano il nucleo fondamentale. Per le pagine su medianità, psicografia, materializzazioni e fenomeni fisici, sono particolarmente utili Myers, Crookes, Richet, Geley, Carrington, Gauld e Bozzano. Per le pagine dedicate a psicologia, lutto, dissociazione e suggestione, i riferimenti principali sono Janet, James, Jung, Flournoy, Ellenberger e gli studi contemporanei sulle esperienze anomale. Per fantasmi, hauntings e poltergeist, Bozzano, Flammarion, Price, Fodor, Playfair, Davies, Clarke e McCorristine costituiscono un primo quadro di lavoro.