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Immortality and our Employments Hereafter: What Spirits say of their Dwelling in the Afterlife

by James Martin Peebles

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

James Martin Peebles (March 23, 1822 – February 15, 1922) was an American physician, prolific author and organizer of many professional, medical, and religious associations. Peebles was born in Whitingham, Vermont. Peebles was a member of the Indian Peace Commission of 1868, United States Consul at Trebizond, Turkey, and representative of the American Arbitration League at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. A former Universalist minister, he became an Episcopalian after the American Civil War, and then a Spiritualist and Theosophist. Many of his books are on spiritualist subjects, although he also penned a quite popular book, titled How to Live a Century and Grow Old Gracefully. Peebles obtained a diploma in 1876 from the fraudulent Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the Medical University of Chicago in 1882. He was a professor in the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati. A few organizations Peebles took a leadership role in are the National Spiritualist Association, the California College of Sciences, the Peebles College of Science and Philosophy, the California Centenarian Club, and the California Humanitarian League. Peebles was an opponent of vaccination and vivisection. He authored Vaccination a Curse and a Menace to Personal Liberty in 1900. He was editor of the monthly magazine Temple of Health and Psychic Review. Peebles was influenced by Sylvester Graham and opposed the consumption of alcohol, coffee, meat, tea and tobacco. He was a vegetarianism activist and contributed articles to The Vegetarian Magazine. His diet was ovo-lacto vegetarian, he ate butter, cheese, eggs, milk, fruits, nuts and vegetables. "Moksha from Earth" about the lighttrap: https://bit.ly/3ghTUZU "Archons rule Earth" about the 7 planetary rulers: https://bit.ly/3D0RDfl "Dark Side of Jesus" about John, the true Christos: https://bit.ly/3xZLP24 Watch: "Jesus was a Usurper" https://odysee.com/@SergeantSchultz:2/Lynn-Picknett---Jesus-was-a-Usurper,-John-the-Baptist-was-the-True-Christ.-The-Johannite-Tradition.:9 Watch: "The Templar Revelation" https://odysee.com/@SergeantSchultz:2/Lynn-Picknett---Mary-Magdalene:9 !!! MUST WATCH - Psychic project on "Freedom from Soul-Loosh Harvesting"!!! https://odysee.com/@SergeantSchultz:2/Samsara-and-Rebirth:b

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Mediumship”. Retained metadata contains “channeling” in the subject metadata and “Mediumship” in the subject metadata.

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    • Mediumship· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “afterlife” in the title, “Immortality” in the title, “afterlife” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • afterlife· in title
    • Immortality· in title
    • afterlife· in subject
    • afterlife· in edition title
    • Immortality· in edition title

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