title: Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology
author: Gil Germain
description: This widely learned study by Gil Germain explains why technology is both a problem and a problem-solver. His book carefully analyzes virtual reality in terms of contemporary philosophy and scholarship. Profoundly thought provoking! (Michael Heim, author of The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality and Virtual Realism)<br /><br />There is do doubt that our technology "does indeed rearrange the world so that we do not have to experience it". What in our experience is 'real' and how has our technology shaped or contorted the human spirit? Gil Germain addresses these questions through a clear presentation and penetrating analysis of modern French Philosophy and then advances a bold synthesis which compels us to ask ourselves what it means to be alive today. My students will read this fine book. (Tom Darby, Carleton University)<br /><br /><span><span><span>Gil Germain uses a subtle and careful analysis of four French philosophers to illuminate our implication in technology and our tenuous hold on reality. We need to pay close attention to Germain's insights if we are to recover a more grounded and substantial way of life.</span></span></span> (Albert Borgmann, The University of Montana; author of Real American Ethics; author of Holding on to Reality (1999))
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  # How Spirits Materialize
  
  
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  From "The Revelations of a Spirit Medium"—a book out of existence
  
  
  now, since the plates and all copies were bought up by
  
  
  "spiritualists" and destroyed. The following is given by courtesy
  
  
  of Mr. Hereward Carrington:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Reader, have you ever attended a "seance" for "full-form
  
  
  materialization?" Have you ever thought you had met your dead
  
  
  relative's spirit at these "seances"?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  If you have never had the pleasure of attending a seance of this
  
  
  "phase" you have missed a rare treat. The writer has assisted at
  
  
  many a one and will relate to you some of the wonderful phenomena
  
  
  occurring at them and the means used to produce them. . . . There
  
  
  are hundreds of "mater